For the dismantling of the apartment, prior to earthli’s move to Switzerland, the Webcam has been re-enabled. As usual, service will be intermittent, but you should be able to see the living room change…and maybe we’ll move the camera as we move to different rooms.

Neck − lie flat on back, raise head, twist from side to side for 1 minute
Arms − forearm raises − Get into pushup position, but on the forearms instead…hold for 15 seconds. Lift right arm behind back, hold for 15 seconds. Lift left arm behind back, hold for 15 seconds. Both arms again. Repeat.

Footwork

Get into stance as quickly as possible on a cue. Do five times into stance going forward, then backward.

step and slide forward twice − 5 times forward, then 5 times backward
slide/step... [More]

90 J Jacks
20 Reg push ups
20 wide
20 diamond
30 crunches legs raised
30 L over R
30 R over L
90 Knee bends

live round:
straight lead, back fist, low straight lead, hook

combinations:
2 sl, bf sl, sl hk, lsl sl

avoidance drills, switch with partner
slip on jab
catch jab parry cross (can also snap away)
catch parry cover

10 hk (hook kick)
10 hk + sl
10 fk (front kick)
10 fk + sl
20 rear leg roundhouse

10 squat thrusts with 3 pushups
30 crunches legs up
30 bicycles
25 leg raises
80 or so jumping jacks
80 or so knee bends
20 regular pushups
20 diamond pushups
20 wide push ups
25 squat jumps !

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footwork drills

slide forward, slide back
slide back, slide forward
slide back, push shovel

(2 or 3 more, cant remember)

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single straight lead standing, count of 20 (?)
—be careful not to jam the hand, should connect with vertical fist and straight elbow
straight lead with a push shovel... [More]

If hackers ruled the world at Security Database’s forums is a pretty funny post of Photoshopped images modified to show an eerie alternate reality in which Hacker-Speak has replaced English everywhere. My favorites are the first one (with a hacker-friendly epitath) and the one shown at left, which is pretty funny if you play any online multiplayer games (especially Quake, Counterstrike, etc.).

That’s a nice term I saw coined by Ted Rall in If You Have Dignity, the Terrorists Have Won on Yahoo News. It’s an opinion piece which covers the dread with which you should be approaching this day quite nicely.

“Are you the kind of person who believes that attaching a plastic American flag to your SUV makes a major patriotic statement? … Don’t get the rest of us wrong. We love America too. But we are understandably tense as we approach what is likely to be the greatest orgy of cheesy... [More]”

“A ‘code’ of ethics is a myth. It is only in the most convoluted of circumstances that ethical dilemmas arise. Up to that point, there is no moral quandary. Simply because there exist cases for which a simple, straighforward, common-sense ethics has no answer is no reason to doubt its validity where it does apply. Social interaction is not mathematics; one example does not suffice to disprove its correctness. Therefore, for most matters, there is only one ethics to which all can adhere − that... [More]”

Warmups

1. Shadow boxing
2. 35 regular crunches (legs up)
3. 35 bicycle crunches
4. 25 bring legs in and arms up in a crunch, like a jackknife, but with arms and legs tucked
5. 25 regular pushups
6. 20 diamond pushups
7. 10 reverse negative pushups. Go down, just off the floor, raise to halfway and hold until the count, then return to just off the floor again.
8. 75 jumping jacks
9. 75 knee bends
10. 15 squat thrusts with jump

Good exercises to strengthen neck and prevent whiplash in glove drills:

for the neck − lie flat,... [More]

TRANSCRIPT OF BUSH’S SUMMIT WITH PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN is a pretty funny (fake) interview between these three fellows I found on the White House.org’s press releases section.

He has the Prince ask for “The One”, who turns out to be Cheney and includes the line “Never let it be said that your Christian whore is not civil.”. Happily, while I find it pretty funny, I’m not so far gone yet that I’d publish this in the Humor & Fun section.

(There’s another recent article with a (fake) transcript... [More]

Here’s a real quote, from none other than Jello Biafra, former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, a notorious punk band of the late 80s/early 90s. He once stormed college campuses, opening concerts with the following:

“WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM WITH A SPECIAL BULLETIN. AMERICA IS NOW UNDER MARTIAL LAW. ALL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. STAY IN YOUR HOMES, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT LOVED ONES, INSURANCE AGENTS OR ATTORNEYS. SHUT UP! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO THINK OR DEPRESSION MAY OCCUR.... [More]”

“Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination − that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible; and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign policy domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to facilitate our exploitation of resources.”

earthli.com will soon be leaving its home at Logicat, where it’s been housed for almost 3 years. I’m leaving Logicat and moving to Switzerland, so soon earthli will be served from there (hosted at Opus, my new employer). I’ve updated my resume (PDF) with my last work at Logicat.

