Whoa, I’m a bigger nerd than I thought!
January 30th, 200414.285714285714286% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?
Filed under: FunnyArchive for January, 2004
China’s Internet filters
January 28th, 2004Remember a few days ago when I mentioned that several countries are trying to filter information that flows through their country via the Internet? The human rights group Amnesty International has released a report that 54 Chineese people are in prison or detained for thinking online.
I can’t say this very often anymore, so I’ll take the opportunity: God bless America.
Filed under: The InternetSki Wisp
January 24th, 2004
Although nice weather had been prevously forecast, it was very cold on the drive up there. Fortunately, with some coaxing the lady at the Comfort Inn desk allowed us to check into the room very early. This made suiting up for the cold a whole lot easier.
We could see our hotel from the lift, and the lift from our hotel
So we rented some blades and got our steeply discounted lift tickets (thanks to the “Wisp Snow Play” pass I had picked up at East Coast Board Company) and waddled off to the bunny slopes!
The snowboarding/snowblading itself wasn’t terribly good or bad. The slopes/lifts were relatively empty owing to the fact that it was a weekday. The cold didn’t seem to bother us too badly although a few “hot pockets” handwarmers were utilized throughout the day. We took a break about two for some chili cheese fries to celebrate charlie hustle’s last day of being 23.
Happy Chineese New Year!
January 22nd, 2004Today is the start of the Chineese new year, the year of the monkey. George W. Bush should be thrilled by that.
at 9.1% growth, they seem pleased. I wonder what personal debt is like in the rural/suburban/urban areas of China. And when are they going to float the yuan, anyway?
Filed under: Musingsposting from an elinks browser
January 17th, 2004elinks is cool. It draws frames and you can use a mouse just like in a GUI browser, but it is all text! It is crazy fast, too.
Filed under: FreeBSD, weblogFiltering Who?
January 17th, 2004Interesting tidbit picked up lurking on nanog:
This Harvard guy talks about who on the Internet is filtering traffic…
Filtering Today: Who?
l China
l Saudi Arabia
l United Arab Emirate
l Vietnam
l Pennsylvania, USA
l Singapore
l Talking about it: Australia, Germany, Spain
shudder
the truth is out there? not for these people.
Filed under: The Internetnew FreeBSD Desktop
January 16th, 2004It didn’t take long for the XP desktop machine to get on my nerves. Today I burned the 5.2-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso with the intent to build a system drive for my primary server, but decided to first install it to a 10G partition on my workstation. For the first time I’m installing everything via packages instead of using the ports and it makes things MUCH faster. I’ve already got a working Firebird that, except for the mouse wheel, browses as nicely as the XP installation.
It was cold today. A perfect day to clean the oven.
I can’t wait to go snowboarding next week. I put iron-on letters on the butt of my snowpants that say “KICK ME”
Filed under: FreeBSD, Workstationthis week is full of excitement.
January 12th, 2004From the Snowboard FAQ:
* Do I need to wax my new board?
The guy at the Ski Chalet Service depot says a brand new board needs $12 hand wax to last longer, the $8 belt wax is apparrently inferior in his opinion. I should expect to leave my board with them for a day or two. I forgot to ask what day of the week would be best to bring it in.
today i registered for nanog30. February is the right time of year to see Miami, says me.
Filed under: snowboard
