December 2002 Forty-nine posts

• 27-Dec-2002
  Road Trip So Christmas was wonderful. I got so many great presents from my friends and family. I was not able to give all I would have liked, but I’m looking forward to a prosperous 2003. Christmas with the Crawford family was wonderful. My Uncle and his son played the guitar on Christmas day, and we all...

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• 23-Dec-2002
  Christmas Plans & Thoughts I have a lot of thoughts this Christmas. It’s been a heckuva year, that’s for sure. From separation to divorce. Job changes. Some freelance. Some botched opportunities on my part. Marital counseling. Counseling. New relationships. It’s all been a bit much. Sometimes I think I should just go lie down for a month or three....

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• 23-Dec-2002
  Outrage in Support of “National Security” Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There? is outrageous. If it’s even half true, be scared for your nation. This is not America to me.

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• 22-Dec-2002
  NPACI Rocks Toolkit, or, Build Your own Cluster Supercomputer On Thursday I went to the ACM San Diego meeting. I even got a tour of San Diego Supercomputer Center. They have lots of computers and computing power. I got to see the gigantic (1.7 teraflops (a teraflop is a trillion floating-point operations per second) Blue Horizon machine. When I think about Moore’s law, and...

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• 22-Dec-2002
  From My Medicine Days From My Medicine Days See one, do one, teach one.

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• 22-Dec-2002
  DMCA versus Librarians DMCA exemption sought to allow saving of PC software from decay Early PC software is about to decay and it is not clear we are allowed to save it. The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA may prevent libraries from saving some of the most creative works of the 20th century from being lost. via nettime

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• 21-Dec-2002
  Some Fascinating Good Words 1997 Rise of the Stupid Network 1998 The Dawn of the Stupid Network 2000 Worse Is Better 2002 The Paradox of the Best Network: The best network is the hardest one to make money running.

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• 21-Dec-2002
  TIA is a Bummer “Total Information Awareness” as a diagnosis problem (web.archive)

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• 21-Dec-2002
  Sad for Scientific Progress Computer Science does not learn from its past – three rants from smart folk: 1 · 2 · 3

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• 21-Dec-2002
  JavaScript: Don’t hate the playah, hate the game The Problem with JavaScript is a rather lukewarm article that talks about the fact that JavaScript itself is not evil, but the things people do with it are. It blames (rightly) browser and email client creators for enabling it to do malicious stuff. For an excellent history of JavaScript read Steve Champeon’s history of the...

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