Older blog entries for andrewmuck (starting at number 30)

Corporate take over immement(sp?) don't like the new contract...

some serious z180 coding might start ZX-180 kicking again. If your into that sort of thing join up and help out!

Have aproached the ATO (Aussie tax office) about AnonymousEmoney, will be curious as to their response. --Update-- Their e-commerce address bounced...

Have tried to get in touch with my feelings by carrying a notebook around and jotting down Haiku, discovered I am a dangerously depressed psychopath; hopefully just a phase...

It seems I don't learn. I am still flat out, email load has been heavy lately and will be spending another weekend off the net, hopefully my quota will not blow out too severly.

latest thoughts salvaged from my wiki pageAndrewMcMeikan.

My daughter mentioned that her school project is doing research on famous people. She mentioned her disapointment that Galileo was not considered famous, but people like George Washington are. I asked her why and she said that it was because America is the most important country (note: This is an Australian private school, I thought I was buying better education than this!) When I asked why America is the most important it seemed the only justification is 'because it is', I asked about China or India, and they seem not to be considered important at all. This led me to think about what the real state of the world is without any media distortions: conclusion so far, its a very different world out there...

Anarchy -> distrust -> paranoia -> extreme peer review -> conservative -> stability -> trusting -> vulnurable -> exploited -> chaotic -> anarchy

made a big mistake, of course it seemed like a great idea at the time.

I went the whole weekend off the net, very relaxing and had a great time.

Total number of emails deleted without reading over 600 (subjects scanned of course, est 100+ spam, 200 interesting but not usefull, 300 just the normal fluff)

several interesting emails that were read, O'Rielly, Chineese diving and rabbits.

More on those subjects when time permits.

So little time for diary entries lately.

I did get a story up on K5 on anon e-money got some thoughts stirring.

I found it an odd experience as with the time shift (GMT+8) I found that I suggested the story, then next time I'm on the net its been moded up discussed and passed on. Maybe I should get a night job, just so I can be awake during the nets more active hours.

Plenty of support along my street for the pettition many signitures and much aching of feet...

Following a slashdot article and some general net-wide reminising about the good old computers, my ZX-180 project is getting kicked up the prioity list again.

Did the ICANN vote thing, no ideal candidates of course because I didn't make it through the nominations, hopefully the lesser of the evils will get in.

Still seems to be a total lack of any decent underground around, I got half excited over Mojonation but is not exactly decentralized is it? PGP (or GPG depending on how you look at it) is pretty decent for web-of-trust situations that can be indepentdant of any central co- ordinator, yet still the Global Resistance of Underground Networked Technologists languishes...

Well some excitement again last night with yet another car not making the corner at high speed. Just missed a girl walking her dog at the front of my place and smashed into a power pole next door.

Some petition work definately comming up to get either white lines down road or round about/speed humps.

This morning you could still hear cars screeming down the road even though school is back on again and this stretch of road is now a 40k/h limit. Estimated speed of last nights crash is over 140k/h...

I really should put entries in here more often but my wiki addiction is getting in the way.

ICANN Well I never got enough nominations to make the cut, but I am staying in touch to see what unfolds and what can be done.

ZX-180 Got to re-write into an open cross assembler, really need to clear some space and get at it again.

Sub now seriously on the way back burner

work sneaky change of per kilometer rate means I got $700 less than I expected, I am raising objections, hopefully wont have to start ignoring my phone in the middle of the night ;)

copyright Some interseting thoughts at PayPerView to play with, I am begining to wonder when the revolution will come? Perhaps some Global Resistance of Underground Networked Technologists is needed...

Sub Sunk :( someone else has purchased the pressure vessle and I have missed out, now on the scrounge around scrap yards to see what else is available.

Wiki I am addicted, I know this because last night my dreams were wiki based, unfortunately with me modifying and making new dreams in my head it turned into a mess, I really need to learn how to fork(); in my sleep. My experiment into InternetGovernance seems to be going well.

copyright why do laws go from something decent to something oppressive and nobody in the general public cares? It is like a cross between BraveNewWorld and NineteenEightyFour

life so much to get done such little time left...

Well as an experiment try InternetGovernance

I wonder if it will work well?

With the MPAA and GPL, I rekon let them carry on and embaress themselves, no need for us to act up on their account.

Still way to busy to write much here, probably have a big entry later on...

This entry is in lieu of my missing entries as I have been discovering wiki. You can see me there as AndrewMcMeikan

Not much else to comment on as everything seems to be going slow. especially the speed on my xoom account

Copyright law seems to be an indicator of Orwellian proportions, the end times are a comming.

Read Greg Egans 'Diaspora' and Ben Bovas 'Venus' on the weekend. Diaspora was the first mention I have seen of femtotechnology as an advance on nanotechnology. Venus was a good drama...