text: Study: Avatars Dressed in Klan Robes Usually Belong to Unpleasant PeopleOwen Good11/29/09 8:00pmFiled to: Ya don't sayStudyScienceSocietyAvatars303EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink A researcher down in Texas has found that, when people are assigned to play characters wearing the brooding black robes of an emo Jedi, or the coneheaded getup of a KKK grand kobold or whatever, they exhibit antisocial behaviors. Advertisement The study, entitled "The Priming Effects of Avatars in Virtual Settings," more or less says that people don't have to self-select antisocial depictions of themselves to engage in antisocial behaviors. Just being told to play on the Dark Side in Jedi Knight II, or as a Klanketeer in another setting, encourages them to be a-holes. So you can imagine what that says about a person who creates the skeleton-faced, top-hatted all-black avatar with a tag like xXx_ScAbIEsDeM0n_XxX.Before you get huffy, the study's author isn't singling out video games or avatars; they just comprise one environment that can also "prime" people to be louts and douchebags. Let me submit another: The 101 from the 87 to Mountain View at 8:25 a.m. on a weekday. Advertisement But yeah, as "no shit" findings go, it does sound rather obvious. You can read up on the rest of the study if you like.What Does Your Video Game Avatar Say About You? [Daily Comet via Destructoid] [Pic via Something Awful]Reply303 repliesLeave a reply


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text: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN) (the "Company") announced today the final settlement of its previously announced tender offer and solicitation of consents for any and all of the outstanding 8.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 (the "Notes") issued by PAETEC Holding Corp. ("PAETEC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. The tender offer expired at midnight, New York City time, on February 5, 2013 (the "Expiration Date"). The Company has been advised by the information agent that as of the Expiration Date, a total of approximately $588.5 million aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (representing approximately 90.5% of the $650.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding prior to the commencement of the tender offer and consent solicitation) had been tendered, including the approximately $583.3 million aggregate principal amount of Notes previously accepted by the Company on January 23, 2013. The Company previously announced the completion of its solicitation of consents for certain proposed amendments (the "Proposed Amendments") to eliminate or modify certain restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the indenture governing the Notes (the "Indenture") and to release all of the collateral securing obligations under the Notes. As previously announced, the Company received the requisite consents to the Proposed Amendments, including the release of the collateral, and, as a result, entered into a supplemental indenture, dated as of January 23, 2013, to effect such Proposed Amendments. Holders of Notes who properly tendered after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 22, 2013 and at or prior to the Expiration Date received $1,050.17 per $1,000 in principal amount of Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest from the last interest payment date to, but not including, the final settlement date, which occurred today. Following the completion of the tender offer, approximately $61.5 million aggregate principal amount of Notes remain outstanding. PAETEC has called for redemption all of the Notes that remain outstanding following consummation of the tender offer and consent solicitation at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus an "applicable premium" in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption. Redemption of the approximately $61.5 million aggregate principal amount of Notes that remain outstanding is expected to occur on February 25, 2013. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC acted as sole dealer manager and solicitation agent for the tender offer and the consent solicitation. The Tender Agent and Information Agent was D.F. King & Co., Inc. This press release does not constitute a notice of redemption under the optional redemption provisions of the Indenture, nor does it constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. The tender offer and consent solicitation was made only by means of the Company's Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated January 8, 2013, and the related letter of transmittal. No offer, solicitation, or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. About Windstream Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN) is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas. Windstream has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and is listed on the S&P 500 index. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties that could cause actual future events and results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, including with respect to Windstream's ability to complete the redemption described in this press release, are based on estimates, projections, beliefs, and assumptions that Windstream believes are reasonable but are not guarantees of future events and results. Actual future events and results of Windstream may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of important factors, including those described in filings by Windstream with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be found at www.sec.gov.


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(AP) -- It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks. But some students are finding they miss the decidedly low-tech conveniences of paper - highlighting, flagging pages with sticky notes and scribbling in the margins. "I like the aspect of writing something down on paper and having it be so easy and just kind of writing whatever comes to my mind," says Claire Becerra, a freshman at Arizona State University. Becerra tried typing notes on the Kindle's small keyboard, but when she went back to reread them she found they were laden with typos and didn't make sense. After a month, she says she takes far fewer notes and relies on the Kindle's highlighter tool instead. Amazon wants to adapt the Kindle to academia, where it could reduce the notoriously high cost of textbooks. The Kindle DX, with a larger screen than the regular model, costs $489, but digital books can cost less than half what physical ones do. While it might be the future of textbooks, Amazon or any other e-reader company has a long way to go to make it happen - even for a technology-saturated generation that should be more receptive to the shift. When The Associated Press hit five of the test campuses to ask students how they felt about the Kindle, the responses were lukewarm. Most said they liked the prospect of having anytime access to a semester's worth of reading on the Kindle, which can wirelessly download books or get material by being plugged into a PC. But several disliked taking notes on a keyboard with Tic-Tac-sized keys that sits under a 9.7-inch screen. Students can also highlight text or bookmark pages - the digital equivalent of dog-earing - then look at those excerpts and links on separate screens. Madeline Kraizel, a freshman at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, has amassed three Kindle pages of bookmarks for her chemistry textbook. That's getting unwieldy, and she isn't sure whether there's a better way to organize them. Another drawback: The Kindle doesn't show page numbers. Because text can be made bigger or smaller, a turn of the virtual page doesn't necessarily correspond to the printed book. Instead, Kindle uses "location" markers. That threw Kraizel and one of her classmates, Hun Jae Lee. Lee, 19, says professors had to give Kindle-equipped students a few words to search for. Eventually, they started referring to both Kindle locations and textbook page numbers. Other students struggled when professors had them read documents in PDF format, which doesn't show up well on the Kindle. Users can't zoom in or make notes on them, and diagrams sometimes get separated from notes explaining them. John Sherman, a first-year MBA student at the University of Virginia, says he can read some case studies on the Kindle but still needs to print others. "For the cases that require a lot of calculations, I find paper cases to be better," says Sherman, 31. "For me, it helps to scribble my thoughts in the margins." Todd Schiller, 22, a student in the University of Washington's doctorate program in computer science, says he prefers the visual cues of a paper textbook to the "tunnel vision" that today's e-reading promotes. Opening two big textbook pages puts the section he's reading into context: Seeing how many pages remain in a chapter or the book helps him understand how far along he is in the author's plot or argument. Students at seven schools are responding to surveys throughout this academic year and get to keep their Kindles. Amazon.com Inc. hasn't speculated on what improvements or new products might result and declined comment for this story. The dozen or so students interviewed by the AP had compliments for the Kindle, too. Most like how light the device is - just over a pound - and many would be willing to overlook technical hassles if it meant not having to carry any books. Most still had to buy and carry textbooks for non-Kindle classes this fall. Students were also impressed with the "electronic ink" screen, which Amazon touts as far easier on the eyes than reading off a computer monitor. But it can't be backlit, disappointing one student who wants to read during dark early-morning bus commutes. Kraizel, the Case Western freshman, says always having the Kindle with her has improved her study habits. It's much easier to cram in a few minutes of studying between classes, she says, and she's noticed that when she sits down for a serious study session she's more familiar with the material. The Kindle can also do things books can't, like read homework aloud. Una Hopkins, a 46-year-old student in the nurse-practitioner program at Pace University in New York, got five chapters finished that way when she was stuck in traffic. "It was robotic, but it got me where I needed to go," Hopkins says. The device's usefulness goes beyond textbooks: Another Washington grad student in computer science, Franziska Roesner, has used the Web browser to read and write e-mail when she's away from her computer. It's slow, but it worked, she says. And sometimes its uses go beyond productivity entirely. Students at Arizona State have found the Minesweeper video game that comes with the device. They've also figured out how to download music. Roesner, who was steeped in Kindle hype as an intern at Amazon over the past two summers, lamented the device's problems with PDFs, which make up the bulk of this quarter's assignments. Still, she won't write off e-readers. 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The idea we went with is the mystery of the missing presents (recurring theme in most ideas I found). The kids will have to find clues to find out who stole the presents and earn prizes along the way. I chose to do this by picking out 8 classic scooby villians whose "lairs" the kids will have to pass through to follow the foot prints of the culprit. Each villian they pass has a clue about the culprit but the kids have to earn it by playing that villian's game. More about this later. First the 8 villians I chose are:
1. Creepy clown ghost
2. Old Iron Face
3. The Black Knight ghost
4. The Creeper
5. Mr. Hyde
6. The Headless Ghost
7. Captian Cutler's Ghost
8. The Spooky Space Kook
I looked up info about these villains and their episodes, then came up with a game to match.
The posters
1. Get a half sheet of poster board for each villain except the black knight
2. Draw one villain on each sheet (except black knight and headless ghost)
3. Paint them all
4. Write in the challenge
5. Attach the clue envelope.
~just cut a normal size envelope in half, tape the cut sides, write "clue #__" on it and tape to poster, opening flap facing out~
** choose a person that will be at the party to be the villain IE: mom or dad. We used Kaiden's father as the villain. Come up with clues that fit that particular person like their height, age, or tshirt color. You will need 7**
Write the clue on a small piece of paper and put in envelope. (my clues are listed later in this 'ible and I have typed in bold print the word you need to change to fit your villain if you use my clues.)
These will be taped up around your venue in the area the game is to be played
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I made footprints to lead the kids from game to game in the order I wanted.
1. get 2 sheets neon green poster board
2. print a footprint template and cut it out
3. trace it on the poster board as many times as possible (I got 60 feet total)
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It was windy out the day of our party so I bought a pack of long nails and used these as stakes to pin the prints to the ground so they wouldnt blow away.


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As a former street thug-turned-real-life–Omar Little-turned-filmmaker, Elgin James is definitely looking to make up for lost time. The Boston native has teamed up with Electric City Entertainment duo Jamie Patricof ("Half Nelson," "Blue Valentine") and Lynette Howell to helm the indie hostage thriller "Come Sundown," a project that will mark his second effort behind the camera after his Sundance 2011 feature "Little Birds."
After his debut film unveiled to a warm reception at Park City, James' colorful past came back to haunt him with an attempted extortion charge forcing him to spend a year in in L.A.'s Metro Detention Center. The writer-director apparently stayed indoors throughout his time there catching up with classic films ("Gone With The Wind") and reading 101 books including the fiction of Pat Conroy. Now out, James will tackle this hostage tale scripted by Justin Marks ("The Stranger," '20,000 Leagues') which follows "a family taken hostage by desperate fugitives determined to get across the border. It becomes a struggle between a father trying to protect his family while hanging onto his humanity, and a hardened criminal with nothing to lose."
It'll be interesting to see how James tackles this after his debut earned acclaim, in particular for its depiction of street violence. Hopefully he can replicate a cast with the quality of his last film which saw names like Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Kyle Gallner, Kate Bosworth and Leslie Mann get involved. "Little Birds" was later picked up by Millenium Films and will hit theaters this summer. [Deadline]


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Welcome to Poitiers, capital city of the French region Poitou-charentes, and it's rich historical and religious heritage. You are going to like the visit of the episcopal area where two strong and influential women, saint Radegonde and Alienor of aquitaine, used to live.
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Notre Dame la Grande, which photos illustrate History books, is a masterpiece of the Romanesque Art and will tell you the legend of the keys. You could also see the Statue of liberty. Saint John baptistry, the Fumé hotel, the palace of the Poitou and Aquitaine counts and dukes and many other treasures are still waiting to be discovered during this unforgettable visit.
