These are my links for May 17th through June 25th:
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Happy birthday Claire! – 23/06/2010, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Chantelle from our office organised this above my wifes desk… creative use of office stationary 
Happy birthday Claire!
If you’re looking for some really good online science fiction to read I highly recommend Sam Hughes site, there is some awesome stuff on the site… perfect reading material for the winter “in door” days and while the soccer is on in the background and the vuvu’s drone on…
On and off over the last few days I’ve been reading a rather interesting piece of short fiction called Tyro by Sam Hughes. (It’s on the guys website so you can read it online.)
It’s a rather complicated short story about a company who writes software using Heuristic Algorithms, basically they write an application that re-writes its self with certain goals in mind and this iterates over and over checking against the goals until they’re reach and finally you have the application you want. Sort of like biological evolution happening at high speed except for computer programs.
With out giving anything away, I loved the story… although thats probably because I loved the idea behind the story of what would happen if you created a “new intelligent life form” you have no control over… a nice fun read for the computer geeks.
PS: I have learnt why people buy iPads and other tablet like devices… to read these “electronic” documents, laptops are not suited to lying in bed and reading…
This site lists a very long and detailed list of many ways that you can destroy Earth, Earth being the large planet we’re on and not merely the Eco system on it.
I love the way someone has actually put some thought into this and even worked out the probability of these things happening… admittedly its probably not the best reading for a gloomy, wet, cold Monday morning, that just happens to be my birthday too… but I still enjoyed it.
I’m supposedly… older, wiser and perhaps even a little gray…
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After yesterdays post about Xerox making copies of documents for the CIA during the cold war a friend sent me a link to this site (SeeingYellow).
For those of you who don’t know about this there is a conspiracy theory (which I actually think may be true) about how printer companies make their printers print mysterious yellow dots in certain places in order to allow law enforcement agencies to track down the source of the printout.
In the days of things like type writers it was actually possible to match a particular type writer to a particular page by the printing as each type writer had a slightly different wear pattern on the letters, it was even possible in the days of dot matrix printers to still do this although I’m not entirely sure how reliable this is. Of course its much harder to do this with modern printers as there is no “wear pattern” or anything that acts as a fingerprint.
I love these kinds of conspiracy theories… Like the governments have nothing better to do than track down who printed what… obviously the way to prevent them tracking you down is don’t print anything or use someone else’s printer.
