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Among useful traits in ASP.NET AJAX Extensions and the associated tool kit are improved Web service proxy handling and JSON-based serialization, suggested Fritz Onion, technical staff member, PluralSight. Onion spoke this week at VSLive 2006 in Boston. read more  |  digg story

By T.W. Zickcrewe When I first got to town I went to demarks swing club They had them shimmy dancers – and them Shakespeare plays 0. When I got to that town I found me a home Glad but I found the twilight zone Not a horrible one It cheered the late bloomer An offbeat episode With droll black humor In a halfway house Stuck halfway The sun in the morning was a big red flame i. In the land of trees where there are no leaves trucks and mystics and misfit knees The tie-dyed streets All looked inviting I wore some shades To adjust the lighting Wandered like a sailor with a self-distain then so I left Goldwater for the golden plain. ii. The heater I had would freeze and die the girls down that way walked streets on the side People half-smiled Didn’t know their M-O When I started to talk Their heels turned to go Chased a shimmy dancer In a Shakespeare play I left that town For Fortuna way Why'm I heading for Fortuna? Why'm I talking to myself? Where's the girl I left in Boston? I...

i. When I got to that town I found me a home Glad though I found the twilight zone Not a horrible one It cheered a late bloomer An offbeat episode With droll black humor In a halfway house Stuck halfway The sun in the morning was a big red flame In the land of trees where there are no leaves trucks and mystics and misfit knees The tie-dyed streets All looked inviting I wore some shades To adjust the lighting Wandered like a sailor with a self-distain I left Goldwater for the golden plain. ii. The heater I had would freeze up and die the girls down that way walked streets on the side People half-smiled Couldn't figure their MO When I started to talk Their heels turned to go the moon was a sliver the stars were a wonder Half-standing, half-sleeping I heard Freddy Fender Piensa en mi think of me in my sorrow Like a log flat floating Or a bishop with his bowwow the caffeine and nicotine Were like rich vicuna they’d all fall off their stools and I’d split for Fortuna. ==== So this guy i...

i. When I got to this town > I found me a home > Glad though I found > the twilight zone > Not a horrible one > It cheered a late bloomer > Was an offbeat episode > With droll black humor > > In a halfway house > Stuck halfway > The sun in the morning > It was a big red flame .... I went to the land of trees > where there are no leaves trucks and misfits all around > trouble enough to shake your knees > The tie-dyed streets > All looked inviting > I wore some shades > To adjust the lighting > People seemed to half-smile > Couldn't figure their MO > When I started to talk > They turned their heels to go >The heater I had would freeze up and die the girls down that way walked streets on the side the Caffeine and nicotine Were like money round there they’d fall off their stools and crawl in their beer they'd pull the wings off hope and prayed lord whiskey i left that town hello [new city] I'd like to see ...

When I got to this town I found me a home Glad though I found the twilight zone Not a horrible one It cheered a late bloomer Was an offbeat episode With droll black humor In a halfway house Stuck halfway The sun in the morning It was a big red flame .... So what do you think? What comes next? Comment or e-mail. The frame is this so far... a guy's journey... like Chicago Bound by Jimmy Rodgers. He starts out in this sorta timewarp hippie place, sees things, moves along...

During wW2 the Alliled side was sometimes called the United Nations. How do we end up with a World War? When many armies are at it. UN of Eleanor Roosevelt, not Franklin, was by way of answer to this. The UN is now, amongst other places, in Lebanon, where Hezzbolah supporters were supposed to get a lesson the wings of Israeli war planes. For some reason or other, the Pope of Hezzobolah can still get a crowd as shown above. World War seems hovering in ancient-new-future pics like these.

Ray Noorda of Novell, dead this week at 82, was the first famous technology personage I met. Though he wasn’t famous at that time, and, to gauge from the reaction at his passing, he’s not too famous now. I'd studied local networks in college so I knew about Novell, and got to take the meeting, even though I was junior staff . Anyway, I have no great anecdote to share. But meeting Noorda meant a lot to me. It meant something because I was getting closer to a world I’d only read about in magazines. Not as technology maker, mover or shaker, but as a technology writer. Noorda was very polite. But polite in the manner of Gary Cooper. Sort of like a physician. Maybe he was a bit surprised that I was slightly awed. I wrote a bit focusing on his technology maneuverings on TheServerSide.NET

Back on 10-11-2005 this blog started out with something on the order of a note about Elmore James and feedback . This blog was a replacement for my Radio Weblog – which had overburdened my PC. Tried to stay to a narrower topic on this one, and seemed to have run out of steam concerning certain planetary matters. The moon is getting shorter shrift for sure. It was about a kid growing up with technology as an overwhelming undercurrent. Where art met science and sparks flew. Meant to write about Wayne McGuire and his opus 1968 essay on the Velvet Underground. But it’s still on the todo list. A list of learning about electronic machines and waking up the era of google – inside the contraption. But continued to write essays when I felt, and reviews when I heard or read stuff. Looking ahead: May go with the flow again – that and continue to place bpieces of observes apparatus time in this binary archive [for future visitors?] – may try to narrow things down again, always a problematic quest....

HSD money pegged to probe opinions in overseas publications. Let's face it: Spooks on all sides have prowled the serial rooms for years, looking for drabs of info that would combine for analysis that could support predictions. What could happen during the new era of natural language processing with Web as the oyster? read more  |  digg story

RNA hayride Nobel week and ignoble week. RNA is a big winner. Especially where we are looking at a process of copying and transferring information. Chemist Kornberg gets merit. "Much of his work has focused on an enzyme called RNA polymerase, which makes messenger RNA and controls the process of selecting certain genes from the thousands that make up DNA to duplicate at any one time. Dr. Kornberg’s research groups characterized how RNA polymerase played a central role in the transcription process by hooking on to certain parts of the DNA chain and making RNA that produced exactly the protein a cell needed at the time. Also winners for health prize are Mello [of Umass, Worcester!] and Fire: for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. Outta body Each day, first thing I do, I try to levitate. No success yet. I'd settle for outofbody experience if levitation fails. But calling on different part of the brain seems to be a path. Where smell, tho...

Weathered but Scrappy, Jerry Lee Lewis Rocks On On a Tuesday afternoon in Sept 2006 Jerry Lee Lewis sat down at a red baby grand piano at F.Y.E. Records in Rockefeller Center and proceeded to rock and roll. His left hand pumped boogie-woogie chords, his right splashed and jabbed, and his voice easily leaped up to the high notes of “Great Balls of Fire.” Said Jerry Lee: "I didnt know it was going to stir up such a stink." His new record is good, especially for a record using the 'duet' format. Some of the performances are called in, but the country stuff is great; Jerry Lee runs roughshod over all. It is up there with Live at the Star Club, the Palomino Club Recordings and that thing he did with Andy Paley. Tony Bennett takes phone call from Hank Williams Bennett in performance in NYC, 2006. Now and then there were vestiges of the throbbing lyricism of the crooner of 40 years ago. “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” and “For Once in My Life,” both sung quietly until the...