haiku mirror
I am now running an official Haiku mirror: haiku.datente.com. Alpha 4.1 has been released, and you can get a copy from any of the mirrors.
why the electoral college matters
This year’s election results seem to – again – be confusing a LOT of people. The incumbent presidential candidate, Mr Obama, won ~51% of the popular vote. His main opponent, Mr Romney, won ~48% of the popular vote. However, when you look at the electoral votes (the only ones that really matter), you see a different picture:…
establishing a data haven cloud
In Neal Stephenson’s seminal book, Cryptonomicon, he describes the creation of a “data haven” in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Why has no-one started building such a service (or, at least not in a public way) on existing cloud services (eg AWS or Rackspace) and/or create their own global network? Data backup and replication is not…
why blog
There are myriad reasons to blog. However, the biggest reason should be because you want to. You feel there is something you need to share with others, and that the best way of doing that is via your blog. Maybe it’s a collection of recipes, maybe it’s a series of tutorials, maybe it’s mindless ramblings…
next bglug meeting – 25 oct at 1900 (7p) – @collexion hackerspace
Topic is yet TBD – but the time and place are set: 25 Oct 1900 Collexion hackerspace Come join us!
mirror status – m0n0wall
The locale needs to be updated (from Philadelphia to Germany), but I have been reinstated as a m0n0wall mirror. I noticed that downloads had dropped-off over the past few months, and after contacting Manuel Kasper (the creator/maintainer of m0n0wall), found out that the mirror script he runs to maintain an active list had dropped me…
asymmetric communication – the facebookification of society
The first communication method we ever learn is the interaction between ourselves as infants and our caregivers (just to cover the possibility of a parent, foster parent, day care worker, orphanage employee, etc). They speak to us, hold us, and in general take care of us while we cry, burp, laugh, and gurgle in response….
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