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I updated Bamboo utility recycleApp from version 1.0 to 1.1 to fix a bug where CreateProcess was failing when the application path had embedded spaces.

Yesterday’s NY Times informs readers of an interesting website, wikiscanner, which returns the DNS-registered owner of the computer or network used to perform edits on Wikipedia entries.

As the Times notes, “Internet users have spotted plenty of interesting changes to Wikipedia by people at nonprofit and government entities like the Central Intelligence Agency. Many of the most obviously self-interested edits have come from corporate networks.”

What a great idea. The site was originally reported by Wired News…check it out!

…and boy are my legs sore! Caught this inquisitive and possibly hungry bear nosing around some poor SOB’s tent on the way back to our campsite. We rolled our car windows up tight last night and dreamed happy bear dreams!

His many friends will miss him. And his suffering is over. RIP Bob and we hope you’re having a blast in the whereeverafter.

…these two guys, S and T, discussed matters of import and not…in C’s backyard with C, J, S and I attending. Sometimes generations can mix, happily. (How many items can you find in this photograph?)

Since I’m on vacation too busy to write my own entry, here’s a cheap trick: check out Zverina’s perfect entry for Aug 6. That’s what I wanted to say. It even has great links.

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl must be run as root, it fails with sudo (although it appears to complete).

Well allright, not everyone. Last night’s final round of the Ing Masters tournament was an exciting game between Mingjiu Jiang 7P vs Feng Yun 9P. Jiang won by 3 points after Yun failed to kill his giant white dragon. Pros provided running analysis in the Galley as people watched the KGS live broadcast on video projection:

But enough about the pros; how I did in the U.S. Open? Here are the frog’s results:

1. lost vs Frederick Argenio
2. won vs Matt Palumbo
3. lost vs Kelsey Dyer
4. won vs Sean Reeves
5. won vs Rachel Small
6. lost vs James Shenko

Congratulations to my opponents who beat me. All I can say is I hope I learned from the games, it was a lot of fun, and wait ’til next year!

And speaking of next year, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that the 2008 USGC will be held in Portland Oregon, one of S and my favorite cities…and within driving distance to boot!

I had hoped to record my U.S. Open tournament games this week using the gome program on my phone. Alas, it has fatal flaws, to wit:

• it crashes with ‘Unhandled exception, close application?’ when I try to save a game to a file
• it forgets moves and truncates games in Review mode

It should be possible to workaround one or the other of these bugs, but together they effectively stop me from game recording at the 2007 U.S. Go Congress, alas.

Wednesday is traditionally R&R day at the U.S. Go Congress (USGC) — there is a break between the first three and the last three rounds to check out the local scenes and generally give your brain a break from go. I signed up for a trip to see a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright houses in PA. They were at the southwestern end of the state, which meant we had to drive almost the length of Pennsylvania since the USGC is in a ‘burb of Lancaster. 4 hours there and 4 hours back made for a long day, but it was worth it.

Bob, our go-playing driver and trip organizer, provided plenty of background on Fallingwater’s history during the drive. Designed as a ‘weekend home’ for millionaire Edgar Kaufmann, his wife and son in 1936, the house is built over a running waterfall in the woods and is stunningly beautiful inside and out.

After a guided tour of Fallingwater we drove 20 minutes further to see Kentuck Knob (above). Instead of a millionaire budget, the Knob was a ‘Usonian’, built for a middle-class couple for approximately $70,000. This home has 24 hexagonal glassless skylights, among other interesting features.

Wright had many strong opinions about architectural design, among them: make the building blend in with it’s environment (’bring the inside out and the outside in’), and repetition of thematic elements throughout the house.