Monthly Archive: July 2004

Hot. Lots of fish. Big fish. And coconuts. Finally cracked open a random coconut and feasted wildly on its raw untamed flesh. A bit rangy. So much for childhood dreams.

Just finished driving 3,900 km (2,400 miles)  from San Francisco to Sylvania. Left on Wednesday, arrived today. Drove through three time zones. Saw lots of landscape. I now have a visceral feel for how wide...

Well, in preparation for the big move, I bought 4 250GB drives, two of these external firewire dual cases, did the EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 trick, and rigged up a ~1TB hard drive near-line backup. The sad...

Server is visible again from most parts of the Internet – the slowdown was updating DNS. It took “24-48 hours” for the Registrar to update its entry, and now it apparently takes another 24...

So we’re moving in a week or so and will be effectively homeless for a couple of months. I am moving the website to a new server for the interim but it is a...

American military police yesterday raided a building belonging to the Iraqi ministry of the interior where prisoners were allegedly being physically abused by Iraqi interrogators … According to an al-Jazeera television crew, who had...