speak

http://gavinmatix.tumblr.com/post/108592309986/take-a-moment-like-i-did-and-really-look-at-this

Red Square, Moscow

Imagine if this was occupy oakland.

This is Moscow, Russia on February 4th, 2012. That date is today.
These are the people protesting the clearly rigged election, resulting in the victory of Vladimir Putin.
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to see it here

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

“...developed by Stanford psychologist, Laura Carstensen - is a life-span theory of motivation. The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful goals and activities. According to the theory, motivational shifts also influence cognitive processing. Aging is associated with a relative preference for positive over negative information in attention and memory (called the “positivity effect”). Because they place a high value on emotional satisfaction, older adults often spend more time with familiar individuals with whom they have had rewarding relationships. This selective narrowing of social interaction maximizes positive emotional experiences and minimizes emotional risks as individuals become older. According to this theory, older adults systematically hone their social networks so that available social partners satisfy their emotional needs. The theory also focuses on the types of goals that individuals are motivated to achieve. Knowledge-related goals aim at knowledge acquisition, career planning, the development of new social relationships and other endeavors that will pay off in the future. Emotion-related goals are aimed at emotion regulation, the pursuit of emotionally gratifying interactions with social partners and other pursuits whose benefits can be realized in the present.”

KSPACE.TV ///// M.I.A.’s new video: “Born Free”

*reposted from kspace.tv
A hoveled apartment complex gets raided: scenes of crack smoking, fatty fornication, and relentless brutality by somesuch security force. Within a sea of carrot-topped and supposed ne’er-do-wells is an/our anti-hero, one FAS-afflicted scowl you could confidently diagnose with ODD. A group of ginger freedom fighters sporting red kaffiyehs hoot and holler, ineffectual. As a short film the video is completely engrossing, a perfect storm of car crash sad, odd, and violent, filmed beautifully and expensively. Something’s happening, right? Respectable minds attempt to unpack: “Faddish political pastiche.” “Goofy political allegory.” “Repositioning tool.” “Like an episode of 24.” It’s notable that the day MIA releases a new video she has also taken over Pitchfork’s twitter account, which so far she has been using for nothing more than self-promotion. I think the music video for an internationally known artist was designed to do the same thing. People have long mused on the political bend of MIA’s work, usually arriving at the crossroads of commerce and not-really-sure. “Born Free” doesn’t stray. Also, the song isn’t that great.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Arthur Siegel/“Right of Assembly”. Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1939

This reminds me of a night, many years ago in savannah

An Artist named Heather, and she is a sculptor.

Here is some info about heather. I got it from her website. Please check out her site here- or better yet buy her book

From the beginning my twin passions were drawing and horses.  My hero was Leonardo da Vinci. I dreamed of becoming an international equestrian artist living in wooded foothills with clear flowing water at my doorstep and horses grazing all around.

I hated the confines of school and was a disruptive student except during blissful art classes. I took A level art two years early and failed all my O levels except English language but miraculously that got me to Walthamstow College to study visual art. There, drawing was regarded as the first essential. I was enthralled and excelled. I went on to the now famous Goldsmiths College in London where sadly, at the time, figurative work was unfashionable. There was a life room, and models too, but no tutors ventured near. They liked and encouraged (typically) 6ft square green canvases with triangles and circles in bold clashing colours and sculptures using planks and blocks of polystyrene.

At the end of the first year I was asked to leave the course. I was told that I did not have the stuff that painters were made from and, if lucky, I might scrape a place somewhere to do graphics. My confidence was shattered. I was not interested in graphics. I liked the country, painting and constructing things from what lay around.

But that was then, and I went on to achieve my dream by virtue of fate, the generosity of others, luck and determination. I went my own way, not always wisely and not always to accolade from the establishment. I began with painting equestrian commissions and my accuracy easily commanded high prices. Ultimately however I found it restricting, I sorely felt the lack of a degree. I was lost and without a style of my own.

I sought advice from Arthur Giadelli, an artist of international standing with a well-deserved reputation for also being a gifted teacher. He told me to go and look at a hedge and draw not what I saw but draw what made a thorn a thorn. And never stop working with horses but find a way to make them mine. I am forever in his debt.

I knew that to exhibit prematurely would be unwise; I had to wait until I had unequivocably found what I was seeking. So I continued with commissioned work while also experimenting. Then out of the blue it came in on the tide. Driftwood. It was like a thunderbolt and I was finally ready to show my work to the world. It was driftwood horses.