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text: Everyone Secretly Loves Drunken Online ShoppingErin Gloria Ryan12/28/11 6:00pmFiled to: ShoppingOnline ShoppingAmazongiltDrinkingDrunkIntoxicationSpending MoneyRetailInternetGettypic123EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Over the last few years, a curious phenomenon has arisen in the world of online commerce: it seems that people tend to buy things during evening hours, right around when they're also unwinding after work with a glass or entire bottle of wine. While you may have thought it your own mildly embarrassing secret vice, getting drunk and buying dumb crap online is more common than you might think, and online retailers are taking notice.AdvertisementDon't expect to see billboards encouraging the imbibed to spend just yet, though; retailers don't want to be seen as encouraging drunk people to act irresponsibly. Instead, the Times reports that in response to the "Shop Till You Vom" trend that's alive and well among America's lushes, stores are making it easier for the drunken masses to make regrettable purchasing decisions in their online marketplaces. From one click buying to phone apps to special late night sales, everyone from Gilt to Neiman Marcus to eBay is adjusting to our collective drink n' buy habit.Retailers aren't alarmed by what could actually be a very sad cry for help; if you ask them, spending money in a futile attempt to attain happiness for a fleeting instant is... fun!Advertisement"Post-bar, inhibitions can be impacted, and that can cause shopping, and hopefully healthy impulse buying," said Andy Page, the president of Gilt Groupe, an online retailer that is adding more sales starting at 9 p.m. to respond to high traffic then - perhaps some of it by shoppers under the influence.On the other hand, barring a drinking problem or ensuing financial hardship, drunken shopping can be a welcome break from the drudgery of everyday life. I went through a strong phase in mid-2010 when I was working for a bank and hated it, but loved after work drinking followed by a happy session browsing a website that sold gently used DVDs. The following week, I'd always be surprised and delighted by my drunken self's good taste. Field of Dreams! Lola Rennt! The Birdcage! All three Indiana Jones films! Eventually, though, I ran out of movies that I cared to own. Some purchases aren't such good uses of resources, either; just ask the guy the Times interviewed who sloppily bought a $10,000 motorcycle tour of New Zealand, or the ex boyfriend of many moons ago who once purchased Billy Joel's entire catalog while under the influence.The spendy and the drunk prefer online shopping because liquid courage doesn't translate so well to the brick-and-mortar of traditional stores. While stumbling into Target after three martinis can lead to embarrassment and possibly arrest, the same can't be said for typing a-m-a-z-o-n dot c-o-m one very carefully pecked keystroke at a time. And experts warn that drunken shopping can lead to overspending, which can lead to being broke, which can lead to feeling more depressed. Just ask the half dozen or so VHS tapes of the low budget 1988 version of The Chronicles of Narnia that appeared on my desk one unexpected weekday in 2009. My VCR doesn't even work.SponsoredOnline Retailers Home In On A New Demographic [NYT]Reply123 repliesLeave a reply


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You know that "women make 77 cents to every man's dollar" line you've heard a hundred times? It's not true.
By Hanna Rosin| Aug. 30, 2013 | Slate.com
How many times have you heard that "women are paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men"? Barack Obama said it during his last campaign. Women's groups say it every April 9, which is Equal Pay Day. In preparation for Labor Day, a group protesting outside Macy's this week repeated it, too, holding up signs and sending out press releases saying "women make $.77 to every dollar men make on the job." I've heard the line enough times that I feel the need to set the record straight: It's not true.
The official Bureau of Labor Department statistics show that the median earnings of full-time female workers is 77 percent of the median earnings of full-time male workers. But that is very different than "77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men." The latter gives the impression that a man and a woman standing next to each other doing the same job for the same number of hours get paid different salaries. That's not at all the case. "Full time" officially means 35 hours, but men work more hours than women. That's the first problem: We could be comparing men working 40 hours to women working 35.
How to get a more accurate measure? First, instead of comparing annual wages, start by comparing average weekly wages. This is considered a slightly more accurate measure because it eliminates variables like time off during the year or annual bonuses (and yes, men get higher bonuses, but let's shelve that for a moment in our quest for a pure wage gap number). By this measure, women earn 81 percent of what men earn, although it varies widely by race. African-American women, for example, earn 94 percent of what African-American men earn in a typical week. Then, when you restrict the comparison to men and women working 40 hours a week, the gap narrows to 87 percent.
But we're still not close to measuring women "doing the same work as men." For that, we'd have to adjust for many other factors that go into determining salary. Economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn did that in a recent paper, "The Gender Pay Gap." They first accounted for education and experience. That didn't shift the gap very much, because women generally have at least as much and usually more education than men, and since the 1980s they have been gaining the experience. The fact that men are more likely to be in unions and have their salaries protected accounts for about 4 percent of the gap. The big differences are in occupation and industry. Women congregate in different professions than men do, and the largely male professions tend to be higher-paying. If you account for those differences, and then compare a woman and a man doing the same job, the pay gap narrows to 91 percent. So, you could accurately say in that Obama ad that, "women get paid 91 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men."
The point here is not that there is no wage inequality. But by focusing our outrage into a tidy, misleading statistic, we've missed the actual challenges. It would in fact be much simpler if the problem were rank sexism and all you had to do was enlighten the nation's bosses or throw the Equal Pay Act at them. But the 91 percent statistic suggests a much more complicated set of problems. Is it that women are choosing lower-paying professions or that our country values women's professions less? And why do women work fewer hours? Is this all discrimination or, as economist Claudia Goldin likes to say, also a result of "rational choices" women make about how they want to conduct their lives.
Goldin and Lawrence Katz have done about as close to an apples-to-apples comparison of men's and women's wages as exists. (They talk about it here in a Freakonomics discussion.) They tracked male and female MBAs graduating from the University of Chicago from 1990 to 2006. First they controlled for previous job experience, GPA, chosen profession, business-school course and job title. Right out of school, they found only a tiny differential in salary between men and women, which might be because of a little bit of lingering discrimination or because women are worse at negotiating starting salaries. But 10 to 15 years later, the gap widens to 40 percent, almost all of which is due to career interruptions and fewer hours. The gap is even wider for women business school graduates who marry very high earners. (Note: Never marry a rich man).
If this midcareer gap is due to discrimination, it's much deeper than "male boss looks at female hire and decides she is worth less, and then pats her male colleague on the back and slips him a bonus." It's the deeper, more systemic discrimination of inadequate family-leave policies and childcare options, of women defaulting to being the caretakers. Or of women deciding that are suited to be nurses and teachers but not doctors. And in that more complicated discussion, you have to leave room at least for the option of choice—that women just don't want to work the same way men do.
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Rosin asks such questions as "And why do women work fewer hours?" She asks them because, like virtually everyone else, especially Democrats, organized feminists, and the liberal media, she leaves men out of the equation. Hence, she leaves herself lacking for a "solution."
