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Well, no progress yet - 02 May 2007
May. 3rd, 2007 01:13 amGot called about an interview for a part-time job - since I’m looking for full-time work, I told them I wasn’t interested. Nice to know they wanted me to interview, though. I feel, though, like I’m being a possible bit too picky and this will haunt me later. But there’s always more jobs available that I can apply to. Or something. I did find another website that will probably help me find more opportunities, even if none of them translate into interviews or jobs.
Anime Central is happening soon. People going should let me know, so that we can arrange a giant meetup or something. This is, of course, assuming I get my badge in time. There’s been a small amount of panic (and when I say small, I mean “it has attracted the attention of fandom_wank and there is a firestorm going on”) about badges not arriving with a comfortable window of opportunity, and apparently the current policy in place is “Bring your proof with you, and you can pay the replacement badge cost of $25 at-con”. That’s not encouraging, shall we say. (Of course, the funny part from last year is that those registering at-convention had shorter lines than those pre-registering... after the year before had horrendous at-con lines. It seems like each option that’s supposed to help relieve the stress and congestion is creating more stress and congestion.) We’ll see whether everything arrives in time to make the matter moot - after all, it could end up being that there’s a rush that arrives a few days before the convention. That would make people breathe a sigh of relief, and then complain mightily about how close things were cut.
Trillian users should upgrade their software because of a vulnerability in the IRC client. In Winamp, untrusted MP4 files might contain malicious code. Finally, Those with Quicktime and a Java-enabled browser should probably turn off Java until a patch or workaround appears for a highly critical vulnerability. (Said Quicktime patch has already appeared for both Windows and OSX, apparently.) Security is a good thing - observe that the TJX brand, that owns places like TJ Maxx and Marshall's, is being sued over a security breach that exposed sets of personal data and their silence in informing customers about it.
Going away from vulnerabilities, though, Joost, an Internet television service, has launched commercially. I wonder what the programming lineup is like. Would it be something like Lolcat Star Trek? Also, Digg's users have owerwhelmed the site with a particualr number, so much so that the executives have stopped trying to censor or remove them, despite the potential for suit from persons claiming the integer violates intellectual property.
Going for a wider... appeal, I guess, A U.S. friend (singular) from overseas is a glowing apology for the Republican years, painting the current President in the mold of earlier Presidents that went out into the world to make it safer for everyone and rehashing a tired statement about why people hate America (“the unspoken actual reason being that it is a Christian nation, a free nation, a wealthy nation and the most powerful nation the world has ever known”). For an action approaching $500 billion U.S. (and think of all the things that could have been done with that money), the way people choose to view the events is rather interesting. Think Progress offers a summary of salient figures since "Mission Accopmlished". Perhaps the best quote about war comes from a gentleman who digs up the remains of Germans, Russians, and others who died in World War II - “War is young men killing other young men they do not know on the orders of old men who know one another too well.” Even Canada is not necessarily a safe place for those servicemen that do not wish to fight anymore.
Perhaps because of his continued support of the war, Tony Blair will resign as Prime Minister, with his successor to be chosen by the Labour party.
Rolling Stone has an article about Keith Olbermann's rise to fame and popularity, through his willingness to show an emotion and say things that will cheese people off. In some ways he follows Bill O’Reily’s ability to garner people watching, but KO sees himself as genuine in his opinions, unlike Bill.
Iran is returning refugees from Afghanistan to their home country, planning on shifting 1 million persons back into Afghanistan by march 2008. For all the news and violence we hear of Iraq, there’s still a campaign going on in Afghanistan. One that may be a lot more successful than Iraq. I don’t know, actually, because of the lack of news.
Enough of that, though. Let’s go do something else. How about prehistoric people doing as we do and having sex for pleasure and fetishes much like modern people? (And prehistoric people were apparently swingers and poly, too, until agriculture came along.) In the technological space-age era, NASA is starting to consider issues like sex and death when it comes to long-term missions, recognizing the need to have policies and procedures in place before those missions go.