3.998GHz! Now that’s an overclocked chip. This was spotted at Slashdot in an article called P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz. In their English language abstract, they mention that they actually got it to run at 3.998GHz after all. Yeah, those numbers are correct. These crazy Finnish guys place the entire chip assembly into a bath of liquid nitrogen inside a styrofoam cup (see picture). In a couple of pictures, you can see the Fluke thermometer registering -193°C! The whole site’s in Finnish,... [More]

The New York Newsday published several news items today (and some from other days this week are pulled in), which together paint an altogether different picture of the U.S. than it would like. These are normal articles in a normal newspaper; information there for anyone with open eyes and an open mind to see.

The first, Caution Over NY Airspace mentions that the “federal government is expected to prevent foreign airlines from taking off or landing at metropolitan New York airports during... [More]”

We Must Cut Down the Forest to Save It on Plastic talks about Bush’s recent burst of environmentalism. You can check the NY Times article, Bush, Citing Fire Hazards, Wants Logging Rules Eased or the Forest thinning has Bush support article at the Washington Times (whose article title should have elicited a deafening “duh!” from its readers).

Bush must have been dancing once he saw this wonderfully facile reason for opening up national forests to his buddies in logging. Because that’s really... [More]

Warmups

1. Shadow boxing
2. 25 regular pushups
3. 25 wide pushups
4. 35 regular crunches (legs up)
5. 35 bicycle crunches
6. 25 leg raises
7. 15 squat thrusts
8. 1 minute knee bends

Drills

1. Practice bob and weave under opponent’s outstretched arms
2. Practice slip to the inside and outside
3. Combinations − straight lead, straight lead to backfist, straight lead to hook

Glovework

1. Wall drills − Practice slip the straight lead and cross
2. Wall drills − Practice mixing up the two
3. 15 Rear leg roundhouse

Warmups

1. Shadow boxing
2. 15 clap pushups
3. 30 diamond pushups
4. 30 seconds regular crunches (legs up)
5. 30 seconds bicycle crunches
6. 25 leg raises
7. 30 seconds jumping side-to-side over a kicking shield
8. 30 seconds rest
9. 30 seconds jumping front-to-back over a kicking shield
10. 10 squat thrusts

Drills

1. Mirror drill

   1. 2 minutes regular
   2. 2 minutes, with person leading throwing side kick, parry with rear hand and stay as close as possible
   3. 2 minutes, person leading throws side kick, other person evades (with pat of... [More]

Ashcroft Seeks to Abuse Use of ‘Secret Court’ in the New York Newsday talks about a court in the U.S. that is responsible for granting requests for “searches of its own citizens for foreign intelligence gathering”. This court is called the FISA court (which stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…and don’t you sleep better knowing that’s around). It’s necessary because the constitution often gets in the way of surveillance of individuals that the government already knows are guilty, so... [More]

Warmups

1. Shadow boxing
2. 1 minute jumping jacks
3. 1 minute knee bends
4. 1 minute regular crunches (legs up)
5. 1 minute bicycle crunches
6. 25 regular pushups
7. 25 wide pushups
8. 45 seconds calf raises

Drills

1. Practice in the air along the long axis of the room (back and forth)

   1. Punch combinations (low straight, high straight, hook uppercut, backfist, all straight line punches)
   2. Kick combinations (hook, side, front, inverted)
   3. Hand to foot combinations
   4. Foot to hand combinations
   With the kicking shield

   1. front kicks... [More]

Warmups

1. Shadow boxing
2. 10 Squat thrusts with 5 pushups on each one
3. 35 crunches (legs up)
4. 35 left over right
5. 35 right over left
6. 25 leg raises
7. 100 jumping jacks
8. 60 calf raises
9. 10 squat jumps

Drills

1. Mirror drill − 3 minutes
2. 20 Inverted hook kicks
3. 2 minutes practice spinning back kick
4. 2 minutes practice spinning hook kick
5. Pak sau, opponent resists, go to lop outside
6. lop outside, opponent resists, go to pak sau
7. opponent paks, you pull back to avoid the pak and pak the opponent
8. Low straight lead to... [More]

