It’s Mike Sugarbaker’s Gibberish! [note: i am acquainted with misuba through a virtual community or two, hence the excitement in the previous statement]
Archives for September 2000
Just in case
you’ve missed it, Rebecca Blood has written an interesting essay about these little personal websites we call ‘weblogs’ – weblogs: a history and perspective.
A friend of mine
and I were just conversing over ICQ about how great a Macaquarium the Cube will be in about 5 years! Beautiful!
Big things are
happening in the crypto world. Not new algorithms or anything like that – but maybe, finally, the ball is rolling towards a much wider implementation of public key crypto. The latest is that an Irish company called Baltimore is offering its toolkit for free. This is exactly what’s needed – the first step in all of this is not technological (that one’s already been taken) but cultural. People have to get comfortable using secure communications – both conceptually and practically.
I wonder if Zero Knowledge is paying attention. I hope so.
People seem pretty
outraged about this story from Wired News: Online Prices Not Created Equal. If only such outrage were brought to pricing issues in the offline world. For years poverty activists have decried grocery stores’ pricing practices – for instance charging higher prices in poor neighbourhoods than in wealthy ones for groceries. Different people have always received different prices, depending on the store. Amazon is just bringing an old practice to a new world. I can’t get that worked up about it.
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