urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight The Twilight Report Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20080225.2224 2008-02-26T03:24:00 somewhat disturbing 2008-02-26T03:24:00 2008-02-26T03:24:00 <p> I was reading /. today, (can’t remember what the subject was, but it isn’t really important), and a poster was portraying Microsoft as evil and google as honest, true, good and all American. Now, I know Microsoft has been <i>persona non grata</i> on the /. since before time began, but how is it that google isn’t at least equally evil? All they want to do is index our lives and sell it back to us one piece at a time. At least when Microsoft was the main corporate overlord in the computer industry, we had some pretence of privacy.</p> urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20041205.1810 2004-12-05T23:10:00 Administrative 2004-12-05T23:10:00 2004-12-05T23:10:00 Here is what a computer geek I am: while I was waiting to go over to brad's house for the Festivus last night I coded up a search engine for my web site using a SQL database and some perl. I don't really need one, I can grep for anything I want since I direct access to the files, and I don't get enough traffic to make it useful for anyone. It just seemed like an interesting thing to do. It may also have to do with the fact that in the winter months in New York, I don't really like to be outside when it's dark and cold. <BR><BR> See that little box up there by the twilight icon at the top of this page? Put in some text and type &lt;ENTER&gt; to find what you are looking for. For example, if you put "bradstock" in there you will find everything I have written about the annual back yard bash on my website. <BR><BR> I am going to go find something useful to do with myself.