Month: August 2003
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Playa pictures
Are here. I hope we can fix the ugly g8.html URL soon. And yeah, I like the playa 🙂 Need to take more shots with people too. It’s quite hard to take pictures when recharging opportunities are rare. The official gallery is still quite empty too.
playa
i have arrived, and will hopefully post some pictures soon. one word: overwhelming.
Airport
i couldn’t resist and bought the monzoon package for ZRH airport. off to SFO in 30 min. should be a blast.
Primate programmers
Humans and higher primates share 97% of their DNA in common. Recent research in primate programming suggests computing is a task that most higher primates can easily perform. Visual Basic 6.0 was the preferred IDE for the majority of experiment primate subjects.
but..
What are the issues regarding open source programming?
Hominids will not share source code and can be very territorial when programming. For this reason we do not recommend Primate Programming for open source projects.
ie annoyance of the day
if you have a valid XHTML Transitional document with an empty title tag like thus <title/> ie will fail to render it. great job guys.
new baby
the thinkpad x31 is slightly bigger than the old vaio i had in 1998-1999
it’s still very small and versatile though 🙂 and who needs a cdrom these days, i certainly don’t. give me wifi every day.
Klaxon
Seems the new game in town is to adopt a klaxon approach to security.
Subject: Important Security Update for the .NET Messenger Service
Date: 19 Aug 2003 02:23:18 -0700
From: .NET Messenger Service Staff dot_net_msgr_svc@msgr.hotmail.com
ATTENTION: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED FOR MSN AND WINDOWS MESSENGER USERS.
I got that email 1113 times so far. Of course, that number is laughable compared to the 10s of emails I got from the SoBig virus today. It seems no day passes without a Microsoft incident.
Tesla Magnifying Transmitter
The Magnifying Transmitter produced thunder which was heard from his lab as far away as Cripple Creek. He becomes the first man to create electrical effects on the scale of lightning by creating bolts 42 meters in length. People near the lab would observe sparks emitting from the ground to their feet and through their shoes. Some people observed electrical spark from the fire hydrants. The area around the laboratory would glow with a plasmic blue corona. One of Tesla’s experiment with the Magnifying Transmitter destroyed Colorado Springs Electric Company’s generator, by back feeding the city’s power generators, and blacked out the city.
very nice account of the life of “the inventor of the 20th century”, nikola tesla.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 