Archives for July 2002
Tomorrow I leave for my West Coast tour; encompassing four weeks of research, conferences, and oral surgery. As many of you already know, I rarely ever leave a 5-block radius from my apartment, so being outside of Manhattan for so long will be sure to cause homesickness–as well as quite possibly confirming my belief […]
“It’sa me, Maaario!”
Check out this screen grab from the upcoming Mario game to be released by Nintendo later this summer. Guess they’re really trying to lose that kiddy-game reputation.
If you know a little about poetry and a little about rap music, Ian Frazier’s “The New Poetry” is one of the funniest things I’ve read in quite a while.
Well, despite my desire to attend the sure-to-be-entertaining social engineering panel, I chose to stay home today and get some work done instead. H2K2 was fairly disapointing as a whole, so I decided to conserve my geeky energy for the much more promising Defcon 10 next month. So, sorry, no entertaining stories or […]
Things really picked up quite a bit on day two of the conference. The previously sparse network room was now fairly jam-packed with random hacker occurrences. Vast stretches of networking cables snaked over the entire 35,000ft2 room, hanging from ceiling rafters and disapearing into mazes of routers and switches. People swapped files, […]
The first day of the H2K2 conference was, well…. slow.
The organizers must have gotten a late start on setting things up, because much of the stuff?even the network!?was only partially functional. The talks which were well-attended, but the general congregation/hangout area was very sparse and quiet. I was terribly exhausted from getting up at […]
In this talk, Adam O’Donnell (for some reason listed on the conference notes only as “Javaman”) addressed the popular myth that the internet structurally represents a entirely decentralized or even distributed system. This is of course, pretty far from the truth.
While many of the details were mathematical and dealt heavily in information theory (and […]
Matthew Rothenberg is a social technologist at Yahoo!, now doing product strategy and management on the Flickr team. A New York City expatriate, he is currently slumming it in the SF Bay Area. For more info, visit his homepage.