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Repost: Anami's Love Cookies
Repost from http://anami.livejournal.com/20240.html so that I can find this easier ( Read more... ) -
sports and success (for eekim)
"Remember that in sports there are no failures, only results. If you fall off the first move of a route, it is a result of not paying attention to the move, not because you are a worthless individual. The results might not be ideal, but they do contain hints for improvement. Take these clues and resolve to persevere despite setbacks; you will grow ( Read more... ) -
Class2Go to merge with edX
So by now it's around the web, though less accurately reported some places than others, that Stanford and edX have reached an agreement whereby the Stanford team-formerly-known-as-Class2Go will adopt the edX platform, becoming core contributors on it, and edX will finally (after long promising to) open source their platform under the AGPL. Formal ( Read more... ) -
Living in the future
You know, I'm so happy I live in the future. I think my life would fucking suck if I lived in the past. For one thing, I'd be dead now. For another thing, I probably would have died terribly young, thanks to some horrifically painful disease that comes from not eating enough fruit or something. Not to mention that I'd be unable to function in ( Read more... ) -
Technology is not neutral.
"Technology is not neutral. Technology has properties -- affordances -- that make it easier to do some activities, harder to do others: The easier ones get done, the harder ones neglected. Each has its constraints, preconditions, and side effects that impose requirements and changes on the things with which it interacts, be they other technology, ( Read more... ) -
Inspire ß, Day 1
Today was the first day after the widespread publication of beta for Inspire, the thing I've been sweating over for the past year or so. Go try it out ( Read more... ) -
panacea's back
The router that Panacea's plugged into lost the port that Panacea's rack is on, so that rack was out of commission for a few hours. They found it and moved the rack to another port, and everything is back now. Nothing else seems affected.
So far, all signs point to the new hardware being more reliable than its upstream. So that's something. :) -
out of communication for a bit
Hi folks,
My cell battery has died and it won't hold a charge, making it useful pretty much only when tethered - which means it's not really a very effective component of my mobile lifestyle. So until the replacement battery comes (due in a few days) I'll be calling less.
Feel free to email though. -
investing time
Today I spent the day alone, for the first time in I don't know how long. Maybe a year, maybe more. I woke in the middle of the night, jetlagged and bleery and put the dog out because she farted, and then sat in bed and wondered why I wasn't sleeping. Hours later, I put the laptop aside and passed out, to wake again around noon ( Read more... ) -
Stuff I've been reading
I've been at CERN for the last ten or 11 days, and I brought a lot of stuff with me. The latest copy of Asimov's and my laptop and my cell phone (which isn't useful as a cell phone, but makes an OK pocket web browser), and my running kit and all kinds of stuff. It's really kind of ridiculous how much I have to entertain me. Mostly I've been ( Read more... )