Mindless Fluffiness

My friend Duane who is clearly the best Vancouver Blogger is involved in some sort of strange scam to improve his google score. I am shocked, simply shocked that anyone participates in trying to to manipulated googles rating by posting links to other peoples blog on their blog. You can read more about it at http://duanestorey.com/2008/01/29/vancouver-blogger/. PS - If you are not convinced yet to go read this, Duane has great photos, check out his Blog of Vancouver Taboo Sex Show.

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I've become a fan of Lulu Carpenter’s at The Octagon in santa cruz. Go try it.

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Drafts I read and commented on - printed double sided and 2 up.

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I kid you not, it really does say open other end

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The real reason the internet did not work at the IETF hotel can be traced back to a large rodent.

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It is pre release beta software but all I wanted was the version number - instead I got ...

This picture really does not do it justice, it is actually an animated thing with shimmering water that rocks in a seasick motion while the text (which is under the water) scrolls off into the distance under in a bad star wars knock off.

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I don't know why people go on about Apple's great software. I'm dubious. In Mail.App:

1. They broke the ability to bind a key sequence to applescript in latest version
2. Earlier versions failed to check the certificate name of server in SSL connections
3. Can't filter to display only unread messages
4. Does not spell check the Subject line when spell checking rest of message
5. Can't include folder name in filter rule criteria
6. Search does not seem to use Spotlight
7. You can choose to check spelling when you send, or to have red squiggles under misspelled words - however you can't have both. This is "upgrade" from pervious version where you could not spell check on send at all.
8. If you have two email address for a person, no way to set the preferred one.

Clearly I am in a bad mode but it seems today that the only things I like about my Mac are:

1. It runs UNIX
2. It runs Microsoft Powerpoint and Word

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Read all about it at:

http://www.tmcnet.com/sip/0106/sip-feature-articles-hidden-potential-0106.htm

Actually, I'm not sure they predict all that much in the end but, hey, someone has to post a link to this article :-)

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There is a wonderful dumb moment in E911 as point 26 in Business 2.0's dumbest moments in tech - February 1, 2006 where they quote Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skpe as saying

"If there's a burglar in my home, maybe I send an e-mail or a text message to the police instead of making a call."

Now I suspect that Niklas many have been trying to say that in some situations it would be nice to have alternative ways to contact a PSAP and I would agree but we will always want voice as one way, and mostly likely the primary way, to contact a PSAP?

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Uh, I'm not sure I want to try this but ....

The claim is "The World's Most Expensive Coffee is From Beans Cycled Through an Indonesian Monkey's Digestive System". News real at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/kopiluwak.htm

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On Dan's brother's recommendation, I went to Espresso Vivace Roasteria. It was very good.

Unrelated photos ...

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Best URL:

www.espressoporn.com

Nice Art:

Foto's Nederlands Kampioenschap Latte Art

Great Coffee:

Barefoot Coffee Roasters - San Jose

Caffe Artigiano - Vancouver

Hines Coffee - Seattle

Random Links:

CoffeeGeek - News, Reviews, Opinion and Community for Coffee and Espresso

Specialty Coffee Association of America

La Marzocco GS3 - Google Search

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Click on the link below then search for "The Boss".

The Boss: Security Powered by Cisco: Cisco Systems TV Ad

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Microsoft and Cisco Systems Announce Support for ICE Methodology to Deliver End-to-End Media Connections Across NATs

If someone has the link from this morning IETF MMUSIC WG meeting, let me know where it is.

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Microsoft and Cisco Systems Announce Support for ICE Methodology to Deliver End-to-End Media Connections Across NATs

If someone has the link from this morning IETF MMUSIC WG meeting, let me know where it is.

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So wired magazine has some charity contest thing - One of the top items is pretty cool and valued at $102,000

However they seem to have an item that is worth even more.

So webster has priceless defined as

Main Entry: priceless

1. a : having a value beyond any price : Invaluable b : costly because of rarity or quality : precious
2. : having worth in terms of other than market value
3. : delightfully amusing, odd, or absurd

So I guess it could mean any one of these three. But it did get me thinking, if lunch with Brad is priceless, what about lunch with me? Any takers at 50 cents? What if I buy? And what really should lunch with the head system administrator at Cisco be worth?

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Bike

Sign above garage thanks to my kind friends EKR and JF who rub this in every chance they get

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I'm sure you think you are one of the people that do get it... Well before you decide you are, make sure you know the answer to a very trivial probability problem that I have posted before at http://www.dial911anddie.com/blog/C132084747/E757052080/index.html. Anyways, I don't understand why people are surprised by things like:

It is partially a function of we publish "interesting" results, even if they are only expect to be right 19/20 times while we don't publish "un interesting" results.

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As many of you know, I'm not a big fan security based on Crunchy on the outside, Chewy in the middle security model.

However, I just saw a web site about what the captain of all crunch is now up to and I love it. What else but the Crunch Box which they describes as "a virtually un-crackable firewall"

In case anyone is missing where the Crunchy/Chewy analogy comes from,


(Read more to see where this photo came from )

And my ever popular SIP ALG picture....

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My general impression from reading the media was notebook computers are getting smaller. I recently went to a meeting where I a think my 17 inch powerbook was the smallest of the twelve notebook computers in the room.

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I was recently watching a powerpoint presentation in a fairly stuffy business setting about the great things that enterprise voip and collaborations systems are bringing to customers. One of the slides had this great graphic in it.

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Rohan leans the difference between add_all_algorithm and add_ssl_algorithms

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At IETF 61 I had the opportunity to buy the most expensive beer I have ever purchased. It was a Cisco beer.

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