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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Words that'll blow you away
Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) died on this day in 1983. He wrote:
"A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away."
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Well, the buck did stop there
Harry S Truman was born on this day in 1884.
"My villain is a perfectly nice little man called Harry S (for nothing) Truman. He created the national security state. He institutionalized the Cold War. He placed us on a permanent wartime footing. He started that vast hemorrhaging of debt...
"Deliberately (he) set in train an imperial expansion that has cost the lives of many millions of people all over the world." -- Gore Vidal.
To read Truman's own modest take on the matter, see Today in The Cynic's Almanac
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
And frankly, I don't give a damn
On this day in 1937, Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, won the Pulitzer Prize.
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
(From the poem by Ernest Dowson, stanza 3)
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
(From the poem by Ernest Dowson, stanza 3)
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Friday, May 2, 2014
If they'd known she was dying they'd have baked her a cake
Lady Nancy Astor died on this day in 1964. She was the first woman to serve as a member of the British Parliament, as a member of the House of Commons.
Her last words, when she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside:
"Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Dying for an answer
"Every dead body is a mystery," says author Kathryn Schulz.
"Death is an assassin with infinite aliases, and the question of what kills us
is tremendously complex." As with any other complex matter, we have developed a
bureaucracy to address it – or to obfuscate it – and, by Schulz's reckoning,
"The atomic unit of that bureaucracy is the death certificate." As a means to
come to terms with our mortality, the death certificate is, in Schulz's elegant
phrase, "the saddest of diplomas, the most mysterious of passports."
The death certificate stands for our notion that every death
means something, and should be accounted for. It also represents our attempt to
explain death, by documenting it.
Keeping track of the dead is a relatively new endeavor. The
death certificate, as Schulz details, was an innovation of 16th-century
England, in the form of a document known as a Bill of Mortality. "Early
(earlier) states," she points out, "had neither the means nor the motive to
track individual deaths – or, for that matter, Individual anything."
The motive arose, Schulz says, in large part because of the
Black Plague, which made death a public concern, and the means followed, as
states began to mandate the recording of deaths.
With the rise of democracies, the death certificate took on
the aspect of a personal ID. As Schulz notes, "The flip side of democracy is
bureaucracy: if everyone counts, everyone must be counted."
But the imperative to account for every death was marred,
inevitably, by imprecision, where the cause of death was uncertain and those
charged with the recording of deaths were overwhelmed or unqualified. Today,
Schulz says, the task of filling out death certificates is often foisted on
medical interns or residents, and she quotes one who compares it to "filling
out your own taxes. Shouldn't I be smart enough to know how to do this?" The
comparison is an apt one: the official book on causes of mortality is as dreary
and byzantine as the IRS tax manual, and lists over 8,000 ways to die.
Even when it is as accurate as mortal hands and minds can
make it, the death certificate can still never answer the question, Why do we
die? All we can do is guess, and say, as Schulz does, with cheerful
resignation: "We die because we were born; because we are mortal; because that
is, after all, life."
causes of death,
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Belief on the back burner
Can you deny that there are supernatural beings and not be an
The New York Times ran the transcript of an interview
conducted for "The Stone" by Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at Notre
Dame, with Howard Wettstein, his counterpart at the University of California.
Wettstein is a practicing Jew who prays regularly, and he is proof, I suppose,
that one can have a rich religious life without necessarily believing in God –
or, in his words, taking "a theoretical stance on God's existence." As
Wettstein sees it (I think), belief is irrelevant to faith, and even irrelevant
altogether. To paraphrase another philosopher with a similar name
(Wittgenstein), what we can't put into words we must pass over in silence.
Wettstein takes an
unhelpful detour at the beginning, comparing theorizing about God to theorizing
about numbers. "Even an advanced and creative mathematician," he says, "need not
have views about, say, the metaphysical status of numbers." He cites the
physicist Richard Feynman, who was supposed to have said about himself that he
"lived among the numbers," but who was unconcerned with whether they "actually"
existed. But when we think about numbers we are able to describe how they work,
in the form of proofs. No such thinking can be done about God to
yield results that are anything but highly subjective and abstract.
