A while ago, my wife was filling out this scholarship application online that involved writing some paragraph long answers to various questions. One of the questions went along the line of “What piece of advice would you give to high school students” or something like that.
So it got me thinking, what kind of advice would I give? It’s harder than you might think. After all, how do you give advice to an age group that thinks they know everything. Yes, you’ve all been there. How much advice did you listen to or take when it came from pepole older than you? Probably very little of it I bet.
Friday Five
If you…
1. …owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Real authentic chinese food, with dim sum service on weekends.
2. …owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
The kinds of things you might stop to buy on the way home, or in the middle of the night. Snacks, TP, diapers, drinks, batteries, that kind of thing.
3. …wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Hmm, sci-fi or fantasy I think.
4. …ran a school, what would you teach?
Physics, of course.
5. …recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Probably instrumental stuff.
Blog spammers are back
Hmm, they’re back. And all from the same IPs the last few days (213.91.217.14, 213.91.217.15 and 213.240.200.127). Just today I’ve had to dump 3 comments that made it past the blacklist. It caught 6 of them in the past two days though. Added the domains to the blacklist, so they shouldn’t be back. Think I’ll have to work on some regexps to broaden the blacklist.
I have to question the intelligence of these guys. You’d think after they were blocked once, they’d get a clue.
Now, where did I put that cannon…
TB RAID, here I come
Wow, is this sweet or what. A 400 GB Hitachi Deskstar hard drive in a 3.5″ form factor. SATA and ATA interfaces too. And to think, just a little while ago I was happy as a clam when I stuck the 160 GB drive into my computer. Now with just 3 drives, I can have over 1 TB of storage at my fingertips.
The specs look reasonably decent. 8.5ms seek time isn’t great, but for something this size it’s not bad.
Let’s hope that Hitachi’s fixed the early drive failure problem that IBM was having with the Deskstar line.
Found at Slashdot.org
It’s a celebration!
My wife decided we needed to have a big party to celebrate her getting into med school, and tomorrow’s the big day. She’s been planning it for a couple of weeks now, getting the catering, making invites, and all sorts of other arrangements. She likes doing this kind of thing, planning and organizing things. Should have seen her planning for the wedding.
My job for tomorrow is to pick up the cake and a fruit plate from the grocery store. For tonight, there is more apartment cleaning and lots of cooking. Planning to make up a big pot of greens (still don’t know how anyone can eat that stuff) and a couple of pans of macaroni and cheese (mmm, yummy) to go along with the Sticky Fingers catered stuff. Lots of people, lots of food and hopefully lots of fun to be had.