This is an hour and 45 minutes of my evening while tracking my mouse’s movements with IOGraphica. The lines are the cursor’s paths, and the dots are where the cursor stopped moving. Now I’m feeling self-conscious about where I leave my cursor.
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Last week, I noticed that my laptop’s fan didn’t seem to work and my computer was running much hotter than usual. I booted up into the Apple Hardware Test, and ran a test. It quickly gave me an error (4MOT/1/40000002: Exhaust-0) that essentially means, “Your fan is dead. And you might want to check on your logic board, too.”
Since my computer is under warranty, I brought it to an Apple store and let them deal with it. They confirmed that the fan wasn’t working and that I needed another one. They warned me that it could take up to 5 days before they were done with the repair. They weren’t sure if they would also need to replace the logic board, but they would go ahead and order both parts anyway.
It ended up being much less of a hassle than I expected it to be. All they needed to do was replace the fan so I got it back a couple days later. Everything has been working fine ever since!
I have nothing substantial to add to the discussion/fear-mongering surrounding the latest snowpocalypse, except to make fun of how weather forecast models are usually these ridiculously two-dimensional, 8-bit-looking pieces of crap:
Last week, a reporter for MPR covered a story involving the state of Minnesota warning its’ agencies not to use a contractor’s service it had been using due to security problems:
This week, Minnesota Public Radio was able to access state employee data on Lookout Services’ Web site without using a password or encryption software. Employee names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and hire dates were visible on the Web site for every state agency using the service.
This week, the state and MPR are being countersued for breach of contract, stealing trade secrets and “hacking.”
It’s bullshit, of course.
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Wikileaks has released a half-million pager messages from the hour before, during, and after the September 11th terrorist attacks, which were intercepted over the air by whomever was monitoring pager frequencies for unencrypted messages:
Text pagers are usualy [sic] carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center
The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.
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