October 2008 Archives

Sam is ready to go. I mean Optimus Prime, of course.

Title says it all.

Wassup 2008

I'm a Leo: (July 23 - August 22) Leos have a true lust for power and leadership. They are confident, optimistic and charismatic -- they have no problem winning people over with their charm. Government, legal services, art/design/architecture, engineering, entertainment, real estate and education, are all areas suited for Leos; luckily those are the professions reported in the survey, too.

Here's the rest of the list.

We (Kyle and I) are at the Richmond swim meet. It's a nightmare, like all of these are. Too many people, not enough room, it's cold in the building, parents running the event are Nazis -- normal fare. Still, it's fun, somehow.
Bob Armstrong
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OK.  I've just about had enough of this crap.

I pull up my website this morning, just to see if everything is rendering well, and find that it's not.  Thank goodness I'm not trying to make any money off this thing.  I find a "page not here" message, which happens when the MT engine misrenders something. 

When I get about 15 minutes of spare life, I am going to have to change to Wordpress.  I think it's more stable in this respect.  Plus, it's built into my service provider's capabilities, unlike MT.

Dangit.

Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment

By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: October 12, 2008

The discovery of a new material called black silicon offers a lesson in government financing of science and technology.

Read it all here.

Check it out: Just in time for Halloween.

Stop, Refrigerate and Listen. (from CollegeHumor)

I came across this article about the failure of data mining.  It's here.

Posted by Declan McCullagh

"The most extensive government report to date on whether terrorists can be identified through data mining has yielded an important conclusion: It doesn't really work."

I am  a fan of the concept of data mining.  I believe that the ridiculous amount of data available in digital form is full of information that should/can be mined for a greater understanding by us humans.  That said, I don't have a good clue about how to go about making it happen.  Maybe that's the case here.