According to the NWS’s awesome graphical wind forecast tomorrow’s shaping up to be great for sailing. We’ve got a few spots left on the boat, so if you’re in the Raleigh area (or better, closer to Lake Gaston) and want to join us, drop me a line tonight.
October 2007
Home away from home, robotically
On my way back from the Ohio Linux Fest, my friend Bill mentioned that iRobot is building a new Roomba-style robot to provide “presence” to remote users. It’s called the ConnectR and provides a remote user (say, a dad traveling on business) the ability to move around, see, and talk to others (say, a family who’s dad is traveling on business).
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Looking busy
Just looked at my home Linux server, which from all appearances is working fine. The top tool, as well as uptime both show the load average to be 16! Yet, the CPU is listed as 96.7 % idle, as show below:
top – 13:16:58 up 61 days, 16:12, 3 users, load average: 16.00, 16.01, 16.00
Tasks: 267 total, 1 running, 264 sleeping, 2 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 96.7% id, 0.0% wa, 1.7% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 450988k total, 447500k used, 3488k free, 121676k buffers
Swap: 987988k total, 33216k used, 954772k free, 170976k cached
I’m not sure what is going on with this server. Its actually idle but doesn’t think it is. Very strange.
Cheap Thoughts: Alarm Clocks
I wonder how much stress in people’s lives can be directly attributed to the buzzing of an alarm clock.
Raleigh to host high speed rail summit
The N&O’s Crosstown Traffic blog reports that Raleigh will be hosting the conference Summit For High Speed Rail on the East Coast. The conference, sponsored by Women ‘s Transportation Seminar, is scheduled for Monday, 22 October in the Fletcher Opera Theatre at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Transportation bigwigs, including congressional representatives, will be there to discuss the status of the project.
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None of the Above
Duran Duran
None of the Above
I am I myself alone,
I realize I never need to use no-one.
When it comes down to my soul,
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
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Newspapers’ fate tied to real estate
Its hard to believe its been only a week since the last Raleigh City Council race was decided. Seems like much longer.
In light of the N&O’s endorsement of the pro-development candidate in the District B race, I took note of the business story that ran a few days ago:
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More Jason Ray
Jason Ray is still touching lives. The UNC student who performed as the UNC mascot Rameses (and of whom I wrote about before) may have died in March but parts of him live on. Ray’s organs have been distributed to over 80 people, according to the Charlotte Observer this morning.
Tonight ESPN will air the story of Jason Ray, called “Ray of Hope.” I hope his story inspires more people to become organ donors.
I’m an organ donor. Are you?
Reunion
Kelly and I went to our 20-year high school this weekend for the Herndon High School Class of 1987. It was held at the Reston Sheraton and put on by GreatReunions.com, with assistance from two classmates, Evan MacKenzie and Elyssa Brecher.
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Reunioned
We got back last evening from our Herndon High School reunion weekend in Virginia. Lots of fun was had. Herndon’s football team won the homecoming game against the Yorktown Patriots 35-31, too.
More on all that when I get a chance. For now I gotta get back to work.