This is an awesome essay I encountered via Slashdot. It’s from paulgraham.com (see link at bottom) and is entitled ‘Great Hackers’.
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funny stuff. political cartoon was at jibjab.hoverstudios.com/mirror.htm, but now it’s gone.
My sister is having her birthday party today. Sure, I could get to know people… but nobody is interested in the same things I am.
First off, I’m not saying this program is a scam. “Studies” have shown that people do get their iPods. What I am presenting here are the hidden costs involved, which is how they make over $250+ to pay for your iPod.
I don’t know what really happened in my childhood, but I remember some things about it that seem quite amazing to me now. These thoughts are very unorganized, but I want to record them in any form possible before I forget.
Interesting biographies of hackers we all know. http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio.html
For future reference
http://www.filetown.net/index.php?page=geekguide
http://dating.about.com/library/weekly/aa022801g.htm
http://dating.about.com/cs/advicetips/a/aa022801.htm
http://www.linuxhelp.ca/guides/geekguide/
http://alt154.org/~aphyr/dating/dating.html
Kind of interesting, considering we thought orkut and Google were on completely separate servers. orkut appears to be powered by Microsoft ASP.
Some people discovered yesterday that you can get a free 2 GB @msn.com email account.
Do you really get that storage or is it a bug?
Wow, I still haven’t posted about this?
Last weekend, I went to the FBLA NLC 2004 conference (that’s Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference) and participated in the Computer Concepts competitive event. I won 5th place, which isn’t too bad considering this is at the national level.