The rest is history and for a fuller account you will have to wait for my autobiography. If you can't wait for that try my first book Heather Jansch's Diary a life in the year of... an artists diary, you can buy it online from this site.

For updates of what is happening here join my emailing list or keep an eye on the NEWS section.

And we're off to a new year

Since I still haven't sent my mom the paragraph or so 'summary' for the strickland family newsletter- I have decided to re-post an article by Adam Dachis who wrote

Those important computer tasks—like securing, cleaning, and backing up—are like any other resolution: we all say we're going to do them but rarely keep up with them all year. Here's our simple guide to staying on track in 2011.
Keeping your computer in good shape gets to be tedious and annoying when you have to try to fit it in to your busy schedule. Rather than letting things slip through the cracks and watch your computer slow to a crawl, fall victim to a nasty virus, or crash and burn with no backups, we've put together everything you need to tackle to stay on top of all your computer maintenance tasks. Here are the four things we're going to look at (feel free to click to skip to any of the sections):

Back Up Automatically

Backing up our data is something we all know is important but many of us do not do. In the past you might've been able to get away with the excuse of inconvenience, but nowadays it's so effortless that if you're not backing up, you should make it your first order of business for the new year.
A good backup system will duplicate your important data in three places. One of them can be your computer, another can be an external hard drive that you keep in your house, but one of those three places should exist outside of your home. Local backups (liking backing up to an external USB drive) protect you if a hard drive dies, but not if your house is robbed, catches fire, or your fall victim to any other incredibly fun disaster you can imagine. While these are rare circumstances, the effects are devastating. Since backup is so easy, there's really no sense in taking the risk. First we'll take a look at backing up to the cloud, which requires essentially no effort at all, and then we'll consider your options for each specific operating system so you can have a local copy on an external drive as well.

Backing Up to the Cloud

As long as your work doesn't consist of serious data creation, I'm of the opinion that you can use Dropbox for all your backup needs, especially now that it includes selective sync. I used Dropbox toorganize my home folder and sync my iTunes library to multiple computers and it works great. While Dropbox can take care of just about everything I want backed up and synced, it can't handle your applications and system files without causing problems. Also, for reasons I don't entirely understand (aside from the cost), not everyone wants to keep the majority of their stuff in their Dropbox. So, for those of you who aren't sold on Dropbox being the golden egg of cloud backup, your other best bet for off-site backup is Mozy.

Backing Up to a Local Drive

NOTE: While we're not going to get picky about the brand of drive you use, make sure you get one that's a bit bigger than your computer's drive if you want to save multiple backups.

While Mozy can back up to an external drive nicely, you may prefer a backup tool with a larger feature-set that's more tailored to your operating system. Fortunately, there is no shortage of backup software available for every operating system. We've narrowed down the pool and have a few options for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, that should cover all your local backup needs.

Windows

Built into Windows 7 is the Backup and Restore Center, which Microsoft debuted in Windows Vista and has since improved in Windows 7. While it'll take more than a few clicks to set up, you're given a good number of options to control how your data is backed up. You can choose what you want to backup, where you want to back it up (including network locations), and how often you want the backup to occur. While it may not be the perfect solution for all users, it's built into Windows and pretty easy to set up.
Alternatively, you have the classic SyncBack. The SE version is free but you can pay for additional features. Nearly five years ago, Gina used SyncBack SE to set up an automatic backup plan that still works today. If Windows Backup Center doesn't quite cut it for you, SyncBack SE is a great alternative.

Mac OS X

One nice feature of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 is Time Machine, which lets you plug in a drive and just back up with no effort at all. Once it has a full copy of all your data, it will only backup the files that have changed since that original copy was made. If you want a file you lost, you can activate Time Machine and go back in time to retrieve an earlier copy of that file. Your Time Machine backup drive can also be used to restore lost data and set up a brand new Mac with all your files.
Time Machine pretty much does what it wants to do and that's that, so if you're looking for more control I'd suggest picking up Carbon Copy Cloner. It's a free backup utility that makes a bootable copy of your drive (which Time Machine does not). I use it all the time and love it. It can be as simple as selecting the drive you want to copy, but you can also selectively copy certain files. Carbon Copy Cloner is very straightforward backup software, so you're not going to find the bells and whistles you might with paid software, but if you want something simple that also offers quite a bit of control over your backup, it's an ideal choice.

