Note the time stamp. Most Americans just “fell back” and are getting an extra hour of sleep. A few are up because it is their job to provide essential services (e.g. police, firefighting) just like on other nights. A very few would be asleep, but are up precisely because of falling back. I am one of them.
The passion of the USB, with links back to previous events. I particularly like the Book of Common Prayer quotes at Dead men walking, USB-stick variety.
Via (with entertaining comments) The Perils of Pauline — if Pauline were a small solid state device.
I was pleased to see that I have the same model USB drive.
….You get assigned a job!
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As mia_mcdavid wrote early Friday morning, we were extremely busy all last week. She left out a few things–notably all the meetings she had about our children, and my full week at work. There was nothing terrible that happened during the latter, but it there was a lot going on. The weekend was even busier.
A restaurant in China, anticipating the Olympic influx of Anglophone visitors, ran its name through a computer translator and put up a large sign with the results:
Later in the afternoon I did some shopping while mia_mcdavid took a nap. I then made one of the changes to the post drill that I had thought of last night. Then a shower, and off to work. Fortunately, that just meant a trip to the basement, where, with a cable modem and VPN, it is almost like going downtown.
Yesterday at work I downloaded a 96MB file from a vendor web site in Texas to my workstation on the 19th floor of our building. It took about 5 minutes. Today I tried to copy it from my workstation to a server in the Data Center, in the basement. The first time I tried a windows copy. It timed out after about 20 minutes. My second try used FTP, which allowed me to monitor the progress. I killed the process after about two hours, after calculating that it would not finish until over 42 hours had elapsed. I then logged on to the server, connected to the vendor site again from there, and downloaded the file directly to the server. It took about 5 minutes this time as well. Silly cartograhical and mathematical musings
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 