Too many projects, too little time
Apparently I am not using the right programming language. If I wrote in .NET, I might be able to hang out with these developers, having a much better time than I am recompiling and uploading DLLs in between hunting for Hello Kitty collectibles and watching The Real World. Maybe the grass IS greener on the other side?
I added a gallery of the last 10 images so everyone can see what you submissions.
If you live in Portland you’ve probably heard already: Greg Oden, the Blazers’ #1 draft pick this year, just got sidelined for the entire upcoming season due to knee injury.
There’s lots of “I told you so!”s going around right now, but poor Greg Oden hasn’t said much about it.
Well here’s your chance to give Oden a voice: check out OdenRant. You can also let Kevin Durant chime in.
Thanks to Jason for busting out a great Photoshop job, and Instrument for hosting the site.
A Dateline NBC reporter shows up and tries to go undercover with a hidden camera at DefCon 15, a hacker convention in Las Vegas last weekend, apparently trying to get some coverage of people to make them look bad. DefCon organizers know from the beginning she’s coming, and even offer her a free press pass if she wants to cover the event openly. Instead she tries pass off that she’s just a regular attendee and gets outed in front of a crowd during a ’spot the reporter’ stage gag (specially cooked up just for her).
I’ve never been to a DefCon, and it’s probably way out of my league, but I’ve heard these conferences are full of relentless people who are trying to outsmart each other.
Lesson: if you’re going to try to outsmart a group of people, don’t choose a crowd of computer geeks. And don’t do it at a convention that attracts the uber-geeks.
Here’s a video of the ’spot the reporter’ at the event, including shots of people walking with the reporter as she runs to her car and tries to get away.
Way back in ‘95 I was born in Prodigy-land, which isn’t on this map, but I moved shortly to the coast of the Noob sea in AOL. I spent my youth to the East in the BBS isles, which have since been swallowed up by the Anthromorphic Dragons. At that time the rest of the world was undiscovered territory filled with tales of pirates and anarchy cookbook text files. When I grew up I migrated south and spent time between the IRC Isles and Usenet.