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To settle the wager from last night. Does 23% constitute ownership? In this case I'd say yes. 50 cents to Mr. Fink.
almost there...
The new Wired (May 2001, yes I still read it sometimes) has an interview with Larry Roberts, one of the creators of the internet, about his company Caspian Networks who are supposedly making a next generation router that will "kick Cisco's ass". Anyway, in the article he says the following:
"They're [cisco, juniper, avici] using hypercube or hypertoroid topology, so they're limited to six dimensions.... I've been able to take more steps, to go into n-dimensional space..."If anyone could explain to me how present network topology is in any way related to a hypertoroid (and you'll really have to explain because I'm a little rusty on my higher dimensional topology mathematics) it would be greatly appreciated. I know I know some people who could, but I don't think they're reading. Anyway, I love that shape and have always had the intuition (intuvision?) that it is important, but I don't know enough about these things. BUt that's the first time I've heard it mentioned.
Mmmm... higher dimensional doughnuts.
Rohit Khare (of knownow and foRK fame) on namespaces and the future of "postmodernist networking". Fairly technical.
O.K., I think the 'new post' feature is working again on my page. Let me know if it's not. Thanks.
Booknotes is talking about an idea to enable "block blogging" of important topics (where many people link to the same story from many individual personal sites.) I don't quite get it. I understand what people are after is some idea that certain news topics deserve to be widely covered (maybe things that specifically don't get covered in the mainstream) and that all these personal sites can help out by jumping on the bandwagon and all linking to the same stories. But isn't that exactly what happens already? Without any news feed apparatus? I remember when people used to think all the link overlap was a bad thing.
Paul Ford has been traveling in Israel and thinking about the Holocaust.
My friend J. wrote yesterday about us getting together, and I mailed him back saying I was around Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. The fact that it was already 6:00 pm on Wednesday probably made that email a little confusing. When we finally talked I could tell he had that "are you sure you're ok?" sound in his voice. Yes, I'm ok. Just been concentrating a little too much maybe. So what if I thought it was Monday yesterday.