I’ve been super busy with work and whatnot. Almost forgot that it’s only a couple more weeks until SXSW. Loads of stuff on the plate: #1 priority is the server migration I’ve been putting off, #2 is finishing the rewrite of my balanceTags code and kicking that out, and then get started finishing some bigger stuff. Eventually I should get around to buying some furniture and a TV.

Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong streams: 56K, 300K. If you’re a pack rat like me you might want to save ’em.

A moment of observance for the palindrome: 20:02, 02/20/2002. Missed it? It’s not coming round again until 2112.

Came across a /. post on tempest proofing your computer.

From Lord of the Ring, a 10 question NY Times Magazine interview with Bob Mould:

So it must be nice to return to the relative calm of the music business.

Oh, yeah, sure, although it’s got its own headaches. A lot has changed since I’ve been away.

Like what?

The Internet, MP3’s, digital theft. I’m afraid that the value of music is going down. And that’s a hard thing to combat because new artists are so desperate they’ll give everything away just to get attention.

It’s sad to say, but most musicians don’t understand the potential of the Internet any more than the decidedly clueless bagmen. Oh sure, they may have a shiny website, but when it comes down to it, it’s all about controlling distribution based on a scarcity model surrounding physical platters of some sort.

Ha. (via Mike)

“The ice skating controversy will not change my enjoyment of the rest of the Olympics. After all, it was five judges against four. We are currently saddled with a president who was seated by the same judge count of five to four, and that hasn’t changed my enjoyment of being an American.”

— Mel Hirsekorn, 79, Redwood City

An interesting thread that helps illuminate why my G4 450MHz/1.1GB runs so damn slow w/ OSX. Last week, I shifted to Classic. With Mozilla running much better on OS9, and the new Linux server in at work, there wasn’t much reason for me to stay on it. The straw that broke the camel’s back? Not being able to figure out how to remap ^H onto the DEL key in terminal.app. Oh, that and being tired of running on a shit slow system.

I was reading the ‘major comments’ on the US v MS settlement were put up online Thursday. One pretty cool thing, sitting among the comments by megacorps like Sun, gov’t organizations like the US Senate, and public citizens like Ralph Nader, is a comment by Dan Kegel‘s (LULA). Cool.

Of all this, what sticks out for me about the proposed settlement is section III.J where it says that none of this applies to security or copyright related issues. Hmm, like AOL patching it’s AIM security and well, any of the ridiculous stuff related with the DMCA. Trustworthy Computing? Doesn’t that involve trusting the company and people selling you the software? Related: this month’s Crypto-gram talks about MS, and culls some links.

Hmm, googlewhacking is not as hard as one might imagine. (Just come up with a non-common word that pops up few results, and find another non-common word that’s unique to one of those. Vióla. Of course your whack gets immolated next time your site is crawled. I suppose that is part of the fun (and deep metaphysical commentary) of it all.

Here’s a pretty comprehensive review of the Handspring Treo. I’ll pass for now. Maybe next generation.

Processing 470MB (1 weeks worth) of gzipd logs reveals that more people visit the USC site use Netscape 3 than Mozilla/Netscape 6.