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December 2007 Archives
I was looking through my photographs taken last year. This one wins the prize for my favorite landscape photo.
I was intrigued by The Mayfly Project, that Jennie mentioned last week.
Here are 24 words summing up last year.
"Fun travels to Europe, Vegas, Frisco. Visitors from RV's & California. Worked on cabin and fished. Photographed, camped, sailed, family laughs, didn't blog much."
All my Ebay auctions are going rather well, except I not received any bids. All I am getting is questions.
Q. Will I ship the Chia Head to Australia? If so how much?
A. Yes I will. It will cost you a lot more that it is worth.
Yes, that was a real question. I quoted shipping to Australia as $35.
The tension of having -0- bidders is getting to me.
Email me with your guess for the high bid for the Chia Head. If you are the closest I will reward you with your own piece of memorabilia from my basement.
More packratty-ness.
This is the first version of Linux I really used. I mean I technically used it at my ISP which had a shell account, but this was the first distro I installed myself and tried to run.
If you missed this Linux release, you can go read the review for yourself.
I've spent the last few days cleaning out some drawers, shelves and dusty corners. I've decided there are somethings I can live without.
Here are a few things I don't need any more.
- Chia Head
- Tea Cups w/ Saucers
- Laser Jet 6 L
- Nadachair
- ... and lots more to come
Peace on Earth -- I want to believe.
I can't imagine living behind a wall. Bansky's art in that context is amazing.
Bruce Schneier, in his latest newsletter was talking about how to protect data on a laptop. He suggest whole disk encryption combined with encrypted archives for sets of older documents. He then added this gem.
"The best defense against data loss is to not have the data in the first place." -- Bruce Schneier
This is both brilliant and obvious. I am a digital pack-rat and am professionally employed to think about creating more copies of data, so it goes against my natural tendencies, but it probably wouldn't hurt me to start chucking more data. That would make an excellent holiday project!
Speaking of security, the same newsletter pointed to a link indicating Britian never installed PALs on their nukes until quite recently. The had bike locks on their nukes. Given how easy it is to pick a bike lock, I can't believe the world is still here.
"As useless as a chocolate teapot." -- seen on slashdot today.
