Since it had been a while, I figured it might be a nice change to read something completely unrelated to my work or school, to refresh the spirit. Which I think was achieved. The book is typical Dickens in it’s esoteric vocabulary, but I tend to like that kind of reading material anyway. I was surprised at how I managed to get through high school and college without reading it though – I believe my curriculum must have substituted another of Dickens’ works in its stead.

Today we talked about Casey’s non-cooperative game model for P2P networks, (using bittorrent as a specific example).  In a non-cooperative context, we talked about incentives to prevent leechers and promote sharing.  MessageReaper has the same need for incentives (the current model is based on past history) that reward current activities (like reputation).
We also talked about [...]

This totally rocks! A petition to have the old Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon series released on DVD.
http://www.petitiononline.com/thundarr/petition.html

I am speechless.  Well, almost.  One of those R2D2 toys, hacked to be a dvd projector…  Sweet!

I started twittering a little while ago, just for the fun of it, partially as a result of being forced to keep a research journal.  After a while, I discovered the firefox extension, TwitterFox, and the integration application on Facebook that allows twitters to replace your “current activity” microblog in your profile.  But then I [...]

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