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<david.weekly.org> - david weekly's homesite! auf deutsch   |   en español en français   |   em portugues d a v i d   w e e k l y e.  mp3 book [pull this down] about me contacting me email me this site my resume my hacks othello safex codecs news newsletter writings mp3 book pictures video poetry books      pictures hacking  about writingslatest of 118 fixeep.sh jan 16, 2007     okay, so maybe i lied about that last post being the last post, but this is too important to let sit. the latest intel chipset, the 82573e and 82573l (included on the supermicro pdsmi+ core 2 duo motherboard) has a critical eeprom bug that causes linux to issue a dmesg saying "tx hang" - freezing your network up for anywhere between a few seconds to a few minutes. click for the bash script to fix it (requires ethtool). {more} last post jan 15, 2007     happy mlk, everyone. this is probably my last post to this version of the website. the server my site was on went down - as did most of the backup copies, so it took a while for me to get things back online. this site hasn't seen a major revamp in almost a decade, so i'm going to try and chalk off some time to retool it. i've now had a website for nearly eleven years! woot may 23, 2006     i'm still alive, still toiling (joyously!) as the ceo of pbwiki. we've released a lot of great features, big and small, in the past month, including wikilets and collations. i'm learning a lot about corporate strategy / budgeting / decisionmaking and meeting a lot of people. i've been having fun with other things, too - i got my advanced scuba certification in honduras, attended my cousin's wedding in new york, got my motorcycle license (no, i don't have a bike), and finally learned how to hover in a helicopter; in fact, did my first real takeoffs & landings today. yay! the next superhappydevhouse is june 2-4, this time it's not at my house, all weekend long, and a competition. how's that for an experiment?! please rsvp on upcoming and let your friends know about it! {more} specism: a moral framework apr 11, 2006     what if we're hardwired to help our species? i take a look to see what a moral code that uses this basis as its axiomatic underpinnings looks like and attempt to distinguish it from humanism, objectivism, and previous movements. {more} the echo chamber mar 18, 2006     much of the "blogosphere" seems to be an echo chamber, with its own terminology (including the word "blogosphere"), cult leaders, conferences, and memes. why? is this healthy? {more} please mock me feb 27, 2006     much of the strength of the west lies in its ability to accept critique and make fun of itself. muslims calling for the cessation of free speech don't seem to realize that they are weakening themselves by uniting against criticism. {more} fun tool feb 2, 2006     i have a fun new tool for you, my faithful readers. it's based on zip codes. zip codes are very handy for identifying people's locations because they're broad enough that most people are willing to give you their zip code (not a privacy violation) but specific enough to let you know what part of the city folks hail from. google maps doesn't expose an api for looking up lat/long for a zip codes, and the tiger database from the us 2000 census is badly incomplete. so i patched together my own little database about a year ago from a lot of different sources and i think it's the most complete free zip database out there now. i then tonight decided to slap a quick little google maps mashup on top of it and release it as a gift. enjoy. {more} what a month! jan 30, 2006     things have been pretty great and pretty busy this month. i spoke at xerox parc and on a panel with the two guys who argubly started the pc industry in silicon valley. my company got its first term sheet from a vc, we had our seventh hackathon at my place and i even kissed a hot swedish linux kernel hacker. i'm not making this up! the company is growing quickly and my non-profit is finally starting to get some of its finances in order, even if we have a long way to go before we're properly structured. the wonderful world of wikis jan 3, 2006     i just gave a nice little talk about wikis to the excellent crew at xerox parc. as a computer scientist, it was a great honor to speak at the place responsible for such fundamental inventions as the graphical user interface, networking, and laser printing. {more} shdh6 dec 9, 2005     this saturday, our sixth all-night hackathon! :) come on over, dawn to dusk!! (make sure to sign up for the mailing list, too.) {more} vonage sucks dec 5, 2005     an update on my attempts to cancel vonage, finally successful only after an intervention from the bbb. {more} back from tunisia nov 22, 2005     i'm back from tunisia, safe and sound. so many things i've seen, done, and learned! now i've got a new roommate (he's super cool!) and a new employee (welcome nathan!) and lots and lots of wonderful work to be done. hooray! {more} ohmygoodnessme nov 9, 2005     tomorrow, i