15. July, 2003 - rained me out
- Well, I wasn’t sure how last night's game came out until this morning, and as it turns out, it was suspended. See, we’d gone out to the ballpark about 5pm, and gotten through the hassles to get the bobble-head and were ready to go into the game. But it started raining about 6:25. Then it stopped and the game was supposed to start at 7:30. Just as they pulled off the tarp, it started raining again, and at 8:40, they finally said
we’re trying for a 9:30 start
which is when I called it a night and headed home. I was in bed before they got started. I guess I’ll catch the rest of it tonight.
- The Minnesota Historical Society has their Play Ball! exhibit running through October 26th. Warning, annoying sounds come out of the flash intro.
- This is A Conversation with Jim Gray that’s pretty interesting. He talks about how the growth of disk storage capacities have outpaced the ability to access that data, and what it means for computers. An interesting side-note, rather than network huge chunks of data, Gray FedExes complete computers with terabytes of storage around the country to people who need the data.
- Hackers, software companies feud over disclosure of weaknesses. Me, I’m for disclosure once you’ve notified the company with the security bug and given them a chance to respond. In this case, Microsoft didn’t, and disclosure was the right thing. Trustworthy computing or not, if they don’t fix the bugs in software that’s already on millions of machines, that should be disclosed.
- Funding for TIA All But Dead. Hey, that’s some good news! The government isn’t going to have the money to snoop (more) into all our lives.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:44:55.