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You are using Python and would like to have a source of cryptographically secure psuedo-random numbers.
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Some lamer hacked my bbs. Real 1337, man. If you want to hack something, you could at least try to hack a site where more than 3 people post a...
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| 22:32:16 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: glome |
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Good spatial relations skills are important, and I experienced two great real world examples of this recently. The first was when my pregnant wife had her 20-week ultrasound scan. The ultrasound operator had to synthesize a mental model of the baby from the 2D images on the screen and the position and orientation of the transducer with relation to my wife's womb. It didn't help that the baby was wiggling around a lot! A slightly less stirring example was when I visited the grocery store the other night to get root beer float supplies for my aforementioned pregnant wife. There were two store workers trying to maneuver a pallet of ice out the front door. The pallet was about the same width as the door, but it wasn't perpendicular to the door and it wouldn't fit through. They kept trying, though. I counted myself lucky the two were just moving ice and not locating the organs of my unborn son.
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Howdy bloggin' folks ... I know -- three days without an entry ... Not acceptable! My internet has been really flakey the past couple days so I stopped trying to post. All seems to be well, now. So, not much...
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At least that's what the American Civil Liberties Union seems to be saying. After filing a lawsuit to delay the California recall election on the basis of the likelihood of minority votes being marginalized, the ALCU is now not going...
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Since when does ANYONE have the right not to be offended? A Duke University Fraternity had what some people thought was a distastefully themed party - now the Latins are outraged. People, get some thick skin. The Sigma Nu fraternity...
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Howard Dean is something else. This screaming bed-wetter's latest has him comparing the Boston Tea Party to dumping President Bush in next year's election. Ironic, isn't it? Dean (stupidly) uses the most famous tax protest in American history to suggest...
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Well, I think I shall indeed replace the phpWebLog diary with this Blosxom one. Okie, so this one still dynamically renders (a sore point of mine), but at least it’s faster. That’s the good thing for me. Now, with some luck, I will have a place to store school notes.
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Clearly, dear reader, I could not have possibly died that day on the river; although the scene set there may...
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In my previous post, I mentioned the chassis that AMD chose for its Athlon FX-51 reference machines. A couple of readers asked for more specifics. The CoolerMaster model is the WaveMaster TAC-T01. Brushed aluminum stem to stern, not a speck of plastic. If only InfoWorld had a centerfold. The WaveMaster's design is meant to reinforce the Athlon FX-51 CPU's appeal to deep-pocketed gamers. But don't write off either the CPU or the WaveMaster chassis as teen accessories. The FX-51 is actually an Opteron 100-series processor, with none of the trade-offs in cache size or bus speed found in other Athlon 64 desktop CPUs. The chassis is roomy and, as you might expect, well cooled. Load an FX-51 machine up with RAM, toss in a couple of 10,000 RPM Serial ATA drives, bolt in a pair of redundant power supplies, and by my lights, you've got a high performance desktop. Casting my mind back to my suit-and-tie days, my first thought on seeing this system was "front office candy." Visible technical ...
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| 21:00:42 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Tom Yager |
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For all of your web design and development needs please visit my design site which is linked below and on the left of the page. Jonathan Snider Web Design and Development is up and running....
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| 20:42:10 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: MANASMACHINE |
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I've always been a fan of a picture tells 1000 words, so here's a little taster...
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I've been watching the funeral of Sgt. Jason Pratt It's the saddest thing I've seen in a long time. It...
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-on flight All monkey's are created equal, except for the ones with wings which can fly and are therefore better....
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Summary: What does it take for kloggers to collaborate on long term work? A suggestion. Picture a map of a certain area of cognitive space. An area might be major category: universal knowledge making first sub: qualitative processes sub of first sub: quality controls sub of first sub: dissemination sub of first sub: collaboration and so on. Now picture that, say, Wikipedia, took on not just knowledge recording (sorry if this seems an overgeneralization) but knowledge making. And had groups of people sign up for knowledge-making efforts in each area of their general knowledge map. Those groups research and argue and construct, online, naturally, until they produce a set of research questions. Which are publicly disseminated and , because its Wikipedia, commented on. Add a self assessment process that has each research group giving ratings to each of their pursuits and subpursuits. Now make a visual map of the cognitive space and put colored lights based on the rating of progress. ...
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Need a car to run errands after church? Join Flexcar. Flexcar is the nation's largest and oldest provider of car-sharing programs and now you can find one conveniently located in the church parking lot. For more information about membership and...
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I was catching up on my blog reading (it is lunchtime at the moment), when I found this post over at All AgitProp. As usual, Paul has a cutting way of attacking stupidity and part way through the article we get this gem: [Quoting CoffeeKofi AgainAnan:] "My concern is that,...
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| 19:00:00 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: G'day Mate! |
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I don't think think anybody is interesting until they've had the shit kicked out of them -- Jim Carey This quote has been bouncing around my head for a month since I heard it on a doco about Jim Carey. It says something about a persons character. Can I go through nasty times and retain my principles. How will life's disasters shape my character. Well losing a million bucks at 27 can be character forming. I decided to do the right thing by people whenever I can. I point out when I get too much change from a checkout operator. I also paid holiday leave loading for an employee who quit (that is not an obligation in NSW at the moment). But that ...
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I enjoy helping people. Almost every time, the satisfaction gained from helping someone is worth the effort taken to help that someone. Helping myself works in sort of the same way....
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| 18:25:13 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: Grok This |
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My suggestion for Dick Gephardt's new campaign slogan:
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| 18:10:48 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: SEMI TRUTHS |
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I wrote a small introduction for a stage production that took place here locally a few weeks ago. I've been enamored of cowboys ever since I was a little kid and my dad would send me off to bed with...
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I've been away, overwhelmed. Away in mind, while my body just kept working. Away because I had no room for thought.
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You may not know it, but many New York City elementary schools offer phys-ed just one day a week. That's just one day of exercise for children in school, despite the epidemic of childhood obesity. So what's being done about it?
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From Luke Hutteman: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnat tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Fcuknig amzanig huh? Based on this, I'd say the digitial recognizers/autocorrect technologies still have a long way to go.
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The Ham Fighters won the game!
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| 17:09:29 September 23, 2003, Tuesday (PDT) |
Source: The Zous |
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A SWEETLY-STRUCK 30-yard strike from Falkirk midfielder Davie Nicholls in the final minute of extra time at Gayfield last night gave the Bairns a 4-3 victory and took them into the third round of the CIS League Cup.
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ARBROATH 2-2 FALKIRK JUST as they were preparing to celebrate another upset, Andy Rodgers, the Falkirk striker, denied Arbroath with a goal five minutes from time at Gayfield last night.
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FORFAR 3-3 MOTHERWELL TWO quick-fire goals from Paul Tosh in the second half put Forfar Athletic in position to pull off a shock against their Premierleague opponents, but the Second Division side were only able to hold on to their lead for six minutes.
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ABERDEEN 3-1 DUMBARTON ABERDEEN may have eased through to the third round of the CIS Insurance Cup last night, but, after a generally uninspiring start to the season, they did so in front of Pittodrie's lowest attendance in 28 years.
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