leave for tunis (capital of tunisia) for the world summit on the information society. i'll be writing updates to my tunis pbwiki, hopefully reposted in part at boingboing - i may also be submitting short audio segments for kenradio. please do email me if you have clever ideas for what i should do while there. i feel kind of painfully underprepared, all the same. my french is not strong and my arabic is truly laughable - i haven't had time to study the "arabic for dummies" books i got.and if this wasn't enough, pbwiki is taking off - i've just managed to finally hire my best friend (after five years of trying!) and mastermind ramit is now formally on-board too. yay! we've got a real, awesome, competent team now. we're out to kick some wiki butt and bring wikis to the masses. look out, world! and yes, everybody needs a wiki. this ain't a geek thing.oh, and superhappydevhouse 5 was last weekend and was totally awesome. we had more than 90 people show up. shdh6 is going to be december 10, so save the date, y'all. :) {more} superhappydevhouse5 oct 17, 2005     the next superhappydevhouse will be on november 5th. be there! :) {more} bypassing ad blockers oct 7, 2005     ad blocking techniques are getting increasingly sophisticated. how are advertisers likely to prevent their ads from being blocked? {more} colorized voip logging oct 7, 2005     an idea for a useful colored transcript of multi-party voip logs. {more} why blades aren't smart oct 7, 2005     i am not sure that blade servers are a wise idea; there might be a reason why they have yet to take off... {more} two rules oct 7, 2005     i've come up with two rules that i see as being necessary for modern startups: to employ monkey armies and to "steal". {more} the ps3 & blu-ray oct 7, 2005     i think that the ps3 will be good for blu-ray and vice versa. {more} im, blogging, and social nets sep 13, 2005     i just gave a talk at hillsborough city council for a bunch of parents on what im and blogs are and what they should do about them. it went pretty well; i have to say, i don't think i ever imagined getting a gift of alchohol from the hillsborough police department. :) and now i have a hillsborough pd golf shirt - sweet! click through if you'd like to see the talk i gave. {more} superhappydevhouse4 sep 13, 2005     folks, it's time for our fourth all night hackathon at my place! generously organized by jeff, andy, tantek, chris, and others, it'll be friday night from 7pmish until the mornin'. come on by with a laptop, some ideas, snacks, and a few drinks. don't worry, we're not breaking into sites, we're coming up with new ideas! (pbwiki was born at the first shdh!) come join in the fun! :) yes you are invited. you should rsvp now! {more} tunis, ho! aug 26, 2005     so i'm going to be going to tunis for the world summit on the information society. i just bought my plane tickets using sidestep and got a round trip airfare of under $800, including all fees, taxes, etc. and this was for a flight with only a single stopover (frankfurt) - the flight there includes a 10 hour stopover in frankfurt, so i'm looking forward to grabbing some beer & sausages on my way through. rocking. especially when the best expedia could do was a 2+ stop $1841 multiple-carrier flight. it pays to check around! google earth for hillsborough july 18, 2005     so in a fit of amusement, i decided to piece together a google earth kmz for hillsborough. whee! for those of you without google earth (free download for windows!), you can at least check out the corresponding picture. i never realized that the city boundary looks a bit like some crazy guy with mouth open. {more} htmlentities() & blackberries june 20, 2005     never, and i do mean never use the php function htmlentities(). at least in the php 4.1.2 version packaged with debian, it seems to run somewhat non-deterministically roughshod over utf-8 input. i spent several days banging my head against a bug where japanese titles would periodically come out as junk and periodically be displayed correctly, and what it came down to was htmlentities(). i realized that actually, given the context, i didn't need to escape any html at all and that i could kill two birds with one stone (removing a bug and adding a feature) by simply ripping out the call. gack! i had a reasonably nice weekend picking berries, walking on the beach, and eating brunch at the ritz-carleton in half moon bay after a vigorous discussion about the end of the world (or at least civilization as we know it) with tim, an old friend of mine who surprised me by dropping into my quaker meeting. peanutbutterwiki is almost at 4000 users and i'm heading off to supernova tomorrow to demo im smarter and pbwiki. (i'm managing to sneak in free by asking kevin nicely.) i might also show off an alpha of botblock. {more} ghana tv june 14, 2005     so i had a fabulous weekend, which included finally meeting my net-friend of many years xeni jardin who is every bit as cool as everyone says she is. i mentioned i had been on ghanaian