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cindy @ 11/30/2006 08:13 AM

Congrats about your intestines! That is good news!

cindy @ 11/30/2006 08:11 AM

You dont give yourself enough credit-- dont most kids toy with fusion at that age? O.K. I didnt toy with fusion but you cant tell me that post-opperative-transsexual-skipper-ken and first barbie to ride a motercycle through a mine field and survive werent atleast on the same level.... Nevermind the smart bastard made the rest of us look bad. I hope it will get better soon. i know how you feel about slow progress toward a phd. I feel like I see the finish line but it is WAAAY far away. One...

Barry @ 11/26/2006 01:52 PM

i don't know if there is any sort of stable government that can move in in iraq. Iran?

the kat @ 11/25/2006 08:25 PM

on further reflection, i can think of one difference between vietnam and iraq... in vietnam, there was a relatively stable government ready to move in... just not the one the US wanted. i don't know if there is any sort of stable government that can move in in iraq.

the kat @ 11/22/2006 05:44 PM

wow... "we'll succeed unless we quit"?!? i sure failed to learn that lesson from the war in vietnam.

Alex @ 11/22/2006 08:43 AM

Happy Days Fonzie! Er, I mean Happy Birthday, Fuzzy!

Barry @ 11/22/2006 03:01 AM

Just remember, you'll never be as old as Sean. >:)

eldan @ 11/22/2006 02:19 AM

You should have just signed that comment off as "knackered from Capetown". You know, like "Sleepless in Seattle" only without it being a horribly clichéd reference to a horribly saccharine film.

eldan @ 11/22/2006 02:18 AM

You may be pleased to know that I have now adopted the verb "to FWSE something", though I haven't yet decided how to pronounce it.

eldan @ 11/22/2006 02:17 AM

Thank you - you played a big part in it. I was very happy with the way it all turned out in the end.

eldan @ 11/22/2006 02:16 AM

thanks! And yeah, the strangest things happen in Seattle....

Eric @ 11/21/2006 11:27 PM

Happy Birthday! I totally owe you two a phone call. Didn't you get married or something?

mark @ 11/19/2006 02:29 PM

Hmm not sure 'flock' is an appropriate collective for computers, but am struggling to think of a better one (knackered from Capetown). One to think about in your idle moments perhaps....

John @ 11/08/2006 01:10 PM

New Scientist has been directed to cease using the verb "google". They now don't use the noun Google either as a punishment (I believe). Instead refering to FWSE (famous web search engine) and FWSEing someone...

Peter @ 11/06/2006 02:03 PM

You did an excellent job, we all had a great time! Thanks again

jose @ 10/27/2006 04:22 PM

f*** google. for f**k's sake, grow the hell up, google. get you panties unbunched, your heads out of your asses and take your f***ing lumps. when you become a dominant, market-sphere defining product (ie crayola, kleenex, zipper, xerox, etc) that happens. what the hell makes you think you'll avoid the same fate? all companies that faild after having their name adopted as "the term for that thing that they and their competitors do" didn't fail...

eldan @ 10/27/2006 11:42 AM

Well what happens is that at unpredictable, inconsistent times, they will all freeze. I don't know if one freezes and that has a knock-on effect on the others, or if they all somehow go down together. It's not leaving any trace in the logs, and I can't see a pattern to what triggers it. I've run memtester overnight, and that's failed to crash anything, so I think it's probably not the memory, but that's as far as I've got with...

eldan @ 10/27/2006 11:37 AM

It's your last point that makes this so bizarre to me - to my mind the commonplace use of "google" as a verb is actually in Google's interests. Anecdotally, at least one of the companies that offers a competing product tries to persuade its staff not to use "google" as a verb. Their competing product wouldn't really work as a substitute verb, but I think the feeling is that at least if people say "I searched for XYZ" they...

Barry @ 10/27/2006 07:58 AM

Of course you're right, but I can't really blame them for trying. Google has to do what it can to protect its trademark or else they lose it to the ravages of pop culture, but in this case, the toothpaste is already out of the tube. In fact, it's so far out of the tube that it's been on the toothbrush, cleaned the teeth, and gone down the drain already. Same thing happened to Xerox, and the fear that Google has is that one day they won't have...

Barry @ 10/27/2006 01:46 AM

The first thing I'd suspect would be power issues. In what way do they fail (i.e., what are the symptoms)?