Wettstein talks about a rabbi friend of his
who held that "God's reality went without saying," but that "God's reality as a
supernatural being was quite another thing." (Wettstein's words.) To watch his
friend praying was to be overwhelmed, he says, by the intimacy of the pray-er
and the pray-ee: "God was almost tangible."
Gutting asks, quite reasonably, how one can pray to something that doesn't
exist. Wettstein says that "'existence' is, pro or con, the wrong idea for
"My relation to God has come to be a pillar of
my life, in prayer, in experience of the wonders and the awfulness of our world,"
Wettstein says. "And concepts like the supernatural and transcendence have
application here. But (speaking in a theoretical mode) I understand such terms
as directing attention to the sublime rather than referring to some nonphysical
domain. To see God as existing in such a domain is to speak as if he had
substance, just not a natural or physical substance. As if he were composed of
the stuff of spirit, as are, perhaps, human souls. Such talk is unintelligible
to me. I don't get it."
In other words, we can't talk about whether
God exists, we can only talk about what His existence means to us. An argument
like this gives sophistry a good name.
"So what is the real question?" Gutting asks,
a little wearily it seems.
"The real question is one's relation to God,
the role God plays in one's life, the character of one's spiritual life,"
Wettstein answers. These aren't questions, they are sidestepping the question.
faith without belief
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Death: DIY
My great idea is finally catching on, and as usual I don't
get any credit for it. Maybe because I kept it to myself. "Selfie obits" are
now to die for, as reported in "USA Today."
Writing your own obituary was a brainstorm that came to me
six or seven years ago, when my former best friend died and no one had much to
say at his funeral. My pal had been brilliant and creative and eloquent, as
well as never shy about self-promotion, and a self-crafted obit would have been
right down his alley. As it was, his family/friends could barely muster the
resources to run even a small notice of his death in the newspaper.
Look what Grandma did! |
It is just such cruel happenstances of fate that we can take
arms against with an "auto-obituary." Why leave it to someone else to sum up
your life, even a loved one? Or particularly
a loved one, who may be prostrate with grief, preoccupied with other details of
your final disposition, or otherwise without the wherewithal to give you a
proper written send-off?
To paraphrase Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," most
people don't get in the paper until they die. When they do, it's often, well,
disappointing. One or two lines about the deceased, who more than likely never
met a stranger, and the rest of the space given over to a listing of the
survivors. Composing your own obituary just might reassure you that you'll
escape a fate worse than death: Irrelevance.
The "USA" article references Susan Soper of Atlanta, who
offers the "Obitkit" as a guide to help people take control of their deaths,
including writing their own obituaries. Just perusing her site, it seems to me
there's one major element lacking: Obitwit.
Since death can come at any time, it's never too early to
start working on your obit. (You can always update it, like your resume.) Give it
enough thought and effort, and who knows, maybe you'll help contribute to a
whole new genre: Obitlit.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Plan ahead for best results
Quit stalling |
Twice in the last two days, now, I've received in the mail
two separate letters about pre-planning for my demise. Is the Grim Reaper
lurking outside my house, or is it simply my demographic profile?
You're sixty-four. High time to face
facts: Unless you take the bull by the horns, you can't afford to die.
The tone of both letters is solicitous but implicitly
scolding: Of course you don't want to
think about death, you schmuck, but do you really want to compromise your
"Dear Friend," begins the first letter. ("Friend" is
appropriate, I assume, given that we're all in the same boat, the one bound for
oblivion.) "We need your help…In order to assist with sensitive, caring and
professional help when people are in need, we need to know the real thoughts
and feelings of individuals just like you." Individuals just like me, meaning
those who will die some day?
To better to plumb my real thoughts and feelings, they've put
together a survey, simple (all Yes or No or multiple-choice answers) and
"If you have given thought to this subject, which of the
following would you choose for yourself?
Burial, or Cremation." (And if you haven't
given thought to it, start now, ya big ox!)
"How important to you personally is the location (proximity)
of a Cemetery?" About as important, I'd say, as the location of a lunatic
asylum: Not in my neighborhood. In
truth, the location won't concern me if I'm the one buried there, which is
probably not what they're getting at.
I'm completing the survey and sending it back, as they've
promised me an "absolutely free" Final Wishes Organizer to be delivered in
return. Maybe now I can get organized, at last.
