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Sunday, 28 July 2002

Dining with one of Google's founders

Meeting Sergey Brin. Red Herring: Dinner with the mind behind the mind of God. 'His father, a Russian mathematician, and his mother, some kind of rocket scientist, came to America to teach because "the Jews were the only people the Russians didn't want."' "All we do is search. Have you noticed that our Web site has actually gotten simpler?" he asked. "Of our 260 employees, more than 50 have Ph.D.s. We have the largest research staff dedicated to search in the world," he boasted. "Steve Jobs is crazy," Mr. Brin commented, apparently with approval. (Thanks, Reg, Tara!)... [Google Weblog]

Good article. Mind of God, indeed.
7:11:36 PM    


Weebling

"Weebl and Bob" [Daypop Top 40]

My gf is now officially a Weebl and Bob addict.
11:43:01 AM    


Freedom of Information

Ernie the Attorney: "The copyright owner has to notify the Department of Justice 7 days in advance of taking action." [Scripting News]

I wonder if this information will be available under FOI? Could make entertaining reading 40 years from now ... ;)
10:11:07 AM    


Incentives

Early days. Today I thought I should take a look back at the one computer game that ate away months of my life. Quake.

I was pleased to find numerous Quake clients based on the source code to the engine that id released a few years ago. After I installed Quake, I quickly deleted all of the old clients and replaced them with ZQuake and moreQuakeWorld. I have been quite impressed with both clients. I quickly installed ThreeWave CTF (the original real CTF). Once I had these installed, I fired up GameSpy and found that there were a fair number of QuakeWorld servers running. I quickly jumped on to a server and realized all my keys were screwed up. After I fixed that, I went back and was able to do pretty well. I'm not as good as I used to be, but with a little more practice, who knows.

Garrett, Mike, Gagan and I are going to get a server set up next so that we can start fragging each other once again. [Evil Thoughts]

Maybe the QuakeII source base will offer enough incentive to go back to coding in C. ;)

And a cool intro article series on game engines up on ExtremeTech.
9:59:25 AM    


Long live the Amiga

Modern Retro computing [Slashdot]

I want one
9:56:35 AM    


Mozilla hiding

Mozilla Still Good After 32 Days [MozillaZine]

Mozilla not supposed to be for end users. Hmmm. It is so much nicer than NN7 that it isn't funny. I'm sorry guys, but Mozilla is rapidly becoming the browser of choice amongst the bleeding edge set. And that usually means that everyone else will start trying it out sooner or later.
9:40:56 AM    


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