There’s an interesting little article at News.Com about Plaxo’s new business model — now they’re going to charge people I only slightly know for the privilege of spamming me to see if my contact information has changed. Yippeee! Oh, and they made it infinitesimally more difficult for its morons users to spam me, The service…
May, 2004
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His math is a bit off due to confusion over terabytes vs. petabytes, but Peter Van Dijck has an interesting look at just how cheap storage will be if current trends continue (and who knows if they will?) Van Dijck notes that over the past quarter century the cost/gigabyte of hard drive storage has decline…
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Man, it was bad enough when I discovered my wife’s porn collection, but today I learn that she’s also apparently a suspected meth dealer. Sometimes you think you know people . . . This is even more bizarre than the Asimov’s porn story. Before meeting me at the gym, Lisa stopped off at a local…
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As I’ve mentioned previously, I really enjoy Boing! Boing! but sometimes that blog just goes off into loony insanity. For example, Cory Doctorow points to this silly conspiracy nonsense claiming that Nicholas Berg was killed by Westerns who are trying to frame al- Zaqarawi for the murder (probably the same people who faked the Daniel…
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This is so absurd that I still half think it must be a hoax. The Baltimore Sun has an interview with relatives of mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner was a mathemtician who popularized the use of the term googol to refer to 10^100, and Google clearly played on the term in naming their company and search…
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I was extremely angry today after reading Patrick Leahy’s comments about eco- and animal rights terrorism. The Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing on the topic today and Sen. Leahy decided to turn his remarks into a partisan matter about Abu Ghraib rather than focus on the very real issue of eco and animal rights…
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My wife points out a bizarre instance of political correctness leading to the whitewashing of a museum exhibit on prisoners in the medieval world. Some students at Grand Valley State University had built a replica of a rack which was going to be displayed along with a mural depicting torture and maltreatment of prisoners, which…
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I’m a bit behind in posting pictures, but here are some of Emma and Colin that were take in April 2004.
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It seems like yesterday, but it was in fact four years ago this month that I started switching over all my web sites to use Conversant. For the first five years of maintaining my web sites I just used an FTP client and then, later, Dreamweaver, both of which were very limited. The main thing…
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So Air America host Randi Rhodes compared President Bush and his family to the Corleones of “Godfather” fame and suggested of George W. that, Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw. Based on the business problems it appears to be experiencing, it doesn’t look like Air America’s going to be around…