It’s all fun and games until your Aibo kills your Nabaztag. If I had infinite money, I would construct an Army of Darkness of thousands of Aibos and Nabaztags to do my bidding under the evil sway a Lisp program that uses a Markov Chain Model of Genetic Algorithms. You have to be careful though because robots will use any information available to predict your words. If you are looking at the sky, they expect to hear about the weather. If you look angry, they may expect cursing. If you are on your knees with tears streaming down your face, they may expect you to keep begging for your life to be spared. Always remember to adopt a full-body poker face to prevent the Nabaztags and Aibos from being able to interpret your actions.

I added a new quotes feed that shows the last 15 quotes that were added to my site. Rather than have author names appear as titles, I chose to use truncated quotes, and put the full quote and author in the decription. You can subscribe to this feed here .

I just updated my Involution Wordpress theme to version 1.4 with a couple of stylesheet hacks. You can download it from my theme clearinghouse, http://themes.involution.com.

Well, I just got the go-ahead to move two more servers into the colo today. Projected move in date is 12/31. Go web, go! I decided to name the new servers promulence and cank. They will both run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4U2 and serve as backup DNS, MX, HTTP and SQL servers for involution.com and future, undisclosed endeavors.

Dang, the OpenAFS people seem to be hiding their release candidate packages. It took me a good hour of rooting around to happen across this one squirreled away in a hidden back alley of the intraweb. I even pinged their mailing list when I tried to build my own package and failed miserably. Oh well, now I know how to build and checkout branches of OpenAFS which probably isn’t a bad thing.

I just read today on physicsweb that two physicists have measured the capacitance of a Josephson junction for the first time, ever. This got me to pontificating about why this isn’t considered “The News”, and this is considered news. Why is it that the subleties of what’s really going on in the world are not of interest to the general populace? I think this behavior is kind of endemic in our culture, and it really drives me up the freaking wall. If everyone, everywhere wants all the details to be worked out “offline”, who’s going to appreciate the art of innovating? Probably that guy with the unpronouncable name that works 14 hours-a-day, every day or two Swedish guys in a research lab. I think what you’re reading here is the after effects of my massive “Littany of Attention” essay that I started to write, and then promptly shelved. For more information, see mongoltrophies.