Tomorrow is a national day of prayer, for those who believe in the efficacy of such things. However, Jews on First notes that Focus on the Family and evangelicals are doing their very best to make their prayer the only type you see on the news, and to make it look like the government endorses them in some official manner. In a similar vein, a law against psychic practices, long-disused has suddenly revived and is being enforced in Philadelphia. This is why laws that are disused should be formally repealed, or that all laws should have an expiry date if they are not cited in a period of time after their latest citation, or are not renewed by the legislature. Otherwise, sodomy laws or other such things could suddenly be revived if the climate changes strongly. The Texas House passed a bill that allows students to invoke religious perspectives during football games, graduation ceremonies, or other "limited public forums". Curious, I thought that was already provided for in the free exercise clause. So long as it was apparent that this was the student’s perspective, rather than the school’s, of course. Perhaps I am mistaken.
Arctic ice is retreating faster than the models have predicted,, according to research done by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado. Whether natural or artificial, the climate change that is happening is definitely a cause for concern. In other gas-producing technology a nanostructured catalyst cell can be used to split water into its component parts using sunlight. The inventors claim that it can be scaled upward to larger energy options in an inexpensive manner. Sunlight as the catalyst would definitely help to provide the startup energy to get things going. Now, if it also has an efficient recombination on the other end with minimal waste and depletion of the water resource, hydrogen power could definitely take off. Assuming that all the claims, including the scalability, are true, of course.
If there’s something more credible to this story, I’d like to hear it. It may fuel more wondering about the Kennedy assassination, or solve the matter. E. Howard Hunt's "deathbed confession" says that he was approached to be part of a CIA team that killed Kennedy. Who shot Kennedy is one of the original conspiracies. Maybe now that Deep Throat is dead, more things will start coming to light. Still, if this has significant credibility, I’d like to see if other places are carrying it.
Music has been found carved into the walls of a chapel. Or at least, using a particular type of musical system in earlier times, they have found a musical piece. Not to say that it wasn’t there and deliberatley carved, but I’d also like to wonder how many musical pieces could be extracted out of natural processes, drawings, or other such things. Speaking of music of nature Doubletree is going to give anyone who requests them (by May 31) two seedling trees to plant, and will plant two seedlings for each two requested. Wow. For those that may have planted or raised trees, how much work would it be to plant and raise the seedlings to full maturity?
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kaura_nighthawk, a manager that Machiavelli's prince would make a duke and then keep a very close eye on. It’s a tale of how the flotsam of one company was successfully dumped off on another company. The way it was done is such that made it look like the company doing the dumping was an unfortunate victim of a poaching job. Wow.
Last thing for tonight is XKCD striking again with the map of on-line communities and related points of interest. On that note, I go to bed.
Anime Central is happening soon. People going should let me know, so that we can arrange a giant meetup or something. This is, of course, assuming I get my badge in time. There’s been a small amount of panic (and when I say small, I mean “it has attracted the attention of fandom_wank and there is a firestorm going on”) about badges not arriving with a comfortable window of opportunity, and apparently the current policy in place is “Bring your proof with you, and you can pay the replacement badge cost of $25 at-con”. That’s not encouraging, shall we say. (Of course, the funny part from last year is that those registering at-convention had shorter lines than those pre-registering... after the year before had horrendous at-con lines. It seems like each option that’s supposed to help relieve the stress and congestion is creating more stress and congestion.) We’ll see whether everything arrives in time to make the matter moot - after all, it could end up being that there’s a rush that arrives a few days before the convention. That would make people breathe a sigh of relief, and then complain mightily about how close things were cut.
Trillian users should upgrade their software because of a vulnerability in the IRC client. In Winamp, untrusted MP4 files might contain malicious code. Finally, Those with Quicktime and a Java-enabled browser should probably turn off Java until a patch or workaround appears for a highly critical vulnerability. (Said Quicktime patch has already appeared for both Windows and OSX, apparently.) Security is a good thing - observe that the TJX brand, that owns places like TJ Maxx and Marshall's, is being sued over a security breach that exposed sets of personal data and their silence in informing customers about it.
Going away from vulnerabilities, though, Joost, an Internet television service, has launched commercially. I wonder what the programming lineup is like. Would it be something like Lolcat Star Trek? Also, Digg's users have owerwhelmed the site with a particualr number, so much so that the executives have stopped trying to censor or remove them, despite the potential for suit from persons claiming the integer violates intellectual property.