television and i realized i ought to put the clip up! so in a wild fit of piracy, i offer you twelve minutes of ghanaian tv about camp amelia. go ahead and laugh at me! i'm going back to ghana this summer for two weeks. {more} neato! may 30, 2005     so superhappydevhouse was a delightful success. we had 30+ folks come over and hack on random projects. i got a bit done on thwapp and i took pb wiki from soup to nuts, starting the domain registration after 1am and having a working service before the party was over. i love stuff like that. :) today is sunny and i'm feeling cheerful as can be. {more} superhappydevhouse may 26, 2005     this saturday, we're having an all-night hackathon at my house, starting at 6pm. come on over with a laptop and beer and enjoy the company of other fine hackers. :) hot tub, couches, power, and internet all gladly supplied, but please bring snacks and beverages, ideas and fun. {more} the ip wage slave: quit your job! may 16, 2005     if you're a programmer worth your salt, you probably shouldn't be working for someone else. you may be 100 times more productive than a mediocre programmer, but you sure aren't being paid 100 times as much. maximize your returns, learning, freedom, and fun by forging your own path. {more} better may 2, 2005     well, the party was a smashing success (over $12,000 raised for camp amelia!) and nathan took lots of great pictures. yay! after the party, i got the chance to decompress a little and exhaust some of the pressure that had built up in april, so i'm finally starting to regain a sense of balance. thanks to all those of you who expressed concern. hernia april 13, 2005     immediately upon returning from a very nice weekend that served as respite to one of the most hectic and intense weeks of my life, i find myself tossed back into the fray a-full. helping put together a 1000 person party, orchestrate software development for an international non-profit, developing the next release of my company's service, organizing movie night, trying to find a new and improved location for superhappyfunhouse, finishing our company's financing round and figuring out what to do about bringing other people on board, reviewing a kickass comic to help its creators, helping my friend recover data from his two trashed hard drives, seeing what it would take to buy an island in fiji, trying to understand and begin involvement in local politics, learning farsi, read the decline and fall of the roman empire...all while trying to keep my clothes washed, hook my friends up, and be there for those who need me...and feeling a little short on the task. my head is exploding. it's good; i'd rather be too busy than underbusy. but when you're operating at near 100% capacity as-is, the natural fluctuations can understandably periodically take you over capacity, which is basically where i'm at now. especially given that my treo's screen has cracked and my car's brakes need replacing. you'd think that as an independent entrepreneur i could keep myself out of meetings, but this and last week seem to have gotten full with them. pictures: russian gulch april 12, 2005     i think that last week was one of the busiest in my life. for better or worse, this week is shaping up very similarly. thankfully, i had a lovely weekend between these busy busy weeks and got a kidnapped off to the lovely russian gulch park (right by mendocino) by my good friend and co-conspirator graham, whose birthday it happened to be that sunday. :) i brought up some fine port to add to the fine collection of people and consumables camping and had a lovely time hiking to waterfalls and engaging strangers in spontaneous challenges to caber tossing. it was wet, so there were lots of banana slugs. (they like oranges.) there was even some kayaking, but it wasn't always done in the kayak. {more} funny business idea april 6, 2005     so yesterday, i came up with this halfway hilarious and halfway ingenious business idea to let bloggers automatically mail out postcards of their latest blog entries. (we all have people in our lives who are never and i mean never going to read your blog but who want to stay up on your life.) you give the service a link to your blog's rss feed and a set of postal addresses. whenever you update your site with a new post, the service prints out postcards to all of your recipients and dumps them in the mail. you pay a buck per post per person. the premium package ($2/post) is effectively length-unlimited and mails out on nice paper in a security envelope. given bulk mailer techniques, this setup is fully automatable. podcasting march 21, 2005     a lot of my friends have been asking me my opinion on podcasting given the recent hype. i don't think it's going to be anything more than a fad; podcasting lacks the critical ingredients that made blogs endearing and popular. {more} urgency march 19, 2005     the confounding nature of much of what is on the internet is its false urgency. all information is treated as urgent and spreads with the eagerness of wildfire