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Step up for the cure 2005: results
STEP UP FOR THE CURE – 2005 “The team was triumphant, totalling a distance greater than 20 times Mt. Everest” Total Stairs Climbed : 789,184 Total Vertical Distance : 301,136 m I was expecting it to be impossible to do … Continue reading
Step up for the Cure
Here is where I will be this weekend: http://www.stepupforthecure.com I have no idea how hard 24 hours of stair running might be, but I imagine it will sorely test our limits. When I make it through I will be sure … Continue reading
Champion
Andre Agassi defeated James Blake in the quarterfinals of the US Open tennis tournament a few moments ago. This in itself is not amazing unless you consider that Blake has been playing the tennis of his life and was up … Continue reading
Katrina: Beyond Superdome
Watching the news in the last few days following the disaster in Katrina’s wake has provided lots of opportunity to remember what we take for granted in modern society. Many of the images of anarchy and unattended suffering recalled my … Continue reading
Drowning New Orleans – A Modern Tragedy
While I don’t want to distract the reality and immediacy of the disaster in the New Orleans area, a friend pointed out this October 2001 article to me and it is hard not to reflect on our prescience of this … Continue reading
Put on your safety googles: a trip to Google's Labs
Just a suggestion… Check out the simultaneously useful and distracting Google Suggest: as you type the search field expands into a drop down list providing anticipatory or alternative searches and allowing you to see the difference in the size of … Continue reading
The Network IS the Human
Today is a highly appropriate returning to life for this blog, which was one of many hobbies laid aside while starting a new venture. Today is a happy day since Nudecybot likes networking, bared skin and mad dashing, and today … Continue reading
Code Vulnerabilities – a physics, semantics, or engineering problem?
Anyone who uses a personal computer (or who reads the paper) is aware that PCs are highly susceptible to a raft of problems that fall into the domain of “computer security”. Even my parents know that computers need to be … Continue reading
Infreemation Revolution
The coming economic crisis in information I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin’s back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I’m looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I … Continue reading
Catching up on Interesting News
Technology Advances Sports Coverage Some of you may have noticed the innovative technology provided by the US Open coverage. Watching a few matches I was impressed by the computerized slow motion rendering of close calls that redrew the ball and … Continue reading