Mar. 20th, 2003

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SETI@Home is the screensaver that uses your run-time when you aren't using your computer to analyse radio emissions from outer space in the quest for alien intelligence. This system has racked up almost a million computer-years of analysis since it was started; one of the ways that the SETI operators have used to convince people to run this nifty bit of software is to make the offer that, if a transmission from an alien civilisation is identified on your computer, they'll let you name the aliens.

So, that begs the question: If you discovered an alien civilisation, what would you call them?
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The interesting thing about this is not only that it's a weblog from someone living in Baghdad, which gives another side to the current war stories, but also because this particular weblog has gone from Blogspot - meaning that it's been removed from the server (thanks to Google for archiving things as it surfs looking for sites).
Now, Blogspot is a US server, so I wonder if this means that US servers are editing content, if they have been required to do so, or if this particular blog was stored on a local (Iraqi) server which has been removed, shut down, or destroyed.

Update

The site is now back up and running again

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