in a dry forest. tools by the dozens, hundreds of editors, and thousands of sites exist solely for expediting this flow of information at levels of responsiveness previously reserved for dispatches concerning possible nuclear launches. the problem with this model is that only a vanishingly small proportion of the information being shared has actual time-value; namely, needs to be understood and/or acted on in a timely fashion. this false prioritization encourages people to let information interrupt them at nearly any other task. it is self-justified, as the information *might* be imporant. the constant task switching that results from attempting to stay on top of a pile of such a torrent of petty facts hinders real work. the very fluidity of information flow that was designed to improve efficiency deters it by encouraging overconsumption. it is only by correctly ascertaining the time-value of information that we can hope to be fully productive.after years of spending hours a day trying to stay abreast of each and every development - to the point where i had read nearly every story on slashdot hours before its release and could beat news.com by at least a day - i realized that those stories that i did find important and relevant universally made it to me within a day or two by way of concerned friends and that the time-value of this information almost never proved such that a two-day lead on an occasional piece would provide return on an investment of hours of daily research. indeed, nearly all of the benefit i found in being so up-to-date was the ability to put on appearances of being clever in being so knowledgeable about recent things...but really i just showed myself a fool for whittling away so much of my time. so i've actually blocked myself from the major news sites - i get my news by way of friends and the economist and i find the combination of both more than enough to keep me as abreast of things as i need be, with a surfeit of time at my hands as a result, which then can be applied towards more useful and rewarding endeavors. optimism march 19, 2005     the chief concern of an entrepreneur is the annoyance of others. for wherever s/he sees that others find fault with the world, an opportunity exists for such a person to find cause to fix this for profit. one might think then an entrepreneur to be of a very bitter and unpleasant cut, expert at finding fault with everything. but such is not the case; for the complainer finds fault with the things that cannot be fixed, or at least makes no attempt to right wrongs. but the entrepreneur takes it upon himself to specialize in discovering wrongs that may be righted and in honing his abilities to make wrongs right. it is therefore that while a complainer excels in pessimism for believing so many things wrong in the world, the entrepreneur excels in optimism for believing so many wrongs capable of positive amendment. sleepers march 11, 2005     this movie night, we watched sleepers. it really was far too drawn-out. i'm often a fan of the melodramatic shots, story arcs, flashbacks, and other artistic froufrous, but this took the cake. i mean, the movie could have been a half-hour tv special, with ads. the simple, painfully-predictable, plodding plot couldn't be saved even by a superstar cast. and the dialogue was excruciating; exactly how many times can a narrator get away with saying "the night everything changed..." or "the night our lives changed forever..."? bad, but not funny-bad. just bad. 2/10. {more} death valley march 7, 2005     on saturday, it was incredibly gorgeous in san francisco. the intense loveliness of the day gave me a fierce bug of cabin fever and wanderlust. i briefly looked at getting a last-minute flight to anchorage to watch the start of the iditarod or driving to new orleans to eat some cajun food. my slightly-more-rational side ended up "settling" for a road trip to an unusually wet death valley. i grabbed my friend maha and we took to the road late saturday night, returning late sunday night. it was a lot of driving: death valley is 540 miles from my house and it was there and back in 30 hours. i'm recovering, but a few of the pictures came out alright. (i like yellow flowers.) {more} zatoichi: the blind swordsman feb 10, 2005     when i saw the subtitles first greet the protagonist of our film last night with "oh! blind masseur.." i thought it a hilarious typo (since he was clearly a blind master). but no, behold, next scene he's working out the knot in some poor enamored woman's back. he is a blind masseur. and an excellent swordsman. the film continued along in this surprising and bizarre way, intermixing blood-splatering iaido (which i practiced a bit; it was neat to see moves i knew on the big screen - it's about making your final blow on your draw of the sword, very much the antithesis of swordplay) with rhythmic dancing (and rhythmic farming and rhythmic jumping in the mud) right out of some japanese hybrid of stomp and blue man group. oh yeah, and there's the crazy neighbor's kid who runs around screaming in his underpants. seriously.excellent swordsmanship, excellent tap dancing, and i'm not sure i knew what happened to the plot, but didn't care any more by the time the entire cast (some of whom had already been killed) showed up for a grand tap-dancing finale. sheer zaniness. and the protagonist, author, and director are the same blonde japanese guy. go figure! 