http://www.davidbracewell.com Long Nights and 3 Gallons of Soda Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:39:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I really do not like moving. It amazes me to see how much junk me and my wife (mostly my wife) can collect in a such a short time. Hopefully, this will be our last move for a while. Although, I guess you never end up living in the first ... http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/08/24/moving/ Conference Date: Apr 30, 2009 - May 2, 2009 Location: Sparks, NV, USA Site: >> Important Dates Abstract: Oct 3, 2008 Deadline: Oct 10, 2008 Decision: Dec 15, 2008 Camera Ready: Jan 26, 2009 http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/07/05/the-ninth-siam-international-conference-on-data-mining/ http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/07/02/%e3%83%a9%e3%82%af%e3%83%80%e3%81%a8%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%91/ Conference Date: Dec 9th -12th, 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia Site: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/iat Important Dates Deadline: Jul 10th, 2008 Decision: Sep 3rd, 2008 Camera Ready: ?? http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/05/27/cfp-ieeewicacm-intelligent-agent-technology-2008/ The first thing I found wrong with using Windows under Boot Camp with my iMac was the horrendous sound. I updated the sound drivers from the Boot Camp install disc and from the supplier's website. Neither of those produced decent sound, so I played with the mixer settings and got ... http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/05/27/24-imac-sound-woes-aka-why-we-should-try-the-obvious/ I just finished closing on my first house. The whole process was somewhat surreal. It is amazing how easy and quickly it is to sign a few documents and have hundreds of thousands of dollars change hands and then be stuck for 30 years. http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/05/24/how-easy-it-is/ http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/05/10/soba-ni-iru-ne-thelma-aoyama-feat-soulja/ Saw this on Slashdot the other day. It is a port of the Processing Visualization Language to javascript. It looks pretty cool. http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/05/10/javascript-visualization/ I have recently come to the conclusion that I have become old. My body is making more strange noises, my joints tend to crackle when I walk and I am cold most of the time. At this rate I should be ready for retirement in a couple of months. http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/05/10/getting-old/ TUAW has an article on how to send your Mac and email and have it snap a picture using the built in iSight and send it back to you. The method can be expanded to do other things like send yourself a file or less useful like start speaking to ... http://www.davidbracewell.com/2008/04/22/cool-mac-spy-cam-via-email/