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I don't know why, but I always enjoy following le Tour de France. It starts next Saturday, so I had to update my english link to the 2003 race.
NPR's Fresh Air aired a 1989 interview with David Brinkley this evening (evening here, adjust based on location). I'm really glad I heard it (quite by accident as usual). I didn't watch The Huntley-Brinkley Report all that much as a kid, being a big fan of Walter Cronkite over at CBS from about the time I entered kindergarten. Of course, as a kid, I didn't get to control what was watched either.
I never knew that he hated the signature sign-off between he and Chet Huntley ("Goodnight Chet, Goodnight David"). It was ordered by someone in the New York office and he initially fought it bitterly. It caught on and he eventually gave up fighting about it.
His reaction to the riots at the 1968 Chicago convention was rather amazing. He was frightened and shocked by the events at the convention and wondered on the air if he was in Chicago or Checkoslavakia.
By the time his run with John Chancellor was over, national news was already being turned into an entertainment event instead of solid reporting and commentary (clearly separated). CBS seemed to be the last hold out and they folded their tent in the early eighties. It's been mostly downhill ever since (CNN created it's own renaissance for a while, but it's been FOXified for a while now). The man who help create the format of national network news will be missed.
The Washington Post has a very good article on Brinkley running tomorrow.
With all the hand wringing the last few days about the Wired report on the Slammer worm, I had expected the article to detail some amazing new fact that might trigger even more of these types of attacks.
Silly me!
The actual article, which will appear in print in the July issue (which is probably on sale now) is a pretty good summation of the worm, but has nothing new to offer that wasn't available within 48 hours of the original attack. The BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) traffic graphs were new to me (although I'm sure that millions of other people had seen this data). That was it.
What wasn't shown in the article, and I had found very interesting at the time was a time lapse world view of UDP traffic. If I recall correctly, it showed the UDP network saturation moving eastward very quickly (basically, covering the globe within about 30 minutes or so). This CAIDA paperisn't exactly what I was looking for, but shows the contamination after thirty minutes.The picture shows before and after (separated by about 30 minutes). At the time I originally read the article, I guess I missed the link to another set of BGP graphs. That data appears to have been aggregated from the Route Views Project.