Warmups

1. Shadow boxing
2. 30 regular pushups
3. 30 diamond pushups
4. 35 regular crunches (legs up)
5. 35 bicycle crunches
6. 35 leg raises
7. 100 jumping jacks
8. 100 knee bends
9. 5 squat thrusts
10. 5 squat thrusts with a jump at the end
11. 5 squat thrusts with a pushup in the middle and a jump at the end

Drills

1. Mirror drill − person leading attacks with straight lead, either snap away or curve out and hit (intercept)
2. Single direct attack drill − straight lead, backfist, lead hook, shovel hook, cross (or rear straight)... [More]

MSDN has published Full Eiffel on the .NET Framework by Emmanuel Stapf, Raphael Simon and Bertrand Meyer, all of ISE (though Meyer is identified as being at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, so perhaps he’s teaching there now, which, for someone moving near Zurich, is pretty exciting).

“[It d]escribes the implementation and integration of the full power of the Eiffel language and method, including Design by Contract, multiple inheritance, genericity, and other advanced facilities, into the... [More]”

Ars Technica has a rundown on the latest Apple/Mac conference, MacWorld New York, in MWNY Keynote: Time to line the RDF with asbestos?, which announced a lot of new products, both hardware and software. Most of the hardware changes are incremental updates, with the IMac upgrading to a 17" wide screen, which is very cool. The IPod now has “[u]p to 20 GB of storage, official support for calendar and contacts, and Windows support via MusicMatch.”

The most interesting updates are on the software... [More]

Opera casts off legacy code for speed on CNet’s News.com provides basically a press release about Opera’s new 7.0 browser, dubbed Presto. Latest information on the 7.0 release is available on Opera software’s 7.0 page.

“Dubbed Project Presto, after the musical tempo-character marking indicating speed and lightness, the rewritten browser was designed to make Opera both faster and more compatible with the Document Object Model (DOM), an emerging standard technology that lets scripts, like... [More]”

Almost 2 months ago, the Mozilla project finally released a 1.0 version of its browser. Mozilla Milestone 1.0: the Review on Ars Technica gives a good overview and review of the final product.

Those who’ve downloaded builds of Mozilla over the years have doubtless found that Mozilla seems to suffer from an identity crisis. Sometimes it seems like a browser, sometimes it seems like a standards-compliant rendering engine, sometimes it feels like a development environment cum operating system. It... [More]

State of Decay on DDJ documents a new classification system for a phenomenon everyone in the computing world has experienced: cruft. Cruft is defined thusly:

“When you spot a class interface that is no longer used by any client, but that nobody dare delete, that’s cruft. It is also the word “seperate,” added to a spellchecker’s private dictionary in a moment of careless haste, and now waiting for a suitably important document. Cruft is the cruel corruption and confusion inevitably wrought by... [More]”

Apple has bowed to industry pressure and crippled their music device, the iPod. Each iPod has one “home” machine with which it stays automatically synchronized. Once you’ve connected the iPod (and only then), you can change on-board settings that control whether this happens automatically for all songs, for just selected playlists (useful if your library is larger than the iPod’s capacity) or not at all. If you select the manual mode of music transfer, iTunes and iPod still enforce moving songs... [More]

I read this whole article: Let History Come to You. And I’m proud that I managed to make it through without just shaking my head in disgust and closing the window. The tenor of the writing, the fact-checking, the mixing of argument, the heavy use of the straw man all perfectly match the picture of the smirking jackass at the top of the page. But, sometimes, you should read something you think you won’t like just to make sure your filters aren’t set too high.

The basic tenet that the government... [More]

John Carmack gave a long presentation (almost 3 hours) at Quakecon 2002 which covered the current Doom technology and the future of gaming as he sees it. Gamespy has the complete coverage in QuakeCon 2002 − John Carmack Speaks. The future of graphics technology involves rendering effects like lens flares and specular highlighting in a more realistic manner; not that they look more realistic necessarily (though they will), but moving more rendering into the ‘standard’ pipeline instead of... [More]

Warmups

1. 25 squat jumps
2. 25 regular pushups
3. 25 wide pushups
4. 25 diamond pushups
5. 35 crunches (legs up)
6. 35 bicycles
7. 25 leg raises
8. hold legs 6 inches off ground for 45 seconds
9. Stretch up

Drills

1. Mirror drill − 3 minutes
2. Front hand education − straight lead/backfist, straight lead/hook, hook/backfist, low straight to high straight
3. Knife drill − standing in place, practice 5 angles of attack
4. Knife drill − with a partner, parry (meet) 5 angles of attack with the same angle, going back and forth across... [More]