Showers are particularly problematic for me because sometimes I will get lost in thinking something through. It will haunt me for days. Saturday morning I started thinking on why computers are so difficult for people to learn. It hit me that just enough unexplained behaviors occur. Once one considers all of the factors that go…
Science & Technology News: Yahoo! News – Archaeologists Unearth Base of Egypt Queen Pyramid Business There could be 1.1 million jobs created over the next year. Yahoo! News – Information Technology Work Force Set to Grow Really… these days notebooks are actually decent. You can do quite a bit of stuff of them. Yahoo! News – Notebooks…
U.S. News: This might explain why my collegiate friends can’t get real jobs. Too much competition? BBC News | BUSINESS | US joblessness hits eight-year high The recession may be over, but we have not recovered. A fine distinction, I know. With most of the major economies still down, it seems like it would be difficult…
Sports: I predicted Arsenal would win the cup Premiership when I was in London. Just about everyone wanted Manchester United to make comeback from way behind to take it. BBC SPORT | PHOTO GALLERIES | Victory sweet for Arsenal UPDATE 2011-APR-09: My uncle tried to explain to me Arsenal was going to have to go through…
Tech News: I’ve said it often enough… students are hackers in sheep’s clothing. This true too… “the majority of academic networks are tempting targets for hackers because of their lack of security, abundance of bandwidth and overworked administrators.”University systems a haven for hackers – Tech News – CNET.com World News: Don’t approach a U.S. Navy…
Seems like Xanga is limping along at the moment. In an effort to further complicate my bloggings… news here. Real rants over there. Tech News: Found this by following an article on Slashdot. Thinking this would be good to implement. How to Defeat Bad Web Robots With Apache Only has experimental Apache 2.0 support. Maybe 4.2.1 will fix…
Segmentation Faults sux!!
We knew this would happen again, right? Anniversary of the plane landing in China… Remember? Back last April? C’mon people… ITworld.com – Report: CIA warns of Chinese cyberattack preparations Be afraid. Be very afraid. I get 20+ of these a day since Friday. PCWorld.com – Klez Worm Continues to Spread Think you got a virus? PCWorld.com – Internet…
Learning about web site privacy policies and P3P. Seeing who has them and who doesn’t. I am surprised more universities have not jumped into this. Harvard, UCLA, and MIT have not even set up P3P files. MIT does not even have a privacy statement from the home page. Coming back to more local, the major univeristies in the…