It’s been a pretty eventful holiday season. I wrecked my Maxima on Dad’s birthday (the 23rd), in particular. I didn’t want to mention something until I had a concrete opinion to express and now I do. It was for the best. Seriously. I had spent considerable amounts of money trying to keep the car in [...]
So, I’ve been meaning to post about the things I taught myself in Montana and my course of study and a course schedule through May/syllabus but I had to recover some partitions on my desktop. My laptop also was caught between Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 2 and Alpha 3. I’m not getting into it. It’s a [...]
Today’s Quotes are on the birth of the internet: “Most of the great leaps of the computer age have happened despite, rather than because of, intellectual property rights. Before the Internet the proprietary network protocols divided customers, locked them into providers and forced them to exchange much of their data by tape. The power of [...]
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The “taken for granted” is the test of sanity; “what everyone [...]
Okay, so I had this realization at about 7am this morning and I don’t have much more to add to it. It was pretty obvious once I realized it but I think I’ll state it here for the hell of it. I wrote some time back about Lessig and how the net has different levels [...]
Almost through part one of Lessig’s text Code: and other laws of Cyberspace I am fascinated by a simple yet brilliant observation he has unearthed. Lessig made an observation regarding the intelligence of the net. The net was built with the principle of opennness in mind (in terms of it being built on non-proprietary and [...]