It’s been mentioned before, for example on Digg, but iTunes 7 has a new feature that counts the number of times you’ve skipped a track, which is defined as playing the song for at least two seconds but no longer than twenty (after which it is counted as played fully).

I’m curious how they chose twenty [...]

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For those few readers who are interested in High Performance Computing and might be going to this year’s Supercomputing conference in Tampa, my advisor Allan Snavely and Jeremy Kepner from Lincoln Labs are putting on a BOF with an intriguing subject: “Is 99% Utilization of a Supercomputer a Good Thing?”

It’ll be on Thursday Nov. 16th [...]

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My Powerbook’s been back for a couple of weeks now, and I had a good overall experience dealing with OC Data Recovery to get my data off the drive. Their San Diego Location is in Sorrento Valley. I didn’t test their speed, since my main concern was cost, but they managed to get about 98% [...]

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Dear spam filter,

I cannot read Russian. If a message is in Russian, it is spam, just like all the other Russian messages I have marked as spam.

Thank you for listening – your pal, mike

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