The recent comic by XKCD is fun. It would be nice if someone put those words to music. Things are going alright here. I'm keeping busy and I'm trying not to get too stressed out with work. Any who, I guess I am easily amused or excitable, but life is cool. Please don't let the little things get you down. Take care everyone! :) Boom De Yada, - Paul

It rains again today. Fortunately I have a new umbrella that I get to carry around campus, a gift I got from my recent visit to the Red Cross blood donation center. It's really nice that the Red Cross has began to give out things other than t-shirts for their blood drive. Hopefully I'll be able to get one of those fancy sweatshirts they've been touting about.

I have to admit, I'm addicted to dancing. This has become more of my life where I have been taking a class at UMBC for latin dancing on the weekends and then going about once a week to a live band locally. It's a bunch of fun and a great way to keep those kg's off.

Scottie has a good point in his reply to my previous post. There are a good many of things to be careful of in this world and being aware of them is a first step. Working towards improving the world is what I try my best to do. The worst thing to do is to denounce that the problem even exists, this is nothing but blasphemy.

(t-264 days)

It has made the news again. This time Dr. Vini Gautam Khurana (Australian neurosurgeon) has published a linkage on his website that has been picked up by news sites around the world as a firm link between the usage of cell phones and brain cancer. Dr. Olle Johansson and other Swedish researchers found such links years ago, but it seems to take a good amount of publicity to get the issue on the table and (more importantly) beyond the control of the large communication institutions to subdue.

In 2007 Khurana published an article [headache] that demonstrates how headaches are the body's way of indicating to us that something is wrong. The stronger the headache the more worrisome the symptoms are.

I'd look around and see all those towers around us and think about what that means for those of us who live *near* towers that are radiating us without our consent. It doesn't matter how strong your tissue is in your brain, or for that matter in your hip, abdomen, or anywhere else in your body. If you plan to live long, avoid medical complications, and maybe even have kids... it has been made clear that having a cellphone near you or using one is a sure step in direction of loosing those plans.

My question now is how long will it take us to realize the effects the power lines are having on humans to limit those and burry them.

I keep reading in the news about a new feature that is rumored, this is that Apple may be releasing a package in which people can download as many songs as they like for one price. This is really cool, except I would probably have a hard time justifying it.

When people do any sort of down mixing of music, if someone like myself tries to make psudospectrums or do tempo / speed adjustments in music any sort, the downmixing codec compressions will cause severe artifacts to show up. Hence, when I am slowing or speeding music up to use it as dance music, it gets something I would refer to as the jitters at the higher frequencies. Hence forth I'll keep my MiniDisks, and those discounted Amazon CDs will always be for me. I still remember my first 33/45/78 rpm speed vinyl record player and dancing to some classics in near double time. ;)

Today Google has begun the IPv6 experience by publicly launching ipv6.google.com. While you are at it check out my IPv6 stuff. Enjoy! :)

- Paul Schou

Hello,

Happy Leap Day! I've been working on a research project looking at the data produced by Global Climate Models (GCMs) and have learned quite a few tricks I know will be useful in the future for when I need to downscale or interpolate data. What's also interesting is that one of my classmates had a challenge of trying to look at large data series and find certain points, and after looking at the problem for a little bit I realized I had a routine that I wrote a few years ago that would do just that (called meanbin). It's funny how old scripts that one writes comes back to be useful in the future.

I'm looking forward to my next trip to Europe though I haven't decided where to go yet. Steve has mentioned that Scandinavia would be a good destination, so heading back to Norway may be in my near term future. :)

Viele Grüße,

- Paul Schou

With the recent launch of Atlantis on Thursday last week I thought I may pass along the NASA Launch Schedule vCal which I made to anyone who is interested. Enjoy!

Awesome news today, it looks like IPv6 is now supported by 6 of the 13 name servers! I am really looking forward to seeing this architecture spread throughout the internet down to the individual user. Just imagine not having to deal with the pitfalls of running a NAT server in your home. I just hope that this will not be destroyed by the movement to masquerade ip addresses again. NAT servers are definitely not the answer but a make shift solution. IPv6 is a real answer.

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