I’m getting a lot done today on my apartment, which is slowly making the transition from the place where I sleep into a home. I really wish I could spend some time fixing all the problems with the current iteration of Bump and add some of the new content I was planning on adding when I redesigned a few months ago, but I much more focused on the real world right now. I’m still 40 lbs. lighter than I was in March, and I look much much better.(I know this because other people are noticing this fact on a regular basis. It’s flattering when someone you barely know stops you outside your building at work to tell you how great you look, but it’s even more flattering when an attractive woman you don’t know approaches you with obvious interest. This wasn’t happening a few months ago, and now it’s happening on a regular basis.) I’m still an emotional wreck from what’s happened in my life over the last few months, but at least I recognize that fact and am doing something about it. I appreciate my life so much more now than I ever have before, my family, my friends, my job, and myself.
Joe Jackson: Live In New York: Summer in the City is the result of Joe Jackson and two friends playing small clubs as a trio in New York City last summer. As a long time fan of the man, I’m quite pleased with this cd.
A good Salon.com article covers how The Patriot skews history and ends up making the British look far more sadistic than anything that actually happened in the American Revolutionary war. In fact, it compares this portrayal to actual war crimes committed by the Germans during World War II. How well will this film fair in Britain?
I just saw In God We Trust on Cinemax. Unfortunately, the full movie isn’t up on Atom’s site, but it was really entertaining.
What a great long weekend. I’m getting lots of stuff done, and spent three hours yesterday reliving my youth playing Risk with two of my work friends. I saw The Patriot, which I thought was mediocre, and The Perfect Storm, which I thought was mediocre. Both were a little too Hollywood for my tastes, and I thought the first was very much a slightly altered version of Braveheart set in the American colonies during the war for independence. I hope your weekend is going as well as mine. Now I’m off to configrue my home entertainment center(this is a monster job with 9 components).
Macintouch has a PC Expo 2000: Palm, Handheld and Wireless Computing Special Report. It includes a picture of the early Sony handheld prototype and some interesting notes on Bluetooth.
Sticking with the latest trends CNET launches a new Wireless section.
‘HTTP on steroids’ headed our way. What is BXXP? I’m going to do some looking around on this right now.
My Caffeine Sampler from ThinkGeek.com arrived this afternoon. It’s a scary amount of caffeine type beverages. I’m surprised the box didn’t explode or slowly vibrate across the floor.
MacWEEK: Sony to preview Palm handheld at PC Expo. It sounds more and more like Palm has no intention of being anything more than a operating system licenser. They haven’t come out with anything that really breaks the mold of the original Palm product. They’ve added color, more memory, and a faster processor plus wireless access, but the device has remained pretty much the same. I’m real interested in this Sony version, especially if I can stick a 128 Mb Memory Stick in it.
I’m playing beach volleyball in a league every Monday night, except I’m not really getting to play. Last week we were cancelled because they misplaced the nets, and this week they couldn’t get the lights to work. Maybe they’ll get their act together when we play in two weeks.
There’s also a weblog to track the carbonization of Frontier.
Userland releases Frontier 6.2 and thanks me in the process! I don’t really feel like I deserve their thanks with my crazy life taking me away from being as involved as I would like. 6.2 introduces a bunch of great new features including localization. Congrats to Dave, Brent, Robert and Andre on this accomplishment.
New to my daily visit list: K I I R O I
The Real World Blows does a good job of summing up my feelings about the show which features a bunch of disfunctional people living in an MTV constructed fantasyland. Of course, it’s like a car wreck and I can’t look away. (Found at the ever entertaining weblog wannabe)
Project Cool’s XML Concepts article gives an excellent high level overview of the language and surrounding concepts. WebReview does them one better with their excellent Taming the XML Beast. Read them both.
Today’s soundtrack courtesy of the Jurrasic 5. Their new cd, Quality Control, is absolutely what I needed in a hip hop record right now. It’s truer to the hip hop aesthetic than anything that has come out in a really really long time. I highly recommend it.
I watched American Movie last night. Entertaining and brilliant. Depressing and pathetic. You take your choice. Worth a viewing either way.
This is my Web site. Where I can put stuff I want others to see online. You can call it whatever you want as far as I’m concerned because I’m still going to put up whatever I want.