Bryan Strawser

John Robb is an Air Force Academy Graduate (and COO of Userland Software, but that’s another story) – pretty interesting take on the recent air show crash in the Ukraine..

BBC.  Ukraine blames pilots for fatal air crash.  Frankly, this is the reason:  >>>According to a recent military report in Ukraine, air force pilots get roughly 20 hours flight time per year, a figure that is over 10 times lower than in most NATO air forces.<<<  It’s not the pilots, it’s the training.  I wouldn’t feel really proficient unless I flew 20 hours every two weeks!  Flying, particularly highly demanding missions, can kill you if you don’t train.  Even with all the training the US allows you to have, my estimate is that 4% of the people I went to school with at USAFA are dead due to flying mishaps.  That’s 35 out of the 870 that graduated in a class of 1,600.  I probably have five incidents that should have killed me (two big crashes — great stories to tell when sitting in a bar).  Luck and training saved my sorry ass. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

Pretty good stuff happening over at Salon’s blogsplot.  I’ve already joined several blogs as a subscriber…

One thing I noticed about Salon blogs is that they are more literary than the blogs I normally read.  Excellent.  What’s great is that after less than a week from launch, these blogs already have significant traffic.  I bet Scott is one of the top five bloggers in the world in 4 months.  Most of the rest will probably be in the top 1000.  Not a bad place to be. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

Pretty good summary article on wi-fi sharing out in Seattle.  I’m pretty confident that my local providers (AT&T provides broadband service out here) wouldn’t be pleased if their users did this.

I have a fractional T-1, so I can do this if I please.  I doubt, however, that my neighbors are tech-savvy enough to use wi-fi.

The Seattle Times’s take on sharing network connections wirelessly: a neat slice-of-life article in the Seattle Times, my hometown paper, about first-name-only users in a dense single-family residential neighborhood in Seattle starting to tenatively share. This is an interesting kind of sharing, because “David” wants to charge his neighbors a fraction of his cost, where much of the larger community networking efforts involve people who want to offer their bandwidth up for free as part of a larger matrix. Notably, the reporter talked to all sides of the sharing debate: cable, DSL, and local providers, all of which had different takes on the topic. (Speakeasy, the DSL provider quoted late in the article, is my home and business ISP.)  [80211b News]

http://www.gnu.org/server/mirror.html

But a cool idea none the less.  Hey, I know.  DONATE TO ME!

Hate her. Of course, I only hate her because I didn’t do it, first. And now that her web site has been written up in the New York Times…well…you can’t PAY for that kind of advertising. Of course, it’s not clear how much of this she actually would have to report on her taxes…but then, I never know how that stuff works. 🙂 [kerri News]

Granted we don’t have all of the details, but this is typical overreaction from an embarassed arm of government.  Crap like this pisses me off.

WarTalking Arrest [Slashdot]

Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride to end in litigation? –  Apparently plaintiffs lawyers are thinking of targeting theme parks for suit. [Ernie the Attorney]