8/10. {more} my farsi keyboard! feb 3, 2005     i just received my farsi keyboard overlay and deployed it on my keyboard. "wow," said roommate sean, "it looks like outta the matrix." i do like the writing system; it's not crazy hard to learn and can be just beautiful. so i took two pictures of my newly-minted farsi keyboard. farsi yod beghereem! (let's learn farsi!) {more} shaun of the dead feb 2, 2005     tonight's movie night selection was shaun of the dead - a funny british take on dawn of the dead, but not entirely outside of the horror niche - so it's not exactly a spoof. you're laughing, wincing, and jumping for fright all through the movie. i'm generally not a fan of horror movies, but shaun of the dead managed to take itself lightly enough to be amusing while still being a worthy movie in its own right. the editing (both sound and visuals) was superb. it was interesting to find a film witty, horrifying, and hilarious all at once, even if it was a bit of work to grok the fast, thick british. 7.5/10 {more} movie night reviews jan 27, 2005     so since my roommate alan and i got netflix and i've got a projector, every wednesday night, our house is having movie night at 7:30pm - let me know if you'd like to come!last wednesday we watched my dinner with andre, which i thought i'd like, since i enjoyed waking life so much and i was told that the "witty talk-oriented nature" of andre was likely to appeal to me. unfortunately, the movie was simply inane. while it could have been witty and thought-provoking or at least hilariously zany, it was more like listening to an old stoner recount the stories of his youth. it just dragged on and i don't feel i got anything at all from the discourse; i just stopped listening after a while. 2/10.this wednesday we watched the tao of steve, which was a pretty clever movie about a fat philosopher "dex" who embraces a few basic concepts about what appeals to women (i.e., "the tao of steve") and applies them to get in bed with ridiculously gorgeous women. i didn't know whether to laugh or wince at the accuracy of the tao. predictably, steve falls for a girl who doesn't succumb to his mechanism. a fun and biting commentary on the dating scene. 7/10. nobody makes good cell phones nov 26, 2004     it seems nigh impossible to find a cell phone these days that is actually good at being a cell phone. this is largely because of manufacturers' focus on auxilliary doodads that reduce a cell's utility as a phone. here's my take on what's wrong. {more} all systems go nov 21, 2004     it's 6:05pm on a sunday night. shoutcast stream tuned to planetsoul. lights on, screen lit, 668 forums posts and about 200 emails to respond to. 1254 users online on four proxies. ssh windows open. no sleep. no regrets. i am alive. spiderbites & meetings nov 15, 2004     lots of meetings today with cool companies; it turns out that a lot of folks are eager to interface with im smarter - sweet! i woke up this morning feeling terribly sore in my arms, as if i had worked out vigorously the night before. sitting down in front of my computer to start the day (with support emails and forums posts), i felt blood on my leg. looking down, i saw a nasty spider bite. that's right - my muscles were sore because i was poisoned. between that and the red bull, it's a hell of a way to start a day. :) dang thing still is sore, but hopefully should be better by tomorrowish. i just hope i can find the punk spider that did this to me and pull a garfield. the past week has been fun and intense: juggling launch, fixing bugs, handholding users through the install, and keeping the servers happy and fed. there's a *lot* of work in front of me - my "short term todo" is three pages long, single spaced. [sigh] i wouldn't trade it for anything, though. im smarter launched nov 8, 2004     please say a little prayer for me, my software, and my servers. the world can now see what i've been working on for a year, and i don't know if folks are going to be impressed or if they're going to mock it. maybe a mix of both. i'm terrified and excited all at once. please go try it out and let me know what you like and what i should improve! {more} mindboggling oddness oct 11, 2004     sometimes life is just painfully, mindboggling strange. i just got back from six days in boston, spent with my hip brother and sweet sister-in-law; we saw the mayflower ii up close and toured plymouth, where they now live. it was great. then i left boston and came to dc; where i took a number of neat metro pictures and very sadly ended things with clea. we hung out for the next few days, having deep and revealing conversations; probably