This is an early preview release, and the first of many – people will understand that, because we will message it strongly that way.

Are you going to take the chance that the source code might get Half-Life 2'd or Windows 2000'd?

[...] I'm not sure if I have any other ideas. Percocet? I always like Percocet on the plane, but since you're ostensibly serving some kind of chaperoneurial function, that's probably not the best idea.

I'm a little groggy from a bad night of sleep, though, so I might just be spouting loonericities.

Google tool to speed up indexation.

Mike,

Heard at a meeting yesterday: "We are going to onboard these people ..." Is this new?

Hearing this made my hair hurt.

Keep up the good work.

I would like to point out that if one orders a Bamboo tee, the shipping to anywhere not in the US is about 35 dollars, more than three times the price of the tee. Perhaps if you live across the ocean in an isolated cardboard box in the district of Badgershire or something this might be acceptable, but I live in Canada, and have never seen shipping prices as high as 35 bucks to get packages across the nigh-unpassable 49th parallel. Just thought your Canuckistanian readers might like to know.

Word premercial
Part of Speech n.
Etymology [< pre- + commercial.]
Definition A web advertisement that appears before the site's real home page is displayed. Example: "I hate that The Onion now has a premercial, but I've been reading the site for free for years; I guess even humorists have to pay the rent."
Submitted By Jeffrey Henning
Date Submitted Friday, July 30, 2004

1. Architect, as a verb
   
2. Take-away(s), that do not involve food
   
3. Pivot, when not referring to sports or things mechanical (“I pivot on the small and mid-market.”)
   
4. Enterprise, when describing a business
   
5. Message, as a verb

1. orthogonal
   
2. notional
   
3. sciolist
   
4. functionality
   
5. janky

The response from the "vocabularians" was so "ginormous" that the lexicographers let out a "whoot."

"Confuzzled?" You must be a "lingweenie."

The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when, in a lighthearted moment, they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary.

1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous

2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time

3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement

4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends

5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway.

It's about aboutness
There is still a strong need to connect "aboutness metadata" to chunks of content. That aboutness metadata can be exposed, as in an index, or listed in a categories list, or hidden in fields and used by a fine-tuned search engine. Indexes may go away in the next version of Longhorn, but they will be back in other ways, because it still takes human analysis to provide oversight on "aboutness." Searching for content in the right context is a last frontier, and although we are on the edges of the frontier, we still don't have automated content retrieval completely solved. We get a lot of results that don't meet our needs at the time, or when we switch search modes. There's still a lot of unfindable information. metadata provides the contextual clues.

Pfc. Chorn Pen, 240th Quartermaster Battalion, provides cover for a fellow Soldier while damage assessment is conducted following his convoy's escape from a simulated ambush during simunition (paintball) convoy training at Fort Pickett, Va.

I am trying to source a programmer/writer, either internally or externally, to create an SDK docset.

He’s just speaking recruiter. ;) When I was meeting with our recruiter, she kept asking if I wanted to do some "sourcing" with her and I kept staring at her blankly trying to figure out what the heck she was talking about.

Sourcing = looking through their database for suitable candidates.

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Sortation used to require a more complex application of human thought, but in the development of the UPS air hub the intellectual role of the workers "out in the sort" underwent a process of "de-skilling." "When they made the hub, they de-skilled a lot of positions," a UPS manager explained to me. "Label side up. That's pretty much the extent of the training for these folks."

• Email: "But will people see only two topics for DDL and say 'WTF?'"
  
• Email: "Flipcharts at every table? WTF? That doesn't even make sense."
  
• Blog post: "i shouldn't be posting this, wtf, i don't care."
  
• From BoingBoing (courtesy Seth): "Did you know the British have a different numbering system than we do for numbers over a million? They have shit called Milliards, and Billiards! WTF?"

• http://www.wtfpeople.com/ Submissions of strange or amusing stories.
  
• http://www.wtf.com/ "WTF.com is a RANTING site for those who want to bitch and moan about anything on their mind."

Like its predecessor relating to birds and people, common collocates of the new sense of migrate are the prepositions from and to, so we talk about migrating from one format or system to another. Unlike its predecessor, the new migrate has a transitive realisation, for example Consumers are migrating their CD collections to computer music files. In Internet and computing domains, migrate is also used with a direct object to refer, for example, to the transfer of data from one database to another, or the movement of a website from one server to another. This process can be referred to by the derived noun migration, and the noun migrator is often used to refer to software that manages or facilitates the transfer process.

Although the transitive use of migrate seems to be a new invention restricted largely to technical and computing domains, the adoption of the verb as a synonym for move or transfer is in fact just a return to the verb’s original meaning.