Blog 2004

Here is the link.

I have scanned a number of my old family photos, some dating back to the mid 1800's. Here the galleries:

Curtis Family

Bauer Family

David William Bullock (my father)

Virgil William Bullock

This is the obituary of my great grandfather (my Father's Mother's Father):

Just got back from Las Vegas. I had a great time. It was really nice spending the holidays with my whole family and my lovely fiance. We stayed at Harrah's last night, ate some good food and drank some good liquor. Here are some pictures.

For Christmas (as you may have read about in my last post) I registered a domain for my fiance Penelope. I also set her up a site just like this one only prettier. Check it out!

Well as you can see (or maybe not if your don't run a CSS compliant browser) my site has been updated. The design update was the easiest one I have ever done! All I had to do was change 1 file and my entire site was updated. I am all about separating content from design!

I have also improved the way the images work so that they can be cached by your browser (and save me bandwidth). I am about to update slacker and created a whole plethora of sites. =]

Right now the files are still being cached... it takes a bit of time to create all the flat files so you may find some links do not work... they will just wait!

I have created a caching mechanism for eecue / slacker. Every time a page is added or changed, a (mostly) flat html file is created. This will prevent server overloads from slashdotting and whatnot. It also greatly decreases the page load time. This caching mechanism also creates a flat file for the RSS feeds (which allows HTTP/1.1 to handle the work). I have also improved the page navigation for multiple page albums etc. I am adding this and the other functionality I added to slacker and will be creating sites for several people for xmas.

This weekend I attended the San Bernardino Sheriffs Search and Rescue Basic Mountaineering Course. This course covered all the skills necessary for an alpine search and rescue mission in the San Bernardino mountains.

The course actually started a month ago with 16 hours of classroom time. This weekend was the field exercises where we got a chance to apply the skills we learned about in the classroom. It was important to know the skills at a level known as unconscious competence, which means you can execute the task correctly without having to think about it.

• Here are some of the skills we covered:
• Ice Axe Self Arrest
• 2 and 3 Person Roped Travel
• Snow Anchors
  • Picket
  • Ice Axe
  • Deadman
  • Bollard
• Crampon Travel
• Ice Axe Travel
• Snowshoe Travel
• Snow Shelters
• Belaying
• Avalanche Beacons

All in all it was a great training and I had a great time and learned many valuable skills. I plan on attending the next two trainings.

Here are the pictures I took.

I found this blog entry about Search and Rescuefrom my feedster search: Feedster Search: Search And Rescue... The owner of the blog is a member of the St. John's College Search and Rescue team, which I was a member of when I was in High School. =]

Ok I have set up my gallery to show in a hierarchal mode so that they are easier to navigate... I have integrated all the old photos into the gallery.

I have finished importing my japan photos and they are now located here:

http://eecue.com/japan

Ok I have imported all my eecue.com photos from before I was using gallery. Check them out... note that the dates are totally incorrect on most of them because I never set the time on my old camera... oh well... the japan photos are coming soon! =]

Ok so during the update I added a really cool feature. The calendar now displays thumbnails for each event / photo group / post from this site... check it out: * June 2004 (a busy month!) * July 2004 * August 2004 * September 2004 * October 2004 * November 2004

It may take a second for all the thumbnails to load so be patient! Also there is a problem viewing the page in Internet Explorer (it looks like a long list of links instead of a calendar...) So use Mozilla or Safari.

=]

So I am now working on getting all my old digital photos in this gallery. The list of photos I will be importing includes: * Old eecue.com photos (everything from before i set up gallery) * Japan Photos * Drive Slagging Photos * Junglescene Photos (I will also be updating junglescene.com's photo section to be like the eecue.com section) * Old junglescene.com photos (before they were linked to calendar items) * Original junglescene.com photos (from 1999-2000)

I think that is everything.... keep an eye out! I will feature the imported photo groups on here... Some will get their own linked pages, like the Japan Photos...

I have been so busy programming this newest version of my website / slacker, I have neglected to upload photos from the last 2 months... here they are: * DJ SUV @ Respect * Art Show: Peace Warriors * Blurry Photos * Barbara Ramone * Scoobies * Muse #38 * Wreckignition #24 Machines Never Die * John B @ Respect * Thunder Canyon Cave Rescue Training (I got stuck for 40 minutes... it was fun) * Klute @ Respect * Antidote (Halloween Party) * Monster Massive

Enjoy!

