Viridia.org » Blog Archive » Democracy and Faith in Institutions And, I think I may be more cynical than he is, in that I’m not sure if we’ll ever get back to a ‘democracy’, if we ever really were there at all.

This is pretty fricking cool. HowTo: Read Wikipedia on an iPod « Movin’ to Seattle: “ There are concerns that folks shouldn’t be scraping Wikipedia in this way to get lots of data that they likely won’t directly read, and likely the author will update the script to be a bit nicer to the servers, so you may want to wait a couple days. And, of course, you can’t trust anything in Wikipedia. ...

from http://xkcd.com/c149.html, because I’m a major geek, and it will make all my geek friends jealous. He’s got a lot of rather funny cartoons there. I also think these are funny: nachos, skateboards, math test, certripetal force, riemann-zeta, and this one. Or, at least they’ll get it. Most folks will have no idea why it’s funny. I’ll probably have to explain it to Loretta...

Everything there is quite cute, in a lego way. I had to restrain myself from buying much lego. It was especially difficult in the store at the back of the park where you could buy bulk lego pieces for about $26/pound. I did buy a couple small things that I’ll give away for holiday gifts, and some potential presents for nephews / kids we...

Because I came across it again, I just want to say that this song / video and the flash animation that got done to the song, are pretty fricking funny.  I’d love to say that I’m clever enough to do this kind of thing ( the flash video, or even the original video ), but I don’t think I am.  I can sit in front of a camera and yammer on about whatever comes into my mind, occasionally being humorous, but I don’t think I...

I got spam earlier today, sent to the address keith dash adword at stattenfield.org except that you replace the dash with ‘-’ and the at with ‘@’, like you’d expect.  I don’t want to put the address in my blog because I don’t want spammers to harvest it. That email address appears, as near as I can tell, on exactly one webpage in the world...

Specifically, in the “Non-refrigerated pastries” division. Who knew there even was a “non-refrigerated pastries” division? http://www.bigfun.org/fair/pdfs/competitions/ca_kitchen/pie_pastry_confection_results.pdf on page 6, “Peter Bickford”, San Jose, California. The pity is that now we’ll never get him to shut up.

It’s vitally important to have a lot of domain names, because then you can put up a bunch of different Web 2.0 sites on them and get the IPO money and retire rich, rich, rich! So, for reference, here’s the Stattenfield Web Empire: keithexplains.com — My access tv show. I keep plugging it, but nobody ever watches. SmartButEvil.com — Just like Magneto. Smart, but evil. Redirects to keithexplains.com • weasel2weasel.com...

So, I was the lead engineer for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 9.1. That meant that I have a pretty good idea about what we tried to do engineering-wise for Mac OS 9, because in a lot of ways I was one of the folks deciding what to do. A couple weeks ago, I was surfing and eventually ended up on the Mac OS 9 page at wikipedia, and noticed a couple errors. One was the statement “Still, Mac OS 9 did not include features common to modern operating...

I’m giving up on eBay.  Turning off all my searches for stuff I want; won’t be logging in anymore.  Why? Because I’m tired of every auction I try to bid on being sniped at the last second by someone else.  Usually for a bit more than I’d put in as my maximum, of course, since that how it works, but always about 5 or 6 seconds before the end of the action. I know about the monetary theory at work here — I’ve...