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Frighteningly detailed account of a denial of service attack. Great techno cyber detective sort of thing.
Special extra thanks to Mike who is working almost all day today, but still managing to cook us a meal tonight as his contribution to the big party. Probably this is so far beyond the call of duty as to be unfair. Still I've done nothing to stop it, and probably a little to encourage things along. Make sure you lay the thanks on heavy tonight if you're here for dinner.
Early crew in the 3:00 - 4:00 range. Mid crew in the 6:00 - 7:00 range (some food here.) Official party is 8:30 (more food here - around 9:00.) Feel free to decide to which crew you belong.
Tomorrow night is the big party and I haven't done one thing yet. I don't even have a sense of who is coming. Seems like I didn't invite very many people. Maybe it will just be a modest affair. Hopefully it will all come together at the last minute.
Jenna Bush is hereby invited to all future social gatherings associated with this site. (And if she wants a table at Fresh Foods, I'll see what I can do.)
Space Hotel coming soon:
"A Las Vegas hotel tycoon is seeking permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to build a private space station, something he contends can be done in the next three years. Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune as owner of Budget Suites of America, said he anticipates that his Bigelow Aerospace division will be able to launch a full-size space station module into orbit within 30 months."Yeah, O.K., I know this isn't going to happen in the next 30 months if the feds have anything to say about it, but I can dream. Wonder what it would cost? (here's the predictable /. thread)
An incomplete annotated history of weblogs.
An interview with the jodi.org masterminds.
John Udell on weblogs.
A large scale example of how the weblog model can be used in business settings.
Yesterday we received an upgrade to our stereo system at Rivington. Apparently the mysterious Mr. X, who is occasionally among the guests at various social functions here, could not stand the $35 boom box we had been using for the past several months. And when he sets out to fix a problem, you can be pretty sure the situation will be fixed. He called it a "community upgrade" explaining that no self respecting party host can be without a good sound system - and if the host is too lazy to fix the situation, then the community has to step in. So we opened a few bottles and spent the afternoon testing the limits of our old JBL bookshelf speakers which actually sound amazing when you drive them with a Classe Audio Seventy amp and Audio Thirty preamp. It's like getting a whole new music collection. High fidelity. I hope the neighbors are as enthusiastic.
Then we took a short cruise around the city. Great day for a drive. Up the FDR and over the 59th street bridge. Then down to the waterfront in Queens where there is a nice new park looking back towards Manhattan. Spectacular at sunset. Mr. X seemed to be conducting some sort of business deal on my cell phone as MB and I looked on in awe at the huge stripped bass someone had just pulled from the east river. "Can you eat that?" I asked, and MB just shrugged her shoulders like "Well, I guess you can..."
Then we blasted back into the city for a meal at GSI, where thanks to the Wheel they seem to think I am some kind of wine importer. I don't straighten them out. Perhaps when they notice that we drink all our wine and forgo the spit bucket they helpfully provide they will figure it out. We met Sarah and her parents who are in town from Montana. Always nice to see them. The spicy squid with celery almost blew my head off. A fine day all around.