Secure Your Computer and Your Life Online

There are a number of ways your computer can get into trouble. Whether you're dealing with viruses, online threats, or physical theft, here are some great tools to help keep you safe.

Antivirus Software

avast! antivirus software provides complete virus protection for your computer. Antivirus engine is complemented by anti-spyware, firewall and antispam modules to protect you against phishing schemes, identity theft and internet-distributed web viruses. Automatic updates for greater user convenience and safety. Top user ratings among free antivirus software. The new avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 includes a spyware detection engine. To protect you from identity theft as well as viruses. avast! Pro Antivirus - better protection during web surfing. Full-featured antivirus software. Better than our free antivirus, especially for web surfing, but without the firewall and antispam included in avast! Internet Security. Also if you wish to customize your security, this is the recommended software.

Preventing (and Preparing for) Computer Theft

Prey is a wonderful, free, open-source tool that can help you track down and (potentially) recover your stolen Mac, Windows PC, or smartphone. If you're like me and you've had your laptop stolen before, you know how devastating it can be. When you lose technology with personal data, the thief doesn't only have access to your expensive hardware but a lot of information about you as well. Coming to this realization is not fun, so be smart and take the necessary steps to protect yourself from a potential theft.
For those of you with iPhones (or other iOS devices), you're lucky enough to have free access to find my iPhone. Set it up and use it! If you're don't have a recent iOS device, we've got you covered. Here's how to set up Find My iPhone on older iOS devices.

Run Regular Maintenance

With your data backed up and protected, you're going to want a computer that runs smoothly. Performing regular maintenance can play a big role in keeping your machine in tip-top shape. Mac OS X and Windows 7/Vista will take care of defragmenting your drive for you—so no need to take care of it yourself—but if you're running earlier versions of Windows you should check out our guides on setting up a self-repairing hard drive and setting up scheduled tasks to run your favorite cleaning tasks in the background. If you're a fan of CCleaner (the all-in-one crap cleaner for Windows), check out this guide to automating your CCleaner sessions.
For Mac users, maintenance tasks are regularly scheduled by OS X and so, technically, you don't have to do anything yourself. Nonetheless, it's in your best interest to play a hand in your system's upkeep. If you want a look at every possible option you have, definitely check out our guide on cleaning up and reviving your bloated, sluggish Mac. Alternatively, if you want to do a bit less, you can just schedule maintenance tasks in the Terminal and repair disk permissions. If you're not familiar with repairing your disk permissions, all you have to do is go into your Applications —> Utilities folder and open up Disk Utility. Inside of Disk Utility, choose the First Aid tab and then click the Repair Disk Permissions button. It'll take a few minutes and slow down the system a bit, but running this operation will help prevent little errors here and there. Running this once a month (and after any major software installation) will keep your Mac a bit happier and less prone to preventable issues.
Last, if you have a bad habit of letting your Downloads folder or Desktop get out of control, check out our guide to automatically cleaning and organizing your folders with Belvedere (or with Hazel if you're on a Mac).

Create a Tidy, Attractive Desktop

 

This was taken today.  And now I have to get back to work.
However- I should publish a system status overview that includes my network topology and other interesting statistics.

there's a thunderstorm outside, and sporadic lightning

Might as well check out one of my favorite sites, featuring the works of one of my favorite poets- T.S. Eliot
I encourage you to visit http://www.whatthethundersaid.org/

If i still have power- I'll update and post more after dinner.

what the "Bleet"?!

Just so you know...this post was originally composed by Eric Butler and he has a blog, I've just been cutting/pasting/revising periodically.
 This was certainly an interesting day.Since being released just over a day ago, Firesheep has been downloaded over 129,000 times. Firesheep has consistently been one (if not more) of the “Top Tweets” on Twitter, on top of Hacker News, was at one point the #10 trending search on Google in the US, and is the second suggestion on Bing when you start typing “fire”. Firesheep has been mentioned on countless blogs and news sites in numerous languages, and has received almost universal praise.The first bug reports have started rolling in:

• "Backend exited with error 1" — This happens on Windows when you stop capturing. This message doesn’t actually indicate a real problem and can be ignored. This was a known issue that I wasn’t able to get to before the ToorCon release.
• "Run --fix-permissions first" — This problem appears to affect only Mac OS X users who are using FileVault. The current release of Firesheep is unfortunately incompatible with FileVault.
• "Funky custom tool bar icon explosion." — This one is actually a bit amusing.