-eek

My cat died a few weeks ago... I just wanted to post up these pictures of him in memory... I miss you little guy!

Scientest at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs are working on a microscope that will help push forward the next wave of nanotechnology.New microscope could focus nanotech dream (Via topix D.O.E..)

Every now and then cicadas invade our forests, and as it turns out, the forests love it.

In the future we will definately be seeing many space based lasers, most will be weapons, but some will be for propulsion, according to this article from the CS Monitor.

The food on this blog always looks delicious...

shiokadelicious!: Home-Made Lo Mei Kai: Part I -- Classically Steamed

Kevin Sites in an embedded journalist in Iraq. I have been reading his blog for a few months and I recently read that he was the journalist who filmed the Marine shooting the unarmed soldier. He wrote about it in his blog:

[Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1](http://www.kevinsites.net/ 2004_11_21_archive.html#110107420331292115)

(Via kevinsites.)

As of November 24th, 2004 I am now engaged to the lovely and beautiful Penelope Proffitt. I love her very much and am looking forward to a wonderful life with her.

=]

more pictures of Penelope

I have radically updated my website. I was using a program called serendipity for my news / blog and one called gallery for my photo galleries. There were some really good features, most of which I have emulated in my own code, and there were some bad features, which I have replaced with good features.

I am still importing my photos from a few other sites that I currently have them on.... soon enough they will all be on here.

Read on for the complete list of changes...

The night before the election a man was doing some geocaching at LAX and was apprehended by police... for doing nothing. After several hours of questioning he was released with no charges.

High-tech hobby sets off security turmoil at LAX: ""

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Here are some of the 165 photos that I took at the National Cave Rescue Commission Traning...

A TV set in Oregon broadcasted a strong enough signal to send searchers to a man's apartment.

"They'd never seen signal come that strong from a home appliance," said van Rossmann. "They were quite surprised. I think we all were."

Authorities had expected to find a boat or small plane with a malfunctioning transponder, the usual culprit in such incidents, emitting the 121.5 MHz frequency of the distress signal used internationally.

(Via rhianblock.)

A TV set in Oregon broadcasted a strong enough signal to send searchers to a man's apartment.

"They'd never seen signal come that strong from a home appliance," said van Rossmann. "They were quite surprised. I think we all were."

Authorities had expected to find a boat or small plane with a malfunctioning transponder, the usual culprit in such incidents, emitting the 121.5 MHz frequency of the distress signal used internationally.

(Via rhianblock.)

I was reading a related trackback for new the spyware law. And I found out that the bill was sponsored by Claria, the company formerly known as Gator... here is what I found.

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I just got back from Sonora, California after a fun weekend of caving and partying at the NSS Western Regional. It is an annual meeting of all the grottos on the west coast... mostly from California. I had a great time and met some really cool people. I took a bunch of pictures from our trip to Crystal Palace cave. The gallery can be found here in its entirety.

The govinator has signed into law several tech related bills that are great moves in the fight against spam and spyware. First of all is the law that bans the installation of spyware on computers and secondly the law that makes the senders of spam liable for $1000 per email sent that doesn't include the email address and contact info of the sender.

Who wants to join with me and become spam bounty hunters?

(Via topix los angeles.)

I've been tracking us on our trip using my Rhino, which is a cool FRS/GPS radio from Garmin. It's quite cool, as it allows you to broadcast your location to your friends who also have Rhinos. You then show up on a little map on the screen of the radio.

It is also working well to give my G4 laptop a GPS fix so the program TOPO can show us exactly where we are on a nice topo map (which have almost no use for driving and are really meant for mountaineering).

When i was in Hong Kong, I picked up a cheapo USB to Serial Port adapter that looks like a little dongle with USB on one side and a Serial Port on the other. It worked great on my PC laptop which i never use, but the Keyspan software for the Mac didn't recognize it. I decided to check VersionTracker to see what was available to drive it and I still had no luck, then i googled and found a company that offered a similar generic USB-Serial adapter and low-and-behold it worked great.

