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Why You Should Have a Website – and How To Do It

Dec 10, 2000 2 min read

You should have a website. You have something to share that only you can share,...

Why The Net Is NOT Dead

Dec 4, 2000 4 min read

Things are grim financially for dot-coms....

COMDEX Overview

Dec 3, 2000 6 min read

for KoreanZ.com1...

Philosophy: The Necessity of Subversion

Dec 3, 2000 4 min read

I occasionally undertake mildly subversive activities, like posting documents describing how proprietary protocols are organized1, setting up MP3 sites2, explaining to people how to get around bans3, describing anonymous file exchange possibilities4,...

Alack For The Trees

Dec 3, 2000 2 min read

Trees, how I love you, but I love you not today....

Unfreezing The Site

Dec 3, 2000 2 min read

In the coming days, the now-familiar &8220;frozen&8221; sign should be disappearing from the site. That&8217;s right, I&8217;m back1 and I&8217;ve got an itching to do some cool things with this site....

Fun With Companies

Nov 3, 2000 3 min read

So, I&8217;m actually not in San Jose right now despite recently getting housed there...

Adventures In Housing

Oct 23, 2000 4 min read

Whoo, boy. I just got housed! I hope to share with you some of the joy of finding a house in Silicon Valley here. =...

Why I Came Back

Oct 2, 2000 4 min read

Well, I&8217;m back. I spent two weeks in New York, two weeks in Italy and France,...

Censored.

Apr 17, 2000 3 min read

I found out from an anonymous email account that my website is being censored / blocked by the University of Central Florida, i.e., students at UCF can no longer read my site. I just sent the following letter to the UCF student government in response...

Client as Server: A New Model

Apr 10, 2000 16 min read

A new model is emerging from the Internet. It represents the culmination of years of incremental evolution in the structure of the network and the clients that feed upon it. It is based upon the same principles upon which the Internet was founded. It...

Why XML Will Fail

Apr 7, 2000 3 min read

There has been a fair amount of hype surrounding XML, or the eXtensible Markup Language, over the past year and the hype is slowly but surely growing. I decided it would be a prudent thing to think about, and chewed it over. I came to the following c...

Why SDMI Will Fail

Apr 6, 2000 5 min read

Hounded by open formats like MP3 that encourage free copying of music, record companies have been praying for an escape: a high-quality, secure digital audio format that could be sold to consumers everywhere online and without a risk of piracy. Unsat...

On Collaborative Filtering

Apr 6, 2000 4 min read

A recent set of technologies have been devised to help websites learn...

The Need For Next-Generation Email

Mar 17, 2000 5 min read

Email is, arguably the killer app of the Internet. It was what launched it and still is one of its primary uses. When surveying current email systems in place, it occurs to me that an upgrade is in order....

Three Days of mIRC

Feb 20, 2000 4 min read

While spending a weekend at Hopkins Marine Station1, where my girlfriend2 is studying this quarter it&8217;s a bit of a drive3!, I was introduced to Rurouni Kenshin4, an incredible anime series. The weird part was that we didn&8217;t watch the episod...

Sexiest Geek Alive

Feb 20, 2000 3 min read

Okay, I&8217;m dying over here. Just for fun a month ago, I saw a posting on a contest for the &8220;Sexiest Geek Alive.&8221; Giggling, I went to their page1 and filled out an application2. I laughed and didn&8217;t think about it again....