Archive for December, 2005

Ars on the NSA wiretap scandal

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Hannibal over at Ars has written two good articles on the NSA wiretap scandal. First he goes into what can be gathered by reading quotes of people who know about the program. He also talks about what has been previously mentioned about this technology. In the second article he neatly presents an easy to read [...]

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Blueman!!

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Blueman!!, originally uploaded by spi516. Tim, Amin, and I went to the Blue Man Group “Tubes” show on Sunday. The show has been playing for quite a while and I had never gotten a chance to see it. We had second row seats. Unfortunately we didn’t get any thing on us even though we had [...]

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thundersnow?!?

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Yes thundersnow. Boston had a nice snowstorm yesterday. We got about 6in10in of snow other places got up to 17in. Plus we got an added bonus a little bit of thunder and lightning. Amin made it here safely even though his plane got hit by lightning and broke of a portion of the wing. Then [...]

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Windows Live Maps

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

One cool thing with windows Live maps is that you can add pushpins onto the map. And then create a URL to always access that map. Plus it has Europe with some level of detail. More then any other service I have seen. Check out a map of the route Paul and I took on [...]

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oh bitchcakes

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

For explaination check out Skippy’s post(pic of skippy) at Neil Gaiman’s blog. If you ever had a doubt that Neil is the coolest author since forever well this post should dispel any doubts. up up and away.

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gam_server on ubuntu

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

So today my gam_server went memory crazy. It is a daemon that notfies applications about file changes. At one point it was using 40% of my gig of memory. I killed it and it came right back and was using 22% a short while later. Luckily the newest version(0.17) is in dapper drake and is [...]

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Certainly, Sir

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Certainly, Sir – TAN!, originally uploaded by spi516. Certainly, Sir played at TT’s last Saturday. I first heard about them through last week’s Boston Phoenix. The idea of a Boston area [...]

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