The gender wage gap will continue and, for Democrats and politicized feminists, remain a "problem" until this is explored:
Suppose we prohibited men from supporting women, in marriage and out, from spending money on them in any way, and giving them money or assets of any kind, directly or indirectly. What would happen? What job choices would women make? And what choices would men make?
See some answers in:
"Will the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Help Women?"
"The Doctrinaire Institute for Women's Policy Research: A Comprehensive Look at Gender Equality."
Almost all of women's advocates, in and out of the media, ignore the work-related influence on many women of a husband's income, including the influence on many single women of a future husband's income.


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The first of my 2012 interviews is with Greg Ness, Marketing Vice President, Vantage Data Centers. Until I saw him, I did not realize that I often used to read his blog. He also writes on data center and IT infrastructure here.
Greg Ness in the lobby of V3 Vantage Data Center.
Actually, this is not my first visit to their site. Back in November 2010, I attended a meeting there sponsored by Critical Facilities Roundtable. At that time, there were two buildings (V1 and V3) on campus that were owned by Intel and sold to Vantage just prior to the meeting. We had a meeting at V1 (well, actually before it became V1) and toured a partially completed V3 (yes, before it became V3). They added a brand-new building that is called V2, which was a large parking lot then. Right now, both V2 and V3 are ready for occupancy. V3 has three customers (one of them is Mozilla), and V2 is leased to a single unnamed customer. V1 is still undergoing renovation. The order of completion is V3, V2, V1.
All the specifications of each data center as well as their pictures can be found here:
But for busy readers, I summarized some basic information in the following table.
Status |
Under construction |
Completed & occupied |
Completed & occupied |
Structure |
2 stories |
1 story |
1 story |
IT load |
Power density |
150–400 W/sq. ft. |
200 W/sq. ft. |
150 W/sq. ft. |
Space |
110K sq. ft. |
45K sq. ft. |
40K sq. ft. |
Floor |
Slab/raised floor |
Slab |
Raised floor |
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They also are building a data center in Quincy, WA, to exploit abundant and cheap hydropower, thanks to the Columbia River, as the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did.
There are a lot of data centers in Santa Clara, mainly because of the:
- Reliable power (good mix of green power) with a competitive pricing structure from Silicon Valley Power Company, owned by the city of Santa Clara.
- Abundant fiber connections close to a NAP.
- Nearby large businesses like Intel and Yahoo (Google, Apple, HP, Cisco, and Oracle are not far from Santa Clara) and technology startups.
- Favorable weather for natural cooling, a.k.a. airside economizer.
I have visited data centers by Terremark, Digital Realty, and DuPont Fabros before, which are in the vicinity of the Vantage centers. They all cited the reasons above for selecting Santa Clara. They are alike in some ways and different in others.
Is it good to be in the data center business now, even in this time of recession? Absolutely! As you've probably heard from several sources, data centers are in high demand. At the first wave of the Internet, it was said that "if you build it, they will come." At that time, "it" was fiber cable infrastructure. I will not be too far wrong if I apply the same quote to data centers.
Briefly, demand is high because:
- Many more things are online (cloud, mobile, sensors, and EV)—the Internet of things.
- Building and maintaining a data center is very expensive.
- Construction takes a relatively long time (12 to18 months), which delays go-to-market timing.
- Data centers require highly skilled experts to handle ever-increasing IT demands, but acquisition of such expertise is hard, time-consuming, and costly.
Vantage is on this wave.
The following is a summary of the visit and the discussion I had with Greg.
Several features differentiate Vantage from others. But one thing that stuck in my mind is LEED certification. They want to certify all four of their data centers as LEED Platinum. V3 has been awarded it already (see the sign next to Greg in the picture above), and V2 is prequalified as Platinum. Greg told me that they exceeded even the Platinum requirements, and the US Green Building Council (USGB) folks are considering incorporating the additional Vantage features into the certification.
At this time, there is no version of the LEED certification specifically for data centers, but it has become the de facto standard used in the data center market to brag on how green their data centers are. EPA has finally nailed down a version of Energy Star for data centers, which indicates a certain level of energy efficiency, but it has not caught on yet.
Speaking of catching on, PUE has caught on with almost everyone in the data center industry, but it has been misused to promote data centers too much. Power consumption by IT equipment can vary depending on where you measure—such places as UPS, PDU, or IT equipment. Also, PUE changes with the time of day as well as with the weather and the season. Many operators used to report their best PUE to claim how green they were. To correct this and standardize the way PUE is measured, Green Grid has issued a few papers on it. Most recently, they emphasized that PUE should be based on energy instead of power and that each PUE should be qualified depending on where power to IT equipment is measured. In my conversation with Greg, this new PUE was not mentioned. By the way, they measure the IT power consumption at the PDU, which is quite good because they do not have the means to get to their customers' IT equipment. The PDUs are a demarcation between their responsibilities and their customers'. In this way, they can clearly see each responsibility and have a good basis for the PUE calculation.
As has been said in many places, PUE by itself should not be used as a marketing tool but rather to compare progress on your own data center energy efficiency. The PUE numbers for V3 and V2 are estimated to be between 1.10 and 1.30. V2's number (which has not yet been announced) will be better primarily because it is a brand-new construction. You can design energy efficiency into a new data center from the ground up. In spite of heavy modifications, retrofitted buildings inherit the old shell and design and cannot be made to comply completely with your new energy efficient scheme.
Another differentiation is the reliability of power and cooling. With a few exceptions, they employed the 2N or mesh policy to guarantee reliability for such things as UPS and generators. A data center supports the nation's information and trade infrastructure; it cannot fail and must have a high level of availability and reliability.
Greg, like Jim Trout, their CEO, said that Vantage comes close to Google, Microsoft, and Facebook in terms of energy efficiency. It is not fair to compare a wholesaler data center player like Vantage with them. It is like comparing the performance of an embedded system with a system that runs software developed independent of a hardware platform. Because you can control and tune both software and hardware in an embedded system, your performance is better than in a system consisting of independently built software and hardware. A data center operator cannot influence their tenants too much. However, in the case of their V2, Vantage worked closely with the single tenant, who signed a lease during construction, reflecting their IT requirements for energy efficiency. Of course, they could not dictate which IT equipment to use or its basic design, as Google and Facebook did to their internal IT group.
