I’m sitting in my first class as a Masters of Information Science student at UNC Chapel Hill. It’s INLS 582-001: Systems Analysis. My professor is Stephanie Haas. The class website is http://ils.unc.edu/~stephani/safa07/home.html
I’ll update this post later with thoughts on the class.
Quick impressions:
Dr. Haas doesn’t want me to blog class slides or other class materials since [...]
I couldn’t find an email or web form contact for KSR, so I just posted this letter (thanks, USPS):
Kim Stanley Robinson
c/o Bantam Publicity
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
21-Aug-07
Dear Mr. Robinson,
I hope this letter finds you happy and well.
I am writing regarding a flowchart that I have published which I [...]
UPDATE: Looks like the original is from the book Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson. I’m going to try to contact the author to see if this post is okay. A scan from the book is available via boingboing, which has linked to me. I may need to consult my chart soon if the bandwidth gets [...]
Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article)
What If Windows Wasn’t Free? This raises interesting questions. If Microsoft were to somehow develop the security system that ensured every single user of Windows paid for it, then how many people would start considering the actually legal free and close
(tags: economics microsoft piracy windows)
Religion beat became a test of faith - Los Angeles Times
The judge ruled in the favor of Uribe, then pastor of a large parish in Whittier. After the hearing, when the priest’s attorney discovered I had been there, she ran back into the courtroom and unsuccessfully tried to get the judge to seal the case. [...]
All the hubub on the list today about the proposed TriLUG Code of Conduct was at least good for a laugh in the end:
I’ve been thinking a bit about Paul’s post on AI surpassing human intelligence, and I realized that the most interesting test of whether or not AI has come of age would be whether or not it could lie. Passing human intelligence, no matter what type of intelligence, doesn’t bring with it the sort of interesting [...]
glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0
how to _not_ apply web2.0 concepts to meatspace retail.
(tags: web2.0 video humor)
Warrantless Surrender - washingtonpost.com
Democrats could have stuck to their guns and insisted on their version. Instead, nervous about being blamed for any terrorist attack and eager to get out of town, they accepted the unacceptable. Most Democrats opposed the measure, but enough (16 in the Se
(tags: spineless democrats FISA congress)
Last night was a COSI meeting. We had free pizza and showed the movie Revolution OS. Bear with me; I promise it gets funny. We had the meeting in a room equipped with a computer and ceiling-mounted projector. This is a classroom in Manning Hall used for Information and Library Science classes. The classroom and [...]