This weekend is the NSS western regional in Sonora. Here is a list of caves trips that will be available...

Located in the heart of the Mother Lode, we have an excellent lineup of fun caving trips planned. We're currently planning on trips to the following spots:

Grapevine Gulch Caves (Grapevine, Bobcat, Porcupine, Rabbit Hole, Clutch) Volcano Caves (Santa Claus, Mushroom/Lulubel, Connie's) Rippled Natural Bridges Pinnacle Point Toppled Table Talus Crystal Palace

I drove to SF last weekend so Penelope is giving me a break and driving up this time. I just got the new EVDO wireless card from Verizon and it works great... so far i have had a signal and have been on the internet the whole trip!!! That's really spiffy if you ask me... actually i'm speaking too soon because as i type this we are driving through La Vina on our way to Madera and there is no signal here... guess i will have to wait a minute to post this!

As Promised... here are Arclight's photos...

Space Ship One Launch 9/29/2004: "First official X-Prize launch of civilian rocket into space."

(Via 23b.org gallery.)

The Daily show joked about this last night:

ABC news reports on "debate" that hasn't happened yet: "Mark Frauenfelder: The rules for tonight's poor-substitute-for-a-debate are so restrictive, and the sound-bites that will come out of the mouths of both men are so easy to guess, that ABC news was able to file a story about the results of the "debate" several hours before it takes place. Link Story removed by ABC, but you can find copies here. (Thanks, Certron!)"

Spin much AP?

(Via boing-boing.)

~~Just wanted to remind people where my personal photos are =]~~ (and a bunch of other people's photos too).[my photos are now located on this website]

big brother is fingerprinting you!

US fingerprints more travellers: "Visitors to the US who do not need a visa now have to be fingerprinted and photographed on arrival."

(Via bbc world.)

Wonder if the dems are going to do something like this?

Bush Team Prepares Net Assault: "The Bush campaign is setting up an extensive war room to monitor Thursday's debate with John Kerry. The plan? Pounce on Kerry misstatements or exaggerations and send responses to thousands of partisan websites through a live feed. By Louise Witt."

(Via wired news.)

This is really insane and should be investigated:

Diebold Rep Now Runs Elections: "A former sales rep for Diebold Election Systems becomes a county election official in California. She sold the state millions of dollars worth of untested machines, which led to a scandal. Critics are asking, 'What's wrong with this picture?' By Kim Zetter."

(Via wired news.)

IBM has created a new supercomputer called Blue Gene/L which is a teraflop faster than the Earth Simulator in Japan which i visited a couple years ago although it is only partially built. The supercomputer is also 100x smaller than the ES. Livermore labs has ordered one that will be installed in 2005 which runs at 360 teraflops!

Well just a few days ago Verizon released their new high speed wireless access in the greater LA area... I just got my card and this is my first post using their service... cool deal!

It went good... almost out of batteries! The SS1 did a twist at the top of the climb, but everything went smoothly!

Photos coming soon... as soon as I get back to my car which we left at a Park and Ride near Palmdale... then i can charge my phone and upload the pictures that Arclight took....

Ok well the takeoff went without a hitch and now we are waiting the hour it takes for it to reach the point where the SS1 will seperate from the White Knight. The crowd was excited to see the launch. We are hanging out at the car listening to our scanners.

I am typing this at the Mojave Space Port, in Mojave California. We are eagerly awaiting the flight of SpaceShipOne. We have been here since about 0200 and the launch is at 0630. I'm using my G4 and my T610 to access the net. Cool =]

Things are heating up in the NK nuclear standoff

North Korea escalates nuclear stand-off: "North Korea claims it has "weaponised" all of its spent plutonium rods because the US's hostile policies towards Pyongyang leave it no choice but to develop a "nuclear deterrent.""

(Via gyre - military revolutions.)

~~When i went to Santa Fe High School, I had a great Contemporary US History teacher named Jane Zinn who is the wife of Howard Zinn~~ [I was totally wrong about this! It was a different Zinn!]. He has an interesting piece on RadioNation:

RadioNation AudioBlog: Howard Zinn on Kerry/Bush: "America's leading radical historian on why voting does and does not matter."