My other letter goes the first one better, offering two
"absolutely free" books, a "10 Things Everyone Should Know" guide, plus one
called "Imagine." The sender is in California but has three convenient local
affiliates here. This one doesn't bother with a survey, but just assumes that
I'm not so inconsiderate as to leave my family in the lurch. Their FREE
information will put me "in control," and also show me how to "add personality
to (my) service and make it a real celebration of life," one I won't be able to
attend. Leave 'em laughing, in other words.
death planning,
funeral planning,
Grim Reaper
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
It all evens out in the end
The great Irish critic, playwright, philosopher and reformer George Bernard Shaw died on this day in 1950. He was 94. He once wrote:
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
That one just killed the audience
TV giant Ed Sullivan died on this day in 1974. Once, when singer Connie Francis had just performed and Ed was chatting with her, he asked:
"Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?"
"Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?"
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Monday, October 7, 2013
October 7, 1849 -- Edgar Allan Poe died, after a violent bout of drinking left him delirious. Poe once wrote:
"My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!"
"Quoth the Raven nevermore." -- Poe's epitaph.
It would have been elegant for Poe's last word to have been "Nevermore," in answer to the question he was asked on his deathbed ("Would you like to see your friends?"), but his dying utterance was probably the much more somber, "Lord help my poor soul."
"My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!"
"Quoth the Raven nevermore." -- Poe's epitaph.
It would have been elegant for Poe's last word to have been "Nevermore," in answer to the question he was asked on his deathbed ("Would you like to see your friends?"), but his dying utterance was probably the much more somber, "Lord help my poor soul."
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Exit laughing
October 5, 2004 -- Comedian Rodney Dangerfield didn't get any respect -- he died.
His epitaph:
"There Goes the Neighborhood."
His epitaph:
"There Goes the Neighborhood."
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Friday, October 4, 2013
He had relations with animals
October 4, 1226 -- Saint Francis of Assisi died.
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent." -- George Orwell.
Today's Deathless Verse:
Isn't it a pity, how often he or she we deemed to be a saint,
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent." -- George Orwell.
Today's Deathless Verse:
Isn't it a pity, how often he or she we deemed to be a saint,
Perverse Verse,
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
If not, forget it
Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer (Life of Jesus), died on this day in 1892. He wrote:
"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul."
"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul."
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Don't go near the water
Author E. B. White (Charlotte's Web) died on this day in 1985. His famous essay, "Once More to the Lake," ends like this:
"When the others went swimming my son said he was going in too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower, and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death."
"When the others went swimming my son said he was going in too. He pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower, and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death."
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Sean has accepted a position as the Director of Technology at The Early Learning Centre, City School, in Bangkok. He is excited to be working with Giovanni Piazza and the rest of the staff to raise awareness of digital-age teaching and learning practice in this Reggio Emilia inspired environment.
In 2014 he partnered up with DEEP Learning to support the team with the development, promotion and execution of professional development conferences for teachers worldwide.
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- 4 Mar 2015:A judge has approved a US$415 million settlement in a Silicon Valley employee hiring case, calling the amount "substantial" to settle claims that Apple, Google, Adobe Systems and Intel conspired not to hire each other's workers.
- 2 Mar 2015:The merged entity will become the market leader in auto semiconductor solutions and the market leader in general purpose MCU products, according to the companies.
- 26 Feb 2015:A major gripe about smartwatches is that the battery on most devices lasts only about a day. Looking to address that problem, both Broadcom and Texas Instruments have unveiled new platforms for their chips that are designed to help smartwatches and other small devices sip power instead of chug it.
- Avago Technologies and Emulex entered into a definitive agreement under which Avago will acquire Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$606 million, or US$609 million net of cash and debt acquired.
- 25 Feb 2015:Qualcomm Technologies has announced the Snapdragon 620, 618, 425 and 415 processors, supporting a wide range of mobile devices with high-end features - at a broader range of price points.
- Samsung Electronics gave a big boost on Wednesday to Seoul's ambitions to become a global hub for the offshore yuan business, saying it was preparing to start trading the Chinese currency directly with the South Korean won.
