February 25, 2004
Dead blog in the middle of the road
Hi. I quit this blog. I'm tired of Moveabletype. So very very tired. I'm playing with wordpress.org's new tool. And loving it. Check it out
February 23, 2004
Surveillance & Society
The latest issue of Surveillance & Society is (finally) out now!
A special on 'Surveillance and Mobilties', edited by Colin Bennett and
Pris Regan, it features many excellent new pieces and artwork too.
It's all at the usual place:
http://www.surveillance-and-society/
Interested in Learning?
Please fill out my survey. Joel Weiss and I are working on a plan for an Encyclopedia of Learning with Kluwer Academic Publishers, and Kluwer has put together a survey go get some general information from folks interested in Learning.
Here's the raw URL. If you could share it, blog it, mail it to your friends, I'd greatly appreciate it.
http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?ID=L2233PCDY3U5&PIN=8Y8GBPYDDFCT
February 21, 2004
coMOOnication theory
Aaron, on of my Ryerson students from last term, has a thing for Cowishness. He's got this list of MOOwords and is looking for additions. Contributions?
This is what the internet is all about. Putting people in touch with the collective nature of inner foolishness. And can that ever be a bad thing?
February 20, 2004
Further Achievements...
It seems as if the once dead http://achieve.utoronto.ca is on its way for a comeback, revenantly speaking as my niece is wont to say. Replaced the powersupply ($45). And then realized the the Fedora Linux can be installed over RH7.2 with not much problem. That's going on now. I think I'm going to move the moos (and projectachive.net) back over to it. Just have to work out a backup schedule without a DDS3 drive... fun... wow!
Oh, and the URL of the day is http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/%7Eyugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html thanks to ken
February 17, 2004
Rapp Optical Fubar
I love Rapp Optical, and have always bought glasses from them. No attitude, insane glasses, and great work. Not this time. My favorite frames. Old anodized aluminum frames that I've had forever. The rivets holding the arms on came off. So I spent got Ken to drill new threadding for screws. Took him a long time to get the threadding drill too.
So, I get my glasses back and they look like they've been gone over by a frigging hammer! Metal flattened. Threadding destroyed. And what looks like rivits. Some the hardware and hinges are crushed, and there's no way they'll ever get to be useable again.
Yes, they didn't charge me for the dammage, but geeze. All I wanted was for them to order the correct screws!
One more coffin nail on a shitty week. I'm going to make wine now.
FOLLOWUP
There was a message on the phone from Mel Rapp apologizing for the problem and offering me a substantial gift certificate for a future frame purchase. That's very nice. That's why I never suggested I was going to never go back. Mel's always been reasonable.
February 15, 2004
Well, if it is on sale...
Shopping day... Got Pekka Himanen's The Hacker Ethic: and the Spirit of the Information Age, and Wiser's The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s. And two cool sweaters. And some sundry dry goods. Somehow everything was 50-70% off. What's with all this consumerism?
Oh, the Hacker Ethic is on sale at Indigo at the Eatons Centre for $5, hardcover.
February 11, 2004
Microsoft Windows NT4, 2000, XP and Server 2003 critical vulnerability
Not again...
Microsoft released patches for a critical security vulnerability that affects Windows NT4, 2000, XP and 2003 and can allow remote code execution with System privileges.
If you don't use Automatic Updates to take care of critical patches, then look at the following Microsoft web site that has links to the patches for each affected operating system.
http://microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-007.asp
February 10, 2004
Chronic video conferencing...
Ken Emig and I doing video-conferencing in my apartment. We got some great audio distortion happening that ken recorded. Perhaps he'll send it along with me to post.
I'm off to set up ken's new domain (emigresearch.com).
February 07, 2004
THe Mann Proof
Here's some pictures of Ken and I and others over at Steve Mann's Studio playing with a strange projector.
Too busy to breath... ah, the easy life.
Simsim, Pazuzu, JuliaD over for Za with me and Yuka on Thursday. Ken came in last night for the weekend. Arun's coming in next week to get his 17" powerbook... Finishing off a book chapter with Rhonna. Oh, and Ken and I are over to Steve Mann's this afternoon for some strangeness... will have pictures, I think.
Comments are not working, yet. Some mysql error I've not had time to look at.
February 03, 2004
A new home now...
If you've checked recently, this domain has been up and down. I am retiring my iMac server that has hosted about 7 domains, and I'm moving most of them to aventurehost.com. Just about done with this one. Have a fresh new version of Moveabletype installed on a nice new MySQL database. Should be fun. And will be less work.
February 01, 2004
What it is...
Where to begin. Perhaps with spending the afternoon changing the hard drive in my Powerbook. Jeremy said it was easy. And he was right. One of the easiest swaps. I took out my old 10 gig drive which is full, and replaced it with a 60 gig, that I got when I was in Japan (thanks Larry). Slight problem though. And this is why it is worthy of blogging. You see, you should always back up your data before you do things like swapping drives. And of course I did. I backed it up to the drive I was swapping IN, assuming that I'd be able to plug in the new drive and have it running. Nada. You see, internal drives are formatted like good old unix drives partitions everwhere. External drives do not. So, it took me 3 tries, of taking drives out and putting them back in, but I finally backed up my computer to Yukas, swapped the drives, reformatted the drive, and copied the data over.
Server smoked again today too. Edublog.com, jasonnolan.net, yukazine.com, projectachieve.net... Same problem. The computer forgets where the ethernet connection is. So I just have to go up to the office, unplug the ethernet cable, and plug it back in. I'm so so very bored with running my own servers. As well, achieve.utoronto.ca is on its last legs. Tape drive and monitor dead. Powersupply fan grinding something nasaty. Gonna get rid of them both, and just pretend that I don't have any server related experience.