Dave Kellam

The Estonians have won the Wife-Carrying Championship for the seventh straight year. The winners of the annual contest are awarded the wife’s weight in beer and a sauna. See previous posts (link 1, link 2).

On of my favourite quotes from an interview he did with Wired.

Alan Tudyk played Sonny, so he was there but had the tight green suit on. We kept calling him – and all the robots who had green suits on – the Irish speed-skating team.

I guess it’s really the concept of weird Irish Speed Skating team in my head. Apparently, if he got recruited by MIT but wanted to rap instead.

I would have made a billion dollars and been broke by now. I’ve always dreamed of a computerized classroom. You’d come in and the teacher wouldn’t have to take roll – every desk would have fingerprint roll. They could track you from one class to the other. Computer engineering would’ve been the only way for me to go.

It’s weird, I’d never really considered Will Smith as one of sci-fi’s champions. He’s done quite a bit of it though.

Gonna head down to a pub with Alanah to watch the final Euro 2004 game. On wednesday when we were watching Portugal win, there was an old English guy, an old Scottish guy and an old Irish guy sitting beside us. When the English guy left, the other two started mocking his mannerisms, it was pretty funny.

Haven’t posting much lately, guess I just haven’t been around the computer as much. Been doing a bit of work on the Conform Project and getting things ready to go soon.

Today, we receive news of yet another major Internet Explorer vulnerability. It seems that IE and Microsoft IIS server are working in tandem to infect computers on the internet. Point of the article? You should stop using Explorer. Why I liked it? One of the reasons is this quote:

He said Microsoft was aware that operating systems had vulnerabilities, but added that it was an industry-wide problem.

Software? Bugs? No way.

The other reason would be the inset picture near the bottom of the page, read the caption (screencap). They probably did a lot of poking around in the stock-photo archives to find a gem like that.