Saturday, November 17, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
uptown
downtown...so, off to the movies.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Sunset
Sprint sucks. No Service or one bar... Useless for internet access where
I'm staying. So it's a beer or three and sunset watching.
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Three Ring Circuits
Some really nice stuff here to complete your geek uniform...
for Him
for Her
And a complimentary clip board maybe?
Conceal your wealth with tasteful trinkets, it's the Washington way.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Recordable DVD delamintation
I'm pretty big into photography as a hobby. As a result I find a need to store my captured images for posterity and for boring anyone within arm and eyeball reach. I've got a dedicated external hard drive for this and recently purchased an external DVD rewritable drive to archive my images.
Sounds good, right? Yea, sounds perfect. Except this. I'm writing some DVDs of an event to distribute to some folks and using a major brand DVD to record on. For some reason the software/internal drive combination I have wants to lock up, this produced some unusable disks. I worked around the lockups and made my copies. No worries.
So now I'm fiddling around with the dud DVDs thinking what can I do with them. I decide to trash them after verifying they are bad. I have a bit of an artistic streak so I am thinking to melt one into some shape. I apply some heat from a nearby candle and I curl up the edge. Cool. Now, I heat it up a bit more and go to flex the DVD and to my complete amazement the DVD splits in two! I now have two nice, albeit, a tad mis-shapened, polycarbonate disks.
Good for art, bad for archiving. I continue to play with the rest of my dud DVDs and find that I can produce the delamination without as much heat. I can also cause them to fail structurally by flexing a couple of times.
No science, not scientific research, just observations. I'm not that trusting in the DVD archive concept at this point. While it's not a much published concern I do find some net activity suggesting that this may be a problem with recordable DVD media. I noticed on my batch of disks that the edges were not consistently smooth as I have been used to with CD media. I could probably split these with a razor if I wanted to.
My bottom line is this. Don't rely solely on DVD recordable media for archiving your images or any other data. I think external hard drives are the way to go. They are fast, getting smaller and more portable (can you say 80gb iPod?) and they are relatively inexpensive. CDR, which seems a lot more stable, is my next choice for archiving and of course there is still my tape backup subsystem. Damn, I thought we were progressing.
Follow up: I split one with a guitar pick... Not that hard to do...actually pretty damn easy. So what this means is that if you can get a guitar pick in between the polycarbonate disks, smaller stuff like moisture and fungus can get in there too, making your disks worthless for storing your data.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
I heard you Rachel
Too Hot for New York
Philip Weiss
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060403/weiss
From the page:"I've never written this sort of thing before. How moving that we have been granted that freedom by a 23-year-old woman with literary gifts who was not given time to unpack them."
Jimmy Carter has emerged as the most prominent pro-Palestinian public figure in America.
http://tinyurl.com/yu6otu
"Carter suggested that any congressional candidate who declared, "I want the Israelis to comply with international law," wouldn't have a chance to be elected."
"But it is a mystery to me why the news media don't at least give a sharp discussion of these issues. ... I go to Israel fairly often and when I go to Jerusalem, the debate is vociferous in the news media and among politicians. In Europe the same thing. In the U.S., no debate."
I heard you Malachi
http://tinyurl.com/2zvqpz
Monday, February 12, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Dear Mr Bush re: Your Surge
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation".
Martin Luther King, Jr. quote
Mr.Bush, do not speak as if you believe or even understand peace, you clearly do not.
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
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