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Means nothing
Okay, this'll mean nothing to anyone who hasn't been in this town for a long time, but I was just sitting here at the bar at the Embassy waiting for Susanna and working on my laptop, and just got a friendly poke in the ribs from Candy Foster (*). He was coming in to pick up some dinner.
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And Ike isn't even here yet!
While some of the rain in this storm system can be attributed to upper-air moisture brought along by the hurricane, Ike itself isn't due to arrive in Illinois until tomorrow. No doubt there will be even more heavy rain then. Wow.
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Shipping inefficiencies
You'd think that, living in Urbana, ordering something from a company also here in Urbana would cause the package to go from company to the local UPS depot, and then get sorted onto a local delivery truck.
But no, it instead gets funneled out of Urbana to the huge UPS processing facility near Chicago, where it spent a couple of hours before ( Read more... ) -
Fillings last but 30 years
Monday morning I was eating a bowl of fairly mushy cereal when without warning I bit down on something very hard. Extracting it from my mouth, I felt a wave of nausea when I realized it was a fairly large part of one of my teeth. My far lower left molar (tooth #18 in the dental numbering system) was, my tongue soon discovered, mostly missing, with ( Read more... ) -
geek love
This is all over the web by now, I'm sure.
Kudos to Ms. McAlpine for her efforts in popularizing some of the interesting science that's going on these days. (She's done much more than rap about the LHC.) -
The future (IPv6)
We just got our PI IPv6 address space from ARIN. Soon we'll start assigning out of 2620:0:E00::/48 which is enough room for 65536 subnets of four billion hosts apiece. And we get to start learning a whole new set of bugs and quirks ( Read more... ) -
What kind of search engine is this??
The new cuil.com doesn't know what fried eggs are? This certainly doesn't bode well. I'm sure they have a lot of tweaking with their engine and database to do to optimize things, but come on.
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The Nightmare of Calendar Sync
Well, I finally have it working.
I've got several devices and locations that keep calendar, schedule, and contact information. I try to keep things organized, and there are some options for synchronizing one thing to another here and there, some of them third party software, some freeware, and some collaboration suite products. But keeping ( Read more... ) -
Finally, a storm worth mentioning
Fucking rock on. This is what I love about Midwest weather. We were flashed and boomed most satisfyingly when this rolled through.
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