- Fifty years after Gordon Moore first described the trend that has driven technology, Intel says scaling is same as it ever was. But other chipmakers, who are struggling to realize the same benefits from good old-fashioned scaling, are increasingly looking for less-expensive alternatives.
- The aggressive push by MediaTek to enter the global long-term evolution (LTE) market in competition with leader Qualcomm of the US is not likely to show significant results until 2016, according to Randy Abrams, Taiwan head of equities research for Credit Suisse.
- Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) of China is seeking to take over Dongbu HiTek, industry sources said Monday.
- 24 Feb 2015:Intel will describe what it claims are some of the world's smallest DRAM and I/O circuits here this week, a testament to its 14nm process technology. In a preview of at least five papers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, one Intel executive also continued to express optimism about the company's work on 10nm and 7nm nodes.
- According to a new report (Korean) from South Korea, LG has started working on a next-generation high-end SoC that's going to use the recently announced Cortex-A72 CPU and an unnamed Mali GPU (likely the high-end Mali-T880).
- 13 Feb 2015:Freescale Semiconductor, the $11 billion tech company spun out of Motorola in 2004, is in sale talks.
- 11 Feb 2015:ARM has acquired Offspark, a Netherlands-based supplier of Transport Layer Security, that will get folded into its mbed operating system for its Cortex-M cores.
- 10 Feb 2015:The fine is the largest in China's corporate history and will require the firm to lower royalty rates on patents used in China's mobile phone market.
- 5 Feb 2015:The faster time to market for Samsung's 14nm process as well as potentially slightly bigger performance or power consumption benefits on TSMC's 16nm process must have convinced Apple that it's worth going back to Samsung.
- 2 Feb 2015:Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore commented on the rumor that BLX IC Design is interested in acquiring Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and outlined some obstacles that may face a potential suitor for the company.
- 29 Jan 2015:Samsung has announced the first full-year revenue decline at its mobile division since 2006 - a 21% fall - analysts barely mentioned that business. They focused instead on the semiconductor arm.
- Qualcomm reduced its outlook for fiscal 2015, saying it expects its newest Snapdragon mobile chip will not be used in a major customer's flagship smartphone, sending its shares lower.
- 28 Jan 2015:Qualcomm is a great American technology company. But it has two weaknesses. First, its growth depends too much on two business segments - CDMA technologies and technology licensing. Second, it relies too much on the Chinese market to monetize these technologies.
- 27 Jan 2015:Korean businesses invested US$3.97 billion in China, up almost 30 percent compared to 2013 and the most since 2006, according to the Korea International Trade Association on Sunday.
- 22 Jan 2015:SanDisk has reported a plunge in profit for the fourth quarter, as the flash memory card maker's bottom line was weighed down by lower margins, higher operating expenses and supply constraints.
- 21 Jan 2015:For IBM, converting to the cloud is taking a toll. Even though it's necessary to drive future growth, the company has to sacrifice profits for now.
- 19 Jan 2015:Regarding the occupational disease controversy over workers at its semiconductor plants, Samsung Electronics has announced that it will extend its scope of compensation to include its workers who developed any blood-related cancers, including leukemia, and all former workers who left the company a decade ago.
- We note some investor speculation that Marvell Technology Group's mobile and wireless business is for sale, though we have no particular insight and Marvell does not comment.
- Among big changes in the works are China Mobile's shift in procurement policy from five-mode smartphones to three-mode models, and big plans among Chinese apps processor vendors to embrace connectivity (WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy).
- 16 Jan 2015:Shares of chip equipment makers Applied Materials, KLA-Tencor, and Lam Research are all up in after-market trading, following a Q4 report from Intel in which it projected capital spending to be flat this year with last year's level.
- Lee Don-tae, former co-president of UK design consulting firm Tangerine, founded by Apple's Jony Ive, has been hired by Samsung Electronics as its new head of global design.
- 13 Jan 2015:The newly unveiled LG G Flex 2 isn't just a smartphone for display buffs, the handset is also packing Qualcomm's latest and greatest 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. However, all may not be well with Qualcomm's latest high-end SoC, as more rumors have surfaced suggesting that the chip is struggling with some performance impacting production issues.
- SanDisk has warned of lower-than-expected results for its fourth quarter, spurring fears that a smartphone-driven surge in the memory chip market could be slowing.
