http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wired News: A Hacker Games the Hotel Very interesting article...talks about how you can access all sorts of information (including billing information) using the TV and remote control in your hotel room. Read it, and think about it next time you're in a hotel room. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/30/hotel-sniffing/ Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day!. Check out the pics, they're pretty funny. :) http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/29/system-administrator-appreciation-day/ Mike Hearn recently set up a page called "Who are we?", listing the developers of the Autopackage project, along with a little info about them. It's a great little rundown about each developer (along with a few "personal blurb sentences" that Mike wrote--which he said "for some people they are ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/28/the-autopackage-team/ As reported by Yahoo News. But researchers at Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley say it takes 29 percent more fossil energy to turn corn into ethanol than the amount of fuel the process produces. "Ethanol production in the United States does not benefit the nation's energy security, its agriculture, the ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/18/well-duh/ I just back home from a week in Mt. Shasta, CA at the Mt. Shasta Fiddle Camp. It was put on by Tristan and Tashina Clarridge, who brought together an amazing collection of teachers and students. On Monday-Friday we had 3 classes a day, each a hour-and-a-half long with some amazing ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/16/shasta-camp/ Yay! The EU Parliment has Rejected Software Patents with a margin of 648 to 14 vote with 18 abstentions. Of course, Nokia and Siemens will probably push even harder for the bloody things, but at least it's been put off for now :(. Pullquote: Many members of the European Parliament feared the ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/06/eu-software-patents/ I often use Merriam-Webster to lookup spelling, usages, or origins of words. I went there today to lookup multipuropse. I was given the following definition: Main Entry: multipurpose multipurpose is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com. Click here to start your free trial! That means that I need to shell ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/07/01/noooo/