404 (fohr.oh.fohr) adj. Relating to a person who is out of touch or

clueless.

Example Citation:

“It’s rather silly that teen flicks are racking up huge box office numbers

and Hollywood’s acting like it’s some earth-shattering phenomenon. Studio

execs, you’re so 404.”

?”Gusto,” The Buffalo News, March 5, 1999

Backgrounder:

This adjective (which appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn’s Jargon Watch

column) comes from the following Web server error message:

404 Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server.

This would be the Web equivalent of “the lights are on but no one’s home”

and other fulldeckisms.

Posted on September 11, 1996

From: Wordspy

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Whoops. I put the funny warning signs from uspoliticsforum.com in an iframe. Guess what. It’s dumb-ass pop-ups come with the page. I have removed the iframe and the blog is now pop-up free.

I don’t recommend you view this link. But just in case you don’t believe the stories, here’s the Al-Jazeera web site’s pictures of dead American soldiers. Note it tends to be slow. Apparently there’s a lot of traffic on their site since they published this.

very disturbing content

From Funny warning signs at USpoliticsforum.com

from TVParty.com’s VideoVault

I think I just received an email containing a link to a wiki about web service APIs for blogger.

drink when:

bush is called a crusader

x2 if its by saddam

saddam is called evil

x2 if its by bush

iraq troops surrender to the media

x2 if to a unmanned vehicle or inanimate object

iraq uses weapons it claims not to have

the united states uses weapons it won’t allow iraq to have

a member of the media gets shot at

a toast to the shooter if its ashleigh banfield(msnbc), geraldo riviera(fox) or arron brown(cnn)

saddam uses a scud he doesnt have

x2 if its towards Israel

the united states terrorist threat level changes

the united states government tries to link iraq to 9-11

france goes pro US invasion

germany takes the side of the united states in a global war

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Open-source database has dazzling opportunities ahead

By David Kirkpatrick

FORTUNE.COM

Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Posted: 4:13 PM EST (2113 GMT)

(FORTUNE.COM) — Talking last week with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, took me back to the golden days of 1999. Here was a fresh-faced, unbelievably enthusiastic CEO, raving about the future prospects of his product, just like so many executives I met back in those unreal times. But Mickos has a very real opportunity. The open-source movement has become a major factor across the software industry, and MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database.

In contrast to typical commercial software, open-source products have their underlying programming code available for all to see and modify. The products are also free or close to it, which, needless to say, helps them grow rapidly if they’re good. MySQL is used in four million installations around the world, Mickos estimates. The product gets downloaded for free off the company’s site about 30,000 times a day. And here’s what Sun CEO Scott McNealy said in a February interview with Computerworld: “If you want to save…money, make the default database MySQL. It’s free, it’s bundled [with Sun’s Solaris software], you’ve got the whole open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo and Google can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly there’s a huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well.”

McNealy slightly exaggerated the Yahoo and Google stuff, but both companies do use MySQL extensively. I e-mailed so-called “Technical Yahoo” Jeremy Zawodny, who replied: “We use it all over the place-for batch feed processing in Yahoo Classifieds and Yahoo Finance, to serve live content in Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance, and even in some billing systems. Our usage continues to grow.”

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