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People used to spam me with get-rich-quick penny-stock schemes.  Since about a month, they offer tips about how to “get rid of debt legally”…

Two crashes in a row while upgrading this site to the latest WordPress …Symptoms: Transmit ftp upload hangs, Transmit tries to reconnect to the server, then all other outgoing network connections fail.  Shortly thereafter, the Grey Curtain and “Please reboot” message.  

This article by Bruce Schneier struck a nerve – specifically (he’s quoting this article by Daniel Gilbert):

We over-react to intentional actions, and under-react to accidents, abstract events, and natural phenomena.

I consider it a personal success that (only on sunny days, etc) I perceive intentional acts and accidents in the same way. This very distinct shift in my perception occurred on a memorable day, while I was reading one of the Daoist stories of Liezi.

ACAP aims to be another way to provide machine-readable metadata information.  This time the initiative comes from publishers who want to tell search engines what the allowed uses of the content on the page being spidered are (in essence, Google News vs the newspapers).  Creative Commons solved this problem (machine-readable rights information, not eager search engines); let’s see how the ACAP approach compares, once they have something to show.

How to survive in hot and cold weather.

William Gibson is posting snippets of his upcoming novel on his blog. This one’s interesting because a friend of mine is also learning Systema (although I haven’t seen her climbing walls yet).

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Originally uploaded by rudis.

this is the traditional meeting place in the center of Graz. (2 minutes later, her boyfriend arrived.)

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