Archive for July, 2004

Great Hackers

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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bush and kerry sing “this land…”

funny stuff. political cartoon was at jibjab.hoverstudios.com/mirror.htm, but now it’s gone.

I can’t relate (or: Why I have few friends)

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.

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freeiPods.com Spam

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.

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I have scattered memories of amazing things

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.

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TLC :: Hackers’ Hall of Fame

Interesting biographies of hackers we all know. http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio.html

Dating Guides for Geeks

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

Orkut 502 Shows Google Error Page

Kind of interesting, considering we thought orkut and Google were on completely separate servers. orkut appears to be powered by Microsoft ASP.

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Email Storage Numbers Mean Nothing

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?

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FBLA NLC 2004

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.