This is c/o an olde mail art friend, Ken Friedman. The event process began back in 1975. It is fairly simple -- and now is being done with telefacsimile [fax] and email. Hmmm, mebbe we should add live chat, IRC, or quick blogging?
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In One Year and Out the Other
On New Year's Eve, make a telephone call from one time zone to another so that you are conducting a conversation between people located in two years.
Ken Friedman
1975
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by the way you can read more about Ken and some of my other cORrespondants at The Fluxux Home Page.
Tommy's site is a fun mish mash much like InfoArk. He's in California and owns a couple electric vehicles including a Sparrow
As a friend suggested, when trying to sort out what is happening it is often best to find a news source as close geographically to the event. This site appears to be a good resource to begin that kind of digging.
"... Styles are arguably the most important feature in Microsoft Word. Why? Because everything that you do in Word has a style attached. The definition of a style is two-fold. First, you can think of a style as a set of pre-defined formatting instructions that you can use repeatedly throughout the document. Let's say each heading in a document must be centered, uppercase, bold, and a slightly larger font size. Each time you need to apply formatting to the heading, you have to go through the entire process to get the text the way you want it. If you store the formatting commands in a style, you can apply that style any time you need it without having to do all of the reformatting.
Possibly more important however is that styles are used to "tag" or identify parts of a document. An example of this is whether text is part of a heading, a footnote, a hyperlink, or body text. These are all examples of styles in Word. ..."
Jef Raskin - The Humane Environment Mission Statement
"... To make computer technology available to a wider audience than has been possible by radically and rationally improving its usability. ..."
"... The primary method of the Humane Environment project is to design software systems, starting from an understanding of human cognition and the needs of the user rather than from a software, hardware, or marketing viewpoint. We design our environment to work with presently affordable and available hardware and with realistic limits on the amount of software development that can be achieved in a reasonable amount of time. ..."
The Oregon Scientific Store -- Cable Free Complete Home Weather Station
"... Exciting, innovative wireless outdoor sensors operate on solar power for simple installation and sophisticated use. Every sensor necessary for total weather monitoring is included -- temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, and rainfall. The indoor touchscreen control sensor with bright blue HiGlo(tm) backlighting is only about 7" wide -- perfect for desktop or wall-mount use anywhere.
The unit displays and records over 20 separate weather conditions, selected by a press of the touch-sensitive, jumbo LCD display screen:
>> Barometric pressure and trend (accurate up to 13,000 feet)
>> Weather forecast
>> Indoor/outdoor temperatures
>> Wind speed/direction as well as wind chill
>> Indoor/outdoor dew points
>> Rainfall rate and daily/accumulated amounts
>> Hygrometer with indoor/outdoor relative humidity readings ..."
What a way to figure out just how fast these wind gusts here at Buccleuch are really ripping by! Hmm, and then hook it up to send out hourly reports to the net so we can know the real weather from DeeCee instead of guessing from other stations 25 - 40 miles away. heh
Thing One: Bell Canada launches public wireless Internet hotspot pilot
"... Bell Canada today announced Bell AccessZone®, a Wi-Fi hotspot pilot that will provide Canadians with wireless high-speed access to the Internet (Wi-Fi is short for Wireless Fidelity and is the most popular worldwide term for high-speed wireless local area networks in offices, homes and public spaces). During the three month pilot, Bell will convert a number of high traffic payphones and other locations in Toronto and Montreal into wireless Internet access points. This gives mobile professionals, business travelers and consumers with 802.11b enabled laptops or wireless handheld devices another convenient option to wirelessly access the Internet, e-mail and corporate networks in public locations. ..."
nifty eh what?
Thing Two: SSB told me stORy this mORning about how she used wireless to get a friend to answer her doOR. Seems, she was visiting friend who did not answer the doOR bell. So, intrepid daughter goes to car and returns with iBook. Connects via friend's access point. Fires up instant messaging and asks friend to open the front doOR. She did. Strange but true!
Funny how I've been ranting and capturing links to information about the current regime's activities to reduce our personal rights and liberties. The political sort of thing. Well, this weekend I ran into a technological version.... the control key (CTRL) went out on my laptop.
Little did I realize how often I type CTRL-C then CTRL-V to copy and paste URL's and other info from one window to the next. Nor did I realize that many of my apps using pop up windows don't have explicit access to drop down menus -- only keyboard controls. This means that I can't copy-paste into these little windows.
