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VUs in 2008
With the economic indicators looking rather bleak (at least for the US), a stream of troubling news from Virtual Universes (eg., Cory leaving LindenLabs, the Sheep firing a quarter of their flock, ...)...
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VW2008: Virtual Worlds 2008 in New York City
I attended the VW2008 as a ramp turd (that's a term from Snowcrash, look it up) at the end of the last day because it was really really expensive and I couldn't get anyone to pay it for me including...
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Open Source Lego
I didn't think this would happen. I sort of thought that Lego's business model revolved around selling building plans for lego models, but apparently Lego does think that they sell the bricks and the...
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Quick peek at Weblin Lite
Christine, of Weblin, let me know that there is an in-browser version of Weblin, called Weblin Lite. After fighting with it a bit, I got it to work with Safari and met Xantherus on the Secondlife site...
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Pallet house for sale
Couldn't sleep, so I checked my RSS feeds and found this selling on Craigslist:Somehow very cool, but I don't have the land to put it on. OK, not in RL, anyway. The link on the page points to the...
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RubyGems in a local directory
I was trying to install gem in my home directory on the server where my site is to be hosted and read up on it in the RubyGems Manual. The system is a FreeBSD7 system running on Intel iron. So far,...
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Twitter gives you the option to decline or decline
Well, that was special! Luckily a refresh fixed the problem.
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Shearwater
Shearwater is my latest music obsession AND they are coming to New York on Oct 20. I might have to cough up some dough for tickets.(At least it isn't as crazy as Final Fantasy, Owen Pallett's...
View ArticleXPost: Announcing Local New York Chapter of the Heart project
For those who don't read my other blog:http://malwareandsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/announcing-local-new-york-chapter-of.html
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Surprised and Confused
So, some friends have expressed surprise and confusion at my recent career changes, and all that is good as surprises and confusing events are good for the creative juices. But given that the times we...
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More about the IBM Chicken
A few days ago I posted IBM's chicken ad without comment. In retrospect I should really explain why I thought it was significant, as well as funny. Everyone, except the German government, knows that we...
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Save.Y.Nu
Seen at the recent CCC 25C3 congress, apparently one-letter secondary level domain names are in danger and save.y.nu is calling to action. Certainly, I am in favor of shorter domain names for twitter...
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e-mail Truck
The New York Times has an opinion article titled Plugging in the Postal Service where Ruth Goldway expounds on the virtues of converting all the US postal delivery truck to electricity. It turns out...
View ArticleI've been quiet
I've not been blogging much at all recently, though I've been doing quite a bit. All the twarfing stuff takes a lot of time to develope and run. I'm also busy with some hush-hush virtualization...
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Installing CouchDB on a CentOS5 system
I'm migrating my new Twarfing code from home to a new server at work which involves installing CouchDB. Now, CentOS has no aspirations to be cutting-edge, so it doesn't have CouchDB in it's repository....
View ArticleBiking in the snow
A few months ago I bought a second hand Pashley-Moulton APB bicycle as a second bike for around town and for the winter. Well, the winter came with about 25 cm of snow and today I decided to bike to...
View ArticleReversing a binary object in Erlang
While parsing a file as binary data in Erlang, which is much more efficient than as a string, which is a list of integers, you need to reverse the accumulated string. For some reason there is no BIF,...
View ArticleSpace Shuttle ade
A Blast From The Past: Shuttle Through The Decades from NPR on Vimeo.While looking at the short NPR video over at Vimeo of the Space Shuttle's beginnings, it occurred to me - perhaps belatedly - why...
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