What about the downside of this? If the building was spec'd to a specific customer, it is great for that customer. But is it good for Vantage? What if the customer goes bankrupt or leaves for any other reason? Aren't they stuck with a data center too tailored to be used by other clients?
The answer to this question is twofold:
- If the building were designed to be super energy efficient, it would last 20 years rather than 5 to 10 years, which is typical of data centers in the past. No significant retrofitting would be required for the next customer.
- If the customer goes under, it is likely that their IT equipment would be left there, and that might attract other customers.
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools are being talked about everywhere. For a wholesaler like Vantage, they only need to monitor and control the facilities side of the house and not IT. For that they use IBS. Incidentally, I will moderate a panel session, and one of the panelists is from Equinix, a colocation provider that does not need to measure IT equipment either. I wonder what she will say about it.
In V3, a raised floor with three separate caged areas is employed, instead of a slab floor. This allows customers to adjust airflow on the basis of their usage and configuration. However, the cold/hot isle configuration is pre-architected with the ceiling heat damper. So unless customers do not want to follow one of the best practices of energy efficiency, their rack configurations cannot be drastically different to exploit this preconfiguration. Each customer is allocated a single PDU, which allows up to 3 MW of power. As for cooling, both V2 and V3 employ airside economizer. In addition, V1 and V3 use chiller for cooling, but V2 does not. The customer in V2 does not want to use water and uses DX instead.
It is sometimes more profitable to conduct business at a higher level. So rather than competing at the infrastructure level, Vantage may want to provide a service like hosting private clouds. But I was told that they would strictly stay on their core of competency and the area of their strength, which is providing the best efficient mechanical and power support. Something like hosting private cloud is left to their alliance partners, like Telx. Incidentally, on this tour, I bumped into an old friend of mine who works at Telx and will try to get time with him to discuss their services.
What I liked most is that Greg wanted to make some of their ways of energy efficiency available by showing how they do it, so that the entire data center industry gets improved. The way things are going, more demand for data centers is expected, and this market is one of the rare segments that do not know what the recession means.


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Viewpoints Is the Commodity Supercycle Dead? The outlook for commodity returns today seems broadly consistent with historical returns.
From the late 1990s until the 2008 financial crisis, most commodities experienced double-digit annual real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) price growth, a period known as the commodity "supercycle." The price of oil rose 1,062%, copper rose 487% and corn rose 240% as growing emerging market demand finally caught up with years of underinvestment in various commodity markets (source: Bloomberg, 31 December 1998 to 30 June 2008). But poor relative performance of commodities to equities year to date has led to some media reports that read like an obituary for the commodity markets. The Economist has even suggested that it is oil demand, rather than oil production, that has peaked and will decline, particularly now that shale has emerged as a viable source of supplies. While we agree that commodity price appreciation won't likely mirror the supercycle, we do not believe this should necessarily imply a negative view on commodity returns going forward. Prior to the supercycle most commodities were at multi-decade lows in real price terms. Today, most markets are trading within one standard deviation of their marginal cost of production – the cost of adding one more unit of production growth – suggesting that prices are at reasonable levels from a long-term valuation perspective. In addition, the roll yield from investing in commodities is the highest it's been since 2005. Furthermore, we believe commodities continue to provide diversification versus stocks and bonds. We believe they are also one of the most potent ways to hedge against unexpected changes in inflation, and they tend to offer attractive return potential. Should there be an improvement in emerging market demand, or if investors warm back up to that market, we believe commodity returns could be quite strong. Slower emerging markets growth contributes to weak commodity performance Commodity indexes have underperformed recently, particularly when compared with U.S. equities, since commodity prices are more dependent on emerging market growth due to its high resource intensity. The DJUBS Commodity Index (DJUBS CI), which is roughly equally weighted among metals, energy and agricultural, is down 9.25% through the end of July, significantly underperforming U.S. equities. Emerging market equities, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets index, are down 8.53%, very similar to the performance of the DJUBS CI (see Figure 1). Also note that China represents 40%–50% of global industrial metals demand, compared with just 12% of global oil demand, and year-to-date base metals prices are down 15% versus just 3% for oil (source: Bloomberg, 31 December 2012 to 31 July 2013). We believe the deceleration in emerging market growth relative to the U.S. has also helped strengthen the U.S. dollar at a time when the prospect for reduced stimulus from the Federal Reserve was already a tailwind for the dollar. With commodities largely priced in dollars, a stronger dollar depresses those prices, which is particularly true for commodities with large production costs in non-dollar currencies. this is the end of the supercycle, investors may be asking, are commodities a sensible investment going forward? And if they are, then what weight should they have in a portfolio? What drives commodity returns? Let's say a typical portfolio is dominated by equities and nominal bonds, which tend to respond poorly to unanticipated inflation. Adding commodities to such a portfolio may serve as a hedge during inflationary periods. While some recent studies have questioned the diversification that commodities can provide, we believe that these studies are overly focused on very short periods of time when inflation was stable. Amid stable inflation, commodity performance is typically driven primarily by changes in growth expectations, and in particular those of emerging markets. In such an environment, commodity performance will likely show a higher correlation with equities. The potential benefits of commodities become clearer, however, when inflation rises because the prices of commodities also tend to rise, while the impact on the present value of future corporate earnings is much less clear. Even if commodities have diversification benefits, to understand how much to allocate to commodities in a portfolio requires some estimate of forward-looking returns. To do this, we need to understand the three components that make up commodity returns and determine some baseline for what investors could expect going forward. The return from investing in commodities via futures contracts is a function of The changes in price of the underlying commodity (spot return); The "roll yield" return from rolling from one futures contract to the next (for example, if the price of an oil futures contract is $110 for the front (prompt) month and $109 for the next (deferred) month, then the investor will realize a profit of $1 if there is no change in the spot price over the month); and The return of the underlying collateral that backs the futures contracts. In the long run, commodity spot prices have historically tended to increase on average at roughly the rate of inflation, with commodities like oil and those found in the ground generally increasing at a slightly faster rate than inflation, and those that can be grown in