Googliegoodness!

As mentioned by sammers in this post, Google has usenet archives online going back to 1981. I was quite interested in this, since Usenet news was my first introduction to the Internet thingy. Back in like 1994.. scary ;) Have a look here for my ffirst ever post to Usenet back in April 94.. after lurking for a few months (I disclaim liability for my actions as a 14 year old ;) Anyway, interesting stuff.

Well today on SlashDot, there was an article about where the archives back to the 80s came from. I thought they would have got a bunch tape backups of usenet off a bunch of people and sorted them out from that.. but apparently not. Someone had been saving them. Someone named David Wiseman.. a Computer Science lecturer from Western, who taught the most fun class I ever had. It was a real suprise to open the link to the Salon article and see him stareing back :)

See also, my post on slashdot about David. His class really got me where I am today. So cool to see him in a news article on a website :)

Patchy-Patchy

Most of my day today was cleaning up some of this rats nest of cables. I've removed all the white ones, and am in the process of replacing the blue crossover cables with red crossover cables. I must take a more up to date picture :) I also reran about 38 cables for one of our labs to plug into the new ciscos. Mmmm ciscos :)

Bleh. Takes ages tho :)

La la la.. :)

First draft of what I'm going to be doing in Canada is provided in zee link below! Plans are still sketchy, and I want to go to Montreal while I'm there too. Anyone wanna come with? :)

Anyway, tomorrow I show this to work and get them to OK it.. shouldn't be any problems tho :)

( Where's ducky? )