Now, I'm not the best blogspace citizen, I hardly keep my civic duties in posting, and moreover I should really not be using words like blogspace. I suspect it went out of fashion sometime in 1999.
But lately I've been reading some blogs, I mentioned Deltoid in my last post, and now I thought I should mention that other one, Aaron Swartz (no thought left behind). I don't remember how I came across his blog, I followed some link somewhere and came across an entry, then bookmarked it because I thought it was well written.
Now experienced bloggers might laugh at me when I say that I believed this was just some random interesting blog, not too famous, not too unknown either. I suppose when you find them like that, odds are they are pretty big. Anyway, Aaron Swartz seems to be a well-known hacker/internet celebrity, co-inventing RSS at age 14 ro something, and now he's just started at Stanford, chronicling his adventures as he goes. It's great writing, however some of the comments he get seem to have a certain patronizing tone. I suppose that's what you get for being clever and political at the same time.
But enough about other people. I have some work to do: I have to deliver a progress report on my database project, and also a rather large economy assignment. I really envy people like Aaron and for that matter my webmaster who go to universities and can actually choose most of their courses themselves. I'm stuck with the only major database that doesn't have a linux version as mandatory, and a lot of very "workplace-oriented" prep talks.
On the other hand, doing things this way allowed me to have some other things, like a wonderful wife and a home of our own, so I really can't complain! :-)