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Contents 1 May 2003 13 1.1 3May2003 .............................. 13 1.1.1 WhatamIdoing? ...................... 13 1.1.2 HierarchicalIndexonaWebSite . 13 1.2 21May ................................ 14 1.2.1 RedWhite&Blue:R.I.P. 14 1.3 23May ................................ 14 1.3.1 Digital Restrictions Manglement . 14 1.3.2 AlanTuring.......................... 16 1.4 27May ................................ 16 1.4.1 IndependentVideo GameDevelopers. 16 2 June 2003 19 2.1 10June ................................ 19 2.1.1 VirtualWorldExchangeLanguage . 19 2.2 11June ................................ 21 2.2.1 TheMatrix,Reloaded . 21 2.3 14June ................................ 21 2.3.1 Implementing a MUD with Lisp . 21 2.4 Sunday,15June ........................... 24 2.4.1 VirtualorReality? . 24 2.5 Monday,16June ........................... 24 2.5.1 MusicinMiddleEarth. 24 2.6 Sunday,22June ........................... 25 2.6.1 Manvs.Machine ....................... 25 2.6.2 Cats&Bunnies........................ 25 2.6.3 ADefinition.......................... 25 2.7 Friday,27June ............................ 26 2.7.1 ProgrammingContest . 26 2.7.2 TheBushAdministrationLies LiesLies . 26 3 4 CONTENTS 3 July 2003 27 3.1 2July ................................. 27 3.1.1 NationalDoNotCallRegistry . 27 3.1.2 BadNumbers......................... 27 3.2 3July2003 .............................. 28 3.2.1 Law&VirtualWorlds . 28 3.3 6July2003 .............................. 29 3.3.1 AnimeGirlfriend . 29 3.4 Monday,7July2003 ......................... 29 3.4.1 VirtualWorldArticles . 29 3.5 Tuesday,8July2003......................... 29 3.5.1 WebDefacingContestDebunkery . 29 3.5.2 CatorRabbit? ........................ 30 3.5.3 SeanGorman......................... 30 3.6 Wednesday,9July .......................... 31 3.6.1 VirtualRape&FreedomofSpeech . 31 3.6.2 TheSimsTurnCriminal. 32 3.7 Thursday,10July .......................... 32 3.7.1 ProgrammingMOO .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 32 3.7.2 XeroxParc .......................... 32 3.7.3 Defacer’sChallenge . 33 3.8 Friday,11July ............................ 33 3.8.1 MoreReadingaboutMUDs . 33 3.9 Friday,18July ............................ 34 3.9.1 IraqScandal?......................... 34 3.10Monday,21July ........................... 34 3.11Tuesday,22July ........................... 35 3.12 Wednesday,23July. 35 3.13Thursday,24July .......................... 35 3.14Friday,25July ............................ 36 3.15 Wednesday,30July. 37 3.15.1 The“SCOIsABastard”Files . 37 3.15.2 LiesLieinIraq ........................ 37 4 August 2003 39 4.1 Sunday,3August........................... 39 4.2 Tuesday,5August .......................... 39 4.2.1 OriginofLispNotation . 39 4.3 Saturday,9August.......................... 40 4.3.1 SilentHill3.......................... 40 4.4 Tuesday,12August2003. 41 4.4.1 DCOMSecurityHole . 41 4.5 Wednesday,13August . 41 4.5.1 ProgrammingGames. 41 4.5.2 XboxInternals ........................ 42 4.5.3 GamesProgramming. 43 CONTENTS 5 4.6 Friday,15August2003. 43 4.6.1 Blackout? ........................... 43 4.6.2 TheBlasterworm ...................... 43 4.6.3 MoreMicrosoft ........................ 44 4.6.4 OhNoIt’sSCO ....................... 44 4.6.5 GNUservershacked . 44 4.6.6 Others............................. 45 4.7 Sunday,17August2003 . 45 4.8 Monday,18August.......................... 45 4.9 Tuesday,19August.......................... 45 4.9.1 MoreSCO........................... 45 4.9.2 COMvs.RPC ........................ 46 4.10 Wednesday,20August . 46 4.10.1 .Net&RPC ......................... 46 4.11 Thursday,21August . 46 4.11.1 Tarotcards .......................... 46 4.11.2 Polybius............................ 47 4.11.3 Religioninvideogames . 47 5 September 2003 49 5.1 Tuesday,2September .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 49 5.1.1 Xbox ............................. 49 5.2 Wednesday,10September . 49 5.2.1 GameProgramming . 49 5.2.2 SecurityatMicrosoft. 50 5.2.3 MoreSCO........................... 50 5.3 Thursday,11September2003 . 51 5.3.1 Games............................. 51 5.4 Friday,12September2003. 51 5.4.1 WebServerinLisp.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 51 5.5 Monday,15September. 53 5.6 Friday,19September. 53 5.7 Monday,22September2003. 54 5.8 Tuesday,23September2003. 