A new meme..
Thanks Darrell, Eric, and Kelley
Step 1: Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
Step 2: Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
Step 3: Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
One of my heroes has passed. Sir Edmund Hillary was a humble and honorable man who dedicated many years helping the people of Nepal build schools and medical clinics – a much grander accomplishment than any mountain.
I went from 100’s of blog spams a week to under 10 in the last week with a simple .htaccess addition:
# begin spammer
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^TrackBack/*" spammer=yes
Order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=spammer
# end spammer
This catches an evil little script with a UserAgent of “TrackBack/1.02” that has been hitting from many IP addresses – I would guess that this UserAgent has been uploaded to vulnerable workstations or servers and acts as a bot-net..
Eric posted about his daughter’s Child Development class this semester, and how the old egg “baby” the student cared for back in our days, has been replaced by a highly realistic electronic doll. The doll keeps track of feeding, diaper changing, rocking, head support, etc., and the statistics are downloaded from the doll by the teacher for grading.
As I was reading, I found myself wondering if a little “wired” onesie with data recording/download capabilities would be possible for paranoid parent baby-sitting sessions. Heck, you could easily tie it into a home wireless network with monitoring software running on a workstation, which would send an SMS message to said paranoid parent’s Crackberry, if the baby was not burped to their satisfaction. Percentages of the hourly rate could be deducted based on the baby-sitter’s grade… Or the county Child Protective Services department could require such an outfit full time in questionable parental situations…
We have a few more years than Eric, until we get to the “worrying about being a grandparent” stage – I feel for you, my friend, but I sometimes fear where technology will be taken to Big Brother extremes… Someone may stumble upon my meandering thoughts, patent the idea, and we end up seeing technology used in invasive monitoring of human imperfections.
I say run with scissors – regardless if you have a GPS tracking device is your jammies. 😉
Tim found a movie he took when Roxane spent the night at their house, years ago. This was right when Roxane was learning to walk, so she was right about 1 year old – must have been January 2003, because Roxy took her first steps Christmas 2002.