the most emotionally concentrated and enlightening six days of my life. just to make things even odder, i got cold-called by the bachelor. talk about surreal timing; i didn't know whether to be mortified or to laugh, so i laughed. i'll probably end up following up, if nothing else for its sheer weirdness. in part to console me for all this insanity, i did get a very nice yellow flower picture (large). {more} more fun stuff jul 1, 2004     looks like my callsign is kg6vnu - i'm officially certified now! yay. still waiting for the ca government to get off its arse and hand me the notary public documents so i can start notarizing notorious documents. the space launch was much fun, by the way - lots of fun, wacky geeks and ham operators there. first time i've seen an object zoom across the sky at something north of mach 3. now i'm going to go to kansas and eat barbeque and play my bongos in a fourth of july parade. ain't life wacky? {more} all systems are go jun 2, 2004     i'm going to be in mojave, ca on june 21st at 6:30am to watch the world's first private space attempt. this almost made me cry it's so wonderful. that should tell you something about who i am. (going to space is one of my four life objectives.) {more} milkshake apr 12, 2004     my impression of yoda doing kelis's song "milkshake", inspired by urbandictionary. {more} another wonderful weekend apr 5, 2004     hacking until 4am friday night, got up saturday in time for my helicopter lesson (awesome), headed to my friend's final four party, had dinner with my girlfriend's best friend, went clubbing, caught a few hours of sleep, woke up to go skydiving with best friend, roommate, and girlfriend (driving to santa rosa with the top down on the convertible), caught dinner on the way back. awesome. thank you, president bush apr 2, 2004     i'd like to thank president bush for awakening my generation and making us realize the importance of democracy. {more} η ζωη ειναι τελεια mar 9, 2004     it is a sunny day outside. i sit by my pool reading a magazine and return inside, where the windows are open and i'm working on my company and non-profit, which may soon be expanding internationally. my gorgeous and brilliant girlfriend ims me to say hi. if i had a genie in a bottle, i would make wishes for the world and for other people, but i don't need any wishes for myself. there are difficulties and annoyances, but days would be bland without them. life is factually and demonstrably perfect. (the greek title above means life is perfect.) i updated my wine list from last weekend's run, if you like looking at wine lists. :) {more} house of t feb 26, 2004     what happens when at&t's natural voices faces off against house of pain? can computers rap yet? more specifically, can computers without rhythm that sound like white men from the 1950's rap? you be the judge in david's latest wacky creation, with props to his best friend's new website! {more} a letter to brian feb 24, 2004     my pastor, brian emmet, sent out a newsletter imploring members of our church to oppose gay marriage. i wrote brian a letter back with my thoughts, after doing some thinking about the issue. {more} more neat weekends feb 16, 2004     weekends have been getting increasingly fun and zany. this last weekend, jogs around lakes with pretty sunsets, persian food, hacking until 4am, queer parties with drag queen punk rock bands, wild weather, and then sometimes you just need to put on that red shirt and dance for six hours. {more} quote of the day ii feb 5, 2004     this from a great friend, who clearly has had some trippy experiences at the house.oh, i had a dream last night that involved your house. ecxept that it was in the middle of the berkeley campusand one of the bedrooms had nuclear engineers building a reactorbut more interesting to you, was that you were playing video games, and could use the controller with your left hand and magically zap the monsters in the game with your righteven without a controllor:)and there was cake and an important buddhist monk, but that was later quote of the day feb 4, 2004     taken wonderfully out of context, the last bullet point to a confidential corporate powerpoint communiqué received today: "humans are still the weak link, but they are difficult to eliminate." (i don't think posting this violates my nda.) clowns, nudity, and fire jan 18, 2004     okay, so i had a really fantabulous saturday. it involved clowns, nudity, red bull, liquor, beaches, and fire. it was, needless to say, a day to remember. and in case you don't believe my tale, nathan took pictures. {more} a walk through the park jan 5, 2004     while i was home in boston for christmas break, i composed a short little ditty in reason (my brother got it and a midi controller for christmas) - it's short, fun, and upbeat. i called it "a walk through the park." enjoy. {more} blinkylights! dec 11, 2003     for $15 at fry's you can get a pair of blue lights that blink to the music, powered off of your computer's usb port. they're incredibly