Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Displacement is an economic or cultural process where by a community of practice wakes up one morning to discover that the tide of history has left it high and dry. The displaced community is not, necessarily, at fault in these stories. The archetypical example of displacement was the introduction of a new technology into northern [...]
Monday, December 20, 2004
We got a another harvest off our bag of wet straw. This time I made oyster mushroom risotto; with a bit of sherry and a bit of cream. It was just wonderful! Blame Brian Kane for that idea.
Friday, December 17, 2004
Way way back in the 1960s the university where I used to punch cards and hand them thru the little window to run my batch jobs bought a new computer. The disk drive was so massive that when they brought it into the building the drive grazed the edge of the door way knocking off [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
I’m at ApacheCon. A very attractive woman just ran up to me and told me my lap top is extremely cute! You wish you were here!
Sunday, September 19, 2004
From the amazingly affecting blog of a first year teacher in NYC (in this episode the school system hadn’t managed to pay her yet). “Allegedly, I’ll be getting an “emergency” check on Tuesday (Monday is Yom Kippur and the schools are closed), but I’m living through this three day weekend on the “State Quarters” that [...]
Golly these things are getting very sophisticated. I’m particularly impressed by hiding behind and leveraging the disintermediation provided by another P2P service that’s less evil.
The vernal pool has appeared at the bottom of the yard. Walking along the avenue this morning water was gushing. Out of manhole covers and hoses from basement sump pumps. The valley the avenue runs along was the site of the first fresh water mills in this area, possibly the first in north america. The [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Via David Chess we learn that evil web spidering robots have found a way around yet another security device. The CAPTCHA system works by showing the visitor a picture, see at right, and then asking them to type in the word hidden in that picture. It’s a Turing test of that the visitor has at [...]
I sent email to a large private email list recently. I have gotten 20 “out of office” replies. This is dumb. The out of office robot ought not reply if the sender isn’t one of your correspondents for some reasonably definition of corresponent. How hard is that? For example if your have never sent X [...]
It was experiances like this that most loved when I lived in NYC “…Upstairs (and to the side…it’s weird, hard to visualize; it is not completely of this Earth) you’ll find International Food Warehouse (370 Essex St, Lodi, NJ; 201-368-9511). It seems to be squatting in an extra wing of warehouse space.
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