Oblomovka

2002-03-02»

Shhh. If you are very quiet, they will move on.

Comments Off on Sun Mar 3 00:54:00 2002

2002-02-23»

Damn, damn, damn. Get well soon, Rob.

Subject: Rob Flickenger hospitalized. :-( Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:03:53 -0800 From: Schuyler Erle <schuyler@oreilly.com> At about 8pm PST on Wed. Feb 20, our very own Rob Flickenger accidentally fell from the roof of a two-story building, while attempting to set up a point-to-point 802.11b link here in Sebastopol. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was underwent surgery for severe internal injuries. He has since been taken out of intensive care, and is in stable condition. Rob is safe in the company of family and friends, and is expected to be released from the hospital in a week or so. First, *please* be careful when doing this sort of field work. Our community almost lost a brilliant contributor and advocate (and a great friend, to boot), due to a simple accident. I really don't want to see this happen to anyone else. I'll say it again: Please be careful when setting up antennas, et cetera. No amount of bandwidth is worth your physical harm, so don't you be a martyr to the cause! :-) Second, if you'd like to send cards or whatever, I'm sure Rob would be grateful to hear from a community he's given so much to. He can be reached c/o O'Reilly & Associates, 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, CA 95472. Feel free to be creative, but please don't send antennas -- we don't want to encourage him any further. ;-) Of course, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or Nate or Adam F., especially since Rob won't be answering his e-mail for a little while. Please feel free to forward this news wherever you think it appropriate. Thanks. SDE --

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Subject: Rob Flickenger hospitalized. :-( Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:03:53 -0800 From: Schuyler Erle <schuyler@oreilly.com>  At about 8pm PST on Wed. Feb 20, our very own Rob Flickenger accidentally fell from the roof of a two-story building, while attempting to set up a point-to-point 802.11b link here in Sebastopol. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was underwent surgery for severe internal injuries. He has since been taken out of intensive care, and is in stable condition.  Rob is safe in the company of family and friends, and is expected to be released from the hospital in a week or so.  First, *please* be careful when doing this sort of field work. Our community almost lost a brilliant contributor and advocate (and a great friend, to boot), due to a simple accident. I really don't want to see this happen to anyone else. I'll say it again: Please be careful when setting up antennas, et cetera. No amount of bandwidth is worth your physical harm, so don't you be a martyr to the cause! :-)  Second, if you'd like to send cards or whatever, I'm sure Rob would be grateful to hear from a community he's given so much to. He can be reached c/o O'Reilly & Associates, 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, CA 95472.  Feel free to be creative, but please don't send antennas -- we don't want to encourage him any further. ;-)  Of course, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or Nate or Adam F., especially since Rob won't be answering his e-mail for a little while. Please feel free to forward this news wherever you think it appropriate. Thanks.  SDE --

Comments Off on Sat Feb 23 10:11:00 2002

2002-02-18»

Scott Lemon talks about Indoor Location Systems using 802.11b, and mentions The Nibble Location System. This uses multiple base stations to triangulate your position. Seems a lot like what Microsoft’s trying to do with RADAR. Of course, my paranoid head immediately asks: is this something that an unknown (passive) man-in-the-middle-of-the-next-street could use to discover your position? And if so, how can we jam these trackers? After that, I’ll relax a little and wonder what the cool applications are, and is this anything to do with Woz’s new venture? Would indoor location be cheaper or more expensive if it wasn’t 802.11 but a simpler wireless system?

Comments Off on Mon Feb 18 22:48:00 2002

2002-02-13»

How much do people hate winners? And how much do winners hate losers? A lot, it seems. I’ll stick my neck out here, though, and say this shows how much undergraduate test subjects hate each other.

Comments Off on Wed Feb 13 12:07:00 2002

2002-02-04»

Gzip can detect whether a piece of writing is written by a particular author, with 90% accuracy. Yes, gzip. – via Honeyguide

Comments Off on Mon Feb 4 17:10:00 2002

2002-01-28»

Edwin Armstrong, and how patent battles drove the inventor of regeneration, superhets and frequency modulation to suicide. – from Doomed Engineers, via Bruce Sterling’s blog

Comments Off on Mon Jan 28 18:45:00 2002

2002-01-27»

I think this is a very accurate description of how being a participant on a TV show feels.- Plasticbag.org

A tally of my spam inbox shows that I get about 677KB of it a day. That would take about 4 minutes to download if I was on a 2.8 modem – which I’m not, admittedly. It’s still 100 or so messages to ignore. Thank goodness for Spamassassin.

Comments Off on Sun Jan 27 15:18:00 2002

2002-01-23»

Woz announces he’s working on a GPS handheld to help you find lost things. GPS is going to be the next kick-you-in-the-face consumer technology, oh yes, you mark my words. Oh yes.

Comments Off on Wed Jan 23 12:32:00 2002

2002-01-22»

It always pays to keep a record. A guy who turned up at a hospital claiming to suffer from amnesia may be identified, thanks to an apparent previous career as a French porn star. – Romanesko’s Obscure Store

Comments Off on Tue Jan 22 13:42:00 2002

2002-01-21»

One for Yoz: Tea And Chocolate Beneficial For Heart Health, Studies Suggest – ScienceDaily

A Solar-powered, heavily distributed, networked Afghanistan sounds a bit too good to be true. How much faith should we have in ideals? Enough to test them ourselves, or enough to test them on others?

Comments Off on Mon Jan 21 16:35:00 2002