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Monday, September 23, 2002
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SF Job Market Sucks!
I have to get my local news from Madrid!
More good news from the Bay Area. Ugh. That title is some serious sarcasm. I just saw this on Scott Loftesness' blog:
San Francisco Chronicle: Job market collapse has people packing
This morning's San Francisco Chronicle has a story by Sam Zuckerman, Economics writer, about the very weak job market in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What is pushing people out is the collapse of the job market -- approximately 180,000 jobs have disappeared from the regional economy in the past two years -- plus a cost of living that remains in the stratosphere. Workers both in tech and out are fleeing the region by the tens of thousands, seeking opportunities elsewhere, economists and demographers say.
"I would not be surprised if 50,000 people have left the Bay Area because of the economy," said Ken Rosen, an economist at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Here I am plotting my return and all I keep seeing is reports like this. I still have friends on the ground in San Francisco who can tell me how the local climate really is, but wow, stuff like this makes my eventual return seem very far away.
11:55:14 PM 
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BaD MothaBoa'd
I'm sending my PowerBook into Apple tomorrow to deal with a recurring and annoying problem with my Airport card. Several weeks ago, it started disappearing from the system, then reappearing. It seems to be related to the heat of the computer, and I'm remembering back to my Apple II days when the motherboard would heat up and freeze on a hot summer day, and we had to press down on it (literally!) in order to unfreeze.
My PowerBook is also freezing randomly, and there have been days and nights where I couldn't use my home network. I had to slum it in the dialup world in order to do my schoolwork! I've already tried a new airport card and booting into 9 and X, so we've narrowed it down to the hardware.
Sending in your computer is like being having to stay at a hotel while your house is fumigated. You can live, but all your stuff is at home, and you can't get to it til they're done debugging the place.
11:52:41 PM
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The Real War in Arabia: Women's Rights!
This is an awesome story if true. I hope we see more and more of this; let's arm the women with books and nunchucks.
Real life Jordanian Wonder Woman Whallops Creeps. After being verbally harrassed by three men in the street, a Jordanian woman took off her cloak, revealing her dress underneath, and proceded to beat the holy crap out of the men. It's suspected she was trained in martial arts.
The three men were too shocked to react at first and ended up knocked to the ground, screaming in pain. They then scrambled up and fled.
Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
11:45:56 PM
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GPS digital cameras!
The GPS-enabled consumer digital camera takes another step forward.
GPS Set To Invade Devices. Motorola: New Chip Will Bring GPS to All
"The company is unveiling a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS device small enough and cheap enough for practical use in gadgets such as cell phones and notebooks....
'All of a sudden, starting 10 or 15 years ago, every electronics device had a clock,' said Tim McCarthy, business director for GPS at Motorola's Automotive Group's Telematics Division. "I see position awareness going down that same path. It's just a question of how long it takes."
Cellular phones with Enhanced 911 will likely be the first devices to adopt the Instant GPS chip, which Motorola is set to announce Tuesday. The chip could also be built into PDAs or laptop computers to aid in reading maps, and it could be used in walkie-talkies to provide an extra margin of safety for outdoor activities such as skiing." [CNET News.com]
This reminds me of a quote I once read from someone at GM, an executive of some sort within the company. He said, "Don't worry about On-Star. You'll be On-Star." [The Shifted Librarian]
11:12:18 PM
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Movie Remix
Another round of heart attacks for movie execs. Does this cost them anything, or is it really just free publicity?
Great DVD interaction tool, probably illegal. DVDSynth is an open source project that allows you to splice in your own footage, alternate audio, subtitles, etc, to any DVD. This means that you can insert your own non-sucky subtitles, make and circulate edit-lists that make highlight reels for your favorite movies, etc, etc. It all amounts to a sweet tool for making the audience into the former audience, participants in entertainment. Of course, it's also illegal under the DMCA, since the tool also necessarily circumvents the copy-prevention in pre-recorded DVDs to accomplish its ends.
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9:03:23 AM
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