Work from July, 2006

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Bought.

The fun thing about getting married is that you sign up for gifts, a practice that runs contrary to everything you ever learned about common courtesy and yet it is normal. Expected of you, even. And so it is that I've been carousing eco-consumerism sites in an effort to create ...

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Struck.

A year or so ago, an electrical storm fried the cable modem at CVH, and then fried a router and a few hubs downstream from the modem. I spent a long time trying to figure out a way to blame it all on the setup there: too many hubs, not enough surge protectors. When in doubt, blame Dirk (or Arif, I think he'd wired that office.) I was sure that in a reasonable network setup an electrical storm couldn't toast that much equipment.

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Bling.

We sat at lunch for almost an hour, drinking coffee and staring at the rings (Zayda's giant pinky ring, to dissemble and sell to fund the purchase of something more appropriate, Bubbe's engagement ring) before I decided that, contrary to anything I've ever said or thought in my entire life, ...

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The Marco Pollini Spaghetti Dinner

The Marco Pollini Spaghetti Dinner hosted by The August Sound Coalition Sunday July 23rd :: 7-9pm, foodradio_network invites you to tune in to a live_feed on free103point9.org; I'll be doing something technical. Hopefully I'll understand that better by Sunday night. I did try to persuade Lex to look for more historically ...

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Orwell, Come ‘n’ Get it

School officials in Sutter, Calif., order students to wear RFID tags around their necks; parents object and the principal backs down. School officials in Osaka, Japan, track students with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags worn around their necks or tucked in their belongings. The government of Mexico tracks court ...

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