Electric Josh

Baby
More baby pictures. Now, isn't checking this space frequently handsomely repaid?
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The computer is playing me a song called Michigan, a nice little love song, that's on the order of seven minutes long, by a band called Red House Painters. Who the hell are they? That followed by something by Superchunk, whom I've only ever heard once before. Both excellent. Death Cab For Cutie came earlier.

I would never have ever heard either of these songs if not for the internet. It's like being in school when a large minority of my friends were at least somewhat involved in campus radio, where all the music is good and totally unheard of. I get to pretend to be cool again. The internet is good.
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PPT
This is not a joke. Now why didn't they have this for Bill Clinton?
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Southern man
So dad's radio silence is due to the absence of internet connections at Beardmore base, and not because he was among the eight Korean researchers in Antarctica who were lost, for a time, at sea, and one of whom is presumed dead. Those folks were working from a new Korean station on the Antarctic Peninsula, about 90 degrees east of where dad et al. are, at Beardmore on the other side of the Ross Ice Shelf where they're awaiting (in good weather) helicopters that were delayed getting out of McMurdo by bad weather. Not to worry.
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Offshore
A super interesting conversation among economist types, on the rapidly increasing number of jobs being outsourced overseas. The following demonstrates a massive disconnect between these folks and the complexity of the type of job they're talking about:

Out in the Bay Area there are plenty of folks who would love to create a little bit of protectionism around their I.T. jobs, but we are far better off letting a lot of those jobs go. Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs.

Umm, no programmer does only the low-skill part of coding; instead, each programmer works constantly to understand (and to help to develop) the project's requirements as sketched by the project management layer. That's not to say that there aren't too many programmers in San Francisco, but let's be clear: if something in programming is low-skill, then you can (gasp!) write a little program to do it automatically, and then spend your time worrying about the high-skill part, which is communicating with the project manager or client. Geez.
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