- Among the top winners of US patents in 2014, Google cracked the top 10 for the first time, hitting No. 8 with 2,566 patents, up a whopping 38.6% from last year. Archrival Apple won 2,003 patents, up 12.8% to 11th place, just 92 patents behind Panasonic, which fell for the second consecutive year.
- 12 Jan 2015:Canon and other Japanese electronics companies want to bring production of some goods back home, reversing a years-old trend of overseas manufacturing as a rapid decline in the value of the yen makes local goods more competitive.
- Global Unichip and Credo Semiconductor have announced they are collaborating to enable the development of high-performance networking solutions that will be manufactured using TSMC's 16-nm FinFET+ process technology.
- Globalfoundries and industry analyst Jim McGregor say production of a faster, smaller chip known as the 14-nanometer is on schedule at its Fab 8 factory in Malta, New York.
- Globalfoundries is keen to expand its presence in China's lucrative semiconductor market and hoping its recent buyout of IBM's chipmaking business will help lead the way.
- Toshiba will decide during the next business year from April on where to build an additional memory chip plant and will consider overseas locations for the facility, according to company CEO Hisao Tanaka.
- Avnet Technology Solutions has landed the contract to supply Lenovo's recently acquired x86 server products and related offerings across the UK and Europe.
- Vishay Intertechnology has acquired all of the remaining outstanding shares of Taiwan based Capella Microsystems for approximately NT$668.2 million or US$21.0 million.
- 30 Dec 2014:San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm is laying off more than 100 workers in San Jose and Santa Clara, according to a recent state filing.
- The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.
- 29 Dec 2014:Samsung Electronics plans to invest KRW13.5 trillion (US$12 billion) in semiconductor facilities next year, up from the KRW13 trillion spent in 2014.
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Wouldn't it be nice to get a weather forecast whenever you look at iCal? That's the premise behind WeatherCal 1.0, a new Mac application from Bare Bones Software.
WeatherCal inserts a five-day weather forecast for your favorite cities right into iCal (above). If you're syncing your iPhone to iCal, that means you have the forecast in your pocket as well:
When you install WeatherCal, it doesn't end up in your Applications folder. Instead, it's a preferences pane that appears in System Preferences (below). You can add as many cities as you'd like to the list, but adding too many cities might make your calendar unreadable.
Each day's forecast is visible in iCal, with a small icon representing the expected weather. In the screenshot at the top of this post, you can see that just when I'll be volunteering for the FIRST Robotics Colorado Regional, snow is expected in my area. Opening the forecast in iCal provides a link to a detail page on the Weather Underground website:
I like the premise of WeatherCal in that I can now remove other weather apps from my iPhone and just look at my calendar. It's also nice to be able to know what the weather is going to be like on days when there's something important going on. For $10, WeatherCal is a very useful little tool. A 30-day full trial is available here.
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Verizon Communications Inc., the regional phone company serving much of the Northeastern United States, suffered a huge hit to its operations as a result of the terrorist attacks that felled the World Trade Center towers last month. In the wake of the attacks, a data tracking and analysis tool from Infragistics Inc. was rushed through beta testing, re-engineered and put into production in less than a week to enable Verizon to manage the work at ground zero to put its network back together.
A key to getting the job done quickly, Verizon IT managers said, was their use of Microsoft Corp.s .Net development tools, which are still in beta versions themselves.
"I consider it lucky that we were in the middle of doing this," said John Fallon, manager of power and infrastructure at Verizon. "I dont know what the ramp-up would have beenprobably a couple of weeks, which would have been much too late. Even our six-day turnaroundthat probably wasnt quick enough." Verizons building at 140 West St. in Lower Manhattan serves some 300,000 voice lines, 3.5 million data circuits and circuits connected to other telecommunications companies. The structure, which is directly across the street from the leveled 7 WTC, was severely damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. At the time, Verizons development team, along with consultants from Ajilon LLC, of Towson, Md., was beta testing Infragistics Ultra Web Navigator tool running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The software was supposed to enable Verizon to track new customer orders and their dependent circuits.
