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Monthly Archives: February 2004

There is a highly amusing page at Paul Bourke’s Swinburn University home page. You see, Google added a new artistic logo in the form of fractals. When the logo was clicked, it linked to Paul’s page. The massive increase in traffic overloaded the server, and he had to reduce the size of his main web page to reduce the load. Paul suggests that it maybe a good idea if Google asks first before linking like this.

This in itself is funny, but what really adds to the fun is Slashdot adding an article, and the page being slashdotted. You’d think Slashdot would have more sense.

Anyway, just looking forward to his next page when he gets more traffic from Bloggers.

Cory Doctorow, author of the brilliant “post-human” sci-fi novel Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom, has announced that his latest novel Eastern Standard Tribe has begun shipping. He’s also releasing it for download under Creative Commons, and asking for people to supply him with formats. It’s already available in ASCII, HTML, PDF and PDB.

I read “Down and Out” while on honeymoon at Disney World. It made the story so much more real. When I mentioned to Cory that this was the plan, he was fantastic enough to suggest a few romantic places at Disney for my wife and I to go. He’s a great guy.

I’ll be buying EST. I love Cory’s writing style, and think he deserves compensation despite his download offer.

Good luck with the new novel Cory! Once again your Whuffie has gone up.

I found this site, IP2Location, on Blogdex, which it seems, after a little investigations, is spamming comments on blogs. It claims to track an “IP Address to Country, Region, City, Latitude, Longitude and Internet Service Provider”. I know that Perth (Australia) is in the backwaters of the world, but Ljubljana in Slovenia I’m not.

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