This Land Is Your Land
I’m so bummed I missed this live and in person. Given all that’s gone on, this clip… is just simply awesome.
The Rotunda
This was the rotunda from the Capitol yesterday. I felt that it needed its own post! 
February 19, 2011, The Rotunda, Wisconsin State Capitol
A fun day
This morning I woke up to a cold house. There is a retaining wall ~5 feet beyond what I shoveled out, but still that’s about an 8 foot high drift or so. With the snow so close to the air intake for the furnace, the intake got plugged, choking the furnace.
Nothing says fun like shoveling out the backyard.
Angélique Kidjo is out of this world!
The best part of Angélique Kidjo’s concerts is that she invites people on stage. Awesome doesn’t even cover it!
Insert Coin
That’s one impressive video. To do that with coins is unreal. In many ways this reminded me of early computer graphics… I can’t wait until Nvidia makes a coin-accelerator.
(via boing boing)
Thats What You Get
You know, we don’t have these problems at Lambeau Field… We don’t even have those Brendt problems either.
All of Iran’s Base Belong to Someone
Don’t you hate it when someone infiltrates and mucks with your nuclear program?
Shame, really.
Via Scott Adams
Pardon the construction
Cue the animated .gif, construction is underway.
>Where the Rainbow Ends
>Lately, I’ve done a lot of work for the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. I managed to capture this picture of the building after thunderstorms went by today:
Hopefully the rainbows will indeed lead to a pot of gold.
>Now that’s a police report!
>Now this is the way to start a report:
“Rock stars like Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix were some of the first to gain notoriety doing it on stage but a Madison man may be the first to attract attention smashing a guitar in from of the City County Building.”
>Don’t play this game
>…unless you want to waste a bunch of time. Seriously.
>OpenSAFE
>I got my first paper published at INM/WREN 2010. The PDF is available.
>Palin has it all in hand
>
Is it just me or does resorting to writing notes on your hand completely annihilate your ability to criticize someone for using a teleprompter? *facepalm*
I guess the T in TEA party stands for truthiness.
>The best Superbowl 2010 Commercial.
>
I nearly fell off my chair. It is truly interesting how this spot came about.
>Viewzi
>Wow… its been a while since I’ve really been impressed by a search engine. I happened across Viewzi today and it is really impressive… especially with the image/tag clouds. Its pretty neat…
>ipsCA
>It’s Festivus. So let’s air a grievance:
To all my fellow .edu’s out there who’re getting bit by the fact that ALL IPSCA CERTIFICATES EXPIRE FROM ANY BROWSER THAT ISN’T IE ON WINDOWS (not that I’m cranky about this, but it was a wonderful holiday gift from them), I have a few thoughts relating to the Mozilla bug 529286.
1. I know that between my time and my groups time we spent far more on our salaries dealing with just this problem alone than we saved by getting the “free” certs.
2. ipsCA did some MAJOR no-no’s here. We were issued a certificate on December 10, 2009 on the SERVERDORES cert that expires on December 29, 2009. This is really, really bad. No customer should ever be put in this position.
3. If you have not purchased SSL certificates in some time (as was my case), you might be pleasantly surprised that the cost has come down dramatically (as I was) — especially for wildcard certificates (eg. *.col.univ.edu). Especially for most .edu’s out there, be careful about some CA’s that want you to sign a contract/paper (which is typically something that can get one in trouble).
4. The fact that ipsCA has gotten themselves into this mess is not Mozilla’s problem. We ultimately depend on the security provided by these certificates and this process. From my reading of the timeline, it is going to take many months and is most likely something that is going to be slowed down due to people wanting to ensure that ipsCA has taken steps not to repeat this problem.
The bottom line is, that we as customers of ipsCA we should never have been put in this position in the first place. ipsCA put us there, not Mozilla.
Time to limber up for my Feats of Strength.
>Recursion
>Google has about the right suggestion for “recursion”.
>A family converstaion
>My father: “You’re going to see AC/DC again?”
My mother: “I have to see them another time before I die!”
