Things that annoy, interest or are important to me.
Digital Photography Now - News - Make your own ISO camera test target?
ISO 12233 test target. Its pretty cool. I'm testing our digital and print cameras. Its not as good as a 'real' test target, but its Generally Useful.
I debated putting this in my Tech Log
Pennsylvania Treasury - Bureau of Unclaimed Property - Search
Wow. I didn't find anything in NJ, but a quick search in PA found two Disney stock certificates that were 'unclaimed' in 1994. I find this a bit hard to believe, since we didn't move to NJ until 1995, but Megan was born in 1994 and we had friends from Ireland living with us for the summer as well, so it was a busy year!
EE/COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]
TWO TALKS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Date: October 20, 2004 4:15PM
Topic: Science and Technology Policy I: The Bush View
Speaker: E. Floyd Kvamme
Partner Emeritus, Kleiner Perkin Caufield & Byers
Date: October 27, 2004 4:15PM
Topic: Science and Technology Policy II: The Kerry View
Speaker: Burton Richter
Professor of Physical Sciences at Stanford Director Emeritus
of SLAC
The live talks are open to the public (see the web site for maps and
other information). In additon, the talks will be broadcast over SITN,
the Stanford Instructional Television Network, webcast live, and
archived for delayed viewing. Access to the talks is free from either
http://ee380.stanford.edu or http://online.stanford.edu.
Synopsis:
The Science and Technology policies embraced by the winner of the
upcoming election will impact everyone. There are significant,
substantive differences between the Science and Technology policies
championed by the Bush administration and those that would be
implemented by a Kerry administration. In an election campaign given to
campaign rhetoric, talking points, four-word sound bytes, and spin, many
of the real issues of particular interest to scientists and engineers
(and others) have gotten lost.
To explore the issues, we have invited two highly qualified speakers to
describe the Science and Technology policies we might expect following
the election: one from the Bush point of view, and the other from the
Kerry point of view. The speakers are not surrogates for the
candidates, but they do have intimate personal knowledge of the policy
issues and can compare and contrast positions.
The Science and Technology policies embraced by the winner of the
upcoming election will impact everyone.
There are significant, substantive differences between the Science and
Technology policies championed by the Bush administration and those that
would be implemented by a Kerry administration. In an election campaign
given to campaign rhetoric, talking points, four-word sound bytes, and
spin, many of the real issues of particular interest to scientists and
engineers (and others) have gotten lost.
To explore the issues, we have invited two highly qualified speakers to
describe the Science and Technology policies we might expect following
the election: one from the Bush point of view, and the other from the
Kerry point of view. The speakers are not surrogates for the candidates,
but they do have intimate personal knowledge of the policy issues and
can compare and contrast positions.
E. Floyd Kvamme, emeritus Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Buyers partner,
will speak on October 20, 2004. He has been an advisor to the Bush
Administration. His biography appears below.
Burton Richter, Professor of Physical Sciences at Stanford and director
emeritus of SLAC, will speak on October 27, 2004. He has been an advisor
to the Kerry campaign.
Both talks will be broadcast over SITN, the Stanford Instructional
Television Network, webcast live, and archived for delayed viewing.
Access to the talks is free from http://ee380.stanford.edu (click on the
video icon). The streaming video is in Windows Media Format and requires
an appropriate player. It can also be accessed from
http://scpd.stanford.edu.
About the speaker:
(image) E. Floyd Kvamme
Since March 1984, Floyd Kvamme has been a Partner at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, a high technology venture capital firm. In this
capacity, he was responsible for the development of high technology
companies from early start-up to the publicly traded phase. He is now a
Partner Emeritus at the firm.
Floyd Kvamme currently serves on the boards of Harmonic Inc., National
Semiconductor, Photon Dynamics, Power Integrations, as well as Gemfire
Corporation and Silicon Genesis.
Mr. Kvamme is Co-Chairman of President Bush's President's Council of
Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST).
Floyd Kvamme was one of five members of the team that began at National
Semiconductor in 1967, serving as its General Manager of Semiconductor
Operations and building it into a billion-dollar company. He served as
President of the National Advanced Systems subsidiary, which designed,
manufactured and marketed large computer systems.
In 1982 he became Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for
Apple Computer. While at Apple, his responsibilities included worldwide
sales, marketing, distribution and support.
He holds two degrees in Engineering; a BS in Electrical Engineering from
the University of California at Berkeley (1959) and an MSE specializing
in Semiconductor Electronics from Syracuse University (1962).
Contact information:
E. Floyd Kvamme
Embedded Links: [ 1 ] http://ee380.stanford.edu
Unclaimed Property Search - NJ Taxation
Just what it says - you can search by name for unclaimed property. It doesn't look like we have anything coming to us, or any immediate family members.
Coffee by Kaffe Magnum Opus - The World's Finest Coffees
This is a local coffee roaster. I want to try a pound of their Peaberry coffee and a local coffee shop is Commodore Coffee & Bagel down by the Commodore Barry Bridge.