(Via the nation.)

a bunch of big quakes today... not sure if this means anything

M 6.0, Central California: "September 28, 2004 17:15:24 GMT"

M 5.0, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: "September 28, 2004 18:28:05 GMT"

M 6.3, south of Africa: "September 28, 2004 15:29:53 GMT"

i wonder if it relates to this story...

(Via quakes.)

Tomorrow, Scaled Composites, will attempt to win the Ansari X Prize. This will be the first of two flights in order to win the prize. A short description of the prize:

... $10 million prize ... will be awarded to the team that designs the first private spaceship that successfully launches three humans to a sub-orbital altitude of 100 km on two consecutive flights within two weeks. All teams must be privately financed.

I watched the first ever privately funded space flight earlier this year and took pictures of it.

(Via topix ca.)

If you build a muzzle loading cannon don't put smokeless powder in it.

(Via topix guns.)

This is a good song and a good flash animation.

(Via js.com - Jungle Scene [coolkat].)

Mt. Saint Helens is producing earthquakes and has changed significantly in the past 24 hours and there is an increasing risk of a hazardous event which has prompted the Washington University of Washington Dept. of Earth and Space Science to issue a Notice of Volcanic Unrest.

(Via Feedster Search: Search And Rescue.)

Kyrgyz authorities tracked two men who were trying to sell 60 containers of Plutonium-239 and apprehended them after they tried to sell it to secret agents. (Via ATSNN.)

Ok so I've been using the new NetNewsWire beta and it is much much better than version 1.0. I recommend that you try it out if you are on a Mac!

this is another test

jhjkh

On of my friends who is a print broker got a 10 identical copies of a mor.t.gag.e spam so he decided to fill out the form and send it out. So far he had received about 8 calls. Every time he gets a call he turns it around and tries to sell printing to the agent. He now has a couple of new clients.

I am in the San Bernardino mountains at a nerd/anti-racoon gathering called cooncon, hosted by astcell. Fun fun fun!

check out the pictures...

=]

A new, more accurate imaging system called Slow MAS works by spinning the subject (which will be changed some day to spin the magnets) at the "Magic Angle" 54.7 degrees to magnetic field. [topix D.O.E.]

Here it is ... i heard it was censored in many places!

Astronomers think they have taken photographs of a distant planet thought to be a planetary companion to a distant brown dwarf. [sci tech]

We all heard about the huge blast in North Korea that was dismissed as a destruction of a mountain for a hydroelectric project. That seemed fishy to me as it did to Kuro5hin... here is what they think. [kuroshin]

from [google]:

Demo: cheap restaurants in palo alto.

• Enhanced user interface - a new, cleaner design that now includes maps on results pages displaying the location of businesses in the search results
• New mapping capabilities - users can now zoom and pan different directions on the maps without reloading the page
• Improved comprehensiveness - search results provide links to even more web pages like business homepages and related ratings and reviews
• More relevant results - improved relevance technology returns even more precise results

You can open Kryptonite locks using a bic pen. [meme pool]

According to experts at a computer conference in Brasilia, the world's "hacking capital" is in Brazil... does this have anything to do with Terry Gilliam? haha [bbc world]

This weekend I went to my first OTR, which happened to be the 55th annual Old Timers Reunion which is held every year in West Virginia. It is a massive party for cavers and the cavers come from all around county (and canada if not further) for it every year. Here are some of the pictures i took i'll plan on returning next year for sure.

-eek

This weekend i went to Northern Arizona and helped survey the main passage of a cave, build a cave gate, and an outhouse. Here are some pictures from the cave-a-thon.=]

from [boing-boing] -----

Xeni Jardin: Snipped from MSNBC.com. Correspondent Ron Reagan was interviewing Joshua Kinberg when he was arrested yesterday (Link to previous BB post for story background):

Released from the "Tombs" after police arrested me (Joshua Kinberg of Bikes Against Bush) I'm now sitting in the MSNBC trailer at Herald Sq., NYC, with Ron Reagan and Joe Trippi after spending 24 hours in the "Tombs" with several hundred Critical Mass cyclists, who were arrested the night before.

