Dave Kellam

There’s a Panther up at the New York Times. My favourite part of the article is the starting:

Hackers and academics have uncovered one Windows security hole after another, turning Microsoft into a frantic little Dutch boy at the dike without enough fingers. If the computer industry were a celebrity, it would hire an image consultant.

That and there’s a comment around the end that basically says when you’re using Apple’s os, it feels like you own the computer and what you’re doing, rather than feeling like you’re borrowing someone elses computer with Mrs. Microsoft leaning over your shoulder telling you what you can and can’t do.

My house is old, it’s a piece of shit. There’s a random chimney that runs though a corner of my room. The squirrels have discovered that they can climb down the chimney and live amongst the walls or ceilings or wherever in my room. There’s this persistent fucker of a squirrel gnawing or scratching at something in the wall beside me. I’m trying to get some work done and this guy just doesn’t understand that bashing my fist on the wall means go away.

A mathematician at the Waterloo was kind of bored and decided to do a pocket change analysis. I guess Canada isn’t too bad, despite having such big coins.

The average Canadian transaction generates 5.9 coins in change. The best way to lower that average, to 4.578, he found, would be for Canada to adopt an 83-cent coin.

He found that the US should have an 18 cent coin and that more than $10 billion sits around in jars and drawers in people’s homes. And the math isn’t really that hard, just linear systems. Although, he did show the problem (like putting stamps on an envelope) to be NP hard.

Pamela Anderson is calling for a boycott of KFC because they harm their chickens or treat then poorly or something. Yup, my guess is that they kill them, that’s poor treatment alright. Oh right, they might suffer, because chickens have a brain larger than the bits of grain they eat. And I bet that lion in the corner is sitting there pondering how to kill you ethically. Don’t worry, it already decided it was going to eat you, it just doesn’t want you to suffer.

And Freeman has a website, w00t!

So, I had a newspaper to run and then an essay/presentaiton to do and then a threaded webserver to write/modify and I slept for about six hours out of sixty-five. That was fun.

You know what else is fun? iTunes for Windows… now all you people who don’t have macs can use a great piece of music management software (although WinAmp is still a pretty sweet ass player). The iTunes store still isn’t available in Canada though.

Now, go read the paper.