Halfway through the beta and a migration to Microsofts .Net platform, the terrorists struck the WTC, damaged Verizons West Street offices and shut down countless circuits. In short order, it became apparent that the manual process of aggregating and inputting circuit information was overwhelming Verizons staff. Fallon helped the development team make a quick decision to re-engineer Ultra Web Navigator on Windows ASP .Net, a development platform for building Web applications. The turnaround application, code-named Viper, incorporated new functionalities that allowed Verizon to track all of the downed circuits in the New York region, as well as assess the impact of fixing specific circuits. Ajilon worked with Verizon to turn the original software program around in six daysa process that normally would have taken six months, according to Fallon. Viper comprises five multithreaded Visual Basic .Net applications that are used for various mainframe terminal emulation processes. They run on a five-server Web farm under ASP .Net with a clustered session state server and a clustered Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. Ultra Web Navigator provided the overall menu system that allowed users to access the applications entire feature set while not taking valuable screen space, according to officials. The additional object-oriented features of Microsofts Visual Basic .Net and server side controls of ASP .Net enhanced the functionality of the data sets, according to Brad McCabe, senior project manager at Ajilon. Likewise, the ability to reuse code was a major plus, McCabe said. Infragistics, in addition, supplied tools that extended the Visual Studio .Net environment. Fallon credited the .Net tools for enabling accelerated development and scalability, and Infragistics, of Cranbury, N.J., for the speed inherent in Vipers frames and menu tools. Viper is monitoring about a half-million circuits an hour. "Normally, weve got about a [gigabyte] and a half of data to process every minute," Fallon said. "Were up to about 8[GB] of data now. Thats a 400 percent increase." Verizon is considering making Viper available to other customers as Web services so technicians can access and input data into the system via a Web browser. The .Net server line is in Beta 2 now, and a Microsoft official said this month that it will go into a third beta later this year. It wont be in general release until the first half of next year. ".Netits a movement, like a religion," said Steve Burkfield, CEO of Automation Center Inc., a collaboration software vendor in Tucson, Ariz., that has incorporated Microsofts BizTalk and .Net capabilities into its core products platform. "If you talk to developers, theyll say its like XML [Extensible Markup Language] five years ago ... Theyll say the technology is there. But whos using it? Its a cool idea, but is the world really ready for that? I dont knowtheyre not lining up to buy it." As for Viper, once the reconstruction is completed at 140 West St., Verizon plans to use it to track orders for new services, Fallon said. "Ill never lose the functionality. It will still be there," Fallon said. "God forbid, if this ever happens again, we have the methodology to put this right back on the shelf."
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by RICK FALKVINGE
The Swedish citizens will get all their phone calls and e-mail traffic wiretapped in real time not just by the Swedish NSA branch, but also by police, customs, the tax authority, and others. These plans were revealed today by the Ny Teknik magazine, sending shockwaves among civil rights activists. This follows a previous law change that gave the Swedish NSA branch, the FRA, realtime access to all Internet traffic that crossed the country borders � effectively wiretapping everybody warrantlessly all the time.
Circumventing the entire legislative process and every democratic shred of oversight, the Swedish Police are demanding voluntary agreements from telecom operators to give the Police and other Swedish authorities direct and real-time access to phone call data, mail traffic, and much more. This is not just the slippery slope into an Orwellian society that civil rights activists have warned about: this is a slippery precipice.
We�re now officially past the point where �national security� (and the the ever-present disgusting child porn/terrorism argument) is used to justify bulk warrantless wiretapping of everybody, all the time. We�ve arrived at the point where the Police justify the complete elimination of entire classes of civil liberties with nothing more than �because it can be done, and we want it�.
The authorities that would get direct real-time access to most communications aren�t just the Police, but also the Customs Office, the Security Police, and the Tax Authority (!!).
A key difference between a functioning democracy and a police state is, that in a functioning democracy, the Police don�t get everything they point at. While the border between the two is arguably a lot of gray area, and subject to a lot of polemic, it can no longer be reasonably stated that police powers are under checks and balances.
According to the
Ny Teknik article
, followed up by
in Swedish oldmedia, it�s not just real-time data on phone calls and mail that the Police are demanding. A sample of other things included in the proposed mass surveillance package:
How telecom bills are paid � cash, credit, direct deposit. If credit card, which one, and if direct deposit, from which bank account.
