Archive for October 24, 2006

I’ve ranted about the butchering of the National Anthem

over and over for the last 50+ years – ever since I realized I have perfect pitch (AND that I can correctly pronounce “perilous”). I wind up in pain listening to most a capella renditions, not to mention accompanied singers who can’t sing on pitch (90+% of those who appear at sports events).
Game 3 [...]

Bayesian technology

is a big part of trying to contain the spam we’re all inundated with on a minute-by-minute basis. But y’know what? I *think*…. pandora is using something similar to allow me to “tweak” my likes (thumbs up!) and dislikes (thumbs down!) as time goes on.
Of course I’m a pretty new account/user. But [...]

Pandora’s great – but I never even thought about net neut in combination….

I really didn’t. But bj’s right…. this is exactly the sort of thing we’ll never see again if net neutrality gets submarined.

Here’s a post with which I’m in full concert….

it lives on a blog called Donklephant, a Centrist sorta place (so I feel less OUT of place than normally).
I love forests. New England, my new home, has no end of them. This time of year the trees are beginning to quake with fall color. Red and yellow branches are beginning to lash out of [...]