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Sorry I haven't updated in ages. I've just been really busy, and I'm going to have a very heavy
homework weekend with a huge English project due Monday.
Thursday morning I saw the shuttle lift off to visit the
International Space Station. It's so cool that I can see it lift on since I live in Florida.
Now a whole slewdge of interesting links over the last 3 days:
Amazon lost another battle in
their one-click patent court battle. It won't be able to continue a preliminary injuction against Barnes and Noble for
using a "One-Click" type process.
Someone wrote a great page on how to write unmaintanable code. It guarentees job security if
you're the only one who could ever fix or add features to your code. There is some truly evil things
in there :)
Crackers love NT, as shown by the wave of cracking done in Europe. The sad
part is that they just exploited known vulnerablities that lazy system administrators didn't bother
to path. Is it really that hard to update your software?
Doubleclick's ad banner patent was busted, and the
person who broke it got a $10,000 bounty. It's always nice to see a bad patent get squashed.
The world's first webcam is being
taken down. It's original purpose was to watch a pot of coffee to see if it was full or not so as
not to waste time walking down 4 flights of stairs only to discover it was empty.
You can now break CSS off of DVD's with only 7 lines of perl. So
elegant it is! Of course, I wonder if by linking to it on my website I'm breaking the
DMCA.....
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