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I'm off to SIGGRAPH. I'm looking forward to spending a week in New Orleans, even though the weather is going to be awfully hot. New Orleans is a fun city. Sort of a theme park for adults. Drinks, Music, and entertainment all on the streets at all hours of the morning.

I'll try to do a post SIGGRAPH report on my website.

I read Alan Cox's rant about ORBS being shut off. ORBS and MAPS are two different organizations that are trying to block spam. They use different techniques, but both are considered controversial, because sites choose to use them to block email from reaching its destination. ORBS does it by doing network probes, which is considered by some to be antisocial. Both companies argue that people using their service to cut off mail are just exercising their rights and preventing spammers from using their resources.

Now it seems ORBS is accusing Vixie of using his influence on Above.Net to cut off ORBS and for some reason this is causing ORBS to shut down their service.

Excuse me folks. You just got cut off because you did things (probing) that the recipeint (Above.Net) thought was antisocial. Above.Net is just exercising their rights to prevent you from misusing their resources by probing. It isn't any different than people using your service to cut off spam. If you are going to argue that people have a right to setup their systems in the way they please, then Above.Net has the right to cut off ORBS if it likes. In fact, it may be a benefit to Above.Net customers. If Above.Net customers don't like it they can complain or change service companies.

I guess I'm getting used to this concept of recording in a diary and sharing my opinions in public. :-)

I've just joined Advogato. I have to admit I'd looked at it before, but wasn't compelled enough to do it. After reading the Salon article I figured it was time to try it out.

I seem to be suffering from the famous chinese curse May you live in interesting times.

SIGGRAPH approaches quickly. I'm running a Linux 3D BOF at the show. (More Info) It looks like we're getting some good participants, but it is always hard to judge. I'm also responsible for a technical sketch at the conference. As long as we get the slides together the talk itself should be easy.

Precision Insight was recently acquired by VA. There hasn't been a lot of transition. We're mostly doing what we've been doing all along. I'd like to see us and myself in particular take a bigger role in the graphics development. I'm just not sure how to do that.

That concludes my first diary entry. I like speaking in public, but that's usually about my work not myself. It feels a little strange speaking out like this, but we'll see what happens.