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Monday, January 6, 2003
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A missed 20th birthday...
And an important one at that. On January 1, 1983 ARPANET moved from NCP (Network Control Protocol) to TCP/IP -- what is used today. Many notes on the cutover are archived - here is a sniplet from a CMU bulletinboard.
9:06:37 AM 
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Salon has a nice piece in their premium section on ideology vs science in the current government.
This may be time for the short term if you control the appropriate resources and want to get very rich, but if you want to live past the date Cheney is likely to or think your kids might, it may be a disasterous course.
In some ways this smells of Lysenkoism.
4:16:58 AM
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Every now and again a concept car comes around that manages to grab me (the last one was the Audi TT). Ford has done a very light weight zero pollution sports car - the Ford MA.
Vehicles like this have no potential for production, but it would be nice to see some population of the region between bicycles and conventional cars... Perhaps a talented amateur could build something like this.
3:36:22 AM
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Weather junkies can request a free trial account to Accuweather Pro. When the site is turned on pre-subscribers will get a special price (undetermined yet).
At the moment there are many bugs in the site (mostly layout issues), but the content makes the effort worthwhile.
3:34:45 AM
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In the past year This American Life ran a show where a group of musicians were assembled from classified ads in a newspaper. A bit of hunting found an mp3 file of the fruit of the labor ... Rocketman (Elton John) featuring violin and theremin. (waring - 3MB ftp download)
Beyond merely strange.
3:33:42 AM
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Photoshop is very expensive and somewhat difficult to learn for those who only want to deal with images from their digital cameras. Fortunately Adobe's Photoshop Elements 2.0 is a reasonable, some would say preferable, subset and Amazon is offering it for $35 if you take advantage of two rebates. (thanks for the tip Amy!)
You need to hurry on this one! The Amazon page notes OS X and Windows compatibility.
3:33:03 AM
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