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During my nighttime contemplation time (2-4am), a realization occurred to me. My neighbors must be afraid of the dark. Or maybe bizarre initiates in the church of illuminating the night. A strange sect that embraces the modern technology of 200 watt halogen lamps to drive away the heathen demons of the night.
I on the other hand am being persecuted for my belief that it should be dark at night. Lighting the dark when performing task is perfectly acceptable, but I seriously doubt the 5 houses around ours all had people performing yard-work at 3am. So I sat in bed and looked angrily at the shadows that are being cast all through the room from my dark-fearing neighbors contemplating how likely I would be to hit the bulbs if I owned a bb gun.
Bah.
I read Slashdot, as do most of you, but the comments on the system rarely rise above the general 13 year old geek "my *blip* is bigger than your *blip*."
But Occasionally you come accross a great comment. This is from an article on Apple selling a million songs from the iTunes Music Store in 3.5 days.
The good publicity Apple’s sure to get from this would almost make it worth their while to buy those songs themselves…
…hmm… wait a minute…
No, sorry, my bad. It wasn’t Apple. It was me. I admit it. I was the one who bought those songs. I just wanted to see if their servers could withstand a vicious one-man slashdotting…
It can - apparently the iTunes server’s not running Windows. But I’ll try again tonight, this time with my friend Chris buying the same songs simultaneously. Then I’ll get Greg and Dave to help me buy whole albums at a time, and pretty soon, Steve Jobs will crumble in terror and BEG us to stop our vicious assault on their site!
Steve Jobs, I warned you - I’ve got my VISA, and I’m ready to
take.
you.
down.You didn’t care when I started buying iPod after iPod in an attempt to exhaust your assembly line workers in a one-man iPod Slashdotting. Well this is different. This time, I’m serious and I’ve upped my VISA limits. Your site is toast. Get ready to rumble!
I am now on the train somewhere above Ashland. I am connected to the internet at a blazing 14.4K. I am posting to my blog. I love technology. I have not been ablr to connect to any wireless networks yet, but I am trying. Why? because I can.