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June 02, 2003
More links
Still reading and following more links on Jay Solo's site . He pointed to Geographica where there is an interesting article about building a bridge over France (to avoid being polluted by the French) and a more serious item on the changes that will happen in China due to the new dam. There is also a quote about the blog economy debate:
I blog because I like to write and I love the ability to comment on the world as it goes by ? blogging gives me a great creative outlet that I appreciate. I do not blog to achieve from position in the ecosphere (as is evident by my falling position!).
I would like to echo the sentiment (but I would still like to climb from 'Nothing' to 'Something'). Having said that, I was blogging before I ever cam across the blog economy and I would continue to do so if the blog economy collapsed....
Chasing some other links (not sure how many redirects) from Jay I stumbled over an invitation to attend the 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference. Sessions include speakers on including grammatical mistakes, using all caps and discussing whether 10 million email spam messages a day is too many. There is a note that the speakers are only provisional due to possible problems with courts and extradition hearings :wink. This item has also been listed at The Museum of Hoaxes .
Final link for this article comes from "Up in this piece" which quotes a MSN Tech support who (towards the end) answer the following question:
Q: But it [i.e. MSN] sure beats AOL, doesn't it?
A: Yes, it does, but that's not saying much. The Information Superhighway provides an excellent metaphor.
In the fast lane of the highway are people in cable-modem sports cars and DSL drag racers. Burning down this electronic autobahn, these Low Ping Bastards zoom their packets to game servers and peer-to-peer networks, downloading whole movies chunk by chunk.
High above are the people in truly ultra connections, the big-server cargo planes, and the occasional jet-setter with his own personal T3. That kind of power is out of reach except by corporations and the truly rich.
In the slow lane are the narrowband users, the mass of bikes resembling Shanghai traffic. The technically inclined who cannot get cable or DSL go past on carefully-tweaked 10-speeds. The AOL users, in the slowest lane of all, are toddlers on plastic big-wheel tricycles, watching the world pass by as they struggle to make their tiny legs move their inefficient transportation, wondering why they left the giant AOL nursery to visit the wider Internet.
Where do you fit into this? You are the dorky-looking 9 year old wearing cumbersome elbow and knee pads, the training wheels on your flimsy, gearless bike rattling as you struggle to keep the adults in view.
Sort of brings new meaning to Parental Controls, doesn't it? MSN is the parent. You are the child.
(With MSN DSL, things are a little better. You're in the driver's seat of an old, half-broken Yugo, and if you're running the software, with a cranky Driver's Ed teacher who has the passenger's seat brake pedal.)
Maybe I should stop complaining about the lack of support from telstra :rofl.
Posted by Ozguru at June 2, 2003 12:06 PM
