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California Speedway crash

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2 died at California Speedway track event in Carrera GT

more discussion at Pelican Part’s forums

This is everywhere on the net tonight, very sad, RIP Ben and Friend. 🙁

Update: Found this on Toadfly…

Ferrari Owners Club event.

No corner workers. [There might’ve been 2 of them for the entire track]

No flaggers.

Organizers–AMAZINGLY–changed pit out so it merget at the end of the main high-speed straight, instead of a long blend line that takes you all the way around to the turn into the infield.

Another car pulled out of pits, at much lower speed, in front of him. He swerved, and hit wall at 150 mph./blockquote>

Open Loops: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email – Pt. 1

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I wonder if these apply to blog entries too… Sometimes I just put “foo” in the subject line coz it’s hard to think of an appropriate one… I used to use no caps but I don’t do that as often now.

I do hate people who add addresses to the CC field, don’t they realize I do know them and there was a good reason why I didn’t include them in the first place. I also have an extra header in all of my personal email messages that looks like this:

X-Copyright: (C) 2005 Andrew Y Ng. Forwarding not permitted without prior permission.

But most people don’t know shit about hidden headers and would care less about quoting or forwarding my mails without my permission.

Open Loops: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People With Email – Pt. 1

The Sun Sets on Oasis

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Though I don’t like this restaurant, it is an Austin landmark and apparently loved by a lot of people, sad news…

Some pics I found at AAS’s site, pretty crazy!!



The Sun Sets on Oasis

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Around 4:30 a.m. this morning, the Oasis restaurant caught fire. Reports say the restaurant, whose main draw was the porches that gave Austinites and tourists a spectacular view of the sunset, is destroyed.

Reports have not yet indicated if the restaurant will be rebuilt (we’re guessing so). There are no reports on injuries or what started the fire.

We didn’t care much for the food, but feel bad that this Austin landmark is gone. And we can’t help but wonder where this leaves the employees and people who’ve booked weddings there.

Austinist feels this news may also affect some of our weekend tourists, as we happened to be at the Oasis during the biker rally a few years ago. We are sure our readers have a few suggestions as to where they can get a bite to eat.

Safari and login credentials

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Is there a good reason Apple decided they wouldn’t integrate Keychain with Safari so it remember passwords in web forms? Right now webserver-base passwords are remember and automatically used to authenticate, but not form-base ones. And unfortunately, most websites like banks and credit cards use form-base username/password authetication.

Almost all other browsers have this, I think Konqeuror, which is what Safari was based, integrates KWallet to do this (correct me if I’m wrong about this, I haven’t used Konqueror for more than a year, pretty much stopped using it since Firefox).

Anonymous rating at Photo.Net

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I really don’t like the new anonymous rating feature at Photo.Net!! And from quickly browsing their site feedback forum, I am not the only one who doesn’t like it!

Will the 3/2 rater please stand up? Anybody who gives less than 3 should be required to leave a critique, that’s how I can learn, or how they can justify their ratings… I’m not terribly upset about it, it’s happened before even without anonymous rating, but I just don’t quite understand the point of this new feature at this great site…