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Dave Barry, National Treasure, has a new blog.
The obvious line: I swear I’m not making this up.
Maybe My Prediction Was Right
...but only in Oakland.
More than 50 blocks of International had stretches of virtually lawless zones nearly three hours after the Super Bowl.I guess the mayhem is not on the takeout menu for the Raiders fans.
At least 12 cars were set on fire, many windows were smashed, some businesses were broken into and looted, bus benches were pushed over and street signs ripped down as police battled bottle-throwing rioters with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash-stun grenades.
AIGA: Experience Design: San Diego: Update
So I wrote the other day about missing the AIGA Experience Design meeting—well, I got a note back from one of the organizers:
You’re not the only one who got lost in the traffic mess.If at once you don’t succeed…
Our next event big event is slated for March 27th so mark your calendar. We will probably be having a smaller group meeting in February, so I’ll add your name to the list.
Lindows Trademark Case Going To Court
Lindows.com summary judgment motion dismissed—yeah, I’m still watching Lindows with interest.
My Super Bowl Prediction: Incorrect
From NBC San Diego:
More Than 100 Arrested In Gaslamp Quarter: Crowds Generally Well-Behaved, Police SayI’m glad I was wrong. I think this means that the number of police deployed to the Gaslamp Quarter was impressive. I wonder how different the numbers of cops assigned to the Gaslamp for the Superbowl differs from any random Saturday night? I suppose those aren’t public numbers though.
San Diego police arrested 109 people for various offenses at Super Bowl-related activities.
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On the whole, (Officer) Hassen said, the crowds gathered to take in the pre-show festivities have been well-behaved.
Super Bowl Prediction
So back on Thursday I couldn’t get parking in the gaslamp quarter, right? Right.
Madness. That was only Thursday.
Yesterday after a great BBQ with friends old and new we went and saw the Largest Fireworks Show in San Diego History – from Point Loma. I didn’t take pictures, but it was tres impressive. But lots and lots and lots and lots of traffic was to be had. And we weren’t even in a particularly great spot.
The city is hemmed in by madness. The game will be on soon. I have one prediction, and I state it publicly so I can say, well, I told ya so—but I REALLY hope I’m wrong:
There will be violent, ugly riots in the Gaslamp Quarter following the game. The area is too dense, and there are too many hopped up, aggro football fans in town.
So we’ll see.
Like I said, I hope I’m wrong.
What happened to the HTML Writer’s Guild?
This is an appalling story of (alleged) mismanagement and malfeasance. Wow.
Internet Health Report
Check out Internet Health Report...
The Internet Health Report delivers data about network performance (latency) between major United States Internet backbones. The measurement agents selected for the Internet Health Report have direct, single homed connections to a backbone so their connectivity is unambiguous. Each measurement agent connects to every other agent every 15 minutes and measures the latency (delay) of establishing a TCP connection across the Internet(Thanks Kynn!)
The resulting data in the Internet Health Report provides a logical performance map of the Internet. The Internet Health Report matrix is updated every 15 minutes. Any time the delay between two networks exceeds a threshold, a color coded alert indicates the level of the performance problem. Users can drill down to see specifically where the delays are occurring by clicking on any of the color coded boxes in the display.
The numbers in the display represent latency between networks in milliseconds. The total in each box is the geometric mean of all the data points collected between the networks during the specified interval.
DMZ is back!
The Digital Militarized Zone is back online at dmz.rini.org. Go DMZ!
(Very silly)
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