All of these issues will be fixed in the next release.
There have also been a few common problems:

• No results on some Windows systems — Some users have reported that they aren’t seeing any results even when on an open network that has known insecure traffic. This may be because the wrong interface is selected. Click the gear icon at the bottom of the Firesheep sidebar and choose Preferences. From here you’ll be able to change the interface Firesheep listens on.
• Sidebar not displayed — If you’ve installed Firesheep but don’t see it, click the View menu then select Sidebar then Firesheep.
• Install error claiming Firesheep is not compatible with your version of Firefox — Several people ran into this problem because they were unknowingly running out of date (and insecure) versions of Firefox. Apparently Mozilla’s auto-update system is leaving some people behind. Currently the latest version of Firefox is 3.6.11. Firesheep is not yet compatible with the 4.0 beta.
• Compile error on Linux — Firesheep is not currently supported on Linux and will not work. Patches/pull requests gladly accepted!

Keep an eye on this blog as well as my Twitter feed for updates on these issues and other new features.
The real story here is not the success of Firesheep but the fact that something like it is even possible. The same can be said for the recent news that Google Street View vehicles were collecting web traffic. It should not be possible for Google or anybody to collect this data, whether intentional or not. Going forward the metric of Firesheep’s success will quickly change from amount of attention it gains, to the number of sites that adopt proper security. True success will be when Firesheep no longer works at all.

Background on HTTP Session Hijacking

HTTP Session hijacking, as a vulnerability, is nothing new in the year 2010. It is a security vulnerability that people have been aware of for quite some time, with notable tools and papers existing at least since 2004 on this exact subject. OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) categorizes the issues responsible for HTTP Session Hijacking in to one of it’s Top 10 Web Security Risks, “A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management”.
Firesheep is by no means the first tool to exploit this issue and raise controversy. "Ferret" and "Hamster" were a pair of tools released by Errata Security in 2007 which let users exploit Sidejacking attacks easily (well, easily for geeks, and undoubtably easy for attackers). In 2008, "Cookie Monster" was released by Mike Perry which lets you again do this same attack. Last year, (around May 2009) Azim Poonawala released the tool FBController which yet again exploited this same issue, though this time specifically targeting Facebook. Very little has changed after each of these tools were released. They got their media hype, and then people forgot or didn’t care. For the most part, the tools were only used by tech-savy people, hackers and geeks.

Firesheep

Firesheep is doing the exact same thing as these other tools, but with a simpler user interface. Firesheep is more generic than FBController, but it still needs to be aware of what sites to target.
Because of its simplicity, Firesheep has already succeeded in demonstrating the risks of insecure websites to a much wider audience than any previous tool, in a single day.

Why is it hard to stay safe?

Websites that don’t have properly designed security architectures and implementations can make it very difficult for users to protect themselves. There’s a few levels of failure here that are worth noting.

• Complete absence of SSL/HTTPS — This is rare nowadays for popular sites, but it’s not unheard of by any means. Until recently, Foursquare fell into this category. Naturally, if you use such sites you’re exposing everything needed to identify your session with the site, potentially even your password. This is particularly bad when you consider many people use the same password for many different accounts. It’s terrifying to think that something as mundane as a Foursquare password could get you in to that person’s email, or even financial websites.
• Charging for SSL - GitHub and Evernote are some examples where you must pay to have full-session SSL. We have not confirmed if this is implemented properly once you pony up the cash but can confirm that on GitHub a free account that is associated with a paying organization leaves that entire company at risk. A basic expectation of privacy should not be a premium feature.
• Forced SSL/HTTPS for posting of Login/Password credentials only - Most big sites are in this bucket. Facebook, Twitter, Github, etc. Years back, people realized that sending usernames and passwords in plaintext was a bad idea, and so everyone started encrypting the transmission of those particular assets, and boasting how secure they were because they use SSL with 128-bit encryption or whatever it may be, and pictures of locks everywhere. These sites may serve other content over HTTPS if you explicitly request it, but they’ll rarely be opportunistic about serving content over HTTPS. These sites fail to protect you because after you’ve authenticated, you’re issued a cookie that identifies you throughout your browsing session, but if you think about it that’s just as good as your username/password for 99% of the time.
• Full HTTPS for everything — Some sites support full encryption everywhere, but don’t implement it properly by failing to set the “Secure” flag on authentication cookies, negating most of the benefits and leaving users at risk. What that means is that any time you type the URL (e.g. “manage.slicehost.com”) into your web browser (without explicitly typing https:// beforehand, which people rarely do) you will inadvertently leak your cookies with that first request, prior to being redirected to the HTTPS page. Slicehost and Dropbox are good examples of this mistake.

