Posts from — October 2007
Yeah, like that
October 31, 2007
Occam’s Razor
Most people who’ve known me for any length of time know my fondness for Occam’s Razor—particularly when trying to decipher possible security problems in software. For many years, I had to explain the reference and its significance. Lately, though, I’m seeing references everywhere (the latest was on Buzz Andersen’s blog via Daring Fireball this morning).
In my own mind, I use it as a test: in the absence of differentiating evidence, the explanation with the fewest unknown dependencies—in other words, the simplest one—is likely correct.
October 28, 2007
Looking Up
October 28, 2007
20th & Wilshire
October 27, 2007
Haze
LA sky. The haze is subsiding, but even this morning’s clear sky looks brown.
October 26, 2007
Washington Blvd
Washington Blvd in Marina del Rey on a clearer day.
October 25, 2007
Union Square
Another great day in SF.
October 24, 2007
Too good to check
Yikes. What about those items that are actually important?
October 22, 2007
Terminal
Ferry Building and Justin Herman Plaza at the end of Market Street.
October 22, 2007
Mmmm
I’ve set a personal limit of two cups of coffee a day—it’s enough to have a real taste of something I truly enjoy, but not so much that it makes me feel like I’m turning my stomach into shoe leather. It’s tough to stick to that, though, since someone delivered a full pot of the tasty brew right to my room at 6:30.
October 22, 2007
Film crew
After warning one of the riders they were filming to hold on, “with both hands,” the producer heard my chuckle and turned back to me and said “those things are death traps, you know.” After walking around for a few hours, I took one back over the hill for the first time.
October 21, 2007
Powell & California
A perfect day in San Francisco today.
October 21, 2007
Fire planning
When it comes to wildfire behavior prediction in Southern California, you are always handed the test before you’re given the lesson.
— Drew Smith, fire behavior analyst with L.A. County Fire Department as quoted in a November 2007 Los Angeles Magazine article about the May 8 Griffith Park fire.
October 21, 2007
Economist
says:
There’s less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye
Maybe, but there’s still a lot of fear about being left out of the fun (and the money)…
October 20, 2007
Yellowstone
I was thinking today about going back to Yellowstone.
October 20, 2007