I'm on vacation in Seattle, after a nice trip to Las Vegas for DEF CON 12. I'll be taking a ferry ride over to Victoria, British Columbia, tomorrow. I have never been to British Columbia, and I hear great things about it.
I've now written something like 80 draft articles in my new NewsBruiser site, but I have yet to figure out mod_rewrite to allow me to make the URLs of pages on that site appear in some facsimile of the URLs I have now. I suspect I should visit Leonard or ask Leonard to visit me in the hope of gaining some more Apache wisdom. (I mostly want to prevent any existing links to and within Vitanuova from breaking, even if new documents appear at totally new places. The biggest obstacle to this seems to be the Vitanuova front page, which appears at the very very top level of a virtual host.)
I'm back from Seattle and Victoria; that was my first time in Canada as an adult, which brings to three the number of foreign countries I've visited on my own (Israel, Germany, Canada). It seems that everywhere I've gone is industrialized, Western, and full of English speakers. I must not be very courageous.
My greatest travel ambitions right now are Germany again, the U.K., Italy, Japan, and Brazil.
I read two different versions of a quotation about the irony of the "crypto wars" during the 1990s. Somebody observed that people who used to be fighting for the use of cryptography during the export control issue are now fighting against the use of cryptography in the DRM issue. Can anyone help me find one of these quotations?
The good folks at Ninja Gear noticed me in an Associated Press photograph from the oral argument in MGM v. Grokster, which Fred von Lohmann from EFF and Michael Page from Keker and Van Nest won again on appeal today. I attended oral argument in Pasadena back in February and was extremely pleased to see its outcome today.
My mother set me down by the T.V.:
returning, found me weeping bitterly.
"You've missed her teaching the soufflé!"
Timor mortis conturbat me.
I've been putting together an earthquake kit, or disaster kit. Even though governments and news outlets are constantly recommending them, I can think of very few friends who have them. Have you got one?
Here are a few references: ABAG; FEMA; Red Cross; DHS; Cal. OES.
Have you got a fire extinguisher? Smoke detectors?
This is my first post on the new Vitanuova, which uses Leonard Richardson's NewsBruiser instead of my old scripts. Leonard not only wrote and maintains NewsBruiser but also gave me a good deal of assistance with mod_rewrite and feature questions as I was setting it up. Thanks very much, Leonard.
As I've mentioned before, I have over 75 postponed entries on various topics, and I hope to get around to posting those soon.
If you encounter any trouble with the new Vitanuova site, please let me know. Everything from the old Vitanuova should have been imported into NewsBruiser, and old links should mostly be translated and should still work.
I've been playing Dance Dance Revolution or clones for about twenty minutes a day for the past three weeks, which represents my first regular aerobic exercise since I had required physical education classes in high school. (Riana and Leonard suggest avoiding anaerobic exercise, because it might result in death.)
At home, I play PyDance (formerly PyDDR); I bought an official Dance Dance Revolution soundtrack and transcoded it to Ogg format, and combined it with PyDance-contributed step files. I've also been going by the Sony Metreon now and then and playing the official arcade version of Dance Dance Revolution. (Because I had to buy the equipment and the soundtrack, I've actually spent more money on my home DDR setup than I have at the arcade.)
I'm enjoying DDR and PyDance a lot, I'm getting better, and I'm hoping the exercise will be good for my health. It's a commonplace in recent news articles that people have lost weight and gotten in shape solely by playing DDR and similar step games on a regular basis.
As the PyDance developers suggest, I've gotten equipment from Level Six in North Carolina.
Contact: Seth David Schoen