You can’t simply avoid visiting the sites that are being attacked here. There’s an enormous amount of mixed content on the web today, such as the Facebook “Like” button, Digg’s “Digg It” button, twitter widgets, and even embedded images that are hosted on Flickr or other photo sharing sites. Every time you access any web page that includes any of this content, your browser also sends any authentication cookies you have with the request to pull down the widget. TechCrunch is a great example of this, every article has lots of little widgets to share it on numerous social sites.
Even if you’re proactive and think to log yourself out of a website, this rarely does anything but delete the cookies from your web browser - meaning any stolen copies of them are still going to work for accessing the website. Twitter, Amazon, Foursquare, Github, Flickr, Yahoo, Windows Live (Hotmail) and many others do not properly delete your session from their severs when you use their “Logout” features. Facebook, while having other problems, does appear to properly delete sessions on their servers when you “Logout”.
People forget things. It’s easy to be logged in to many of these services, sleep your laptop, and wake it up somewhere where it will instantly associate with an open access point and start spewing your cookies over the air. Hackers even fall victim to this at hacker conferences where everyone knows they shouldn’t be doing anything on the wifi. The DEFCON Wall Of Sheep is a prime example of this.

Suggestions to help protect yourself right now

While companies are implementing fixes (described below) you can do a few things to increase your level of security, but there’s no silver bullet (aside from stopping use of the services which you don’t want hijacked.)

• HTTPS-Everywhere - This is a Firefox extension created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation which makes Firefox use only HTTPS connections for certain websites. Like Firesheep, it only works on a defined list of websites, so it won’t protect you if you use any websites that it doesn’t support. It does not appear to be immediately simple for users to add sites without some development experience. HTTPS-Everywhere is well respected for doing what it claims to do safely.
• Force-TLS - As mentioned earlier, some websites support SSL but don’t implement it properly, leaving you at risk. This Firefox extension is similar to HTTPS-Everywhere but allows you to specify your own list of domain names to force encryption on.
• VPN - In some situations a VPN (or something similar such as an SSH tunnel) can be great. All traffic sent through a VPN is likely secure from your computer to the VPN server. But be aware that this is not a silver bullet and there are potential problems. See below for our warnings on using a VPN.

Things NOT to do (debunking suggestions from other people/sites in response to Firesheep)

Stop using open WiFi

In response to Firesheep, lots of people are quick to say “Don’t use open wifi”. While open wifi is the prime proving ground for Firesheep, it’s not the problem. This isn’t a direct vulnerability in wifi, it’s the lack of security from the sites you’re using. Abundant, free, open wifi is great to have, it can be very useful. Low-risk activities like reading the news, looking up a nearby business or finding a bus route can be done without being logged in to such sites and risking loss of any important sessions, for example.
A password-protected (WPA2) wireless network or even a wired network just requires that attackers perform one more step to carry out this attack. This might be ARP poisoning or DNS spoofing, neither of which are difficult to carry out. Go and download Cain & Abel and try it out on your network, it’s not that much harder than using Firesheep, and it’s been around for nearly a decade. There are other tools that’ve been around longer.
Another problem is that anyone who has your wireless password could set up their own rogue access point. If they have the stronger signal than the “official” access point everyone in the room will automatically connect to it instead and begin sending all their traffic to the attacker. WPA2 Enterprise was designed to solve this problem by allowing clients to verify the authenticity of the access point they are connected to. Unfortunately in addition to being very difficult to configure, a flaw known as "Hole 196" was recently discovered allowing users on the same network to spy on each other.
For these reasons it’s not very helpful to just enable WPA2 and write the password on the wall. Doing so might actually give users a dangerously false sense of security.
Use a VPN/SSH Tunnel (Without known risks) While we metnioned that VPNs and SSH tunnels can be helpful just above this, we want to emphasize that it’s just pushing the problem to that VPN or SSH endpoint. Your traffic will then leave that server just as it would when it was leaving your laptop, so anyone running Firesheep or other tools could access your data in the same way. These are solutions that require at least some understanding of networking and risks at hand. A blind suggestion of “Use a VPN” doesn’t really solve the problem and may just provide a false sense of security.
Another problem with VPNs is that they don’t work all the time. Sometimes they just disconnect, and your traffic is all routed over your normal interface without any notice. The built in VPN clients on OSX, the iPhone, and iPad are particularly bad at this.