Joshua Kinberg: I was arrested while Ron was interviewing me about my invention-- a bicycle that prints text messages on the street in water-soluble chalk. While we were conducting the interview, the police stopped me and asked for my ID. After I produced identification, the police waited for their sergeant to arrive before placing me under arrest without stating the charge. I was doing nothing more than describing my invention to the media and explaining my disagreements with the Bush administration.

When I arrived in the Tombs, I was placed in a cell with around 30 other cyclists. They had spent the previous night in a location they were affectionately calling "Lil' Gitmo," a makeshift detention center on the West Side piers converted from a former bus depot. Lil' Gitmo had cells sectioned off with chain link fence and razor wire, and a floor covered in motor oil, transmission fluid, and other toxic chemicals. The cyclists detained there were forced to sleep on this hazardous floor wearing nothing more than bicycling shorts and t-shirts. Consequently, several developed serious skin rashes the following day. After 36 hours most of the cyclists had been released with a pending court date. Several had been arrested when specifically following police directions to exit the peaceful bike ride. Others had not been part of Critical Mass, but had simply been on the streets with a bicycle at the wrong time.

I was released after 24 hours in detention with a court date set for Friday. Unfortunately, all my equipment-- bicycle, laptop, cell phone, and custom designed electronics-- has been confiscated. Thus, the Bikes Against Bush performance, where I would accept and print messages sent from web users, is likely to be cancelled. A volunteer lawyer from the National Lawyers Guild is confident that my case will be dismissed on grounds of the First Amendment, but we will have to wait until Friday to see. A video of the arrest recorded and edited by Yury Gitman has been posted online (BitTorrent), and the story of my arrest has already been blogged on SlashDot, BoingBoing, Kottke, and JuliaSet.

Link to MSNBC item, with link to video of Reagan's interview with Kinberg (in which he describes "what happened, and what The Tombs was like.")

"Don't let the GOP delegates appropriate the Man in Black." [via / from the nation]

Ok i'm not sure how i feel about this yet...

*From: http://www.wgms.com/index.php?nid=65&sid=130788

A film to hit German theaters Sept. 16 breaks taboos by showing Hitler as a shaking dreamer rather than a ranting tyrant. ---*

[via topix world]

A shipment of Uranium and Thorium ore (not highly radioactive) was seized in Brazil. The ore is not dangerous and would require processing and enriching to be used in a nuclear device. [reuters]

A study of an Amazon tribe reveals that the lack of language to describe numbers makes counting hard to impossible. [nature]

As it turns out, those pictures of "jewish" girls in the jdate banners aren't actually jews, but porn stars.

[haaretz]

read this interesting interview with dot-com boom millionaire / activist John Gilmore.

these new phones are pretty cool... check the commercial

When i heard about the security problems at LANL and about how some newly appointed Bush cabinet members were going to strip The Regents of the University of California control of the Lab i hypothesized that Haliburton would get the contract... i was wrong, but big surprise that one of the main bidders was the University of Texas... several other bidders are also from Texas, including Texas A&M... i really hope it goes back to UC.

here are some switch ads from moveonpac.org

From boing-boing:

This excellent piece of short speculative fiction presented as a video clip depicts pizza ordering in a near-future United States. Link

(Thanks Patricio! ) [boing-boing]

This weekend in Las Vegas, the world's largest hacker convention, DEFCON, will be taking place. As opposed to what the register says, there will mostly be drinking and more drinking. [the register uk]

The red berets are back in effect in LA with conditional support from the LAPD. The condition is that they should stay away from areas that have dangerous gang activity.

Last week, LANL was closed upon a security review from National Nuclear Security Administration director and Bush appointee, Linton Brooks and Bush apointee Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow who are now back in DC. The reason for closing the all nonessential sections of the lab (even high security areas like the museum and cafeteria) was a missing removable storage device that contained classified material.

From the Albuquerque Journal:

The incident is the latest in a series of embarrassments that have prompted federal officials to put the Los Alamos management contract up for bid for the first time in the 61-year history of the lab that built the atomic bomb.

Gee, I wonder if Haliburton wil get the contract worth billions of dollars? We're going to start a new cold war.

