Terry Jones

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Tagging in the year 3000 (BC)

Friday, January 4th, 2008 Posted under books, representation, tech. | 4 Comments »

Jimmy Guterman recently called Marcel Proust an Alpha Geek and asked for thoughts on "what from 100 years ago might be the hot new technology of 2008?" Here's something about 5000 ... Read more..

Both my kids beat me at Connect 4

Friday, January 4th, 2008 Posted under me. | 2 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_711" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Image: katypearce"][/caption]My 2 older kids got Connect 4 for xmas. I've liked Connect 4 for a long time. The first TCP/IP socket programming I ever did ... Read more..

More email customization

Friday, January 4th, 2008 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on More email customization

My recent email changes are working out well. Yesterday morning I woke up and didn't read email. That's because I didn't have any email! Well, I did, but procmail had filed ... Read more..

I just deactivated my Facebook account

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted under companies, me. | 1 Comment »

I just deactivated my Facebook account. This has nothing to do with Robert Scoble's account being disabled earlier today, I'm just sick of Facebook. It does nothing whatsoever for me, ... Read more..

Amazon just billed me 14 cents

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Posted under companies, tech. | 4 Comments »

I've been messing around with Esteve setting up an Amazon EC2 machine. We set up a machine the other day, ssh'd into it, took a look around, and then shut it ... Read more..

My email setup

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Posted under me, tech. | 1 Comment »

I like customizing my environment. I've spent lots and lots of time doing that over the decades. Some examples: My emacs environment has about 6000 lines of elisp that I've written ... Read more..

I resolve to waste less time online

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 Posted under me. | 1 Comment »

It's new year's day. I never make new year's resolutions. But today I've finally taken a step I've been meaning to take for a while, and it happens to be ... Read more..

User authentication in a world with no free will

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted under other, tech. | 6 Comments »

I have a little background in user authentication. I wrote my undergrad CS honors thesis on Secrecy and Authentication. If you search Google hard enough you can even find mentions ... Read more..

Carrying a knife onto a plane

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted under travel. | 3 Comments »

Tonight I carried a pocketknife with a 5cm blade onto a plane in Paris. At the Le Web conference, the bag they handed out to attendees had a really nice pocketknife ... Read more..

Conference panels – self-indulgent, elitist, and smug

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on Conference panels – self-indulgent, elitist, and smug

I've been to too many conferences recently. FOWA in London, Web 2.0 in Berlin, and tonight I got back from Le Web in Paris. Among various other dislikes, one thing I ... Read more..

As I please: pizza margarita & 2 beers

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 Posted under books, me, tech, travel. | 2 Comments »

I'm in Paris for the Le Web conference. Tonight is the party, at La Scala, which looks like exactly the kind of place I hate. I never understand why people ... Read more..

Random travel thoughts

Sunday, December 9th, 2007 Posted under barcelona, travel. | 10 Comments »

Here are some random thoughts on air travel from my last few weeks. US travel is much much easier than it used to be. In the years immediately post-9/11, it was ... Read more..

Free wifi, with blacklisted IP, in Vegas McCarran airport

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Free wifi, with blacklisted IP, in Vegas McCarran airport

I'm sitting next to about 70 poker machines at gate B15 at the Los Vegas McCarran airport. They have free wifi, which is great. But the IP address I picked up ... Read more..

Pushing back on the elevator pitch

Saturday, December 1st, 2007 Posted under companies, me. | 8 Comments »

I've been out talking to people about raising money for Fluidinfo. Over the last 7 years I've read literally thousands of articles on talking to potential investors, pitching, raising money, angels, ... Read more..

reCaptcha added

Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted under tech, travel. | Comments Off on reCaptcha added

I'm stuck in the Oakland airport with a 3 hour delay on a flight to Vegas. Bambi, who steadfastly refuses to blog for reasons unknown, has dinner waiting for me ... Read more..

Elevator status report

Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted under travel. | 2 Comments »

Tonight I caught the BART from San Francisco back to Oakland. Waiting for the train to arrive and then again when I got off, I heard the world's stupidest public ... Read more..

The blogging honeymoon is over

Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted under me. | 2 Comments »

I can't take it any more. I can't handle the pace of blogging every day. The honeymoon is over, barely a month after I got the blogmobile back on the ... Read more..

Hacking Twitter on JetBlue

Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted under companies, me, python, twitter. | 7 Comments »

I have much better and more important things to do than hack on my ideas for measuring Twitter growth. But a man's gotta relax sometime. So I spent a couple of hours ... Read more..

Free Wifi with JetBlue at JFK terminal 6

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Free Wifi with JetBlue at JFK terminal 6

I've never flown with JetBlue before. I'm in Terminal 6 at JFK and JetBlue has free Wifi. That's so sensible. I'll even blog about it. I'll remember it. And next ... Read more..

Off to LA

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Off to LA

I'm off to LA today. I'm staying with an old school friend. I've not been blogging much in NY. Yesterday was extremely warm and very unlike November. But I spent ... Read more..