Coach Thrasher

2- Collision with Dock

Ugh, the crunching sound of carbon fiber was heard today at Bair Island. I had just completed a 2000m piece with a group of two 1x, and a 2- about 500m off my stern. The group was obviously working hard, and gaining on me through the piece. After the finish everyone sat for about 30 seconds before taking it up again and the 2- immediately hit a dock. What a sad sound! Bow seat was pretty upset, but the real trouble started when the bow deck started to sink lower and lower in the water. The guys had to back it in to the Stanford dock, with the deck completely submerged. That's got to hurt.

Posted at 10:58AM May 31, 2006 by jason in Rowing  |  Comments[0]

Captcha

There's an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on CAPTCHAs. I just implemented a custom captcha for Tools for Teams account creation so this was particularly intersting. As I was putting my own implementation together the thought crossed my mind that a blind user wouldn't be able to use the captcha unless it was audio-driven. The WSJ states examples of bad captchas, ways around captchas, and frustrated users WRT captchas. I'd like to see a network/social based captcha system to validate users since it would be humans-validating-humans. Give me LinkedIn.com, crossed with Friendster, crossed with my ISP, crossed with my bank.

Posted at 10:51AM May 31, 2006 by jason in Software  |  Comments[0]