Best nickname I've heard so

Best nickname I've heard so far for Apple's new Xserve: "Rackintosh."

Tom or I was probably

Tom or I was probably going to write something about this, but Matt Deatherage said it better, so just go read what he said (under "Bush decries 'second guessing' ").

I just want to state

I just want to state that I hate everyone who was at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. You were there, I wasn't, that's plenty sufficient reason. Damn, it sounds like it was cool.

Notes to self:

1. Figure out how to get to the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference.
2. Set up and run EtherPEG at MacMania.
3. Gripe at MacMania about how The Panopticon doesn't work on IE/Mac, 'cause on shipboard is one place where it would be truly useful.

Scenes from a marriage, #55

Scenes from a marriage, #55 in a series:

Her: I hate going to a new hairstylist. I hate this dye job. I feel like everyone is looking at me and wondering what happened to my hair. I'm not leaving the house for a week. Or maybe I'll just get it all cut off. Honey, honestly: is this even a color found in nature?

Him: Of course it is...

Her: (thinking "What a wonderful guy--he said that with such sincerity, too, so maybe he's even telling the truth?")

Him: ... it's the exact color of beets!

The URL still says Arrowhead,

The URL still says Arrowhead, but the West Coast Independent Film Festival has a new home in Healdsburg. It's very strange seeing my little hometown being described online as a "breathtaking... amazing, eclectic city reminiscent of Telluride, Colorado and Taos, New Mexico." Well, okay, thanks, and we kinda like it, too.

Trent Lott and the GOP:

Trent Lott and the GOP: Enemies of your privacy:

Senator Trent Lott, the minority leader, forced the Senate Commerce Committee to adjourn this morning as it was on the verge of adopting an online privacy bill.

The measure would require Internet service providers, online service providers and commercial Web sites to get customers' permission before they could disclose important personal information. That would include financial, medical, ethnic, religious and political information along with Social Security data and sexual orientation.

After reading an April 23

After reading an April 23 New York Times article about distributed computing (the SETI @ Home stuff, among other projects) and reading Scientific American's April issue on proteomics, I joined the Folding@Home project. I put my Dual 1 GHz G4, Dori's TiBook 667 MHz G4, both our Dell 733 MHz Pentium III's, and my 500 MHz G3 iBook on the job. After less than a month, I've (the username is Backup_Brain) broken into the top 20 on the team I joined. What's interesting is that compared to the two G4 machines and even my iBook, the Pentium III's are dog slow. During the time I've been running, the two PIII's have completed just 19 work units. The Macs have completed 130. Plus, Dori's TiBook has only been on the job for about a week or so, and it only runs as a screensaver when she's not using the machine. Sure, a 733 MHz PIII isn't remotely in the neighborhood of the cutting edge anymore. But neither is a 500 MHz G3, which is kicking butt in comparison.

After looking at my current

After looking at my current travel schedule (yeah, like he's one to talk), my brother said I should look at AirlineMeals.net: The world's first site dedicated to nothing but airline food. Gaaah. It makes me really look forward to the yummy cruise food.

And here's Analog's three Hugo

And here's Analog's three Hugo nominees (though the page title incorrectly says that it's the Nebula noms). The Diamond Pit is from Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Undone is on the author's site.

Woo hoo! Tom and I

Woo hoo! Tom and I (and Sean, to a certain extent) are trying to read all the Hugo nominated stories prior to voting. We didn't think that it would be that big a deal as we subscribe to both Analog and Asimov's, but a quick check around the house didn't turn up half the issues we needed. Thankfully, Cory pointed to a partial solution: Asimov's has most of their Hugo nominated stories online.

• Lobsters by Charles Stross
  
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Mike Resnick
  
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick
  
• The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan
  
• Stealing Alabama by Allen Steele
  
• The Days Between by Allen Steele
  
• The Ghost Pit by Stephen Baxter

Now this is just (((silly))):

Now this is just (((silly))): a JavaScript Lisp Interpreter. (Via Jerry Kindall)

My plans for the next

My plans for the next 2 months or so involve a lot of traveling: I'm going to Alaska in May/June for MacMania, and then in July I'll be in NYC for Macworld Expo.

So, obviously, I'm thinking about a driving vacation towards the end of June. The current plan is:

• June 19: Healdsburg to Medford, OR (7 hours, 400 miles)
• June 20: Medford to Seattle, WA (8 hours, 450 miles)
• June 23: Seattle to Portland, OR (3 hours, 175 miles)
• June 24: Portland to Ashland, OR (5 hours, 300 miles)
• June 25: Ashland to Healdsburg (7 hours, 400 miles)

So, if you're along the way, let me know what you think.

If you don't already subscribe

If you don't already subscribe to this, you should: Internet ScamBusters is a free e-mail newsletter that reports on common Net scams. Send this one (along with the Urban Legends Reference Pages) the next time your Aunt Tilly sends you some stupid chain letter or tells you about some make-money-fast scheme.

Yesterday's "Why are we getting

Yesterday's "Why are we getting so many hits?" question was answered by several people. It seems that we got into one of those "Page A Day" calendars--pretty cool, eh? Jeff even sent us a copy of the page:

Via my old friend Paul

Via my old friend Paul Music, some cool old stuff: Vintage Labels - The Lost Art of Travel and the History of the Luggage Label.

That's one really Mad Cow

That's one really Mad Cow (Flash required, and probably not appropriate for work, either).

This is useful: Apple's UNIX

This is useful: Apple's UNIX Porting Guide.

This document helps to guide developers in bringing applications written for UNIX-based operating systems to Mac OS X. It provides the background needed to understand the operating system. It touches on some of the design decisions, and it provides a listing and discussion of some of the main areas that you should be concerned with in bringing UNIX applications to Mac OS X. It also points out some of the advanced features of Mac OS X not available in traditional UNIX applications that you can add to your ported applications.

What's up with the page

What's up with the page hits here? We haven't been posting much in the way of new content, but we're getting about half again as many page hits as usual. Our referrer logs don't show much of anything out of the ordinary, so please--if you're not a regular visitor here, drop us a line and tell us how you found out about this blog. Thanks (and welcome)!

It's so nice to feel

It's so nice to feel loved: Chris Seibold of MyMac.com reviews Java 2 for the World Wide Web.