| Saturday, September 28, 2002 | 2002-09-28 16:56 6 comments |
 by Flemming FunchIn the community areas of NCN rumors frequently go around that so-and-so is maybe a fake virtual person, and maybe just an alias of somebody else. And apparently some people think that I too have multiple personalities. I have a hard time thinking of any situation where I would actually want that, online or off. I have a hard enough time keeping track of who I am when I'm just trying to be myself. But it also gives me the unique dillemma that I can fairly easily shed light on any such suspicion of others by analyzing the server logs, but since I'm currently the only webmaster and server administrator for the site, you can't necessarily trust my own statement about whether I really am who I say I am. An existentialistic puzzle. Maybe I'm not who I think I am. Maybe I'm Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. At any rate, the reasonable solution would be to have several webmasters and server administrators. Also to avoid that the whole thing would just disappear if I suddenly die and I don't get around to whispering the root password to somebody else before I breathe my last breath. "The password is .... gasp.. phhft!" "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." --Albert Einstein |