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Diana, Roz, Roxy, and Rio
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Diana, Roz, Roxy, and Rio,
originally uploaded by nephariuz. </div>Taken a few weeks ago at Diana’s parents’ house.
Diana and Lenny at Antelope Canyon
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Diana and Lenny at Antelope Canyon,
originally uploaded by nephariuz. </div>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.
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
Read more...Yay!
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase is due out October 17th!
Read more...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…
Read more...Our fearless CEO doesn’t wash his hands after using the bathroom.
Read more...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.
Read more...F:workwedding>cvs log wedding_guest_list.sxc
RCS file: f:developmentcvs/wedding/wedding_guest_list.sxc,v Working file: wedding_guest_list.sxc head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: keyword substitution: b total revisions: 2; selected revisions: 2 description: —————————- revision 1.2 date: 2005/07/27 06:41:02; author: jay; state: Exp; lines: +37 -37 Finished copying info from Diana’s printed sheet. Added address info for some of groom’s guests. —————————- revision 1.1 date: 2005/07/20 02:18:08; author: jay; state: Exp; Initial commit. =============================================================================
Read more...Taste profiling...
Audioscrobbler/last.fm finally calculated my “musical neighbors” (people with similar taste to me, as judged by the tracks they play), and now my profile radio is running. It’s pretty good at guessing songs I’d like, even though I’d never seek them out on my own. (Of course, it also plays a lot of tracks I already have, but for someone without a large music collection, it’d be a godsend.)
There are other systems similar to Audioscrobbler’s for news and movies, but none seem very polished yet. But the day is fast approaching when everything - Flickr pictures, Web links, TV shows - is retrieved for you automatically based on what you’ve downloaded in the past. You’ll just flip on your set-top box, and something you (probably) want to see/hear will be there waiting for you.
Of course, spam could easily prove a problem. Audioscrobbler already had to set up throttling to stop people from artificially inflating the rank of their favorite artist. One could imagine a spammer building a profile identical to yours (hey, look how similar our tastes are! you should listen to some of my music!), then inserting a link to their own Viagra ad. We’ll need trust networks to go along with these recommendation networks…
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