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Here’s the latest video of Johnathan doing his ‘thang’. Stream it if you can with Windows Media Player. It’s about 2 minutes long.
MVI_0513.avi – 31.5MB
Archive for November, 2004
Here’s the latest video of Johnathan doing his ‘thang’. Stream it if you can with Windows Media Player. It’s about 2 minutes long.
MVI_0513.avi – 31.5MB
A draft of another essay for English. The object here was to establish a time in our lives where we became indebted to someone or something, and how we intend to repay that debt.
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Yesterday Johnathan rolled over from his back to his front, and today he rolled from his front to his back. Also, he tried oatmeal for the first time: thumbs up! Another one that he likes!
An interesting article regarding the practices of Wal-Mart on consumer data-mining.
By its own count, Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, made by NCR, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.
Information at this kind of level is nothing but dangerous to the consumer and secured profit for the retailer (Wal-Mart and suppliers). Funny thing is: we as consumers allow this type of activity to continue on a regular basis. Wal-Mart is clearly on the edge of information technology in the reatail field. I wonder how long it will before the rest catch up?
“You can see the pattern of Wal-Mart’s mandates, and as Wal-Mart grows in power, it is getting more dictatorial,” he said. “The suppliers shake their heads and say, ‘I don’t want to go this way, but they are so big.’ Wal-Mart lives in a world of supply and command, instead of a world of supply and demand.”
I read in another article somewhere that they actually told a US manufacturer that they needed to open facilities in China to lower their costs. If they didn’t, then Wal-Mart wouldn’t put their product in their store. The power of the dollar.
We just finished reading the three book series by Philip Pullman titled His Dark Materials. It was really an awesome story with some extremely controversial themes. Really makes ya wonder. We both found it interesting that a Sci-Fi book could invoke so much discussion about real-life issues. Philip Pullman questions God, the Church, and reality. Not that he is “anti” any of these things, but he brings up many alternate views and questions. A definite recommendation for anyone that enjoys a good spin.
Now we’re off to Middle-Earth with our friends Bilbo and Frodo. We just started The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien. I don’t know how many times I’ve read it now but I still enjoy it just as much.
Tom Wolfe came out with a new book this week as well titled, Charlotte Simmons. He researched for several years at different colleges around the country (some big some little) and attempted to capture the real college experience of today. Hopefully it shows up at our library at some point. Right now they don’t have a very good selection of his work. I just might have to have a little talk with them and see if they can’t order some of his lesser known (and more interesting) writing.
Why is it that I still learn best after I break something?
Just got finished setting up another server today (just the hardware, no software yet) that I hope to use for all of our videos. In the process I was trying to fix some minor issues with the local network and ended up breaking all the links on both the journal and the photo gallery. Luckily, I don’t think anyone was visiting at the time (at least I hope not).