“We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability.”
–George H. W. Bush, “A World Transformed”, 1998
Neal Stephenson‘s next book Quicksilver is set to release it two weeks. Quicksilver is Volume One of the Baroque Cycle, a series of books based on Cryptonomicon.
I, for one, will wet myself when Amazon ships my copy.
I’ve put up another mirror, this time of New York City Hackers. Here’s the description from the website:
Hackers; malicious vandals or cyberspace freedom fighters? In the last few years hacking have become synomous with electronic crime in the media and the public mind. The federal agencies strikes down hard on any offender it catches, and all off a sudden what has earlier been considered intellectual games becomes serious business...This documentary looks at the "2600" community in New York City of today, its meetings and conferences, political annotations, and historically explores the roots of the definition 'hacking' amongst the model train enthusiasts at MIT...
It’s 218MB and in DIVX format. I like it alot. So what are you waiting for? Download it!
I setup a new email address that forwards to my cell phone: mobile at pig dash monkey dot com
Most likely I won’t reply (until I get to a computer, that is) so don’t use it for general conversation but if you need to contact me fast for some reason, go ahead. Keep messages shorts, plain text only (no HTML), and no long signitures.
And if you have a camera phone, you can send your pics to that address. I’ve got the Sony Ericsson t68i without the optional camera but I can still view all the pics. Sound too.
Let’s see how long before I get my first spam…
Binary Revolution 1.2 has been released. I ordered mine yesterday.
I went to Best Buy today and guess what? Yes, another employee left himself logged in on one of their terminals. This time it was the one in the CD section. Will they never learn? I didn’t touch it because I was in too deep a shock from seeing that they had 5 or 6 rows of of “Rock and R&B” but only gave 1/4 of a row to dance. Sigh
Oh, and that new computer I talked about yesterday turned out to be quite a catch: 1.3ghz Athlon, 256MB RAM, GeForce2 MX. I still don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet. I’m thinking Shorewall.
Three posts in one day!
Anyway, I fucked up the blog index by accident and had to start over with a fresh one. I’ve tried to recreate the old index as best I can but if you notice any discrepancies (I don’t have a copy of the old one handy…) or just have any comments in general regarding the blog layout/style sheet, post it as a comment.
Also, you’ll now notice that there are archives in the middle iframe at the bottom of the page! Yes sir, 11 months of Pig Monkey-goodness. But wait, there’s more! You’ll also notice a little ‘XML’ button that links to the RSS feed of this very blog. Yup, put my blog in your Mozilla sidebar, Ximian Evolution, or any other newsreader.