Mims speaks @ NY Flex Users Group 2007/5/24
By Mims Wright | on May 10, 2007
In AIR, AS3, Conferences and User Groups, Flex, News, Programming, Serious Stuff, Tutorial | 2 Comments
Hi. For you readers in NYC, I’ll be speaking at the next NY Flex Users Group on the Apollo Filesystem API. I hope you can make it! If not, watch this space for notes and code samples. Cheers!
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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On the Irony of Net Censorship
By Mims Wright | on May 2, 2007
In News, Rants, Serious Stuff | No Comments
Back in February, a hacker called Arnezami discovered a code which has something to do with hacking HD-DVDs. However, I, and many others, had no idea that this was going on until today when the MPAA (I guess they’re behind this) started killing off blogs and diggs and posts etc. that contain the number. How ironic.
Taking bets on how long till the kitty gets pulled.