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Really useful little utility

Posted by Howard | May 19, 2005 .

Space Monger is a really useful little piece of software that shows you, visually, what is taking up space on your hard disk. It has a function that lets you zoom in to see what is taking up space in a folder, and it also lets you delete from it’s interface.
It’s available here and it [...]

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Newsweek and the sourcing of stories

Posted by Howard | May 18, 2005 .

Just read what I’ve been thinking about the whole issue with Newsweek and the bad story about the desecration of holy books. I’m not the biggest Dave Winer fan, but here he hits a nail on the head:
 I have a suggestion. Why don’t we immediately assume that all press reports are at least as thinly [...]

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Personal Democracy Forum

Posted by Howard | May 17, 2005 .

Went to the PDF conference yesterday. During a break, Doc showed me two great astronomy toys for the computer - Heaven-sent and Voyager III from Carina Software. We both have kids who love looking at the stars. Thanks for spending the time showing me this stuff, Doc!
Update: Doc Flickr’ed me here with Mark Hurst.
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The Rock and Roll Geek’s Geek

Posted by Howard | May 12, 2005 .

I had some fun making some recorded promos for the Rock and Roll Geek Show podcast, and the host, Michael Butler, was nice enough to dedicate the podcast to me and play New York rock and roll!
Totally rockin’! Does this make me the geek’s geek?
 
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Andrew Rasiej for Public Advocate

Posted by Howard | May 4, 2005 .

I am supporting an old friend, Andrew Rasiej, who is running for the post of Public Advocate in New York City. His website at http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com has a ‘form letter’, but I wanted to make a personal note of support for him. Andrew has been a hard working advocate for different communities in this city for [...]

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Flying ATA

Posted by Howard | May 4, 2005 .

I flew ATA to Chicago and back for the Meshforum conference.
The good:

Nice comfortable seats.
They let me check in at a kiosk, and choose my seat – and exit rows were an option! I had nice legroom going out.
On the way back, I had switched my flight, but I got to the [...]

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Loops

Posted by Howard | May 3, 2005 .

Worldchanging reports that Jamis was caught on Flickr by me. He then took a picture of me reading that article and went to upload the picture. To complete the loop– I took a picture of him uploading the picture of me reading the article about me taking the picture of him. I love this.
 
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CAPT (Ret.) Linda M. Lewandowski,

Posted by Howard | May 3, 2005 .

CAPT (Ret.) Linda M. Lewandowski, United States Navy
Logistics in the 21st century security environment – really about building large scale organizational change.
Recognition of the complexity and the multi-dimensional global environment.
Distributed Adaptive Operations  – Security – diplomatic – economic – social – and ability to sense across mutiple dimensions and respond.
I’m paying more [...]

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John Garstka - Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Posted by Howard | May 3, 2005 .

John Garstka - Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of DefenseNetwork centric operations and warfare.  Book – Network Centric Warfare.
Transformation  – co-evolution of concepts, processes, organizations and technology, new sources of power,  – broad and sustained competitive advantage.
Shift from industrial to information age: cold war containment strategies are not as relevant. Globalization [...]

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Biological network model

Posted by Howard | May 3, 2005 .

Dr. Eivind Almaas of Notre Dame
Scale free network model – networks continuously expand by addition of nodes, new nodes prefer to link to highly connected nodes. Examples – new web pages, airport links. Model is preferential attachment – you get a power law distribution. Exponent changes when nodes age, when there are costs associated with [...]

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