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:
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.
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.
xml web pages with mozilla – yum, real web applications coming soon.
hmm, realized i’m a bit behind the times on this one. been busy… while i also just caught oreilly network’s cluetrain article. one day (soon i hope) i will get to reading the cluetrain manifesto… and interface culture (ooh excerpt) and finishing my homework… uh yeah. ok, turning in now. brain has melted down and is now leaking out the orifices of my skull.
SUBJECT: NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION CENTER INFORMATION SYSTEM ADVISORY (NIPC ADVISORY 00-038); SELF-PROPAGATING 911 SCRIPT … hmm, not good news. i wonder how it works…
2. TO THIS POINT CASE INFORMATION AND KNOWN VICTIMS SUGGEST A RELATIVELY LIMITED DISSEMINATION OF THIS SCRIPT IN THE HOUSTON, TEXAS AREA, THROUGH SOURCE COMPUTERS THAT SCANNED SEVERAL THOUSAND COMPUTERS THROUGH FOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS (AMERICA ON-LINE, AT&T, MCI, AND NETZERO). DISSEMINATED SCRIPT MAY BE PLACED IN HIDDEN DIRECTORIES NAMED CHODE, FORESKIN OR DICKHAIR. FURTHER SCRIPT ANALYSIS BY THE FBI/NIPC CONTINUES.
i’ve never been witness to a drooling contest before. it is quite the sight. i’d post pictures but i fear for my computer’s safety. tis late. off to bed.
matt’s new design looks good. the light grey probably would not be quite so bothersome if i could make the text a little bigger; px, blech. ;-p