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Entries from August 2003

Beyonce and Shadowy Men

August 28th, 2003 · No Comments

Is it me or is Beyonce dancing with the shadowy men from Ping Pong Matrix and Shadow Basketball? Updated the shifting slideshow link……

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Tags: Television

Molotov Cocktail Found At Katz Campaign Office

August 27th, 2003 · No Comments

Philadelphia politics at its best… Molotov Cocktail Found At Katz Campaign Office I think this part of the quote from our current mayor’s son is the best… “I don’t know anything about anything”…

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Tags: Politics

The Blackout - Step By Step

August 24th, 2003 · No Comments

An update to the blackout story… No mention of the Blaster worm. [IP] Experts Retrace a String of Mishaps Before the Blackout…

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Tags: Current Affairs

10,000 abacuses

August 20th, 2003 · No Comments

‘I don’t care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses. We won’t do business with someone who treats us poorly.’ - Ernie Ball on moving to an Open Source office. He seems like an interesting guy, but making pretty rash…

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Tags: Web/Tech

Power Worm?

August 20th, 2003 · No Comments

More on the possibility that the Blaster worm causing the blackouts… This describes the effect that Slammer had on an Ohio power plants network…Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant network…

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Tags: Current Affairs

Lawrence Lessig

August 19th, 2003 · No Comments

Interesting interview with Joe Trippi from Dean’s campaign on Lawrence Lessig’s blog. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out in the end….

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Tags: Links

Giving Up the VCR

August 16th, 2003 · No Comments

Dann Sheridan’s given up his VCR. I can’t bring myself to do it… TiVo changes what kinds of things I watch and I come across things that I know my friends haven’t seen. Unfortunately, there’s not a good way of…

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Tags: Television

Vigil in Memphis

August 16th, 2003 · No Comments

The 26th anniversary of Elvis’ death is today… One thing that I regret not doing while my parents lived in Memphis was going to the vigil. Graceland was crazy enough, the vigil has got be nuts… GoMemphis: The Elvis Weeks…

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Tags: Life

Power Blaster?

August 16th, 2003 · No Comments

An interesting thought on the Bugtraq lists… The Blaster virus may have been responsible for the blackouts… Translation of German article Another article, but the experts here rule it out because it’s unlikely that the systems would run on MS…

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Tags: Life

Cheesey Candidate

August 15th, 2003 · No Comments

This is kind of funny, and somehow has some meaning at least in Philadelphia. John Kerry came to Philadelphia and made the requisite stop at Pat’s Steaks. He proceeded to order a cheese steak with Swiss cheese. The horror. From…

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Tags: Politics