Adam Fields (weblog)

This blog is largely deprecated, but is being preserved here for historical interest. Check out my index page at adamfields.com for more up to date info. My main trade is technology strategy, process/project management, and performance optimization consulting, with a focus on enterprise and open source CMS and related technologies. More information. I write periodic long pieces here, shorter stuff goes on twitter or app.net.

11/20/2004

All kinds of Windows XP performance tweaks

Filed under: — adam @ 11:18 am

This is a great, deep resource.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/gbraun/wxp/


Tips for not raising suspicion when you take pictures in public

Filed under: — adam @ 10:54 am

Not so much tips as a case study, but interesting nonetheless.

It’s got this gem in it:

"Beyond these limited steps, the Investigator agreed that there was little a photographer could do to avoid coming under suspicion in these troubled times."

http://www.nyip.com/tips/topic_firstslr0404.php


If only I could concentrate and smoke the naked people

Filed under: — adam @ 10:48 am

‘Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.

Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee’s Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography.

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Cognitive Therapy, called porn the "most concerning thing to psychological health that I know of existing today."’

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65772,00.html


Anti-abortion provision neatly tucked into omnibus spending bill.

Filed under: — adam @ 10:44 am

"The abortion language would bar federal, state and local agencies from withholding taxpayer money from health care providers that refuse to provide or pay for abortions or refuse to offer abortion counseling or referrals."

As we’ve discussed here before, I think it’s the referrals part that really sticks this.

Via Mr. Zeau:

http://nytimes.com/2004/11/20/politics/20spend.html


Artificial homes for hermit crabs

Filed under: — adam @ 10:34 am

"Right now, 30 percent of all hermit crabs on our shorelines are living in shells that are too small for them. In the springtime, when the animal has its growth spurt, this shortage skyrockets to 60 percent. Hermit crabs, whose own bodies provide only thin exoskeletons, must scavenge and appropriate hard-walled shells abandoned by marine gastropods for shelter. The problem is that there currently are not enough shells left on our beaches for hermit crabs to use. This situation is not only uncomfortable but dire."

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/13/demaray.php


Data Mining the Senate

Filed under: — adam @ 10:32 am

“With this data we can do many interesting visualizations and analyses that will be discussed in the next section. We will learn how influential each senator is, how influential are individual states, which senators voted most similarly, and which blocs seem to exist in the US Senate.”

http://www.ailab.si/aleks/Politics/


Canadian NDP wants to ban trans fats

Filed under: — adam @ 10:03 am

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/11/12/trans_fats_041112


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