very cool socially driven site all about people’s beliefs
real nicely done, well worth checking out.
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
the postal service is going to happen
we’ve got our head developer on task (rule#1 no one’s working over the break)
and i’m looking forward to a launch well before spring break,
it’s gonna be great but it’ll need great content in order for it to be anything, so let’s do this.
anyone with input of any sort, particularly the creatives, should reach me or comment
we’re looking for almost any sort of static visual 2d artwork that’s good lookin’
witty comics, colourful doodles or drawings, digital artwork, photography, these are not limits but merely ideas
we’re open to anything and capable of just about anything 2d , 6″x9″
give me a ring [613/8844669 (mob), 613/4826341 (vonage), j77percent (on gizmo or skype)
or an email to postalservice [at] 77percent.com, j [at] 77percent.com on msn, j77percent on aim, jeevs77 on y!m]
been meaning to post on them
they’re a great sound out of the UK, made number one before they got signed by Domino (debut platform of franzferdinand and others).
if you’d like a copy of their album email me and i’ll get it to you
the same applies for the new strokes album, first impressions of earth
another awesome listen
speaking of which, the lead from the strokes endorsed arctic monkeys and he’s known to be rather picky to say the least. both are great melodic rock albums.
i’d describe the arctic monkeys as a mix between franz ferdinand and the strokes actually, a great sound that i’d really recommend if you like either.
testing the broadcastmachine at 77percent
(the arctic monkeys are NOT up)
another thing, if anyone wants an invite to newsvine (a very cool social news website) let me know and i’ll hook you up.
because i’ve decided the run wikib.org as my ‘project’ for IB/ITGS i’m going to be unavoidably investing way more time than i have in the past (because it’s success determines a portion of a portion of my diploma), so keep your eyes open and i’m also hoping this might spur some further investment on the parts of others not to say that everyone’s help has already been phenomenally Good.
unfortunately this might put the postal service / 96prints (i had wanted to use that name from the start but i thought it might be kind of cheap, but, now that i think about it, since it’s a completely different sort of entity it’d be more of a respect thing than stealing a name (much like [apple / applerecords(thebeatleslabel)] altho i might end up using it as the motto rather than the actual name,since we need to be able to achieve i’m-feeling-lucky status so we’ll have to have a unique name)) onto the back burner for longer than i’d like.
if you’re curious about 96prints~,the postal service and aren’t in the know (it’s ok not everyone is as cool as everyone else, that would defeat the whole point) you can give me a ring of some sort (ims and email count). if you need a hint, you might be particularly interested in the project if you have any/all of the following a) entrepreneurial zest/ambition b) artistic ability of any level that you enjoy c) programm-ability experience or ambition with either php or rubyonrails or even flash and/or ideally, but far from likely, some time on your hands
in other news i had some illness going on and off since thursday, but i’d say that i’m better now.
so i’m in canada, in need of active hours (we love you IB) and i like microbrews : hence curling this evening, should be hilarious.
another thing, billmonk.com went live, it’s a social billing service designed for settling IOUs and the like amoungst friends, very clever and well thought out design.
a little discussion with the civil netizen folk, in case you’re interested (probably not)
it’s all about social direct p2p file transfer, starts off with me just comparing them with pando with the goal of discovering what really made them different (besides the stated ideals behind the project), and now i’ve got it, straight from horse’s mouth. special indeed
So what makes Civil Netizen special? Well, for one we have spent a lot of time working on solving a very fundamental problem on the Internet. That is, computers behind the NAT (network address translation) of home routers have trouble connecting to each other directly. Even the BitTorrent protocol requires users behind NATs to map certain ports on the router to get decent speed (by avoiding relying on computers with open IPs). Techniques such as UPnP are less than universally supported and, unfortunately, not turned on by default on common router models. We believe we have come up with a NAT traversal solution that requires no end-user configuration.
With this first beta release, we have begun the first large-scale public testing of our custom networking stack, which chooses between a few known strategies that have been circulating in the peer-to-peer technology circles. So far the results we have collected on NAT-to-NAT connections have been promising. We believe that solving the NAT problem will enable a new class of Internet applications that does not rely on expensive, centralized web-based services. When combined with BitTorrent-style multi-source download strategies, the overall download speed and success rate would be much improved over the current generation of implementations, especially for torrents (or parcels in Civil-speak) with very few seeds and peers. Given the “long tail” nature of the Internet, serving the low seed/peers use case is particularly important.
~christopher of civil engines
well it turns out, i’ve had something wrong with my comments posting php
it’s been fixed and i’m thinking that the bug has been there since we upgraded to wordpress2.0 the comments never made it to the database ; so if i missed yours, i’m sorry and please do try again.
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the story (read:rumour/unverified)
sometime ago , the Norwegian diplomat Charung Gollar was asked to make a
presentation at the UN focusing on the main problems affecting the world
(2004).
his presentation consisted of 8 slides and was titled “The Power of
Atars”; he was applauded for its simplicity.
in spite of having no pretension at all, his work has been selected to
participate for the Nobel Prize of Political Marketing.
