Category: ramblings

Hey, look, it’s a creepy 3D clone of me! (via Evolver)

I’ve always been interested in the space program. The Shuttle program started just a couple of years after I was born. I remember being awed by Skylab… and being crushed by the Challenger disaster. I felt for sure that I was growing up in a world that was heading toward making the universe I saw…

Last night from TechCrunch: Here’s a dilemma: The guy (”Hacker Croll”) who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly and sent them to us earlier today. The zip file contained 310 documents, ranging from executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial…

It used to be that I trusted Speakeasy’s Speed Test for accurate network measurements, but in light of recent results, I tend to trust Speedtest.net a lot more. To wit, these are the results from our recent switch to Comcast “Blast” broadband service (taken in alternating tests between the test services): Speedtest.net 11.75/2.41 12.94/2.46 14.04/2.59…

The new iPhone announced on Monday is officially called the “iPhone 3G S” by Apple, but others (myself included) immediately started calling it the “///gs” — a combination of the Apple ///, and the Apple ][gs, two early pre-Macintosh Apple computers. This was too good an idea to pass up, so I’ve created iPhone and…

My friend Rob Rhyne has been suspended from Twitter for the past week or so because of circumstances beyond his direct control. I submitted this to their support ticket system today: I understand that you are probably very busy with support requests, but I hope to encourage you to look into a case where it…