the ground increasing at a slightly slower rate than inflation. We think it is reasonable for commodity investors to expect spot prices to continue to increase on average at roughly the rate of inflation over the secular horizon. The second component, the roll yield return, was negative during the supercycle. Part of the reason for this was the market expected rising oil prices during this period, causing the futures curve to slope upward. Today shale output has helped improve roll yields in oil, the largest component of most commodity indexes, by anchoring future price expectations for the first time in a decade. We believe this anchoring effect has contributed to downward-sloping price curves, where the prompt prices are a premium to deferred prices to reflect near-term imbalances created by production outages (see Figure 2). As long as Saudi Arabia maintains the ability to manage imbalances in the market and shale extraction prospects remain good, we expect the oil market roll yield to look similar to that in the 1990s, when backwardation (when prompt futures contracts are priced higher than deferred contracts) was common as the back end of oil remained anchored. These improved roll yields in oil will likely be an important source of returns to commodity investors – and yet the shift from negative to positive roll yield seems to have gone unnoticed (see Figure 3). Positive roll yields imply a commodity index investor is getting paid to purchase a diversifying asset that may also hedge against unexpected inflation.In fact, annualizing current roll yields could lead to the best roll yield contribution to returns since 2005. In summary, we see spot commodity prices in aggregate increasing 2%–2.5% per year, in line with the current market-expected inflation. There could be additional return potential if the roll yield remains persistently positive, which we think is reasonably likely. Investors also need to add in the potential return from collateral – the third component – to get the total return of a commodity investment via futures. While some might use Treasury bills (T-bills) to back their commodity investments, commodities can be overlaid on top of almost any portion of an investor's fixed income portfolio, and we believe it will be important for investors to take advantage of this to help maximize future returns. Indeed, this may negate the notion of their being an "opportunity cost" to investing in commodities. Commodities should remain attractive on a historical basis Overall, while the supercycle may be dead, the outlook for commodity returns today seems broadly consistent with historical returns, and commodities remain an important tool for hedging inflation risk. Since 1970 – a period that includes the ending of the gold standard and severe inflationary shocks – commodities have added an average annual return of 3.59% (source: Bloomberg, PIMCO calculations) on top of the return on collateral. Investing in a commodity index, which includes the return from collateral as well, may result in returns in excess of inflation. Even with the end of the supercycle, it doesn't seem that today the future of commodity returns looks that much different than the past.
In Depth Commodity Investing: A New Take on Equities Versus Futures A combination of commodity futures and broad stocks seems to provide better return per unit of risk than natural resource equities.
Economic Outlook Macro Insights From PIMCO's Global Advisory Board The board's expertise has helped inform our overall secular outlook and constitutes a valuable input into our investment process.
Featured Solutions Commodities Remain a Valuable Portfolio Allocation While the last few years of commodity returns are not an aberration, they are also not the norm.


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More mysteries at the Point Conception Lighthouse from my recent flight there, are revealed with help from a link JoJoFlys posted in a comment on my earlier pix. This wide shot looking toward the south shows things in context, with the keeper's house (closeup here) just visible in shade to the left of the highest point where the original light was. The closer pic better looking toward the west shows that hilltop where there's apparently a telecommunications shack now standing on part of the foundation, with the keeper's house on the left and barracks on the right. The closeup shows a tiny shack that's visible above the cliff at the left edge of the wide shot, that was maybe an outhouse or something related to beach access? I had thought much of the construction out there was related to Vandenberg's defense and space work, but maybe nearly all of it is from various incarnations of the lighthouses, fog horns and bells that have been placed there?
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Ross LarsenBritish Land Co., the U.K.'s second-largest real estate investment trust, bought London properties including the Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre from Wereldhave NV for 183.8 million pounds ($290 million.)
The shopping mall alone cost 142.5 million pounds in an all-share transaction, British Land, based in the U.K. capital, said today in a statement. The portfolio also includes retail and office space in central and west London.
Chief Executive Officer Chris Grigg has focused on boosting occupancy at the company's retail properties and attracting enough tenants to planned developments to justify starting construction work. Wereldhave, based in the Netherlands, last month sold all of its U.S. holdings to Lone Star Funds for about $720 million as it focuses on western European shopping assets. The company today reported a full-year net loss that exceeded analyst estimates.
The Ealing Broadway center has 300,000 square feet of retail and leisure space and the purchase represents a net initial yield of 6.9 percent, according to the statement.
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Anyway, that gave me a great suggestion to send you guys -- why don't you make breakfast food-flavored Combos? You could have something like a bacon, egg, and cheese Combo or a Combo with pancake syrup-flavored filling. In any event, I'm sure you guys would be able to figure out something good if you decided to make breakfast Combos. I really hope you consider this -- I really think a lot of people would be inclined to try it, since there are so many "on-the-go" options for breakfast nowadays and most of them suck...terribly. So, if you do end up making breakfast Combos and you need someone to test them, don't hesitate to drop me a line.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Jenkins Turkish Delights
I said I'd never knit lace.
I said I'd never spin.
I said I'd never spin on a wheel.
I said I'd never weave.
Clearly, I am not to be trusted when it comes to sweeping proclamations of activities I'll never do. Imagine my surprise when I "broke down" and got not one, but two Jenkins Bottom Whorl Turkish Spindles. I had been admiring several folks pictures on Ravelry (Marihana, Criminy Jickets and Eydeet. all evil, evil people.... which is why we get along so well) until I finally had to head over to Ed and Wanda's site to see what was still available.
They are so popular right now, that you have to "stalk" the list and make a request the moment the pix go live. They have updates about once every two weeks, but it helps if you send an email and tell them woods that you like.
The two spindles I got were a full sized Turkish in Cocobolo wood and Turkish Delight in Yucatan Rosewood (pictured here). Both are a joy to look at and have perfect balance. I was able to start spinning immediately upon opening the package because they ship with a little pouf of fiber. The TD had a silk hankie and the full Turk had some lovely dark blue/turquoise pencil roving.
I might be getting some additional Turks (and potentially niddy noddies/top whorls/wpi tools....) from the Spanish Peacock, but I have to wait until he's back from the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. My bank account and budget can breathe a sigh of relief... for the time time being.
10 comments:
- The A.D.D. Knitter said...
You are incorrigible!!
- April 20, 2009 at 3:52 PM
- Dave said...
