Category: ranting

The image below is from a screenshot of my iPhone home-screen the other day when I was on a plane. Why does it show a burned in ghost image of an operator logo, time and alarm setting? Especially why did it choose to show a ghost image of an operator that is not my home operator and that I have not been on in over a month?

Weird.

That’s what a 5.9 looks like for a hundred plus miles away. Guess the needle can’t go back and forth far enough.

The quake, which had its epicenter outside Mineral, Virginia, was close to where I grew up. How close? Lets see:

Kinda close. Like 15 miles close.

Well, everyone I know seems to be OK. My dad was at home, and apparently slept through the whole thing. How bad could it have been? I understand it was the strongest quake to hit Virginia in more than 100 years. But there have been at least three other noticeable quakes [confusion.cc] in my lifetime produced from about the same area.

Ever had a feeling that tomorrow was going to be one of those days?

17,524. One thousand, five hundred and twenty four. Hours. In meetings.

Man-hours mind you, not my hours, but; holy shit. Can you imagine if I represent the average employee of my company? My company has about 20,000 employees. 20,000 * 17,524 is 350,480,000 man hours per month. (P.S. These numbers are for this month and many of my meetings are scheduled only a few days in advance…) When the fuck does the work get done?

The Voyager spacecraft is the furthest man-made object in the universe. There’s a chance it could be found by another civilization. The Voyager record was designed as an album that conveyed information about planet Earth. It was an analog device. Digital is harder for long-term storage.

There’s a common belief that things that get put online always stay there. But “the Internet never forgets” is simply not true. The Internet forgets all the time. Intuitively we don’t think there is a problem. But if we are trying to tell stories and leave a legacy online it’s a real problem.

Anytime Mickey Mouse is in danger of following into the public domain, copyright law is extended. If your content came after Steamboat Willy, you can have copyright forever.

Luke Wroblewski’s notes [lukew.com] All Our Yesterdays a presentation by Jeremy Keith at An Event Apart in Boston, 2011

All the notes are worth reading… so go read them, I’ll be here when you get back.

Done? Good. So the second quote reminded me of my post The Internet Never Forgets [confusion.cc] (You can see how that would remind me, yea?)

I still stand by what I said in that post — the internet never forgets, and you should never commit anything to writing you would not want read back to you in court. But maybe the law of the Internets’ memory should be, in the spirit of the Internet, mashed up with Murphy’s Law; The Internet never forgets things you wish it would and you can’t be sure it will remember the things you want it to.