So I’m a little excited about the Internet or should I say World Wide Web today.

I downloaded the new version of the Opera browser 7.02

Hands down it is the BEST browser on the planet.
Pages like the one you are reading now load much faster.
It has downloadable skins to change the lod and fell depending on your mood.
Pages come up “tabbed” in one place…no multiple windows to search through.
It even has a button to “turn off” popups.
More importantly it is 100% W3C standard.
No funny IE or Netscape javacode/special code wackiness.
Plus it doesnt utilize Active X, so less crashes.
And if it does crash, it can pick up from the last page you were checking out.

The browser is ALMOST as hot as the “Little Brother” album that has been in heavy rotation at
the lab. I can’t front the R. Kelly and 50 Cent are hot too.

But the “Llorca” get more rotation up in these parts.

So if you are using Internet Explorer or Netscape…download Opera and make your life easier.
I probably won’t make it my “default” browser since there is some cool css functions/java stuff that
will work with IE6+ only. Like some on this page which dont work completely in Opera

One more glitch, the other browsers are free but you get what you pay for.
Opera is $39 for the full registered version.
Not that I had the dough to pay for it.
But those who know me, know I have been doing this Internet/WWW/Computer thing since
Duran Duran.

So if you want the full registered Opera after you download it….holla.

It’s 4:20am and I’m still up.
I’m excited because this is the weekend of the H2K2 Conference.
H2K2 is the Beyond H.O.P.E. (Hackers on Planet Earth).
Yes, a conference for hackers. It’s here in the city.
More info can be found at here(www.h2k2.net)
Some panels include:

>Everything you ever wanted to know about spying and did not know who to ask
>The Password Probability Matrix
> Fucking Up the Internet at ICANN: Global Control Through the Domain Name System and How to Escape
That’s an actual panel discussion at the event so you get the picture.
I will be spending the weekend getting my geek on.

Aaron Mcgruder, creator of the BoonDocks comicstrip is giving a keynote on Decss.

For those who don’t know about the Decss:
CSS stands for Content Scrambling System, a (very weak) encryption used for movie DVDs.
DeCSS is a small piece of software that breaks the CSS encryption and allows the reading of encrypted DVDs.
In December 1999, eight major motion picture studios sued 2600 Magazine for publishing an article containing the DeCSS computer software and linking to DeCSS.
Although you can go to Google and find thousand of links to the source code there.
Norwegian teenager Jon Johansen created DeCSS in an effort to develop an open source software player that would allow people to play their lawfully purchased DVDs on computers running the Linux operating system.
To take it one step further a company called CopyLeft is selling t-shirts with the source code printed on the back. They were sued by the MPAA as well.
(I would link them but I’m trying to sell my own t-shirts, I’m sure you understand.)

Well now they can try to sue me:
Click right here
and download the source code yourself.

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There are many like it but this one is mine.