Evil? I had no intention of getting a Turk, of either size, until I saw yours and Jurgen's. I'm not telling how many I have on order. I'm not the evil one. :-)
- April 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
OK, I'm guilty. I confess. Please don't burn me nonetheless :-)
- April 21, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Vtknitboy said...
yum! what fun.
- May 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Jennifer said...
I got one from Spanish Peacock at the MDS&W. Perfectly balanced, smoothly finished and reasonable price. Nothing to be gained by waiting.
- May 29, 2009 at 5:47 AM
- Hege said...
Thanks for your comment on my blog! Let me know how you like the knitting belt/stick! Sorry, I didn't make a video. :) I have found out that there are 12 inch Inox needles available, too, which I think might be easier to use.
Meanwhile, I really want to learn to spin soon as well... It looks like so much fun, and those spindles are awesome, like little works of art! - May 29, 2009 at 3:38 PM
- the Lady said...
I know what you mean - I thought I'd *never* want to spin... it looked so boring and DULL. And then, what do you know, 6 months later... and now I have hella stash and it is so exciting! When it comes to fiber, there are a lot of things I'm doing now that I never thought I'd do. Cute little spindles!
- June 2, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- Keith said...
I saw a woman using one on Saturday (WWSIP day) and was amazed how smoothly and long it spun. We'll just have to see how fast I can get better on my beginner spindles (thanks again Mike) before I indulge.
- September 22, 2009 at 6:31 AM
- Leebot said...
I just received my Jenkins Turkish Delight (first turkish spindle ever) in the mail last week. I find myself attracted to the beautiful varieties of wood! Are you enjoying spinning on your turk?!
- December 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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Legal Challenges to the New Health Care Law
Under a storm of controversy and additional "fixes" to healthcare reform, President Obama finally signed the highly contested health care bill into law. At least 14 States have filed suits challenging the constitutionality of the new Health Care Law. Lawyer2Lawyer host, J. Craig Williams, and guest co-host, David E. Frank welcome Lanny J. Davis, partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and David B. Rivkin, Jr., partner in the Washington office of Baker Hostetler LLP, to talk about these legal challenges to the new law.


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totally like it: especially the reptile body parts.
overall i like the dragon: looking forward to see how he looks standing on his own feet.
I didn't get the email again.
DB Skelly looks great! I'm so happy he finally has the vintage forearms and boots. I love it!
"Skeletor to King Randor...Skeletor to King Randor. Come in, you royal boob!"
totally like it: especially the reptile body parts.
overall i like the dragon: looking forward to see how he looks standing on his own feet.
Oh man, that is awesome. Like others I do wish the dragon had a water squirt attachment, but the real chains and lock make up for it.
Very nice!! I'm stoked for this one!
I'm hoping for a Disco Skeletor for the next subscription exclusive! Fully flocked!
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Wicked - after Terror-bra, err, Terror-claws Dragon Blaster is my favorite Skeletor variant. The dragon's head might take some getting used to, but I'm sure it'll grow on me (pun hopefully intended).
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Im sorry friend but it doesnt matter what he shows, TG cant win for losing with this place. If it would have been NA Skelly people would have been saying he was dumb for not doing DB Skelly during the year of the dragon, or what do we get TP but no DB skelly to go with him or that it was leaked in the mini comic leak so TG "changed" the line up to mix things up.
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The dragon looks very big! Look how long he is with the tail coming down- looks awesome! I also appreciate THIS particular case of "switching up the parts" by using the new Khan shins and some different forearms for this particular Skeletor. It really does make the figure "POP"! I can't wait to see who they spring on us for the final quarterly variant- hoping for some Catra love!
Oh wow cool. i wonder why i never get these emails, I didn't get Mekaneck's email either, dang.
Very cool. I think the dragon looks ok, but I love the armor and the chains (especially the padlock).
Weird that Skeletor has different body parts, however. How does he change his body parts out, I wonder?
Glad they added the cardback touch of giving the dragon a collar...
Anyone want to guess if the dragon has a name? And if so, what it is?
I wouldn't say goofier than the originals. Usually, they break about even with the vintage but with better proportions and articulation. This one might be the exception!
I never had high hopes for this variant, but I like the new Kahn parts on Skelly.
Your support means more research for the Myostatin-challenged.
So now equipped with my new avatar, I'm more than ready to play the big waiting game!
Finally, I'm getting my favourite MOTU variant!
At first I was a little unsure about the dragon's head. WAY too many teeth, compared to the original. But it's growing on me as I'm typing!
Press down on dragon's head. It sprays enemies with a jet of water!
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The Dragon's name better be "Pixel"...
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This guy is getting my Alcala head to make him pop even more - main Skelly figure not the dragon
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Congrats to those who wanted this. Can't say I'm very interested (yet...), this figure just doesn't mean anything to me. The minicomic and new Skeletor parts are the only things it has going for it for me to buy it.
However, it DOES look great for what it is, which is a rather bizarre variant. Looks much better than the pasty-white TP He-Man. I never knew it was supposed to be a real dragon on his back, I thought it was just some lame weapon, lol. Looks good.
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Got my e-mail also and I think Dragon Blaster Skeletor looks AWESOME!!! I am thrilled with how he looks!
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YES!!!! I love it and the fact that it is removable from the armor is something I always wanted as a kid.
I want NA Skeletor and Rio Blast and I want them now!
I would have rather had the NA skelly. Glad he has Khans wrists and boots. Will put the Alcala head on him so he looks even more unique.
I'd love to see somebody argue with the often neglected NA fans (3 figures in 4 years) about getting a figure.
I know you're being sarcastic (and this isn't directed toward you), but alot of people had forgotten that we didn't get both Battle Armor variants in the same year. Keldor was the Skeletor variant to match Battle Armor He-Man in 2010 and Preternia He-Man was the He-Man variant to match Battle Armor Skeletor in 2011.
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Ok, the new plan is in place! The focus will be on muscular endurance, with rest periods minimized to also keep the heart rate up for fat loss and cardiovascular endurance. I'll be using an upper/lower split 4 days a week while still allowing time for PT.
Monday- rest
Tuesday- PT (full body workout lasting over 1.5 hours, usually VERY tough with lots of stuff to failure.)
