20 October, 2002 - I drank so much tonight, I just feel stupid

• When the Net's Backbone Is Out of Joint [warning: popups] talks about what went wrong with UUNet a couple weeks ago, and how it could be much worse next time. See the problem isn't that the net can't route around damage (or censorship), the problem is that the big players take forever to change their routing. Why? Because they're big.
• About three percent of the people coming to Dave's Picks (or five-hundred of the fifteen thousand in the past month) do so while searching for the Logitech Pocket Digital Camera. I've gotten a fair amount of email about it, some people saying I'm just a whiner, but the most fun are the messages from people who've either bought the camera and are pissed off because the drivers on Windows XP don't work either, or who drop me a note thanking me for warning them away from the product. So here's a big ol' smooch out to Logitech for all the swell traffic.
• Hey! Speaking of search engines, I've got the number one hit for the Google search for "works as implemented". Woo! And it's such a handy (and meaningless) phrase when you're a coder responding to a QA person who doesn't like the way something you wrote works. We made it up while I was at LameRasters as something of a parody on the bug-status of "works as designed".
• Female or Shemale. A photo quiz from B3ta. Disturbing. I'm not even going to say how badly I did, but let's just say I'd better use the Crocodile Dundee test if I pick up someone in a bar. [some gal?]
• Aaron Swartz has posted the Transcript of ERIC ELDRED, ET AL., Petitioners v. JOHN D. ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL, No. 01-618, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Important stuff on the intellectual property front. And now we'll have about a half-year to wait for the ruling.
• Oh, and Jim's birthday worked out pretty darned well. He might even remember this year (he only had two or three shots, instead of the ten or so he had last year). On top of that (and on a more personal note), I got to discover that my neighbor's sister works at the Triple Rock (and is a darned fine waitress, besides being a cutie), and I got to hang out with some cute gals in our group, one of whom gave me a big hug goodnight. I like it when that happens. (And I don't need to apply the Crocodile Dundee test.)
• I don't want to sound like I'm completely obsessed with sex, but to pull one of my favorite quotes from Buffy:
  Cordelia: Well, does looking at guns make you wanna have sex?
  Xander: I'm seventeen. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex.
  As far as I can tell, it doesn't get better as you get older.
• But thinking about it at six in the ayem, wondering why I can't get to sleep, I think maybe I woulda been better off staying home. But at least I found a tagline for the day.

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