| Roman Meshon, 36; taught English at Japanese school
Roman Carl Meshon never bragged about his accomplishments, but he did tout the success of his students at the Blue Hawaii English Language School in Kochi, Japan, which Mr. Meshon founded in 2001. "He was modest and never showed off," said Mr. Meshon's father, Steve of Sudbury. "The one time he did show off was when his students won awards in English-speaking competitions, by reading a poem or a speech." Mr. Meshon, a Sudbury native, drowned Sept. 17 while surfing near Kochi. He was 36 and had lived in Japan the past 12 years. Mr. Meshon was born to Steve and Nancy (Hagebak) Meshon. He graduated from Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School and earned a bachelor's degree in economics and Southeast Asian studies from the College of William & Mary. After studying abroad in Japan his junior year and becoming fluent in spoken and written Japanese, Mr.
Danny Hess and James Pribram to be Featured On "The Daily Habit ...
Airing Wednesday, November 28, at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 pm Pacific Time) and telecast three additional times, Danny Hess and James Pribram will appear on The Daily Habit.
A true craftsman and a respected waterman, Danny Hess of Hess Surfboards is here to tell us all about his high-performance wood boards. Plus, Eco Warrior and founder of the Aloha School of Surfing, James Pribram will be in the studio to give us a report on his experience in Japan.
And we've got the shimmering sounds of indie rockers Annuals to light up the Habit stage. Danny's sponsors include Mollusk Surf Shop. James' sponsors include Ocean Minded, XS Energy Drinks and Boost Mobile.
"The Daily Habit" is FUEL TV's first original daily series, telecast weeknights at 9:00pm ET (6:00pm PT) while re-airing later in the evening at 12:00am ET (9:00pm PT), and the following weekday at 2:30pm ET (11:30am PT) and 5:30pm ET (2:30 pm PT).
Cost of Security Incidents Due to IM and Greynet Use More than Doubles ...
BELMONT, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that control greynets and manage unified communications in the enterprise, today announced the results of its annual survey, "Greynets in the Enterprise: 3rd Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impact." In September 2007, data was collected in a survey of more than 700 employees and IT managers to determine the impact greynet applications have on companies and organizations. Greynets -- real-time consumer applications (e.g. instant messaging, P2P, VoIP) that are often introduced by individual end users and use highly evasive techniques to traverse the network -- pose myriad network and information security risks because they provide vectors for malware, intellectual property loss, identity theft and compliance risks.
POSTCARD USA: Google World — Khalid Hasan
In 1995, Brin and Page, graduate students at Stanford, figured out a way to scan and index the Internet. Earlier search engines had done this, but Brin and Page did it better. By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition
In the mid or late 1980s, one of the American newsweeklies ran a cover story on the Internet. I was then living in Vienna and recall picking up a copy of the magazine from a newsstand that sold English-language periodicals and journals. I read the story more than once but could not quite understand it. It sounded more science fiction than science. How could what it described be possible, I kept wondering, which only brings home the fact, and one that we overlook, as to how new a phenomenon the Internet is.
Computer graveyard a shrine to pioneering technology
A huge hard drive from an IBM mainframe computer anchors one corner. One case holds early pocket computers from Sharp, Casio, Atari and Sinclair - said to be the first under-$200 computer. Mint-condition early personal computers line the walls, some with keyboard dust covers or felt-lined protectors for 5-inch floppy disc inserts. One table holds an Apple II, a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, a light-blue Lear Siegler ADM-3A and a Commodore SuperPet - a circa 1980 device described as "the first all-in-one, ready-to-use personal computer." Although substantial, RE-PC's exhibits are tiny compared with the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, which claims the largest and most extensive museum for technology aficionados. Microsoft Corp. also pays homage to early computing pioneers in a well-designed visitor center at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters.
Hip-Hop Rumors: R.I.P. Dr. West, T.I.'s New CD, Diddy's Heir, 50's New ...
Sad.
I don't really have much else to say, you know? Read the story and send your condolences over here.
Just as a footnote, there are rumors out there, because the cause of death hasn't exactly been revealed, but I am going to chill. I have respect for Kanye and definitely know that losing a parent is painful enough without gossip.
T.I. GET BUSY ON NEXT ALBUM!
Not sure of the origins of this one, but I heard that T.I. is bored while he is on house arrest. With nothing to really do, he's resorted to recording new songs in his home studio. They are saying this new album in progress is Paper Trail.
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The band is in the process of recording a new album, so expect some unreleased material to get tested on the tour stop this week. While finding beauty in dissonance isn't everyone's ticket, expect droves of serious Autolux diehards on Thursday, Jan. 31, when the band returns to The Independent at 8 p.m. Admission is $16; call 771-1422 or visit www.theindependentsf.com for more info. — David MacFadden After ten years, just as success finally seemed to beckon, Mark Olson left the rootsy, rockin' Jayhawks. With then-wife Victoria Williams, he established another musical venture, the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers. The creek was dammed, however, and the couple divorced in early '06. Last year Olson had his solo debut with The Salvation Blues. On one hand, the disc shows him coming full circle — two songs are written with Jayhawk Gary Louris, one with Williams — and on the other hand, beginning anew — Blues was produced by proto-Americana and power-pop musician Ben Vaughn.
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