Daily Endorsement Tally: Bush Meets 3 Amigos
This link and the list below are from "Editor & Publisher" a journal that covers the newspaper industry.
I don't think newspaper endorsements are definitive, however, I think they are a reflection of regional sentiment and how a cantidate will benefit readers of the respective newspapers.
I have come to the conclusion that I'm a Republican for Kerry. I will post a summary of factors (and references with links) that I used to decide my vote. This will be the most interesting and important election since I was eligible to vote.
Our current tally, with latest daily circulation numbers, follows. "G" and "B" refer to whether the paper endorsed Gore or Bush in 2000:
JOHN KERRY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (G): 418,323
The Philadelphia Inquirer (G): 387.692
Detroit Free Press (G): 354,581
The Oregonian (Portland) (B): 342,040
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (G): 281,198
The Seattle Times (B): 237,303
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (G): 150,901
The Philadelphia Daily News: 139,983
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (G): 109,592
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) (G): 89,384
Portland Press Herald (Maine) (G): 73,211
The Day (New London, Conn.) (B): 39,553
The Albuquerque Tribune (B): 13,536
Total Pro-Kerry Daily Circ: 2,637,297
GEORGE W. BUSH
Las Vegas Review-Journal (B): 170,061
Tulsa World (Okla.) (B): 139,383
Mobile (Ala.) Register (B): 100,244
The Oakland Press (Pontiac, Mich.): 65,484
The Union Leader (Manchester, N.H.) (B): 59,605
Savannah Morning News (B): 57,288
The Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain: 52,208
The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) (B): 51,498
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News (B): 51,105
The Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (B): 50,369
The Courier (Findlay, Ohio) (B): 22,319
The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.) (B): 22,057
Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa)(B): 18,947
Total Pro-Bush Daily Circ: 860,568
I thought I read about this switch 100 years ago, but here it is again. BTW - Russinovich is a bloody genius on all things Windows. I can't believe he was not already an MVP. Congrads Mark!
This is cool! Mark Russinovich just "discoverd" a new boot.ini switch for winXP and 2003./BOOTLOGOUse this switch to have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 display an installable splash screen instead of the standard splash screen. First, create a 16-color (any 16 colors) 640x480 bitmap and save it in the Windows directory with the name Boot.bmp. Then add "/bootlogo /noguiboot" to the boot.ini selection.Also I want to congratulate Mark on his MVP award, it's about time!
[Bink.nu]
A Questionable Kind Of Conservatism (washingtonpost.com)
This was referenced in the 16 Oct 2004 Doonesbury. I happen to like George Will and this is a very interesting perspective on George W. Bush. The column was originally published 24 July 2003.
Has Blogger gotten really slow in the past month, or is it just me?
Connecting to Blogger and posting has become painful in the past month. Its not my web site - I host it locally, its my connection to blogger.com.
I should dig into this, but don't really have the time. If anyone has insight, I am interested in hearing any theories.
frontline: the choice 2004 | PBS
This is a balanced, through look at Bush and Kerry. I think everyone would benefit from watching "The Choice 2004" before they go to the voting booth.
This should actually be the 20 Greatest Physics Equations.
I'm posting this to my personal log just to get people who would normally avoid physics, math or science to take a look.
Don't worry, the only ones I think are 'generally useful' and that people should know are:
Newton's second law (force = mass x acceleration). if more people understood this, they would take more effort to not crash automobiles into each other or stationary objects.
Pythagora's theorem. You want to know this if your cutting down trees so they don't hit your house. I would add all the trig functions (sine, cosine, tangent). No one seems to know how to use trig after high schoool, but then they do stupid things like crush their house/car when they chop down trees.
Circumference of a circle. everyone should know this. I refuse to tell people when they ask, but I will go find it in a dictionary with them. Sort of like teaching someone how to fish.
Ideal gas law - PV=nRT. OK, not generally useful, but its why aerosol cans explode in fires and a can will be crushed if you take it 14-28 feet below the surface of the water. You need to know this if you SCUBA dive.
The Chronicle: 1/31/2003: The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
1. The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.
2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.
3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.
4. Evidence for a discovery is anecdotal.
5. The discoverer says a belief is credible because it has endured for centuries.
6. The discoverer has worked in isolation.
7. The discoverer must propose new laws of nature to explain an observation.
The only exception to #6 that I can think of is the guy who discovered that some ulcers are caused by bacteria that can be killed by antibiotics.
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this is a test post. reconfigured options.
Took five minutes to get up, running and productive
I really like the editor - takes Word format keyboard commands. This is a good sign.
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Who said what - Bush or Kerry.
I think I'm pretty current with the news and where each cantidate stands, but I only got 50% on this quiz. Pretty good questions and the site has additional background information on the cantidates.
If you don't vote, you don't count!
Nutrition Action Healthletter - Caffeine: The Caffeine Corner
This explains why I like Starbucks coffee so much.
At the same time, I question the numbers in this chart - can a 16 oz (grande) coffee from Starbucks really have 550 mg of caffeine?