Fortunately IBM repairs is sending me a replacement keyboard up here in the Blue Ridge mountains. Unfortunately I am not sure how to replace the current regime as easily!!
On that note --- Happy Holidays & Best Wishes for a Safe and Beneficient New Year (GregORian Calender wise)
-- geORge
"... ON/OFF was a one-year project with a mission to explore and document social aspects of the use of communication technologies in a variety of cultural settings, with a special focus on the impact that widespread adoption of mobile communication technologies (and the resulting phenomenon of perpetual accessibility) has had on people's sense of place, their sense of self, their relationships to one another, and their ability to manage the various roles they are required to fulfill in daily life.
Our research team produced a short, ethnographic film about the ways that mobile and ubiquitous communication technologies (primarily cellphones, laptops, and pagers, but also desktop email and instant messaging) are affecting people's lives -- affecting how we communicate with family members and colleagues throughout the day, and changing how we expect other people to behave in public and in private places. ..."
Science & Technology Resources - PDA Zone - University of Alberta Libraries
"... This page is intended to act as a starting point for those using PDAs in science and technology. The Health Sciences have led the charge in integrating PDAs into work and study. Other disciplines are beginning to move in this direction. Please email Geoffrey Harder if you know of other SciTech resources for handhelds that should be included on this list. ..."
Here's some fotos of snow at Buccleuch, FLH
It's our place in Wintergreen, VA.
Didn't realize how four wheel drive can come in handy in urban setting. The Metro parking lots fill up quickly. But, there are spaces with left over snow. Almost as those they saved the space for me yesterday and again this mORning. ;-)
"... For Mac and PC user! The ultimate Voice over
IP Software that offers flexible, low cost calling to anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. Call other user within the network for FREE! ..."
"... DVTS (Digital Video Transport System) is an application for sending and receiving DV(Digital Video) streams using the Internet. Currently DVTS works on FreeBSD and MacOSX. IEEE1394(Firewire) cables are used for connecting DV equipments. However, the length of a single IEEE1394 cables can not be longer than 4.5 meters. Using DVTS, DV data can be sent anywhere using the Internet. ..."
DV(Digital Video) over IP [DVTS]
"... We have implemented a system that transmits DV streams from IEEE1394 over IP. Through our intra continental effort, we proved that our design and implementation is adaptable to Internet with jitters and packetlosses. Our implementation also has ability to adapt to variety of network bandwidths. ..."
Here's a foto of the new vehicle.. thumbnail first:
Click Here for the larger image
2600 NEWS: PHOTOGRAPHER ARRESTED FOR TAKING PICTURES OF VICE PRESIDENT'S HOTEL
"... An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver - for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing. ..."
later in the story....
"... Maginnis's lawyer contacted the Denver Police Department for an explanation of the day's events, but the police denied ever having Maginnis - or anyone matching his description - in custody. ..."
What liberties? Who says we trashed your liberties? Seems it's becoming a he said vs he said and of course the Brown Shirts win again.
Bradenton Herald | 12/06/2002 | Harris lands key House role
"... {Katherine} Harris could not be reached for an interview. In a press release, she said: "Being appointed assistant majority whip will give the citizens in southwest Florida a much more active role in Congress." ..."
Here's what I'm gonna be buying tomORrow the Stoney Creek Auto Center in Nelly's fORd, VA.
ps: Red RovOR is really a green colour... it's an indside joke.
Then there were all those land rovers in the National Geographic magazines. I did a little Google'ing around and stumbled on someone who tried to include a foto, but was given an astronomical fee from Nat'l Geo.... so no fotos.
eye-magination bit: Just imagine dusty dirty land rovers in virtually any country of the world.
Once upon a time growing up in England I had a Mersey-Tunnel Patrol Vehicle.
Image c/o Maestro's Dinky Pages
At Justice, Freedom Not to Release Information (washingtonpost.com)
"... One 36-year-old U.S. law can be broken, it seems. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who is sworn to enforce all laws, has told federal employees that they can bend -- perhaps even break -- one law, and he will even defend their actions in court.
That law is known as the Freedom of Information Act. ..."
more and more we have access to less and less while the feds want more and more about each of us? go figure!