August 3, 2002

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I went to the beach on yesterday and stayed overnight so we wouldn't have to go back so late at night. The taste of sand is still in my mouth, but was a lot of fun. I don't even really like the beach that much, but just hanging out with friends and chillin is what makes it all worthwhile. I also came up with a great idea while I was creating sand mounds (since I had nothing to make a "real" sandcastle with, I just made piles of sand, same thing right? And then some punk little 3 year old came and ran over it while I was swimming! Today's youth, I'm telling you!) Anywho, since it never snows in Florida, people need to have sandball fights instead. The sand at Clearwater Beach has about the same consitency as dry snow, which while not the best snowball-making material, does do it's job. So anyways, you make "snowball's" out of sand, and have sandball fights. It's genius! Except when the sand gets in your eye. Or your mouth. Or all over your blanket. Ok, nevermind.

I wanna clear water-cooled case too! The thing even has clear hard drives cases, now how cool is that?

Yes, someone in Washington gets it right! One of Bush's advisor's is encouraging hackers to find security holes so that they can be fixed. Instead of punishing people for finding flaws in software, they should be thanked. Note that hackers in this sense means "computer enthusiasists" and not the "bad" h4X0rs of Mass Media (tm) fame. But as Slashdot said, "Bush Adviser Encourages Discovery of Software Bugs" just doesn't doesn't have as much zing as "Bush Adviser Encourages Hacking". And that my dear readers, is media manipulation and spin at it's very finest.

And on a side note, that story I linked to up above will eventually disappear from CNN's servers in a few months. I discovered this while updating the archives, since all the CNN written article's are still up, but all the AP articles are missing. So as a message to the future, I'm sorry you wont' be able to read the story.

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