Thinking about myself and LiveJournal

This morning, I was thinking about LiveJournal...

At the beginning, I didn't even know it existed. Then I heard of someone's Livejournal and began to read their page every couple of days to see what happened.

After a while, I wanted an account of my own so that I could comment occasionally, so I asked that person for a code, and they gave me one (together with the advice to get a paid account since it has more benefits).

Initially, I didn't plan on using the account for posting anything into my own journal. Then I thought it might be interesting to write about how well I am doing and what's going on with my life -- mostly the more depressed sides that have to do with work. So I posted in that journal occasionally, and also commented in other people's journals.

After a while, I decided to open another LiveJournal (this one) to put my "normal" thoughts into it. I didn't think I'd use it much. My LJ-Sema client auto-logged in to the other account.

But as time went by, I began using this account more and more and the other account hardly ever -- now I post nearly every day and some days multiple times. I have a paid account here while the other account's paid time has lapsed. My client logs in to this account. I have several friends whom I read regularly and who read my journal.

I just thought it was interesting to go from not writing a journal at all (I have a book-form journal which, however, I hardly ever write in) to posting nearly every day, even though I hadn't planned on that initially.

Demos, and being an oldbie

Slashdot featured an article about the demo scene, which talked about

the absolutely incredible Mind Candy DVD, where a very dedicated group of people from "the scene" have spent two years painstaking recovering demos from obscurity, finding the old 286 and 386 hardware, installing the needed (obsolete) cards, and capturing them perfectly in full digital glory. They also have information on what exactly the "scene" is, in case you've missed this incredibly creative use of computers from the past 20 years. This whole process cost them thousands of dollars and untold hours. Check it out, see what you missed... or never forgot.

That link to the scene also brought me to a link called Computer Demos - The Story So Far, which brought me to a MOD FAQ.

That all brought back lots of memories... ( Read more... )

List of demos on the DVD ... oh my, that brings back memories. I only saw one or two of those myself, but that sounds like something to have for those who remember those times. Makes me wish I had a DVD player.

Um... wow.

While following a link from the latest NTK to their shop to the "Adminspotting" T-shirt to Jonathan Chin (= doop, unless I'm mistaken), I came across his claim that he "was possibly the first person to bother solving Towers of Hanoi in sendmail.cf".

Words fail me.