I changed the address of the site this morning to http://www.blakerobertjohnson.com/. This signals the end of the needcollegestuff.com project. It’s really a shame that nothing ever came of NCS, but I can’t say I didn’t try.
Further searching has revealed that people are claiming many different release dates for Half-Life 2. Amazon.com says November 1, and I’m likely to take the word of a retailer over a gaming site. Just one more month!
Holy shit!!! Half-Life 2 will be released next week!!! I noticed on the website that you can already download some of the game content in encrypted form with Valve’s Steam service. Now, if only I had a machine fast enough to play it.
I guess it’s time to upgrade =).
There is a very interesting article The Hydrogen-Powered Future in Harvard Magazine. The article focuses on the integration of fuel cells in the economy and on the work of Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Some of these ideas still sound unlikely to me, but Lovin’s out-of-the-box, yet practical, thinking is exhilirating.
BTW, the CAPTCHA solution I am using is a modified version of the plugin which can by found on James Seng’s blog. I’ve kept Seng’s method of storing keys in files, but I’ve changed the actual challenge to be much more difficult by using some code from the FirstProductions Human Test project. I suspect that my version is much harder to crack with OCR software than Seng’s version.