2007-12-14 09:23:10
2007-11-08 09:26:52
It (re)occurred to me while reading The Double...
2007-11-07 22:54:52
An ip registered to you maxed out the sessions table of our university climbing club forum, by initiating thousands of unique simultaneous sessions. We had to block your ip and patch ze shitty forum code to defend ourselves from you (or the hackers masquerading as you).

Good times in the wild wild web$...
2007-11-07 07:59:33
It's happening folks. The money is seeping into your little cyberlives, sweet crude pouring from a disastrous shipwreck between techno-drunk media barons and the 'hidden potential' of the interwebs...

The vacuum force must be irresistible. To the media autocracies wielding complete, unregulated, unilateral dominance over the television and radio channels (stolen long ago from the public domain), the very idea of this 'internet' must be as pleasurably revolting as watching teenage lovers frolic in grassy fields to the tunes of some hypnotizing acoustic hippie music that probably wasn't even engineered by a major record label.

Here they are, this multitude of little people, freely exchanging information with each other in whichever way they please, without any semblance of proper governomical order in place to make sure that the right people are getting paid to allow it. I mean how could they let this happen? The people are getting something for free... and among the pantheon of corporate deities the idea of the little mortal consumer units receiving or exchanging anything desirable for free is about as sickening as beautiful 20-somethings fucking each other's brains out without so much as a well-attended marital networking event. So the time has come. It's about time that someone exploited some money and power out of this little free love fest, and reminds all these little bastards what their purpose in the cosmic order of things is.

Before long, just as was done with all previous public media technologies, the information that you will be allowed to access using your computer is to trickle down on you from on high like a divine golden shower, with the occasional dollop of commercial diarrhea (ok frequent, say every 30 sec. to constant). You shall pay for this right; if you do not, then you shall have no way to be aware of all the scary baddies out there who wish to destroy your way of life, and you shall have no friends, as by then all of this 'friendship' that you are stealing for free will be conducted only using sanctioned social networking sites that we control.

More importantly, you shall no longer need to burden yourself with having to decide what information you transmit out into the ether, as anything you produce will be within the framework and filtering system of our content servers, which are working round the clock to ensure that all of your hard work is ideally uniform and innocuous so as to maximize ad revenue and profits for our shareholders.

So please, let's just make this easy, ok? Our steady investment of billions has made it all very easy for you to just give up your right to the internet, and let our advertising dollars do the work for you. There's no need to maintain your own sites, your own servers, etc. Just give us your freedom of the internet, and we'll give you amazing things like facebook and gmail. But please, don't block the ads--that's stealing.
2007-11-06 20:53:46
So yeah. I wrote my own php/sql blog from scratch to prove to myself that there is still hope for the internet. Cumbayah.