My Blog-Like Spot

San Francisco Values

I love living in San Francisco. Frankly, I can't wait for the rest of the country to catch up. I'm quite impressed with this rebuttal to the three dirty words: "San Francisco Values."

- 16 Nov 2006

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GOES Eclipse

I learned something new today (always do):

"Near the Vernal (Spring) and Autumnal (Autumn) Equinoxes the Earth disk will periodically block out the sun, from a geostationary satellite perspective."

The satellite's instruments are solar powered... without the sun light the instruments actually shut down. Neat. GOES Eclipse Schedules are available.

You'll have to go looking for the "Info: About_Satellite_Eclipse" link on the NRL GEOS pages if you're intrested. (It's a whole JavaScript^? pop-up to a Word doc thing. Ugh.)

- 20 Apr 2006

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Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results

- 02 Dec 2005

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Check out the Assault Prevention classes by Andre Salvage and Associates, Inc..

- 14 Nov 2005

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A handy link for Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald's announcements:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/index.html

- 24 Oct 2005

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IE Conditional Comments

If you've ever tried to get CSS working in something like IE 5 AND a modern reasonably coopertive Web browser you should know about IE Conditional Comments. They'll save you some hair.

One of those things I had to go looking for again. Thought I'd record it here for posterity.

- 21 Oct 2005

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Pretty impressive: http://mgno.com/.

There is an ISP still running in downtown New Orleans. They're blogging, chatting, and running a live video feed while they try to keep themselves alive. There are oodles of pictures. Do realize that they're on generated power, and that their upstream providers have been been falling off. The connection seems to be spotty at times, be patient.

- 01 Sep 2005

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My friend Spot and I were talking about consumption of resources and population and we got to talking about this Web site that Pops turned me on to: the ecological footprint quiz. I was suprised that it took me some time to find the site through the search engines so, here is the link for reference.

By the way, if everyone on the planet lived like me, we would need 4.1 planets to sustain our lifestyle.

- 23 Aug 2005

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I draw your attention once again to BuzzTracker and the very interesting way that it shows our (English language) world news focus on major events. On the 17th of August we are focused on the Gaza Strip. The last major world focus was on London after the July 7th, 2005 London bombings.

Checkout the BuzzTracker feed to appreciate the last seven days together.

- 17 Aug 2005

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The 40 Million Credit Card Thoughts entry in the ISC Handler's Diary June 24th 2005 resonated with me. Interesting.

- 25 Jun 2005

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We're hosting an Independence Day party and fireworks extraviganza at ChezWarpheads. Would you like to come? Visit the FourthOfJuly2005atChezWarpheads topic and RSVP today.

C'mon Chef -- you know you want to be there!

- 24 Jun 2005

For those of you who have (or might acquire) Bluetooth technology in your PDA or phone you should read this Bluetooth Security Review, Part 1 and Bluetooth Security Review, Part 2 by Marek Bialoglowy and published at SecurityFocus.

- 30 May 2005

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I contributed to the Bricolage project recently by installing a TWiki for the community. A user asked on the mailing list, David Wheeler offered some space on the server, and I foolishly volunteered.

Anyway, there is another TWiki out there to play with.

Links I Like

If you need to get away from this site.

Google News & newsmap
Internet Storm Center
Northern California Snow Report

Web Sites I Have a Hand In

A few of the Web sites that I am activily working upon:

Crolf!
Master Andre Salvage
Performance Learning Systems, Inc.
P-TWiki (hello!)
Sierra Writers

Sites I Support

I did not build these sites, and have very little to do with some of them really.

Useful Little Tools

511.org
Bay Area Freeway Conditions
Get California Highway Information
California Traffic Information