How do website operators fix the problem?

The only correct solution to this problem is true end-to-end security. On the web, this is called HTTPS or SSL/TLS. When SSL is used properly, all traffic is encrypted (unreadable by attackers) and integrity checked (can’t be modified by attackers) from your web browser all the way to the website’s datacenter (either their actual web servers, or specialized network equipment such as SSL accelerators/load balancers).
Designing with security as a requirement, rather than bolting it on after the fact, is also important. While it’s not fair to say this is always what happens, it’s not uncommon for sites to be quickly designed and developed while letting security slip by at a lower priority than other things. Design such that when you scale out, you can scale out securely. Adopt and adhere to a Secure Development Lifecycle process to ensure that security is considered at all points during a product/site’s lifecycle.

Reasons operators may say they can’t do the above

• Typically the response to implementing SSL for everything on your website has been that it’s a big performance hit. There’s an awful lot of debate about this, but there are a number of sites that require HTTPS for everything, most notably Google’s Gmail service went 100% SSL earlier this year. While it’s true Google has an amazing engineering team and impressive resources, they outline a system that should be approachable by many other sites.
• Lack of IP addresses for SSL hosts. In the past, an SSL service required a dedicated IP address. This isn’t true any more with the advent of Server Name Indication (RFC 3546) and improvements in TLS.
• Ignorance. Many people believe they are doing things correctly when they simply are not. Forcing HTTPS for everything but not marking cookies as secure is key example.

Many companies make a business, not technical, decision to not implement security due to either perceived or actual costs. It is our opinion that turning a blind eye to customer privacy and security is never good for business, and we hope the people making these decisions will begin to agree.

This guy is cool

I must've downloaded a couple hundred megs off his server. I was real happy to find tracks from Otis Redding. It was earlier this evening and it put me in a much better mood especially since i made commitments to do stuff that doesn't really matter- but it falls into the administrative-related network cleanup that I'd rather ignore, like the dishes in the sink.

It is important to note that it i only went to the home page (where I'm linking the pic from) accidentally. I was, after all trying to setup my download manager to avoid the DNS overhead ;) and I did take a moment to read the intro. I liked it because it was poignant and modest.  This is the important part : his directory structure and naming conventions were logical, organized and clear. And that makes you cool.

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a bunch of links to sites one could find useful. Seriously check them out.

http://slickdeals.net/

http://www.pipl.com/

NoPhoneTrees.com

http://www.tineye.com/

http://knowyourmeme.com/

http://www.meetup.com/

 
http://ceevee.com/

http://www.filleritem.com/

http://www.synchtube.com/

I still have another dozen or so links to post, but i'm on my way to dublin|pleasanton to pick-up my car.
I will finish this post later today. And yes, i am aware of the formatting issues. but i gotta go

non-verbal communication

• 18 from 14 is not an equation
• the number 18 and 14th st are points along a route
• and while i was walking, i couldn't stop thinking about how i was able to provide some of the answers. and it wasn't even about me.
• Here's the cool part: i was productive, without having an agenda. It was  time well spent, and everything seemed to work because it just did. 
• There is a lot more to this, but i'm not going to blog it, and ruin it- for now this is what i wanted to share. 
• One more thing. she said something at trader joe's in rockridge that reminded me of something i published not too long ago. This is what i wanted to share:

• gotta go- the imac i ordered has arrived

in association with neoalchemy.systems

DCC-100 Documentation

I found this passage in section 3 interesting:

You may find the flavor to be a bit richer than
that to which you are accustomed. We recommend,
however, that you continue to use this recipe
for at least a week before making any adjustments
to the proportion.

So this being the first day of the new year- not only will I throw out last
year's dirty dishes (literally, but I will recycle what I can); I will also
take time in my blog to highlight and quote passages from documents included
with products, applications and services. I proclaim this year we read and
discover the benefits and features of that which we introduce into our lives.