On the CBC this AM, I heard that the IOC wants Italy to “suspend” their tough anti-doping laws during the Winter Olympics in Turin next year. Quote from Mario Pescante, IOC member and the government supervisor for the Olympics: “”They expect Italy will respect the duties it took on when it was assigned the Games,”… Continue reading IOC
Training starts again
2.5 Miles, 2.5 incline, 6.5mph. With the 2006 Freeze Your Gizzard Blizzard 10K scheduled for January 20th this year, I’m setting up my schedule again to get up to 10K (again). Ever since my beermaking injury in the summer, I’ve been a major slacker, but after talking to a fellow runner at the gym today,… Continue reading Training starts again
Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
From the Apple Server list, someone posted a link to this article. Great piece of you’re interested in computer (specifically server-related) security at all. Any article that can legitimately use the word “badness” gets a thumbs-up in my book. We’re off to Vermilion Bay this weekend for the annual meeting of Cambrian Presbytery (church stuff).… Continue reading Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
You Can Call Amazon, EBay, and Other Web Businesses
So that it’s recorded somewhere that at least *I* can find easily, from this PC World Article: Sometimes the best e-mail and chat support in the world is no substitute for a conversation with a real person. But that kind of talk isn’t cheap, so to cut costs, Net-based companies like Amazon often make their… Continue reading You Can Call Amazon, EBay, and Other Web Businesses
Brilliant Flag Art
From Steve’s BNL Blog, I saw this amazing work by Icaro Doria, a series of flags that subtly decry injustices (and ignorance) around the globe. Amazing, cool way to visually represent the data. I wonder if there’s a plug-in for Excel to do nonstandard data graphing like this…