Have a look at the snippet from Jane's.

Would there happen to be anyone here with a Jane's Online subscription that could forward me the article?

*grovel*grovel*

When I first saw the story about Tommy Hook getting beaten up, I freaked out. I grew up in Los Alamos. It was home and the Lab a nice place to work (I did my senior year of HS for that matter). My first reaction was no fracking way! THAT is not Los Alamos (unless you're an HS boy, but anyways...different story there). THen more and more information started trickling in. Then the police came out with their investigation results.

Either way, his credibility is shot. We'll see what happens and if anything else comes out...

I haven't posted my reading list in a while. Truth be told, I've not been reading as much since the finals days of pregnancy. That's changing back some. The books listed might end up both my May and June reading list.

Centauri Dreams : Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
Charlie Stross' Singularity Sky
Sea Dragons: Predators Of The Prehistoric Oceans
Gregory Benford's Tides of Light
The Pentagon's New Map
Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels
AI for Game Developers. An O'Reilly book.

I am finishing _Phytoremediation: Transformation and Control of Contaminants_. It's a collection of papers educating about phytoremediation. I didn't know that there are already two nickel extracting phytomines in the US! *boggle*

This guy is the hacker we've been so fraking nervous about. He's heen eating supercomputing sites for some time now. We held him off. However, all it would have taken was a single oops and he'd have eaten us too. Well, iirc, I warned people hear he was loose and to patch! patch! patch! I also seemed to remember saying I was surprised that the mainstream media hadn't said anything...well, it seems that the NY Times finally caught on to what was going on. Sorta. Their story is only a small part of the real story.

Edit: PS. The /. story (that I missed) had it rather wrong. The cracks had nada to do with the Cisco code and the story only scratches the very, very surface of what happened. This cracker was bad for HPC sites.

Too good to let go.

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I've been thinking about a Usenet successor medium. My favorite newsgroups are choking a bit from spam and declining membership (UN in general is having issues).

What would you put in it?

ObFamilyPict: here.

Wife and I when we were on a vacation to her home country (obviously long prior to baby). What a baby does to a woman's body is...rough.

My wife. I'm damn lucky. :D

I tried submitting this to the index, but unfortunately the html keeps getting screwed up for the links. IDK why. Anyways...

Dr Adrian Bower of the University of Bath seems to think that he has figured out a way to modify the rapid prototyping machines to allow simple manufacture at home or even to have the rapid prototyping machine replicate itself. The question is whether or not he'll succeed and if he is making what he thinks he is making. Are we looking at the first Matter Compiler? Or are we looking at the first von Neumann Machine? Or neither?

Aurora Devika was born on Feb 28th @ 8:17 am. She is the most beautiful baby in the world.

No biases here! ;)

Mom and baby are doing awesome.

I haven't written in here for a while. It's been due to be so bloody busy. Some external reviewers came through and shot the project full of holes...the exact same ones I yelled about before.

At any rate, my wife and I have selected a name. IDK if it'll stick. The first name is not common, but not 100% rare either: Aurora. It was on my list initially. However, then my wife rejected it. She searched through the names for some time in a book and online. She then got bent on finding a name through literary sources. She remembered an author she loves - George Sand - and looked up her - yes, her - real name. Aurore was one of them. Aurora being the yanqi equivalent, we went with that.

The middle name is more of what I am concerned about. That's 'Devika'. Aurora Devika sounds very good together. However, Devika is from Sankrit and means 'little goddess'. The reason for settling on that is that my better half's mother called her and her sister something like that as a pet name, but derived from the Russian word for 'girl'. My better half spells the nickname as 'devike'. My worry is that Devika might have some funky secondary meaning that might make people snicker. It seems a common enough name in India, but...any /.ers found or know of anything like that?

PS. Neither of us are Indian in descent. I'm pasty western European: Italian, Scotish, German, Irish, and English. My wife is Ukrainian and Russian.

PPS 12 weeks to go.

Soul sucking first. Then read here. This is Chen of Cray fame that produced the XMP and YMP.

Let the wildness of an American Presidential Election begin. God grant that it goes well and smoothly. May the best man for the job, whether or not I like him, win the post. May God grant that the election ends this day too. Lord have mercy on us if it ends up in the House.

I'm not really religious, but right now, I think praying is not necessarily a bad thing. Not because I am asking for intervention in the election for a candidate, but rather I am asking for this to be a quick and painless for the country as possible.

We started a wiki forum out of discussions we had usenet groups. I started hacking up the climate code for a simulation of a terraformed Mars. I asked people on usenet what they thought predictions that the sim would show. I've started guessing myself, but...we shall see. I'm hoping by posting here I can get more people involved with the discussions and contributing to the wiki.

If you think our presidential election is nuts. Go take a look at the Ukrainian one. Poisonings, attempts to kill each other by running the opposing candidate off the road, and more. One candidate wants tighter integration with Russia. The other wants to take Ukraine into the EU. Both men are sleazy b@$+@rd$. My hope is that the Ukrainians might finally find some peace from within the EU instead of under the Russian boot. It's not the ideal situation, but my wife says that the Russian lover (and she spits as she says his name...well, almost. She's too much of a lady for that) will win cuz the ua.gov is supporting him as Kuchma (I *WILL* spit) has all but annointed him as successor.

Baby news: feisty baby girl. Moved like the dickens away from the ultrasound. The nurse-tech kept chasing her all over. My wife was ticked cuz the nurse had to push down a lot. Due date is March 27. My wife realized how much she has put on weight wise. She tried to put on a dress that was too big before...it was far too small to even zip. She's rather upset!

Too bad you can't put journal entries in multiple sections. Ah well. Macht nichts.

It's a 'rah-rah-rah' from the upper management for IBM.

*shakes head*sighs*

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