jz writes about his geek pride 2000 experience.

My rap, in a nutshell: Karl Marx said the revolution would put the means of production in the hands of the workers. It didn’t happen under communism, but it is the reality of the web. When Ted Nelson conceived of hypertext in 1965, and when Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1990, they empowered every human being on earth to participate in a worldwide creative revolution. And what do we do with this incredible gift? We sell stuff.

it should probably also be noted that vannevar bush described the first hypermedia system (memex) in his 1945 article as we may think. ted nelson was responsible for 30 years of vaporware. yawn. nelson came to usc just this past week, and i probably would have gone, except that his appearance was intelligently booked in a 100 person capacity auditorium and i found out about it 10 minutes before it was supposed to have started. oh well, no big loss.

oh man, the black wizard is back for final fantasy ix. eeeexcellent.

this comment is hilarious:

How’s this for a suitable pnuishment? Microsoft should be required, by law, to ship only bug free products. Think about it — fixing all those bugs will require an enormous amount of work, and be very expensive; it’s a suitably tough penalty. Further, this action will benefit Microsoft customers (who have been shafted for years by being forced by monopoly considerations to buy defective products). Plus, can you imagine Microsoft’s appeal? What is Gates & company really going to say, “We demand the right to continue shipping defective products?” The specific details can be worked out (how much of a per bug fine will Microsoft have to pay, whether Microsoft can “sell” their current stock of existing products under a 100% revenue fine, etc). I sure wish I was a friend of the court right now. (Anyone from the Justice Department reading this?)

must …resist… urge… too much wasted time at stake..

the bbs scene:

Can you remember your Fidonet node?

Do you wish you could still code with PCBoard Programming Language?

Ever miss playing with the volume slide on your USR Courier during connects?

Miss using TheDRAW or DuhDRAW?

Wish you could still dial out with QMPro?

If any of your answers were “yes” then you might be a washed-up old school BBSer. Related links:

http://www.oldskool.org/

http://archives.thebbs.org/

http://bbscentral.kracked.com/

http://thuglife.org/

tradewars 2002 rights were sold this weekend to a company that’s been actively deveolping it (cool). i spent a lot of time playing tradewars (the original and later 2002) as well as bre and lord, not to mention all the time i spent on fidonet. ahh, nostalgia.

stopping distributed denial of service attacks

oops, didn’t get a chance to do my submission for the 5k competition… was digitizing video all afternoon. maybe sometime when i have some spare time i’ll implement my ideas.

i’ve caved in and set up my subhonker filter. the cool thing is yes, it definitely is very convenient, especially w/ the ie search pane. any time savings of course is more than offset due to the extra reading now that i’ll know to the hour when there are new updates on tons of sites. the near elimination of visiting a site and finding no new updates makes it worth it though.

<update time=2:47am>i know it is time to go to bed because my english has ceased to make any sense.</update>

i finally rebooted my system, so i got to see zonealarm finally kick in. i have to say that it’s pretty kick ass so far.