One can now add responses to the items that are “perm-a-linked†and/or in the Hot Topics list.
The Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek
[doug]Okay, I’m really a fairly big Star Trek fan, despite being very disappointed by the latest film, but this list on the Happy Fun Pundit site is too delicious to pass up. Somewhere down the page you’ll find my own comments.
Here’s item one from the list, to give you a sample:
Noisy doors.
You can't walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They're dead silent. If those doors went “wheet!†every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting would snap and go on a shooting rampage. Sorry Scotty, the IEEE has revoked your membership until you learn to master WD-40.
War of the Robots
The science fiction dealing with robotsis is slowly becoming a reality. This article from Reuters deals with the war of technology, and technology’s contribution to battlefield and civilian rescue technology.
The HTML
The Fastest Computer
To quote a famous Bloom County comic strip: “Just what your four-year-old needs to compete in today’s cutthroat world of high-tech and high expectations…â€
Nichelle here: We have a few people that come over to use our computers from time to time. One person, named Kherna, has used it on several different occasions. This morning David asked me, “which computer does Kherna use?†I pointed to the one on the right (we have two side-by-side), and his response was, “Why? That’s not the fastest!†I thought that was quite cute, seeing that he’s only 4 and knows the difference.
Prey
[book]I started and finished reading Michael Crichton’s Prey this weekend, which will give you some idea of how good it was. It was not as scary as Richard Preston’s The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story, but it was not really meant to be. Overall, the story was well-paced and engrossing, but not quite as good as my favorite recent Crichton, Timeline.
ThinkGeek.com April Fools Links
For those of you who missed them, here are links to the amusing, and geeky, not-really-for-sale pages from ThinkGeek.com:
Enjoy, and let me know what your favorite item(s) are.
Back Home and Charged Up About .NET
I just got back from Kronos’ first-ever Technology Summit. It was a great event, filled with very useful mini-seminars, and mostly free of the “fluff†that seems to plague most corporations’ attempts at such an event.
At any rate, the last seminar I attended was run by a Microsoft consultant, and opened my eyes to just how cool .NET is, and how radically different it is from other Microsoft our-way-or-the-highway approaches to technology.
I’m going to give the ASP .NET Web Matrix Tool (a free product, although the full Visual InterDev .NET is available as trialware) a whirl, if I have time.
Of all the stupid things …
Yesterday I went a little out of my way on my way to pick up a package from www.thinkgeek.com at Airborne in Newton, just so I would have the item I ordered to bring into the office today, instead of waiting for it to be shipped to my house today.
This item would have assured my dominance in the hierarchy of Geekdom—although Kevin Miller would probably argue that I need not worry about my position in that respect.
Anyway, the item was indeed as cool as I expected, but guess what I left at home this morning!?
Any takers on guessing what I actually ordered?
MyDomain Forwarding Problems—Another Casualty of War
See http://forum.mydomain.com/viewtopic.php?t=1537
The mydomain forwarding service is currently experiencing problems and will be taken down temporarily because of a DOS attack. Specifically, the domain, ALJAZEERA.NET, is currently pointed to the mydomain service and causing service problems.
The forwarding pool which usually has an average of 600 connection setups/second this time of the day shot to over 8,000 connection setups per second. As more and more people discovered the new Ip the connections continued to climb. Our A records have 30 minute TTL's and we have propagated a new zone with null values for the problem domain. We will lift our ACL's as soon as we can.