The DC11 media archives are now online... you can get real audio and video of all the talks you missed because you were too drunk to see them.

Verizon has announced it will be rolling out Fiber on the last mile in HB as well as two other cities.

tip o the hat to JTX

LAPD will be using more video cameras to patrol areas around Los Angeles after a successful trial in Macarthur park. [topix los angeles]

The Japanese FTC announced today that Microsoft is in violation of their antimonopoly act due to clauses in their OEM license. [mac central]

Versign has updated their domain name servers to update more frequently. Now DNS changes should take a matter of minutes as opposed to 12 hours. [the register uk]

From [boing-boing] :

Dave sez: El Universal (Mexico City) is reporting that the Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo, had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted.

Bloomberg news added "about 160 Mexican officials will carry the microchip" and that "the chip can't be removed, but will be deactivated after Macedo's term as attorney general expires." Link

From the contracostatimes:

Bush plans to rescind forest rules

The Bush administration plans to scrap one of the most sweeping public lands initiatives of recent years by abandoning a rule that put nearly one-third of national forests off-limits to logging. [topix ca]

BOOO! shame on you GWB!

Californians are suing Diebold using a whistleblower law because the Diebold voting machines allow hackers and/or malicious Diebold campaign financing recipients to swing elections . [wired]

Jaguar X-Type is giving away special edition black iPods... cool.[mac minute]

Terahertz light is now being used to image through metal and other materials without harmful xrays (but with harmful terahertz waves, haha) [gyre - military revolutions]

Here is an interesting report about the current plans to clean up floating space junk. [gyre - military revolutions]

Prominent scientific researchers who form the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) are shocked and in awe at the errors in Bush's science. [the register uk]

My laptop's hard drive died a nasty death, that started with slowing and freezing and ended up in complete and total data loss. Between those two stages i was able to back up my data. I am now catching up on the 900+ news items in NetNewsWire... i wonder if the same thing happened to boogah:

99 problems and an ibook is one

it would seem that the venerable ibook is acting up again.

over the weekend i've seen more beach balls than a lifeguard, which is odd because things were running okay on friday night. so i decided to repair permissions, run the periodic maintenance scripts, update the prebindings, boot into single user mode, run fsck and zap the pram. twice.

still, i can't have more than one app open without getting a beach ball every time i issue a command. ichat gives me a continual beach ball after ten minutes. itunes skips every time i play a song. my computer is absolutley unuseable.

every bit of diagnostics i've run says all my hardware is fine. the only option i seem to have at this point is to reinstall. bollocks. [gomi]

According to this bbc article, Zimbabwe is reverting back to ancient time, citing the introduction of ox drawn ambulances as proof. [bbc world]

This is pretty cool... you can send an sms message to any phone from iChat or Address book with this script.

[from ATSNN] The 46 year old son of Ronald Reagan will speak at the Democratic National Convention in Boston this year. A move that has stunned many on the Republican side. Ron Reagan spoke with amazing reverence of his late father and has shown an amazing skill for the spoken word such as his father (Former President and Republican leader)

Three Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILT) rebels who are said to be protecting illegal fishermen were killed in a clash with government forces off the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga on Monday, the ... [topix world]

From http://www.fahrenheit911.com: "Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11. With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts, Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us."Michael Moore says:"I don't agree with copyright laws, and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it...as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labor.... I make these movies and books and TV shows because I want things to change, and so the more people who get to see them, the better."

Download Fahrenheit 911... Collection: movies/feature_films [Internet Archive]

In a move that will keep the decertified e-voting machines banned in California, a US District Court has refused to lift the e-voting machine ban.

In a move that won't work, the MPAA has decided to use new encrypted DVDs and DVD players so that the voters can watch their oscar screeners without the threat of pirating them. It won't work.

The pointless assault weapons ban that is due to sunset in a few months has not prevented a single attack with assault weapons. Bayonetting attack statistics show that the amount of bayonet attacks since the passing of the ban has remained stable and none per year.

Scientists at nasa have predicted the coming Perseid meteor showers (starting mid-July and peaking on August 12th) will be some of the best ever seen. The reasons they give are two-fold, one being that the moon will be new, and another being that our planet is crossing a new filament of space dust stemming from the Swift-Tuttle comet.

