Archive | November, 2003

More Udell here on “What’s holding software back?“

Jon Udell has some interesting observation on Working with Bayesian Categorizers

What a road trip! Knoxville through Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and 50 miles of Pennsylvania on Friday. The rest of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and finally New Hampshire on Saturday. Good to be back home!

… begins with your foot on the accelerator. Heading home from a long-term gig. Driving for most of the weekend, so expect the posting to be light to non-existant…

Leave the Leaves. I’m not neglecting the yard; I’m fostering my local environment. From New Hampshire Public Radio – NHPR.org

p.s. Congratulations to NHPR on publishing an RSS feed.

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in
a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated
it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this
nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people shall
not perish from the earth.

Those of you living where the city lights don’t hide the glory of the universe have a special treat the week: the annual Leonid meteor shower. One of my fondest memories growing up is sitting on my uncle’s front lawn, overlooking a black lake, and watching the wonders of dozens of shooting stars. Enjoy the magic!