Wednesday- rest
Thursday- Lower body
5:00 jog for warm up
Squats- 135lb done non-stop for time, starting at 3:00, adding :20 each session.
leg extensions- 2x15-20
leg curls- 2x15-20
calf press- 5x10-15
Friday- Upper body 1.
155lb. bench press/bodyweight row super set starting at 8 reps, ramping up to 14, then back down to 8 for a total of 140 reps each.
Saturday- Repeat lower body.
Sunday- Upper body 2.
dip/chin up superset starting at 4 reps, ramping up to 11, then back down to 4 for a total of 109 reps each.
I'm realizing that it's very tough to combine high volume with simplicity. When you do just a few moves a bunch of times throughout the week, you get tired in very specific ways that can make you burn out. This plan has a little more variety to it and doesn't nail my lower back like the old plan did. I'll stick to this, then add in things like power cleans when I back on the volume later on.
I got some fish oil to add to my supplements, and fiber powder to start adding to my shakes. Last night a had a shake with heavy cream, eggs, protein powder, creatine, and 8 grams of fiber. Around 500 calories, and a quick 30+ grams each of fat and protein. It was pretty good, but all the creaminess just isn't the same without the sweetness to go along with it.
I'll live though.
bodyweight- 211.2
Bodyweight is up today. I'm sure that the original loss that comes with getting rid of the carbs is over, and hopefully things will even out around 209 this week, then I can slowly move calories down to get the fat coming off.
I've had trouble getting to sleep at night, but I've been so quick to get up in the mornings it hasn't mattered! As soon as that alarm goes off I'm up and ready to go. I've always been ok with mornings, but this diet has made me even better about it. I wouldn't want to sleep past 8 even if I could.
I started taking Erase today as part of my PCT. My test has already been elevated, so I'm interested to see how this will affect me. I've been much quicker to get angry the past week than in the past, and still find my aggression to be elevated. I've even been a little short with my wife, which is completely new. It's not enough to worry though. Who'd have thought I'd have roid rage issues just on elevated natural hormone levels?! Gym sessions are intense, with the only issue being my lower back aches, and I blame that completely on poor foresight on my part when planning this program.
I'm excited about keeping the intensity going with this new plan and hopefully seeing some good results.
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The Task
For ShipIt XII I tried to implement a few "easy" improvements to Confluence's notification emails:
- Automatically watch content you create/edit based on User settings
- Add a "Stop Watching" link to notification emails
- When a User starts following you, send an email with their profile
Automatic watches
I implemented these by simply adding a Watch on the content when it is created/edited, based on the user's preferences.
I also changed the default "Watch this Page?" checkbox to be checked when adding comments, so that users start watching content they comment on.
Between these two changes I figured that people would start getting a lot more emails that they might be interested in, however they might not be that interested...
Stop watching from email
Each notification email now has a "Stop Watching" link:
Sounds simple, but users may receive emails because they're watching a Page/Blog or watching the Space it is in. How can they stop watching content while still watching the Space?
It turned out that the way to do this was to create an "anti-watch" that overrides the Space watch in order to ignore a particular Page or Blog post. This worked quite well, but I still need to find a way to expose this feature in the Web interface, not just in the emails, and to allow the user to manage these new kinds of "watches".
Follow email
This task took a surprisingly long time because I got caught up in making the email look right – CSS can be a real time-sink! However, I'm pretty pleased with the end result:
For laughs, I also created an email for when a user stops watching you, with a link to stop watching them in return. Although the possibilities for escalation and workplace shenanigans are tempting, you probably won't see this confirmation message in Confluence anytime soon:
Getting it shipped
- The automatic watches were fairly straightforward code-wise; I'd estimate another 2 days for writing tests and tweaking the UI.
- The "anti-watches" concept feels like a bit of a hack so I'd want to check that people really do want to watch a space and ignore certain content in it. If so, the UI will need work and plenty of tests will need to be added; about 1 week all up.
- The follow email includes user profile images which may not be publicly-accessible. Allowing for this, plus tests, design-tweaking would probably take about 4 days of work.


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Star Trek: The desk is key
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Oh yeah, another thing I hate about Insurrection: They fucked up with the ready room desk.
But then we got to the movies.
What the Christ? What the hell happened here, Picard? What are you, a two year old? Hasn't anybody taught you how to clean up after yourself? Why in God's name do you have dozens of PADDs and all kinds of crap all piled up here? Why is your desk so damn cluttered and messy? Is this the same side of you that enjoys off-road racing? I just don't... I really uh, don't know what to make of this. Why would you need so many different PADDs? Couldn't you just navigate through various data with a single PADD? There's amazing things people are doing with iPhones and iPads today, surely they'll be even better and more efficient in the future. Again... Star Trek is about how great the future is going to be. This looks like a goddamn bureaucratic nightmare.
Now, on a different subject... um, just rewatching some Voyager episodes lately... I've really gotta say that I hate some of the characters. Not because the actors are horrible people, but because they're just written so badly and boringly. Like.. Tuvok. What the hell is there to Tuvok? We had Spock, and he was a Vulcan, and that meant he didn't really have any emotions, but there was still so much to the character. Spock was still so interesting and captivating and could elicit a lot with just a raised eyebrow. He even turned out to be the most popular character during TOS's run.
Yet we've got Tuvok, and he's also a Vulcan, but... there's just nothing there. When he says something in this flat emotionless voice, that's it. It's just this flat dialogue and there's nothing to the character. He might as well be wallpaper, standing back there in that alcove. He fades from memory because he's just so darn boring and unmemorable. What went wrong here? Spock was great but Tuvok is awful. I haven't seen Tim Russ in anything else, so I dunno if he's terrible in other roles. But probably not? I hope it's just the material he was given.


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The Washington, D.C. hip-hop scene has steadily been on the rise for what feels like at least five years. Flag-wavers Oddisee and Wale, among others, have tirelessly put on for their hometown while bubbling acts like Phil Ade, yU, and Uptown X.O. have done their part to spread awareness. And now, we can add 26-year-old spitter SmCity to that growing list. He's poised to make some waves next week with the release of The Indie Life: Hate, Love & Money, a free online-only release featuring one hell of a single in "Mr. IDGAF." You can stream that track, which features Oddisee and Phil Ade, below and download it here. Oddisee's on the beat, too, and he kills it, per usual.
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