Inventing the Flat Earth - Jeffrey Burton Russell. The more I learn about history, the more things I was taught in High School that I find out are totally incorrect, the more pissed I am. It's like when I got to high school and found out that there was a fourth state of matter (plasma), when the whole time in elementary school I was taught to believe there are only three. The difference is that that was an "innocent" mistake, which was then corrected in light of new discoveries. There is no excuse for teaching some of the things that are still being taught.

Oh, and for not teaching things that should be taught. Maybe... logic and philosophy?

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I don't get it. I'm watching the men's figure skating long programs now as I blog, and the announcers shout "Triple Lutz", "Triple Sow Cow", "Triple Toe Loop", "Triple Axel", "Triple Flip" (what other kinds of jumps are there?) but I can't tell the difference!

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Lol, via Dave... first, The Blogger's Manifesto from Chris Pirillo (I still think it's cool that Pirillo has a blog, I've been getting his newsletter forever), and then The Real Blogger's Manifesto, from JOHO. Blogging is so funny.

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22:16 (utc-5)

 

Abbe Normal: Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors. I don't remember that

I haven't been to Abbe Normal in awhile... I can't believe the weblog is run by a wiki. That's so cool.

Oh, and John should remove me as one of his links for "weblogs with some interest in wiki". I still have an interest in wiki, but I've removed the wiki I had on my site. I actually have a "private" wiki (which I wrote), protected by security, for my own info, but it's not publicly available.

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Yeah yeah, JDK 1.4 has been released. Whoopdie doo.

I suppose the most important new feature to me for the next time I'm forced to use Java will be the regular expression support. No more StringTokenizer for everything

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21:25 (utc-5)

 

CmdrTaco is getting married! Congratulations!

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Via Slashdot, The Register: WindowsXP Key Generation Broken. "A cracking system for Windows Product Activation publicised this week may present Microsoft's anti-piracy system with its most serious problem yet. It takes the form of a key generator which appears to produce valid activation keys for Microsoft products, and if this really is the case, it is difficult to see how Microsoft can differentiate between keys issued with legal product, and keys generated by the keymaker."

This makes this article, Windows XP CD-Key Dangers, more relevant: "But let’s now consider what happens after this. Joe User buys Windows XP. His product key was generated by someone, and used. It’s no longer a virgin. His copy of XP is now unable to be activated. Congratulations Joe User, You’ve paid for nothing."

"MAJOR UPDATE: IT HAS HAPPENED! A CD Key generator for Windows XP (as well as office XP) has been created! This produces keys for the Home and Professional editions. Now everything in this article can happen!"

He also makes this point: "It should be noted that the people who steal software already have obtained a volume licensed version of Windows XP, which does not require activation." He's right about that. The product activation probably didn't hurt "professional" software pirates too much, just families who may share one copy of Windows.

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