Monthly Archives: July 2003

Maybe I’m just old, but I don’t find the descrip­tions of tak­ing Ectasy in X’ed out at all com­pelling. There are other lev­els of con­scious­ness that are not depen­dent on ingested chem­i­cals, but admit­tedly they are dif­fi­cult to reach with­out … Read More →

Pac Bell’s Inter­net arm sues the RIAA over file-sharer IDs, say­ing the sub­poe­nas against it are ille­gal. Other ISPs have sim­ply turned over names in face of the RIAA, so this will be a care­fully observed turn of events.

Red­Pa­per was men­tioned in a Wired arti­cle recently. It’s a site that allows you to post just about any­thing, from recipes, to poems, to the Kobe Bryant court papers for oth­ers to down­load. Peo­ple then pay a small charge (called … Read More →

If you’re an Apache mod_rewrite guru, please check out my post on forum​.mod​rewrite​.com (look for tom­masz). I’m try­ing to not be any more of an Apache hacker than I need to be. Thanks.

The Hous­ton Chron­i­cle has a multi-part inves­ti­ga­tion on NASA post-Columbia, start­ing with In search of a mis­sion  —  After Colum­bia, NASA rethinks rea­son for being. This is def­i­nitely not the right stuff.

Dell with­drew their Axim fix after dis­cov­er­ing some users actu­ally used it to upgrade older machines.