Erehwon Notebook
The Occasional Notebooks of Doug Miller
Friday, May 19, 2000
10:00:53 PM
Today's random 5 jump!
I've noticed a bit of a disturbing trend over the past few months that my surfing habits have become rather predictable. I'm tending to visit the same sites over and over. Some of that's necessary, since I'm visiting what I'm most interested and has the most bearing on my career and hobbies.
It makes things a lot less interesting, though. The web just isn't any fun anymore; the sense of exploration I had in the early days isn't there anymore. More disturbingly, it also tends to channel my thoughts along the same lines every day. Not a good thing, to be sure!So, I'm beginning my "Random 5 Jumps Campaign." Each day (or nearly so, anyway), I'm going to start from a randomly chosen web site, and then click a more-or-less randomly chosen link. From the resulting page, I'll pick yet another link, etc., until I've travelled 5 external links. Whatever page I end up on, I'll read and blog (I may blog some of the others as well, if they're interesting, just not as the random blog of the day).
Ironically, today's site is from right in my own back yard: Bloomington, Indiana. Take a gander at John Hammond's Page, which is mostly about Coke. Coke, as in the soft drink, not the nose candy. This guy is seriously into Coke. He has an entire room filled with collector bottles, and three vintage Coke machines. I'd call him obsessed, but then I look around at all my computer gear...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2000
9:06:32 AM The DMCA sucks. There's just no other way to say it. As this article explains, we're looking at the end of Fair Use, and the control of information by megacorporations like AOL-Time/Warner. Be worried. Be very, very worried.
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Monday, May 15, 2000
10:14:16 PM It's been ages since I posted! The new job job has been sucking up a ton of my time. I've recruited four new staff in as many weeks, and none of them was a brainless hire. On top of that we're doing a ton of Intranet development.
On the plus side, I've been really getting into PHP, which I'm loving. I'm learning a ton, which I hope to be applying here real soon (read major site redesign, with a PHP/MySQL backend).
There's been a ton happening that I haven't commented on, and I'm a bit bummed I won't have a record of my thoughts on some of these events to look back on later. Time to get back into the habit of posting!
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