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After reading about a series of pirate attacks last year—back then an almost laughably bizarre occurrence—I became interested in the concept of modern piracy, something I, like many average citizens, was unaware still went on. I picked up a copy of John Burnett’s Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas after hearing [...]
This is getting way too confusing. All along, someone said “Georgia” and I thought of the southern state. And then there was a war in Georgia with Russia, and I was just geographically-astute enough to know that they meant the country. So that raged on for a while, and now, whenever I hear about something [...]
In: Computers|Cool Links|Ideas|Interesting|Linux Tips|OCD|Performance|Programming|Rants & Raves|Uncategorized
10 Jun 2008From my “Random ideas I wish I had the resources to try out…” file… The way the “pretty big” sites work is that they have a cluster of servers… A few are database servers, many are webservers, and a few are front-end caches. The theory is that the webservers do the ‘heavy lifting’ to generate [...]
Drive very, very carefully in Wyoming, if at all. Apparently exceeding the speed limit by more than 5 (!) MPH can bring up to 20 (!!!!!) days in prison. And this isn’t a technicality or an obsolete law on the books. I found this out after an Ask MetaFilter question by someone whose friend was [...]
In: Business|Cool Links|Interesting|Living|OCD|Rants & Raves
8 Jun 2008Last night we were unloading a shopping cart. When done, the place to put it away was pretty far away. But there were about ten other shopping carts littering the parking lot nearby, so I said, “Meh, what’s one more?” As we got in the car, I proclaimed, “Broken Windows in action!” I think people [...]
In: 2008|Hero of the Day|Interesting|Living|Obama|OCD|Politics
5 Jun 2008Ed.: Because the blogs have been slow, and because this is a hot topic, I’ve fudged the date on this to appear to have been published two days later, so it will stay on the main page a bit longer. It looks like Obama is the Democratic nominee, while Hillary Clinton, the woman who has [...]
You know those times when you decide to let yourself surf aimlessly? And an hour later, you have absolutely no idea how you got to where you did? I found the K0S Strange Antenna Contest page from 2003, where some ham radio operators started using, well, strange things as antennas. Who’d think that a ladder [...]
In: Cool Links|Insanity|Interesting|Materialism|Photography|Rants & Raves
4 May 2008I came across Ken Rockwell’s site the other day, and, as I perused a lot, I came across his interesting mention of the Casio EX-F1. I’ve “graduated” from integrated point-and-shoots to digital SLRs, although this camera costs more than my digital SLR and three lenses put together. Photographically, it’s mediocre. 6 megapixels. Except you don’t [...]
Found a neat experiment here…. Watch this video very carefully and count how many passes the people wearing white shirts make. It’s kind of a neat challenge. Afterwards, leave a comment with your answers. (But no cheating! Watch the video first.)
I mentioned in my previous post in passing about determining which was my “dominant eye,” something I’ve merrily gone 22 years without knowing I had. Wikipedia refers to the subject as ocular dominance. Essentially, the brain “prefers” one eye over the other. Of course, this is something that ordinarily goes unnoticed, but it becomes quite [...]