cool. i shot a quick (~5 second) video of them for my friend to show how they worked. i came up with a really sweet "spam hunting" technique today that i'm going to deploy tonight; results and whitepaper later. {more} you don't deserve the middle east dec 3, 2003     i'm upset at the extremes on both the palestinian and israeli sides who are collectively destroying the peace process for the vast majority of peaceful and reasonable folks who live there. {more} that hilarious internet dec 1, 2003     i just got back from a fantastic weekend wine tasting in mendocino - a rather impromptu fourth date with susan (yay!) and what should i find in my inbox but a present from friend of mine from taiwan with whom i've been chatting in the evenings! check me out in my very own anime! :) i love the internet! {more} simple spam control nov 20, 2003     i'm using a very simple method for controlling spam, and i thought i'd share it with you. {more} the modern university nov 17, 2003     it's one of my goals in life to eventually start a university. i decided today it was time to start putting down on paper why and get people's feedback. {more} opg v diebold nov 17, 2003     went to federal court in san jose today; "off suing bad guys" said my im away message. you see, my non-profit almost got unplugged when diebold sent a cease and desist to our isp, because a client of ours had a page with a hyperlink on it to memos that discuss the various questionably legal things diebold has done with our country's voting systems. (one of the many notable tidbits from the memos: "i wonder why bob dole got negative 12,000 votes in this county?") not being too happy about it, we're working with the eff to beat the legal stuffing out of them for trying to shut us down. i ranted on this topic to xeni. {more} huge party nov 15, 2003     our house put on an absolutely massive party on saturday, with 3 djs, 150+ people, heat lamps, hot tub, surfboards, and a silly amount of very tasty (& rather spiked) tropical beverages. {more} ipv6 oct 27, 2003     i wrote a little expository piece for a mailing list on why we're not likely to see ipv6 deployment any time soon, with a sidenote on the derogatory effects of nats. {more} ssx3 oct 23, 2003     i've never wanted a video game so bad in my life, but i can't buy it because my best friend promised me he'd get it for me for my birthday, which is this coming sunday the 26th. (i'm gonna be 25!) grr...can't wait for ssx3! i want it! i want it! (for reference, ssx is just about my favorite video game ever - our house has three copies of ssx tricky!!) update: received ssx3 as birthday present. won't see sun for two weeks. {more} chimes oct 20, 2003     just for fun, i've made a set of four simple "chimes" sounds for use in computing environments that communicate a notice, alert, warning, or error, based on the the theory that tone patterns are a simple and universal way to convey urgency / success. these tones are free for you to use in whatever application you see fit. {more} fun week oct 16, 2003     file patent, open business bank account, dry cleaning, groceries, prototype, tasty wine, but most of all...don't forget to hang out with the cousin, watch psycho violent movie, drop shaken cousin off, go home, watch silly movie with best friend {more} formats oct 14, 2003     there a lot of formats out there. what to do about them? {more} code oct 9, 2003     i'm upset about unicode support in linux... {more} wtimer 3 oct 9, 2003     a new update of wtimer, by request of an icq user - world's tiniest win32 timer application! now supports pause and resume. {more} musica sept 29, 2003     i just got reason working about two hours ago. i gave it a whirl with the keyboard that i have sitting around and my mic and was pretty impressed by what a total musical loser like myself was able to do while learning the tool in such a short amount of time. reason rocks. {more} the joy of pain sept 27, 2003     i went with my friends peter and gordon to half dome in yosemite as a day hike. there was some mixture of stupidity and bravery in the assault, because it was a ~18 mile hike involving 5000 feet of elevation gain. we got up at 6:30am, were at the trailhead by 8:30am and didn't get back until 7:30pm or so, at which point we were all ready to die. it was gorgeous up there, though. {more} more fun sept 23, 2003     today my non-profit achieved the objective i had for it when i originally founded it two years ago: to host 100 not-for-profit servers. it's been a long, hard path with many problems and setbacks, but it's really fantastic that it's come as far as it has. it's update day sept 19, 2003     wow, lots to write about today. i got by car back from bascom trim - they were great! they even went the extra mile and buffed my whole car to make it supershiny. yay! i'm so happy to have my baby back. speaking of cars, i'm attending a pizza comedy club on the 25th of october (a day before my birthday). err...i mean traffic school. we'll its actually all the same. california