According to a contractor, the Department of Energy wasted vast amounts of money, spending $4.8 million on a system that should only have cost $50,000.

All you newton freaks out there can now sync your mac with your newton. Go retro technology!

The Los Angeles based sister site of gothamist has opened it's virtual doors. Enjoy the news.

When I first saw this i thought it was a joke, but no, Colin Powell Really did don a hard hat and a belt and performed a rendition of the Village People's YMCA in Jakarta.

A 16 year old Ontario, California girl received second degree burns and a torn pair of blue jeans when her cellphone exploded in her pocket. The cellphone was a Verizon Kyocera.

A traffic light camera in Hawthorne caught a motorist running a red light. When the owner of the car contested the ticket, he was shown footage of his wife's lover driving that car and running the light, divorce ensued.

This is priceless, the DHS has recommended that users switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer, due to serious security flaws. So i would recommend that you download and install Mozilla.

Although the free certs aren't currently recognized by browsers, an Australian company by the name of CACerts is giving away free digital certificates. If all goes well, browsers will be including them as a default CA.

Thank you Comcast for lowering the amount of spam in the world by blocking port 25 on your periphery. When the clusestick whacking fails, block port 25.

• Runs from July 2 to Jan. 23, 2005.
• Features 25 human bodies and 200 body parts intended to teach visitors about the skeletal, cardiovascular and other systems.
• Location: California Science Center, Exposition Park, 700 State Drive, Los Angeles.
• Admission: $12 for adults, with discounts available for members, seniors, students and children. Children under 13 must be accompanied by parent or guardian.
• Parking: $6 per car.
• Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, with last admission at 8 p.m.
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• On the Web: www.bodyworlds.com and www.casciencectr.org

when i bought a server from pcusa.com i thought i was getting a really good deal, it turns out i was wrong. it went well at first, but soon when the server became heavily loaded for extended periods of time it was hard crashing. there was nothing in the log that would indicate a bad disk or bad memory.

i decided to go down to the colo to investigate. the server was hot enough to fry an egg on. when i pulled it out on the rails and removed the "void warranty if removed" sticker, then the cover, i noticed that one of the fans that should have been blowing on the motherboard (not the cpu fans) was off... it wasn't plugged in because the cable wouldn't reach the motherboard. this really pissed me off. that's not the way to build a computer... any-who i just rearranged the way the cable was run and it plugged in just fine... i took the cover with me though because i'm going to cut holes in the top for more ventilation.

joy, pcusa sucks

-eek

Maybe YDI Wireless will light up the network again... It's pretty much old hat now that 3g is poised to launch around the country.

With the cheering of onlookers, the Iraqi embassy in Washington D.C. has been re-opened.

A new breakthrough in imaging technology at Cambridge Uni in England has created a hologram projector that works without lenses or bright bulbs. The technology uses a thin film micro display and a laser to project a hologram in from of the viewer.

I just got back from an excellent cave trip. My friend doug from the Desert Dog Troglodytes grotto went to Northern Arizona to fence off and explore a cave that doug bought. It was great fun!

Due to a recent spate of attacks, Saudi Arabia will allow foreigners to carry guns.

No more fun for Texas... it's just not fair!

Using the rare metal yttrium, researches at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created an alloy based on iron ore that is more like glass than steel. It is extremely strong and light and, like glass, it resembles a liquid more than a solid.

It's already the costliest High School ever built, with over $175 million spent on it so far. It has been put on hold for the last 4 years due to it being built on top of a major earthquake fault and an oil field that is leaching methane and hydrogen sulfide gas. The plan as it stands now is to tear down 2 buildings that are directly above the fault and build 2 more elsewhere, as well as install pipes and monitoring systems to keep the toxic gasses in check.

Paid for with your hard earned money. That's right, our government now has the distinction of having the World's largest private army... hired thugs rejoice!

There may be a free, tax-dollars-supported wireless network in Downtown LA pretty soon... cool deal!

In Canada, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA) has developed some cool software for the command center called Search and Rescue Command System (SARCS). I am currently working on a similar project for the San Bernardino Search and Rescue team, which I am in the process of joining.

