Ruh Roh!

Senator Ted Stevens may be in trouble. The tiered Internet access crowd should probably find a better spokesperson (and one who is more coherent).

Is it done yet?

One more assignment...

Origami

Cthulhu origami, no less!

Web Page Update

After some tinkering, I got the inline styling and external style sheet versions of the Thoreau assignment to look the same. I think I'm done.

Hooray! Website works!

After seemingly hours of semi-tedious manual html coding, my website, including both versions of the Thoreau fragment, works.

Hacking Fox News

Via Slashdot, someone was rather easily able to get to Fox News' FTP password. Guard your passwords better than this!

Now That's Speed

How'd you like to surf the internet at 40 gigabits-per-second?

How to prevent iPod theft

Hide your iPod inside a Zune!

Pitt Blogging!

I brought my camera and took pictures.



This little guy is looking quite festive.





Must be a whole lot of learning in that cathedral. This is the dirty side. I guess all the dirty learning goes on on this side.

Hip Shushers

A New York Times article on hip librarians in NYC. It references Park Slope, Brooklyn, which is where my wife lived when we first met. A very nice neighborhood for hip librarians.

Digitizing Astronomical Data

Via Slashdot.

YouTube

In celebration of my Internets getting fixed, let's waste some bandwidth. Here's a beatbox flute version of the Inspector Gadget theme.

Homepage

The link for my homepage is here as well as over there ---->

Second Life Lawsuit with Bonus Sex Added for Free!

Via Slashdot, a lawsuit involving Second Life...and cyber sex toys. Such a shame that Second Life assignment isn't mandatory anymore.

Internets are fixed

Well, once again, without me doing a thing, my internets are now working at normal speed. Guess all that "the line test was good" and "your modem is getting a good speed" nonsense I heard from the Verizon tech support was....uh....nonsense. I just wish they would tell me what really broke along the line so if (when) this happens again, I can just tell them to fix it.

Sloooooow Internet

The problems with my DSL continue. Trying to get anything done with little more than dial-up speed ranges from frustrating to impossible. If FIOS were in my area, I might consider switching to that (5 Mb/s for $40 a month!), but that would also be run by Verizon, so it would probably break constantly...

If this doesn't get better soon I'll have to switch to cable, which would be extra difficult as we don't even have cable or any cable hookups in the house at this time. What a pain.

Copyright Musings

Somehow I managed to get through three years of law school and the bar exams for two states without ever having to learn any copyright law (which is federal law, so it probably wouldn't be on any state bar exam, but there can be some crazy stuff on bar exams). I guess this latest assignment made up for that, at least in some small way.