Thread: Release dateline :-(
Folks, Unfortunately, it seems Businesswire and Reuters haven't caught on to the idea of stateless internet entities yet. So, we *will* have to put a city on the release. I can see a couple of possibilities: New York, NY -- like last year, this is the dateline for news that doesn't really have a location, and will probably get stripped out. Sydney, Australia or: Tokyo, Japan -- the 8.1 release, as promised, will go out first on Australia/Japan time. So it might be appropriate to use one of those. Philadelphia, PA or San Francisco, CA -- the locations of the two primary US press contacts. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > Unfortunately, it seems Businesswire and Reuters haven't caught on to the > idea of stateless internet entities yet. > > So, we *will* have to put a city on the release. > > I can see a couple of possibilities: > New York, NY -- like last year, this is the dateline for news that doesn't > really have a location, and will probably get stripped out. > > Sydney, Australia or: > Tokyo, Japan -- the 8.1 release, as promised, will go out first on > Australia/Japan time. So it might be appropriate to use one of those. I think that Tokyo, Japan would be a cool tag line ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:20, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Unfortunately, it seems Businesswire and Reuters haven't caught on to the
> > idea of stateless internet entities yet.
> >
> > So, we *will* have to put a city on the release.
> >
> > I can see a couple of possibilities:
> > New York, NY -- like last year, this is the dateline for news that
> > doesn't really have a location, and will probably get stripped out.
> >
> > Sydney, Australia or:
> > Tokyo, Japan -- the 8.1 release, as promised, will go out first on
> > Australia/Japan time. So it might be appropriate to use one of those.
>
> I think that Tokyo, Japan would be a cool tag line ...
>
Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, Florida.
:-)
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Robert Treat writes: >Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, Florida. more options: Waldo, Florida Clums Corners, New York Podunk, Iowa (classic, but actually exists) Picayune, Mississippi (my cousin grady was once mayor of picayune)
what bout http://www.elephantbuttecoc.com/ Elephant Butte NM? :) On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Welty, Richard wrote: > > > Robert Treat writes: > >> Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, >> Florida. > > more options: > > Waldo, Florida > Clums Corners, New York > Podunk, Iowa (classic, but actually exists) > Picayune, Mississippi (my cousin grady was once mayor of > picayune) > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
You are missing the obvious:
New Orleans, LA
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Brian Kilpatrick wrote:
> what bout http://www.elephantbuttecoc.com/
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> Elephant Butte NM? :)
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> On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Welty, Richard wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Robert Treat writes:
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> >> Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville,
> >> Florida.
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> > more options:
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> > Waldo, Florida
> > Clums Corners, New York
> > Podunk, Iowa (classic, but actually exists)
> > Picayune, Mississippi (my cousin grady was once mayor of
> > picayune)
> >
> > ---------------------------(end of
> > broadcast)---------------------------
> > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
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> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, Florida. > more options: > Waldo, Florida Actually, Gainesville is right down the road from Waldo. The latter is a very, very small town, known most for being a speedtrap on the trip from Gainesville to Jacksonville. Seriously, Gainesville has the highest concentration of PostgreSQL developers than any other city except for Philadelphia and Toronto. :p - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200509192252 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDL3nKvJuQZxSWSsgRApR6AKDPseTupffbSAhUYf+kxX1PafAzKQCfVipH kmPdr2dT3hy0RbJKFMtwMhM= =UEXk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sep 19, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > You are missing the obvious: > > New Orleans, LA my joke was that as long as something that meaningless was a requirement, we should flip through small towns with mildly silly names. however, a more subtle form of the joke would be to take a list of cities associated with companies that are strong supporters (of which Tokyo would probably count, for SRA if not for Fujitsu as well) and flip through those. as for New Orleans, i think too many people would react negatively to that, even if intended as a tribute rather than a subtly "off" joke (i was worried about whether my mention of Picayune was over the line, but i guess no one else on this list is aware of how close Picayune is to new orleans and that as such the place is a little roughed up itself right now.) richard
> what bout http://www.elephantbuttecoc.com/ > > Elephant Butte NM? :) > > LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, Wales Merlin
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:54:43AM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, Florida. > > > more options: > > > Waldo, Florida > > Actually, Gainesville is right down the road from Waldo. The latter is a > very, very small town, known most for being a speedtrap on the trip > from Gainesville to Jacksonville. > > Seriously, Gainesville has the highest concentration of PostgreSQL > developers than any other city except for Philadelphia and > Toronto. :p The heck with concentration. I think we should make use of our new GiST features; put lat/long for all developers in a database, and find the geographic centroid; then use the city closest to that. Or we could use.... Skokie, IL; I sang in a barbershop quartet there Antarctica; Hey, it's cool down here! Just watch out for penguin dropings Hawaii; Our database is so good you'll have plenty of time for a vacation Uppsala, Sweeden; akin to how Sun flew a big banner over Dell :> -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
Jim C. Nasby wrote: >The heck with concentration. I think we should make use of our new GiST >features; put lat/long for all developers in a database, and find the >geographic centroid; then use the city closest to that. or just "Earth's Core, Earth" cheers, richard