The subscriber�s PUK code, enabling a police authority to activate the cellphone�s SIM card without the subscriber�s PIN code.
There are hints in the article that many other items may be covered by the realtime wiretapping, referring to a wiretapping standard called ITS27.
The only telecom operator to say a blank never, this is completely unthinkable to the Police demands is the Swedish Tele 2.
The fact that the Swedish regime isn�t immediately firing everybody in the Police demanding this wholesale abolition of civil rights is practically an endorsement of the plans � and one that goes hand in hand with the much-criticized Swedish
FRA Law
that legalized warrantless bulk wiretapping in the first place.
� a
followup article
in Ny Teknik reveals that the wiretapping standard ITS27 mentioned above was developed by the British spy agency GCHQ.
Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. He has a tech entrepreneur background and loves whisky.
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Grace Potter and The Nocturnals @ Stubb's - 11/08/2012
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals played Stubb's on November 8th, snagging support from Austin's own Heartless Bastards for the show. Pictures from the downtown venue are in this post, as is the setlist.
Grace Potter and band are now on tour on the east coast, and just announced a bunch more dates for 2013 as well. That new leg kicks off in St. Louis and zig-zags the Midwest (including Chicago) before hitting more East Coast cities missed in their 2012 go-around. All tour dates and more pictures below.
photos by @griffinshot - Tim Griffin
Dana Falconberry @ Frontier Bar - 9/9/2012
Dana Falconberry's new album, Leelanau, is coming out on October 9. As we mentioned previously, the release party is this week at The Scottish Rite Theater on Thursday (10/4). KUT and BVAustin will be presenting the show and tickets are available now.
She'll be accompanied for the performance by the Tosca String Quartet and Elaine Barber on harp, with special guests Marmalakes and Good Field.
After the party she'll be headed up to Dallas, hitting the road with My Jerusalem through the first half of October. Besides both being from Austin, the two bands have more in common: My Jerusalem's album Preachers also comes out October 9.
The second half of the month has her touring with fellow Austinites Heartless Bastards, as well as Futurebirds (who are from R.E.M.'s hometown of Athens, GA).
Back in early September Lucy The Poodle presented a free show featuring Dana at Frontier Bar with Silver Ships, Eliza Rickman, and Technicolor Hearts (who will be at CMJ this year with BVAustin for The Texas Takeover Party). Unpublished pictures from the Frontier Bar show are in this post.
See more pictures from all of the bands from the September show, along with Dana's upcoming tour dates below.
photos by Amanda Hatfield & Tim Griffin
Okkervil River / Diamond Rugs
BrooklynVegan's Hotel Vegan, located at Austin venues Hotel Vegas & Volstead Lounge, ended on Saturday, 3/17/2012, on three stages in partnership with Partisan Records and KF Records, and the new Young One Records who helped us put together the hip hop stage which stage headliner Action Bronson cancelled from last minute from (for medical reasons).
The day, and all four days, ended with special last minute addition Okkervil River who played after Deer Tick/Black Lips/Dead Confederate/Los Lobos super group Diamond Rugs who played after Heartless Bastards (who we already posted one set of pictures of). Other previously posted photo sets from this day include Father John Misty, Field Report, Pond and Emily Wells. Here are the rest of the pics.
Like Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we served complimentary HobNob Wines, and on Friday and Saturday we partied with The Original Moonshine, our official spirit partner.
Special thanks to our official backline providers Vox, Blackstar and Korg, and thank you to ASCAP, and to NadaMoo for supplying free vegan treats, and to Honest Tea for the tea.
More, slightly belated, pictures from all of Saturday, below...
Erika of Heartless Bastards @ La Zona Rosa - 4/20/2012
After visiting the new Willie Nelson statue outside the Moody Theater, I walked the few blocks over to La Zona Rosa to see Austin's Heartless Bastards (who played during SXSW and will be at Waterloo Records on 4/25) rock out with David Vandervelde.
More pictures from the La Zona Rosa Show (and a picture of an 8-foot-Willie), along with a mostly-readable shot of the headliner's setlist, below...
WATERS @ Webster Hall recently (more by Chris La Putt)
Waterloo Records, who are celebrating 30 years (!), are housing another slew of free, in-store special events this month and beyond, including obligatory Record Store Day festivities.
