Kevin Mook's Blog

Mon Jan 19
Sat Jan 17
The Assumption Song
Tue Jan 6

I see these things and I wonder, “Why can’t that be me?” I am answered by silence.

Fri Jan 2
Craig writes “Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business.” The site had been in business since 2002 and had an Alexa page rank of 106,881. Quantcast said they had 14,000 monthly visitors recently. No word on how many thousands of bloggers’ entire output has evaporated. (From http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214 )

Craig writes “Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business.” The site had been in business since 2002 and had an Alexa page rank of 106,881. Quantcast said they had 14,000 monthly visitors recently. No word on how many thousands of bloggers’ entire output has evaporated.

(From http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214 )

Happy 2009!

Tue Nov 25
A reminder to keep your mind open

From http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html:

Another story from printer-land of 20 years ago: this time about a seemingly impossible bug.

While working on the LPS-20 PostScript software, a bug was filed that said roughly,

Print the attached file. The LPS-20 will jam. You’ll have to open the printer to remove the scrunched up paper.

…

A reminder to keep your mind open. “Just because a bug seems impossible doesn’t mean it is.”

Also an interesting read in the same vein (found in the comments): http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Sun Nov 23
missingmuse: (via taramichelle) I love this.

missingmuse:

(via taramichelle)

I love this.

408 Request Timeout HTTP errors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/sets/72157594388426362/detail/

408 Request Timeout

HTTP errors: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/sets/72157594388426362/detail/

Thu Nov 20

Tablesaw that knows the difference between wood and a finger

Mon Oct 13

Best Adapted Screenplay

Thu Oct 2
WoWoW comes true

Referencing http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play

However, this game does look like it could be intriguing. I mean, my expectations aren’t all that high, but it could have potential. They should have a constant stream of new user generated content (hopefully their tools are good), and the article mentions they’ll have “support for any and every business model, from subscription to micro-transaction.” Assuming I remember to, in two years I’ll probably be checking it out.

Wed Sep 24
http://www.nbc11.com/news/17547742/detail.html

Innovative new idea from PETA!

Mon Sep 22

Thomas Wilson (Biff) from Back to the Future