In Saudi Arabia, if you behead an American, you are given the chance to turn yourself in and get partial amnesty. That seems logical.

The President was interviewed today, by US Attorney Patrick J Fitzgerald about who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame, which is a federal offense punishable by 10 years in club fed. Bush appointed a lawyer to act on his behalf.

The Nation Editor's Weblog states, and i quote: "Tom DeLay... is hands down one of the most corrupt politicians in the United States." That an impressive feat to pull off!

Believe it or not, Will Smith was/is a geek. I personally thing I, Robot is going to kick ass. Check out this interview with the star from I, Robot. [btw, yes he keeps his toys]

If you don't make it public, nobody will know you failed... well except the attackers who brought down your network.

Hey at least they are trying...

ben requests the following:

please please please please please don't post crap like "today is wednesday. i woke up and ate cheerios. then i went to the store to look at warhammer 40k figurines. i then played 2 hours of dungeons and dragons and my level 5 elf found a short sword of balancing +1! i then went to fry's and bought three ethernet cables. I like the belkin brand cables because they're nicer and more bendy. i then looked on ebay for 80's toys that my mom wouldnt buy me when i was a child. i found an optiums prime, mint condition for only $600!!! i'll post pics of it when i get it. then i checked my lavalife account and found that i had two smileys. i'm so happy today."

Not knowing when to throw in the hat and stop beating their fleeing suspects, LAPD has been caught once again on video (this time from their own helicopter) viciously beating a suspected car thief. Riots at 11.

There is nothing in the world quite like milking a giant wild horned animal, but it's quite dangerous, which is part of the reason that a Swedish company can sell it for $500 a pound.

Bosley's Bobbing Head Doll Co. is seeking designs for a groping arnold doll.

I remember when Comdex was a huge, raging event with thousands of people. Now, due to lack of interest, it has been canceled.

Machines build by IBM were used to make killing more efficient in Nazi death camps during WWII.

The American Red Cross is requesting donations of blood due to a blood shortage in Southern California. If you can, donate... it will save lives.

According to Haaretz News, our wonderful non-big-brother-esque government is funding development on some great new technology that will allow spooks to determine if their mark is lying without having to attach any annoying wires that connect to traditional polygraph machines. It's made by a joint venture of an Israeli company Atlas and the American company Whizsoft. There is even talk of a mat of sensors used for airport passenger questioning.

After all the talk about how easy it would be to take Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz now testifies that the Pentagon misjudged the number of troops it would take over Iraq.

A woman in Florida has become the first person in the US to have died from mad cow disease. ASTNN has the scoop...

Some people in Seattle have decided that a good place to find wireless access is around Lake Union, and they are doing so from their kayaks... thus warkayaking [ugh].

If you ever wonder what is going on in Saudi Arabia... this is the place to find out... The Religious Policeman is a great blog from an anonymous Saudi. Very cool insight into the world of Saudi Arabia.

from gominosensei:

i've finally gotten a hold of some c2 and i've gotta admit that it's nowhere near as bad as i thought it'd be. besides the occasional hint of artificial sweetener, it really seems like coke went thru the trouble of making c2 taste like regular coke. [read the rest at gomi no sensei]

Young children and pregnant women who drink milk from California cows may be exposed to unsafe levels of a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel, according to a new study.

I just got back from the Mojave Airport, where i saw the successful takeoff and landing of the World's first commercial space ship, SpaceShipOne. I arrived on Sunday night at around 11pm and was one of the first people to park. Upon exiting my car i was greeted by 30-40mph winds that were blasting sand, painfully fast, from the North. [read the rest]

ok so i've decided to start using a better photo gallery system called "gallery". the home page for the project can be found here: Gallery Home Page ... it's really cool and i even found a great plugin for iPhoto that lets me export directly too it and even uses the comments and titles i set up in iPhoto. the program is called iPhotoToGallery and can be found here.

Here is a link to the new gallery

enjoy!

-eek

ok folks the new server is in and rockin!

it's about 10 x faster than the old one with way more ram and disk space to boot. there is a possibility you may get some old email again, and you may have some old files in your ftp site..

all websites will be back up ASAP

fixed problems with mounting permissions

fixed perl dependency issues