Rising from the ashes of his band Port O'Brien, folkster Van Pierszalowski's latest project WATERS is set to play Waterloo this evening (4/13) at 5pm before opening for Delta Spirit at Emo's East.
In addition to all the rare goodies you'll have a chance to buy on Record Store day next Saturday (4/21), Waterloo is hosting an appearance by Garbage that afternoon, where the band will be meeting with fans and signing autographs, potentially making that exclusive Record Store Day Garbage 7-inch of their new album's first single, "Blood For Poppies," extra special. The band will also play a sold out gig at La Zona Rosa later that night as part of their current tour.
Austin's own rabble-rousers Heartless Bastards will also perform a free in-store act at the record shop on Wednesday, April 25, but not before they play La Zona Rosa on April 20. Check HERE for more HB tour dates and live pics.
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Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards makes a toast @ Hotel Vegan
Heartless Bastards was among those who played the outdoor stage at Hotel Vegan (at Hotel Vegas) on the last Saturday of SXSW 2012. Here are some pictures from their afternoon set.
Now on tour, they return home to Austin in time to play La Zona Rosa on April 20, with opener David Vandervelde. Tickets are still available.
Check out the video for "Parted Ways" off the recently released, Jim Eno-produced album Arrow with more pictures and upcoming tour dates, below.
As you know, BrooklynVegan is taking over ALL THREE STAGES at connecting Austin venues Hotel Vegas & Volstead for FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT this week, and it's all 100% FREE (no RSVP or badges either). There's a big outdoor stage, and smaller stages inside Hotel Vegas & Volstead. Collectively we're calling the four day long party "Hotel Vegan" (located at 1500 E. 6th St, Austin, TX). We announced Wednesday in full, and Thursday in full, and Friday in full. Now finally check out WHAT ALL OF SATURDAY LOOKS LIKE.
Google says, "There's no place like Austin for live music, so we're excited to host some incredible artists for two full days of concerts atop a downtown parking garage (the lot at 9th & Trinity St). If you can't make it in person, you'll be able to tune in online at youtube.com/presents." The lineup so far looks like this:
Lustre Pearl is located at 97 Rainey Street in Austin, just south of 1st Street and the convention center. Festival badges are required for access to nighttime performances, and limited RSVPs for daytime performances are available at www.filtermagazine.com/dickies2012.In related news, The Drums released a free Ronettes cover for Valentine's Day today.
The Shins (more by Natasha Ryan)
Their new album comes out in March, so of course it makes perfect sense that The Shins, who will also be at both Coachellas, are playing SXSW this year (thx Do512).
CoS also points out these new additions (and previously announced bands):
Who's New: The Shins, Best Coast, Kasabian, Miike Snow, Neon Indian, OFF!, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Big Star's Third, Sharon Van Etten, Deerhoof, Japandroids, Matthew Dear, Nneka, Rachel Yamagata, Shearwater, Murs, Tennis, Diamond Rugs, Cancer Bats, Caveman, Fake Problems, Fanfarlo, Gary Clark Jr., Doldrums, Machinedrum, Princeton, Cities Aviv, Eternal Summers, and James HusbandMarch is right around the corner.Who Else Is Playing: Built to Spill, The Magnetic Fields, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, of Montreal, The Ting Tings, Alabama Shakes, Little Boots, Danny Brown, The War on Drugs, Heartless Bastards, The Drums, Talib Kweli, Hot Water Music, Youth Lagoon, Oneothrix Point Never, Grimes, Crystal Antlers, Delta Spirit, Mr. Muthafuckin' Exquire, Dragonette, The Men, Screaming Females, The Big Pink, Bleached, Daughter, Free Energy, Friends, Gross Magic, Purity Ring, and many many more.
photos by @griffinshot / Tim Griffin
Wye Oak- Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack - played at The Parish with Erika Wennerstrom (of Heartless Bastards) on 10/14. More pictures from that show below:
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This is the giant Playstation controller coffee table made and sold by Etsy shop WoodCurve. It weighs about 100 pounds and costs $3,000. That's $30/pound. For reference, I just bought some sea scallops for right around $18/pound, and they were f***ing delicious. Sadly, bein... / Continue →
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