I love going through a set of pictures for the first time ( Read more... )

"Are you making any progress ( Read more... )

To continue the thoughts on personal privacy, this is a playlist for a 37-part1 (5-6min apiece) talk given at HOPE 2008 about the information that is readily available. Worth the few hours, IMO.

1 - 36 parts, but there is one missing between parts 33 and 34.

As usual, this product contains no answers, just thoughts... and perhaps trace amounts of peanuts.

Since the recent FacebookCamp and its focus on Facebook Connect (tie your existing site to people's Facebook accounts and reap the benefits of access to Facebook's social graph, and also feed data [such as news entries] back into Facebook), I've ( Read more... )

Well, this instills confidence:
Please wait while we find an agent to assist you ( Read more... )

About 16min worth of an interview with some guy who knows a couple things about large filesystems.

His description of a single (temporary?) failed sector triggering a failed disk and subsequent rebuild made me wonder when we'll see a filesystem based on something like erasure codes. Failed read? Rebuild the sector, try a write-read cycle for ( Read more... )

Posting here 'cause I'm pissing Brian off by sending him lots of interesting links today. I'm perfectly aware that he'll see this one too ;-)

20min TED video of Jill Bolte Taylor's talk regarding her stroke

What makes it interesting is that she's a neuro-anatomist anatomologist -- she studies the anatomy of the brain. She narrates what she was ( Read more... )

This is the threading algorithm I mentioned.

Why is it that I'm rarely tired when I get home at stupid o'clock in the morning ( Read more... )

That was needed _so_ much: hearing nothing but the crickets. But, alas, its over now. I couldn't believe how loud the 401 was after that. How do I put up with the noise daily?

Insanity is scheduled to return bright and early on Monday.