Technology’s Infestation of my Life

Some people out there are wondering why Facebook is such a phenomenon. There’s really nothing too special about it. It’s just away to see who else goes to your school. However, Facebook has done something innovative that not many other sites do, they authenticate users. In order to use Facebook, you have to have an active email address at the school you are going to. This email address, in short, serves as a ticket to Facebook, without it you can’t sign up. TheFacebook staff also take significant amount of time to research each school before addition to Facebook. Research includes what sort of on campus housing is availible, what majors are offered, what classes are offered and things of the like. This ensure that when a user goes to register and they input that they live in, say, Morgan, there aren’t multiple version of Morgan (such as Morgan Hall or M, or whatever the case may be). This aides in creating an accurate, searchable description for each user. Throw on the fact that the service is free (at least for now) and sites such as Classmates.com don’t stand a chance.

Dan, Eric, Jared, Chris, myself, and some others had some fun getting on top of the large monolith in Burial Mounds. It involved using rockets and the sword, a glitch, and a technique called sword jumping. ‘Twas much fun. Check out the gallery for more pictures

The current message on our door is the RFC definition and handeling of 403 Forbidden error:

10.4.4 403 Forbidden
The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the request has not been fulfilled, it SHOULD describe the reason for the refusal in the entity. This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable.

It’s been on the board since Tuesday and it was time to change it, so I Googled "funny RFC" and came up with RFC 2795, The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS). Here’s the abstract:

Abstract
This memo describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in order to determine when they have either produced the entire works of William Shakespeare or a good television show. The suite includes communications and control protocols for monkeys and the organizations that interact with them.

Definitely worthy of putting on the board; also worthy enough to post a blog about.

I’m calling it quits for this LAN event. I really wasn’t that interested in playing more games and I was gettting pretty tired. Didn’t help that I gave up caffine for lent. But all in all, I had a great time and would do it again.

Getting closer to playing UT. Didn’t finish ESotSM, but the night is still young!

Started watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotloss Mind.

I placed 2nd in the Halo Tourney. I think I"m going to take a break and watch a movie now.

I’ve advanced two rounds in Halo 2. That puts me into the semifinals. I’m still downloading stuff I need to play the other games. Hopefully it will finish in time.

I’m at my first LAN Party. It’s an all nighter, lasting until 7am in the morning. Check back here every hour, on the hour, for continous updates about standings and how much fun I’m having. You can also IM me or watch live video/audio at mms://138.67.141.51:8080.