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It shipped!
Damn you Brig Eaton for turning me on to nyc and me, the blog Drat Fink said reminds him of "felicity meets coyote ugly." Who could resist? Now if only she'd get her own computer so we could read about her life more often. (I think this one tops even *riothero for voyeristic fun. Sort of makes me cringe, but I keep going back for more.)
I think this site gets hit by more robots than humans. The indexing going on is insane. Does the googlebot ever sleep? Or play with its friends? My god that thing needs a day off.
One half a manifesto, by Jaron Lanier. It's always interesting what he has to say, but this one is especially good. I guess I'm guilty of much he is charging, but his ideas seem to strengthen my mind rather than attempting to disrupt, or change it. He's really picked up the ball here in the ongoing techno-cultural dialogue that has perhaps been too skewed lately by Bill Joy, Ray Kurtzweil, et al. Find the time for this one. (from /.)
"An interesting development for you freaks that follow the Roswell story..."
And as if that link weren't enough, 7CR also has this one, to a great page called "weird but true."
Lots of preparations for the big Thanksgiving trip. Things are getting pretty exciting. There's nothing quite like traveling with the Wheel.
Still no plumber, so the office construction is still stalled. Definitely won't be done before the vacation. Hopefully it won't be too long after we are back. I have to order the sdsl before the 30th to get in on a special rebate offer, so I'll actually be in the strange position of hoping they don't install it too fast. Now there's a dsl wish that might come true.
Here are 10 one meter resolution satellite images taken from the commercial satellite Ikonos (the first one meter resolution capable commercial satellite.) Perhaps as impressive as the pictures is the fact that their servers seem unfazed by the front page link on Slashdot (although I did catch the story very soon after it was posted.) Looks like they are running Apache on FreeBSD. Nice site.
New design at eatonweb. Looks great I think. Is it just my imagination, or are a lot of people starting to make really clean, really simple page designs? Thank god. [update: Oh, I was looking at it with javascript off (in Nav 4.75 Mac) and of course that kills style sheets, so I guess she didn't mean for it to look like I saw it. Still nice though. Without style sheets the page is just a small box of white surrounding the eatonweb gif floating on an otherwise grey background. No vertical lines or anything. Looks good both ways.]
I think I've decided to go the SDSL route so that I can play around with the Apache server in OS X. I'll let MB and Hannah order the really fast ADSL, and I'll just get the slowest SDSL to run my server. Then I can speed bump it as needed. I cannot wait to get MB's new machine set up so I can get my B&W back and start playing with Apache.