I will see if I can find additional analysis to substantiate these figures.
Quick and dirty photo of our NOS (new, old stock) 2001 Cannondale RT1000 road tandem.
Its *wonderful*. This is the first bike I have ridden with STI (integrated shift/brake levers). Its sized better than our original Bob Jackson tandem and it does NOT flex, even at 35-40MPH. I can't wait until the girls get more miles under thier belts. We are doing C+ rides now, but I see B/B+ rides by next Spring.
Megan and I went to Tandem's East last month and picked up the bike. Mel and Barbara are great people as well as tandem specialists. Mel built a bullet proof rear wheel that I'm using for my DeRosa and Cannondale - Phil Wood hub, 40 spoke wheel and tandem rim.
Microsoft TechNet: Exchange Server 2003 Interoperability and Migration Guide
Summary
The Exchange Server 2003 Interoperation and Migration Guide was created to help messaging administrators and consultants to connect and migrate non–Exchange Server messaging systems to Exchange Server 2003. It describes the process by which you design an efficient Exchange Server 2003 interoperability and migration strategy. It includes prerequisites and actual procedures for connecting Exchange Server 2003 to common non–Exchange Server messaging platforms, including, but not limited to, Lotus Notes (and Lotus Domino) and Novell GroupWise. Connector components including Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes, Exchange Connector for Novell GroupWise, Calendar Connector, and general connectors based on SMTP and X.400 are described. The Exchange Server Migration Wizard, the fundamental tool for migrating user data, is discussed at length. There is also a troubleshooting chapter to consult if you encounter issues with interoperability and migration.
This guide is designed to be both a quick reference and a hands-on resource for a variety of interoperability and migration scenarios, so that you can read the sections that interest you and skip the others. For example, if you are interested in a migration from Novell GroupWise to Exchange Server 2003, you can skip the chapter about migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino. However, if you are a system consultant who specializes in migrating all non-Microsoft messaging platforms to Exchange Server 2003, you might find it worthwhile to read this guide from start to finish.
EFF: Press Room
EFF, Public Interest Groups Challenge Legality of the Broadcast Flag
Lawsuit Questions FCC's Authority to Mandate Copy Protection on All Hardware That Receives Digital TV Signals
This is a HUGE issue that has not been adequately covered in the media and the average consumer knows nothing about.
This is from Dave Farber's "Interesting People" mailing list.
Forwarded by Declan McCullagh at Politechbot.com
I think it gives more background into what the INDUCE Act means and how
its being added in the back door.
Subject: [Politech] Industry groups barred from closed-door Induce Act
talks [ip]
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Key Industry Groups Barred from Senate Copyright Negotiations
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:26:07 -0400
From: Gregory N. Minchak
To: gminchak@ccianet.org
Computer & Communications Industry Association
Phone 202.783.2942 Fax 202.783.0534
www.ccianet.org
Please contact:
Will Rodger, 202-783-0070 x 105
Gregory Minchak, 202-783-0070 x 109
For Immediate Release
September 30, 2004
Major industry group barred from meeting on INDUCE Act
Today, staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee are meeting with a
Fraction of supporters and opponents of S. 2560, widely known as the
INDUCE Act.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association, along with dozens of
other commercial, consumer and non-profit interests, will not be
participating. CCIA, which represent companies with more than $200
Billion in sales and 1 million employees worldwide, was specifically
told not to
appear last night by Senator Hatch's Office.
The bill on its face will hamper innovation and harm consumers: Armed
With a new cause of action, Hollywood lawyers will have the power to
bring
suit against any technology, telecommunications or consumer electronics
company that produces a product or service that could be used to
infringe
copyright. Put simply, it covers virtually every recording, duplication
and information technology device today - even the Internet itself.
Perhaps worst of all, S. 2560 cannot work: The odds that other countries
will adopt such draconian legislation are slim to none. Several European
commentators have quipped that they should ready themselves for a wave
of immigration by US high-tech talent if this bill becomes law.
Drafters have failed to account for interests of the public at large.
The bill's authors have thus far ignored virtually every suggestion put
forth by CCIA and a group of 50 companies, non-profits and trade
associations
over the past three months. Opponents of the bill have submitted
numerous proposals and amendments. Yet, despite their good faith
efforts, they
have received no substantive critiques of their work and have been
labeled
"obstructionist".
The stakes involved are high.
Examples of the sorts of devices likely to be affected by this proposal
include:
VCRs
Optical disk recorders
Radio receivers
Audio devices
Instant Messenger
Personal computers
iPods and other personal music players
Online music services
The Internet itself
CCIA, together with computer, telecommunications and consumer
electronics companies, libraries, universities, consumer advocates and
electronics
retailers everywhere opposes S. 2560. We urge the Senate to reject this
bill.
###
Created in 1972, CCIA has long been active in litigation and legislative
activities involving copyright and other intellectual property issues,
ISP liability, and competition policy. CCIA members include Sun
Microsystems, Oracle, Yahoo, Red Hat, Nokia and Verizon.
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