Diana and Lenny at Antelope Canyon
A super-cool slot canyon near Lake Powell. Sunlight filters in from the top, and the walls undulate in unearthly wave patterns from water erosion.
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August 2005
Jay’s Rock
I’m sure this balancing rock on a dirt road on the northern shore of Lake Powell has another, official name, but I’m betting not many people know it. We dubbed it Jay’s Rock, because I scrambled out of the car and across the brushy sand to get to it for this photo.
Diana, Roz, Roxy, and Rio
Taken a few weeks ago at Diana’s parents’ house.
Flickr
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Anarchy…
From: XXXXXX, Jay
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:51 PM
To: XXXXXX, Evelyn
Cc: XXXXXX, Nate
Subject: FW:
Evelyn,
Nate has the failover setup ready to go. I’ll let him get in touch with you about docs when they’re ready.
-Jay
From: XXXXXX, Evelyn
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:53 PM
To: XXXXXX, Jay
Cc: XXXXXX, Nate; XXXXXX, Jo Ann
Subject: RE:
Great
I knew he would have it under control.
From: XXXXXX, Nate
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:54 PM
To: XXXXXX, Evelyn; XXXXXX, Jay
Cc: XXXXXX, Jo Ann
Subject: RE:
That’s funny! If this is control, I’d hate to see chaos…
Nate
Yay!
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase is due out October 17th!
Here’s an interesting/scary idea…
The U.S. government currently issues laws regarding the maintenance and/or destruction of documents, who can access them and when, and so on. With a court order, any company can be required to turn documents over to law enforcement.
What if we discover a “silver bullet” for electronic data storage, that allows for a single mechanism to store and retrieve all kinds of data across all kinds of hardware and software? (I’m thinking here of JavaSpaces in particular, but it might be some other technology that finally achieves this goal.)
What if that single mechanism were so ubiquitous that, instead of writing laws regarding data storage and retrieval, a government could simply write software that actually complied with those laws on behalf of a company? So instead of saying “your company must destroy all e-mails that are over one year old”, a government could say “your company must download and install Software X from us, which will destroy all e-mails that are over one year old”? Media companies could be ordered to run software that prevented minors from downloading R-rated movies, every music file could be deleted from my computer, and more and worse. And of course, identity thieves would have a field day, as a single worm could unlock every Social Security number in America.
I guess heterogeneous networks aren’t all bad…
There’s a travel freeze and a hiring freeze (despite the fact that our department is severely understaffed). They’ve just announced that they’re halting 401K matching for the rest of the year.
Right now, I’m just hoping I get a severance package if I’m laid off. We need it to sustain us while I hunt for a job.
