Sean Reiser

As I was sitting around one day In Lower Manhattan this dog was posing for me and I couldn't resist snapping a shot of him.

Was out to dinner earlier this week with a friend and a number of her friends. This friend, knowing some of my technology background, started sharing with me some of the experiences she’s had recently with her paypal account being hacked. She had been in contact with paypal and her bank and everything was being refunded which is the good news. While she was on the phone with her bank they suggested that she close her account and open a new one, which is probably part of her bank’s script. My friend was asking me if I felt there was a threat to her bank account.

The Hell's Gate Bridge after sunset taken from Astoria Park

Spoilers for the final BSG episode

Connecting The Doctor and Admiral Adama:

• The 4th Doctor was playing by Tom Baker
• Tom Baker married Lala Ward
• Lala's Second Husband is Richard Dawkins
• Richard Dawkins wrote about Mitochondrial Eve in Rivers out of Eden
• Mitochondrial Eve was Hera
• Hera was born on the Battlestar Galactica
• The Galactica was commanded by Adama

In this article: Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought, Professor Emily Walshe raises some points that I discuss. Generally I’d post a comment on the article, but the CS Monitor doesn’t allow for commenting, something they should really think about on techie articles like this. So I’m writing my thoughts here.

To start with, even though a Kindle supports DRM, it doesn’t force it. The kindle supports a number of different open formats either directly or through simple conversion tools.

The article states:

Been reading a little about tweepme today after it popped up as a buzzing and trending topic on twitter today and have been thinking about this popularity contest people call social networking.

A few months ago tweeter getter was introduced as a free service that “helps you” get new followers in what is really a ponzi game, you put your name on the list, you become a follower of the last X people to join, the next x people who will join follow you. When you join and at other point you automagically tweet:

RT @garymccaffery has a crazy idea 19,350 new followers in 30 days Check it out link

Just got in from getting a kindle etched down at adafruit and I wanted to relate the experience to you all. It’s probably the funkiest thing I’ve done in a while.

After writing my apology on behalf of the IT industry, I’ve been thinking about what our next steps need to be. What does the industry need to do to make computing easier for the home user who doesn’t have an IT staff? I might not have all the answers but I do have some suggestions.

Saw Watchmen last night and where I found it to be excellent and probably the best translation of the comic to the silver screen possible, I suspect there are a lot of disappointed non-geeks who really weren’t prepared for what they saw.

If you went to the movies expecting to see a comedy and were presented with Bridge Over The River Kwai you’d be disappointed, even though the film is one of the best films ever made. The same is happening with Watchmen. Watchmen, the film and comic, are not a Super Hero properties, it’s Noir. It’s social commentary.

From what I saw, there were 2 groups of people who saw the film:

Had a conversation with an old school friend on my over Facebook. She tends to be considerably more conservative then I am and seemed to be annoyed by the President on a number of issues which I considered to be superficial at best. As people who read this blog know, I'm more interested in us getting along as a nation and this is the type of BS that gets in the way.