James May on the Citroën DS (via pjotrblom)
“It’s a French sort of beauty that you’d look at and then go away to discuss over coffee — perhaps all day.”
Out of Office Notification Limbo
The emails that arrive in the work inbox during the time frame just prior to going on vacation but before setting an out of office reply.
I saw this 964 on the street today.
New rule: A Porsche has to be at least 15 years old before it’s cool. Before then, well, let’s just say it rhymes with tanker. (via My Flickr)
On the 12th I ordered more RAM for my Powerbook from OWC. I chose to have it shipped by FedEx.
It is now on a truck to my house.
That is, as they say, what I’m talkin’ about!
Days since Qantas lost my bag coming back from the UK: 23.
Procedure to claim from Qantas and my travel insurance: initiated.
Sivers/Ferriss to 37signals (via deplorableword) (via marco)
As an academic, “letting go of the rest” is really, really hard.
Another one for the Machine
Go, the game, is difficult for people and nigh-impossible for computers. Though, via Kevin Kelly comes the news that:
Last week on Thursday August 7, 2008, MoGo, a software program running on borrowed supercomputers (stuffed with 800 4.7 ghrz processors with 15 Teraflops of storage), beat a US Go professional.
In one sense this is impressive. A computer program beat a high-ranking (but not highest ranking) Go player. On the other hand, this is unimpressive if you look at just how much computational power was required to brute-force Go in such a way that a computer could come close to beating a highly accomplished player.
In the area of things-that-have-been “Turning’d”, I think Kevin Kelly is a bit over optimistic.
(Of course, I suck so much at Go that even shareware Go programs beat me, so what do I know from Go.)