Going for a wider... appeal, I guess, A U.S. friend (singular) from overseas is a glowing apology for the Republican years, painting the current President in the mold of earlier Presidents that went out into the world to make it safer for everyone and rehashing a tired statement about why people hate America (“the unspoken actual reason being that it is a Christian nation, a free nation, a wealthy nation and the most powerful nation the world has ever known”). For an action approaching $500 billion U.S. (and think of all the things that could have been done with that money), the way people choose to view the events is rather interesting. Think Progress offers a summary of salient figures since "Mission Accopmlished". Perhaps the best quote about war comes from a gentleman who digs up the remains of Germans, Russians, and others who died in World War II - “War is young men killing other young men they do not know on the orders of old men who know one another too well.” Even Canada is not necessarily a safe place for those servicemen that do not wish to fight anymore.
Perhaps because of his continued support of the war, Tony Blair will resign as Prime Minister, with his successor to be chosen by the Labour party.
Rolling Stone has an article about Keith Olbermann's rise to fame and popularity, through his willingness to show an emotion and say things that will cheese people off. In some ways he follows Bill O’Reily’s ability to garner people watching, but KO sees himself as genuine in his opinions, unlike Bill.
Iran is returning refugees from Afghanistan to their home country, planning on shifting 1 million persons back into Afghanistan by march 2008. For all the news and violence we hear of Iraq, there’s still a campaign going on in Afghanistan. One that may be a lot more successful than Iraq. I don’t know, actually, because of the lack of news.
Enough of that, though. Let’s go do something else. How about prehistoric people doing as we do and having sex for pleasure and fetishes much like modern people? (And prehistoric people were apparently swingers and poly, too, until agriculture came along.) In the technological space-age era, NASA is starting to consider issues like sex and death when it comes to long-term missions, recognizing the need to have policies and procedures in place before those missions go.
Tomorrow is a national day of prayer, for those who believe in the efficacy of such things. However, Jews on First notes that Focus on the Family and evangelicals are doing their very best to make their prayer the only type you see on the news, and to make it look like the government endorses them in some official manner. In a similar vein, a law against psychic practices, long-disused has suddenly revived and is being enforced in Philadelphia. This is why laws that are disused should be formally repealed, or that all laws should have an expiry date if they are not cited in a period of time after their latest citation, or are not renewed by the legislature. Otherwise, sodomy laws or other such things could suddenly be revived if the climate changes strongly. The Texas House passed a bill that allows students to invoke religious perspectives during football games, graduation ceremonies, or other "limited public forums". Curious, I thought that was already provided for in the free exercise clause. So long as it was apparent that this was the student’s perspective, rather than the school’s, of course. Perhaps I am mistaken.
Arctic ice is retreating faster than the models have predicted,, according to research done by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado. Whether natural or artificial, the climate change that is happening is definitely a cause for concern. In other gas-producing technology a nanostructured catalyst cell can be used to split water into its component parts using sunlight. The inventors claim that it can be scaled upward to larger energy options in an inexpensive manner. Sunlight as the catalyst would definitely help to provide the startup energy to get things going. Now, if it also has an efficient recombination on the other end with minimal waste and depletion of the water resource, hydrogen power could definitely take off. Assuming that all the claims, including the scalability, are true, of course.
If there’s something more credible to this story, I’d like to hear it. It may fuel more wondering about the Kennedy assassination, or solve the matter. E. Howard Hunt's "deathbed confession" says that he was approached to be part of a CIA team that killed Kennedy. Who shot Kennedy is one of the original conspiracies. Maybe now that Deep Throat is dead, more things will start coming to light. Still, if this has significant credibility, I’d like to see if other places are carrying it.
Music has been found carved into the walls of a chapel. Or at least, using a particular type of musical system in earlier times, they have found a musical piece. Not to say that it wasn’t there and deliberatley carved, but I’d also like to wonder how many musical pieces could be extracted out of natural processes, drawings, or other such things. Speaking of music of nature Doubletree is going to give anyone who requests them (by May 31) two seedling trees to plant, and will plant two seedlings for each two requested. Wow. For those that may have planted or raised trees, how much work would it be to plant and raise the seedlings to full maturity?
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kaura_nighthawk, a manager that Machiavelli's prince would make a duke and then keep a very close eye on. It’s a tale of how the flotsam of one company was successfully dumped off on another company. The way it was done is such that made it look like the company doing the dumping was an unfortunate victim of a poaching job. Wow.Last thing for tonight is XKCD striking again with the map of on-line communities and related points of interest. On that note, I go to bed.
