Month: April 2007
Cool shot of the day
And no, it’s not one of mine. Check out the whole set: he’s got something going on with his toy camera and his cleverness.
one good reason to have a cameraphone
it’s a quick and easy way to grab something like this.
links for 2007-04-25
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“James Simons, hedge fund manager, earned $1.7 billion last year…. Can one person add $1.7 billion worth to the economy? Something is wrong here.”
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this is something to keep an eye on. the boomers and those of us on their heels are going to age differently than previous generations.
what can this mean?
Slashdot | Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers:
goombah99 writes
“Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State’s website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech’s block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished. Can anyone suggest a good explanations for this seemingly dubious election-eve transfer?”
Move along, nothing to see here.
links for 2007-04-24
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Wow. Just look at the similarities.
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The way they were: the Edwardian diet, too much of a good thing (some things not so good).
d’oh!
I just shipped my 4×5 cigarbox camera to The Society for Contemporary Craft for a show they’re doing, but now I realize that this Sunday is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.
Gah. I’ll have to get into the shop tomorrow and make another.
Now playing: The Other End (Of The Telescope) from the album “All This Useless Beauty” by Elvis Costello
potential gotchas on WordPress migration
You might see something like this is you move an existing WP database between machines.
This fix is pretty easy: looks like auto-increment isn’t in place when the new database is created. Odd, consider i dumped the old one with create statements.
job-hunting 21c-style
Well, I am in the hunt for gainful employment once more. Could be tricky with summer looming, as I would need to find camps or other recreational activities to occupy the younger household staff right about now, and without the promise of a way to pay for it, I daren’t.
So perhaps something flexible/part-time will turn up.
Google has some openings locally (Kirkland, closer than Mountain View) and I put in for one. They have a very interesting survey you need to fill out before your application is accepted. Wish I had saved a copy. Some of it was unknowable (my GPA was forgettable and so I did just that) while some other other stuff was personality-based (are you lazy? do you procrastinate? what is your optimal workgroup size? do you hold a world record?)
Interesting to see what comes of it, if anything. I would prefer a part-time gig on this side of the lake, but for the GOOG, I am willing to explore my options.
Craigslist is far more interesting to scan than the old newspaper ads. I wonder if the papers realize how different the experience is? There’s a whole world beyond word counts and cryptic abbr’ns.
of all the places in a year’s ride from here, she’s the only place to be
“It’s hard to appreciate the Earth when you’re down right upon it because it’s so huge.
“It gives you in an instant, just at a position 240,000 miles away from it, (an idea of) how insignificant we are, how fragile we are, and how fortunate we are to have a body that will allow us to enjoy the sky and the trees and the water … It’s something that many people take for granted when they’re born and they grow up within the environment. But they don’t realize what they have. And I didn’t till I left it.”
-Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 and 13.