cracks me up sometimes. ten dollars? sept 19, 2003     today my roommate andy bought a waffle maker. it was gorgeous, tiny, non-stick, and can cook tasty waffles in about three minutes. it looks very modern. it cost ten dollars new, in the box. remind me to never ever get into the consumer electronics space. really. more hilarity sept 19, 2003     life is funny. as my roommate chris says, "you just can't make this stuff up!" we're enjoying day after day of insanely perfect weather here in california. my friend jason and his girl anne are around and we went hiking and wine tasting together. i'm dating a beautiful and ambitious woman. progress on my company has been rapid in the past week and a half, with unexpectedly large numbers of people coming out of the woodwork to help. the non-profit is doing well and continuing to grow fast, albeit having some growing pains recently. we're up to seven cabinets of equipment at he.contrary to rumor, i did not leave there because i was unhappy. i really enjoyed my work and continue to assist them and cheer them on. i simply had to leave to start a company, something i've needed to do for a long time. :) economy & stuff sept 2, 2003     the economy is definitely up, folks. in the last two months, the number of new dovebid auctions (indicating companies liquidating their inventories) has dropped to near-zero and the number of spontaneous recruitment requests i've received has shot way up (in 1999, i got several calls/emails a week - in 2001 not a single one - i've received five recruiter-calls in the past five weeks). these are david's crude and unscientific metrics, but i think they do hold some water. i think we're on the upswing again...finally. this time, it's about profit. whew.the 8th is my last day there, since i'm leaving to start coceve. it's exciting but bittersweet; i'm glad to finally be doing what i need to be doing, but i'll miss the incredible people. had an incredible party at the new house, to which cool people showed up with film crews in tow. party ended at 4:30am, david got 2 hours of sleep and woke up to go watch jay get married. professionalism aug 31, 2003     a quick thought about what it means to be professional. {more} wowbusy aug 5, 2003     i'm just wowbusy these days and it's fantastic. i'm getting housed, getting my car fixed, growing my non-profit, starting a company, taking scuba lessons, and putting sick hours into my job. did i mention i'm helping my friend run for governor? no, i'm not sleeping, but life is good. i'm a little dizzy, but i'm about as happy as it gets. hugs all around. :) {more} the peril of using etags in a cluster apr 24, 2003     [geeky!] why etags can be dangerous in an apache web cluster, and how to fix them. {more} philip, 2014 mar 11, 2003     i just found this "story" i wrote last year laying around - it's a letter from philip, a us citizen living in 2014. {more} maui mar 10, 2003     i just got back from maui - i had so much fun! a longer writeup to follow, but thought folks might enjoy the raw, unprocessed photos first. :) surfing and snorkel pictures are not yet up...and yes, the girl in the pictures, my friend heather is just a friend. :) {more} using acm to decode mp3 buffers feb 27, 2003     work let me release this little code sample to show you how to decode an mp3 file using a windows acm decoder. while it looks pretty simple (thankfully), it's not very well documented. i hope this helps some aspiring young hackers. :) {more} steganographic whitepaper jan 10, 2003     here is an unfinished whitepaper covering some ideas i had about encoding steganographic data within a series of analog decisions. it's poorly written and was rejected from the conference i submitted it to, so i'll just put it here as-is until i have time to polish it and make it into a real paper. if you're wondering; this was just for fun and has nothing to do with either my job or my non-profit. {more} consumption nov 16, 2002     a rather rambling and incoherent saturday thought on the consumption and production of information. {more} rudeness online nov 11, 2002     why online is an intrinsically rude medium and does little to assist kind communications. {more} on leisure nov 9, 2002     some quick thoughts on leisure time and schedule padding. {more} a tiny timing application apr 17, 2002     just for fun, i've coded a 24kb windows stopwatch application. yes, it's free. source coming soon, although it's too simple to be exciting. {more} mirroring web content feb 13, 2002     an overview of existing systems for mirroring web content for high availability as well as some new ideas and suggestions for some new open source projects. originally posted to the apache development mailing list. {more} t h i s   s i t e   i s   c o p y r i g h t   © 2 0 0 7   d a v i d   e .   w e e k l y david emmanuel weekly pbwiki, inc. david@weekly.org 2735 skyfarm drive hillsborough ca 94010 usa 1(415)336-2617 aim yim this hcard created with the hcard creator.

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