Me, to my son: Do you want to go see the Avengers movie this weekend ( Read more... )

So I get email from a good former student, applying for a job and asking for a recommendation. “Sure”, I say, “Tell me what you think I should say.” I then get a draft letter back in which the student has described their work and fitness for the job in terms so superlative it would make an Assistant Brand Manager blush.

So I write my letter, looking ( Read more... )

Megaupload’s demise: What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? | ExtremeTech

You're probably not going to get them back :-(

I can't get everything to work, but I do have a new laptop.

Here's an email I sent earlier (with relevant updates):

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I spent the weekend doing some reading that was not for Pure Entertainment, or at least a different kind of it.

First off, I read a white paper on solutions to the current economic crisis, co-authored by Nouriel Rubini. I think I got the referral from something else I read in the Times, so it's not like it's really academic or anything. Basically, I ( Read more... )

I see that my own absence from the interwebs from Sunday afternoon till, well, now (didja miss me?) coincided with a massive lj outage. So I'm assuming I didn't miss anything. Except that a lot of people now have dreamwidth accounts. I have one too, but I've forgotten the password ( Read more... )

I found this video really heartbreaking.

It was a terrifying moment--the connection was unavailable, the domain name did not exist, firefox could not find the server.

I gave a thought to cleaning up my office, but then tried resetting the modem and the router, and phew it was all back again. Nothing to do with comcast's or whoever's fucked up billing dept which keeps sending our cable bill ( Read more... )