Congratulations to China for the launch of Chang’e, named after the tragic princess who flew to the moon with her little rabbit. China beat India, but trails Japan.
Besides having met some of the people working on this in China, the launch has additional personal significance to me since the moon festival is my wedding [...]
I often need to get a list of the largest files and directories on my drive. I always used the Unix ‘du’ command to do this — just du -k, sort in reverse and head 50. When I switched to using Windows, I used the ‘du’ found in the Windows binaries of the gnu utilities, [...]
It’s amazing how behind-the-curve mainstream American media can be. It seems that CNET is just now realizing that search traffic in China gets hijacked and re-routed.
The article speculates that the Chinese government is doing this. This is a pretty stupid speculation. Last time I ran into this issue, I found that a Chinese government router [...]
Scott Barnes suggests that the I in RIA is “Interactive”, not “Internet”, and he has the philosophy to back it up. You need to read the whole post to get a clear picture, but it’s worth it.
Maybe his blog should be called “Interactive Eye for the Internet Guy”.
I’m a really peaceful and cooperative guy, though, [...]
WTF is George W. Bush doing handing out the congressional “freedom” award to the Dalai Lama, the religious dictator head of a slave-owning cult? Is this what he was elected to do? “W” is a complete and utter embarrassment.
Speaking of cults, I’ve been warning you about the dangers of Scrappy Dickie Dawkins and his comrades [...]