... the neglected blog of
Larry Olin Horn.
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I've posted here is strictly my personal (probably ill-formed) opinion and should not be construed as representing any other person's or entity's views or positions on anything.
Wikipedia and Nupedia
Wikipedia
The home page of Wikipedia says “We’re writing a complete encyclopedia from scratch, collaboratively. We started work in January 2001. We’ve got over 6,000 pages already. We want to make over 100,000. So, let’s get to work! Write a little (or a lot) about what you know.” Wikipedia is implemented [...]
I’ve revised my mutterings [edit: see "old posts" category] area—only the current rant is on the main page, with individual links to previous ravings. Sometime soon I’ll clean up this home page as well, moving the older update information to a separate page.
About a year ago I commented on the “Do you want this Ad to Go Away?” banner ad. Since that time I’ve suffered the dodging monkeys and distracting pop-ups in silence, but today a site annoyed me enough to write again.
While wandering around the web I stumbled into an ASL (American Sign Language) dictionary. [...]
I am rendered speechless (typeless?) by the more recent Microsoft pronouncements about the evils of open source, their “prizes” for anyone reporting orders of PCs without operating systems (such hubris to think that only their OS would be installed on these PCs), their new subscription model of software licensing where you pay and pay forever [...]
