See, it's policy...

There are a few things involved here:

- Really good article from WIRED... it's about geeks and dating and what some clever (obsessive, creepy?) folks do to all of the social-networking sites out there. (although somebody's claiming to use netcat to do packet sniffing... ?) Theoretically gets more disturbing than what ... people I know... do with a bit of googling, a bit of lu, and a bit of ingenuity... (yes, you are very online-stalkable)

- Meta-article from somebody's blog about Having Policies. In short, Notified of the security holes Moore and Chisholm exploit, Friendster rep Lisa Kopp insists, "We have a policy that we are not being hacked.". Rock on.

- I should sleep, or something... but our 4210 thing is turned in and my head is shaved, and I'm feelin' good. Da.

Coupla things...

elrond root # emerge -C x11-base/xfree
elrond root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge x11-base/xorg-x11

My XFree86, this morning, randomly reverted to some absurdly low resolution, so I decided to get it over with and just switch to X.Org. And I did. And it installed painlessly, and it's nice, and my resolution is fixed. And it came with a different version of xterm, which has slightly different default colours... and it comes with a nicer set of fonts, so my X just generally looks nicer now. This is me, giving mad props to X.org. *madprops!!* I'd recommend it :)

I had the Theory test today... and it could've been a lot worse. I felt pretty well unprepared for it -- I'd been swamped with the 4210 project up until the night before. But I had ... something marginally intelligent to say about most of the questions... except that dynamic-programming-huffman one, which I cleverly oversimplified into triviality, totally missing the point. Eh. It happens.

But aside from that, stuff is good. I can relax a bit now, having gotten past that test and the 4210 project... now it's just gentle HCI and some research work for a while, and the former doesn't require very much thinking, and the latter has no hard deadlines and is beautiful and fun.

But now... we find Martin and eat Chinese food.