Another long game in St. Paul last night, this time with a better outcome. As I suspected on Tuesday, this is the same crew that I complained about back in July, and they haven’t gotten any better. The ball and strike calling wasn’t too bad last night, but Tuesday’s drama, which led to the Saints losing the game was, I suspect, as much due to who was behind the plate as anything.
Otherwise, work continues. But just as I thought it was appearing as though I’d get through the week pretty well, managing to keep everyone relatively happy, and making money along the way, I got a call from a client who got talked into switching all their web, mail, and connectivity services to RoadRunner. Apparently the client didn’t understand that this meant they’d be moving everything away from my business, and I’m probably going to end up spending the morning helping someone sort this out, and lose a client out of the deal. Grumble. It’s probably my fault for not being more pro-active with my existing clients, since I’ve made something of a business out of helping the technically clueless, but damnit, this was not how I had planned to spend my morning.
- Here’s a reminder: Meteor shower rating: 4 bazillion stars. Sometime after midnight tonight the Perseids will peak, probably between 1 and 4 am for us here in MN. The big problem? The weather — predictions are for mostly cloudy. [strib]
- The photographer behing bigeyeinthesky.com goes far beyond ‘point and shoot’, taking 360 degree panoramas of urban settings from a helicopter. Some from the ground, too. And he’s got them all linked, so you can hop from one pano to another. Spiffy! [press-patch]
- I didn’t know this was happening, but apparently Italy wonders if it is time to cut and run from the Euro, and go back to their own currency. Why?
Until 1997 [ … ] Italy was the fastest-growing leading economy in Europe, consistently outperforming both Germany and France. Since 1998 it has lagged in every single year behind France and in all but two years behind Germany.
That sounds like a pretty good incentive to me. [colby cosh] - Three fatal security bugs in just 512 bytes of code? Yes, in The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox, and
a bunch of hackers found them within days after first looking at the code.
Even if you’re not concerned with the security, how MSFT tried to implement it in such a small amount of space is interesting. [schneier] - Here’s one example of why I don’t like the idea of the TSA: Bombs Away tells how a bomb-threat kept 141 people on a plane while they tried to find out who the bomber was, rather than keeping the people safe. The TSA
forgot to pretend that its first priority is protecting us.
[endwar]