55 5.8.1 Whatiswork? ........................ 55 5.8.2 Regrets ............................ 55 5.9 Wednesday,24September . 55 5.9.1 SemanticWeb ........................ 56 5.9.2 GamesProgramming. 57 5.10 Thursday,25September . 57 5.10.1 The Domain Name System Situation . 57 5.11 Monday,29September. 61 5.11.1 TheModern,Corporate,World . 61 5.11.2 RandomThings ....................... 61 5.11.3 WebServices ......................... 61 5.12 Tuesday,30September. 62 6 CONTENTS 6 October 2003 65 6.1 Wednesday,1October . 65 6.2 Thursday,2October . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 65 6.3 Friday,3October........................... 67 6.3.1 GamesProgramming. 67 6.4 Saturday,4October2003 . 67 6.5 Sunday,5October2003 . 68 6.6 Monday,6October.......................... 68 6.6.1 Hasthishappenedtoyou? . 68 6.7 Friday,10October .......................... 69 6.8 Sunday,12October.......................... 69 6.8.1 The Problemwith Winders Programming . 69 6.9 Wednesday,15October . 70 6.10 Sunday,19October2003. 70 6.11 Monday,20October . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 70 6.12 Tuesday,21October . 70 6.13 Thursday,23October . 71 6.13.1 MexicanOut-sourcing . 71 6.14 Monday,27October . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 71 6.14.1 GamesProgramming&Virtual Worlds . 71 6.15 Tuesday,29October . 72 6.15.1 TheWaronTerrorism . 72 6.16 Maybethereishope ......................... 72 6.16.1 GameProgramming . 72 6.16.2 China&OpenSourceSoftware . 73 6.17 Wednesday,29October . 73 6.17.1 GamesProgramming. 73 6.18 Thursday,30October . 73 6.18.1 One Problem with ProgrammingWinders . 74 6.19 Friday,31October .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 74 7 November 2003 77 7.1 Monday,3November2003. 77 7.2 Tuesday,4November2003. 78 7.3 Wednesday,5November2003 . 78 7.3.1 Solving Problems the American Way . 78 7.4 Wednesday,5November2003 . 80 7.5 Thursday,6November2003 . 80 7.5.1 Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (Spam) . 80 7.5.2 Take advantage of morphing documents . 81 7.5.3 BusinessIsn’taZero-SumGame . 81 7.5.4 Complexity of Fee Schedules for Web Services . 81 7.5.5 GameProgramming . 81 7.6 Friday,7November2003. 81 7.6.1 AspectOrientedProgramming(AOP) . 81 7.7 Sunday,9November2003 . 82 CONTENTS 7 7.8 Monday,10November2003 . 82 7.8.1 GamesProgramming. 82 7.9 Thursday,12November2003 . 82 7.9.1 ArtificialVirus ........................ 83 7.9.2 eXplicit CongestionControl ProtocolXCP . 83 7.10 Friday,14November2003 . 84 7.11 Saturday,15November2003 . 84 7.12 Monday,17November2003 . 84 7.13 Tuesday,18November2003 . 84 7.13.1 Scumbag’sCrappy Obfuscation (SCO) . 84 7.14 Wednesday,19November2003 . 85 7.15 Thursday,20November2003 . 85 7.16 Friday,21November2003 . 86 7.17 Monday,24November2003 . 86 7.18 Wednesday,26November2003 . 86 7.18.1 .Net&Competitors . 87 8 December 2003 89 8.1 Tuesday,2December2003. 89 8.1.1 Spam ............................. 89 8.2 Wednesday,3December2003 . 90 8.3 Thursday,4December2003 . 90 8.3.1 TheSicknessBehind ModernEconomies . 90 8.4 Friday,5December2003. 91 8.4.1 JscriptDictionaryObject . 91 8.5 Monday,8December2003. 92 8.6 Tuesday,9December2003. 92 8.7 Wednesday,10December2003 . 93 8.7.1 XboxHacks.......................... 93 8.8 Friday,12December2003 . 93 8.9 Monday,15December2003 . 93 8.10 Tuesday,16December2003 . 94 8.11 Wednesday,17December2003 . 94 8.12 Thursday,18December . 94 8.13 Friday,19December . 94 8.13.1 VirtualWorlds . 94 8.1429December2003 .......................... 95 8.15 Tuesday,30December2003 . 95 8.16 Wednesday,31December2003 . 95 8.16.1 ObjectOrientedObservation . 96 9 January 2004 97 9.1 Friday,1January2004. 97 9.2 2January2004 ............................ 97 9.3 Monday,5January2004. 97 9.4 Tuesday,6January2004. 98 8 CONTENTS 9.5 Wednesday,7January2004 . 98 9.6 Thursday,8January2004 . 99 9.7 Friday,9January2003. 99 9.8 Monday,12January2004 . 99 9.8.1 WhyLisp? .......................... 99 9.9 Tuesday,13January2004 . 100 9.10 Wednesday,14January2004 . 100 9.10.1 PowerPointless. 101 9.11 Sunday,18January2004. 101 9.12 Wednesday,21January . 101 9.13 Thursday,22January2004 . 102 9.14 Friday,23January2004 . 102 9.14.1 .hack.............................. 102 9.15 Tuesday,27January2004 . 102 9.15.1 WhyTime .......................... 102 9.16 Wednesday,28January2004 . 103 9.16.1 BeefIsn’tWhat’sForDinner . 104 10 February 2004 105 10.1 Wednesday,4February2004. ..