I've spent the past week eating, breathing, and dreaming code as I've updated my FlickFilosopher.com with Movable Type with a bloggy format. It's gonna make things much easier for me in the long run, but these few days have been hellish as I learn MT's language and CSS and other Webbish goodies -- I've been dropping off to sleep (reluctantly) at like 4am every night, seeing code in front of my closed eyes and thinking, Oh, I must do ABC, and surely I can make XYZ happen somehow. And then the hours fly by the next day as I experiment with code.
So, here's the spectrum of hackers, a level to which I cannot even aspire: The amazing gals (and guys) who programmed the first computers, like ENIAC, and thank god for them, because without their pioneering working I'd still be publishing fanzines with a typewriter and a Xerox machine instead of having the lovely Web as a soapbox; Matthew Broderick in WarGames, with whom any geeky Xer surely identified as a teenager; and Sandra Bullock in The Net, cuz man, that was a dumb movie, and she was about the least believable computer nut ever.
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