Mariucci is fired by 49ers. Not such a good move for the franchise as far as I’m concerned, the guy is one of the best coaches in the league. I get the impression that this thing is really about egos and coaching styles. Bill Walsh, who is one of the greatest offensive minds in the history of the game, wanted to run one style of offense with, of course, a pass focus. Mariucci wanted to run the ball more. I’m certain that he won’t be looking for a job for very long. Personally, I’d love to see him here in Atlanta, but I doubt that is going to happen any time in the near future.(That’s another post for another time.)
Matt is at Yosemite. I went there years ago, before my involvement in the Web, and before I was chained to my desk at work all day moving text around on a screen. I think at the time, I was splitting my time between DJing at a club two nights a week, working at a record store three or four days a week, and working at a comic shop on the weekend days. That’s not really very relevant to this post though. Yosemite changed me as a person. The place is like a church to me. The scale of everything reminded me how small I am, and how large and beautiful the world is. I suspect a lot of that had to do with the fact that I was living in a very urban New York environment at the time. I think about that trip all the time, not because I think about the woman I was dating at the time who went with me, but because I was changed as a person from standing in that park. Oddly, I haven’t gotten back there since that trip despite many business and pleasure trips to California since then. America is a grand country, with so much to see, so much beauty, and so many incredible people, it makes vacation planning a nightmare in a good way.
Garret takes great sunset photos. You should go over there and get that one for your dekstop, it’s very peaceful.
I’ve added a substantial amount of information to yesterday’s mini-essay Mac OS X86.
Best Spam Subject line mistake ever; “Does your job pay you up to 00.00 an hour?” Why yes it does, it does pay me up to zero dollars and zero cents an hour.
Apple objects. Yawn.
Mena said, “For those who use Movable Type and are interested in moblogging and blogging from PDAs and handhelds, this purchase is good news.” It sure is. I’ve been contemplating a move to some other backend setup for some time. This might push me over the top.
Interesting that the Analysts at Jupiter are now keeping blogs, but I didn’t find anything insightful on any of them thus far. (link via Scripting News)
I have another major beef with the hiplogging feature of Danger’s Sidekick service. You cannot include links in your postings. Now, I’m not really a blog purist by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that the ability to post more than just a bunch of plain text is a basic blog feature. I mean, this is one of the primary purposes of having a blog in the first place. Come on people, get with the program, get some perspective on what people use their blogs for, and clean up that darned copyright statement too. Update: you can include links and styled text in postings as documented here. I’m not sure why they went with a non-HTML syntax for this particular feature. HTML works, and people already know it.
Console games, especially those for the PS2, have taken a sort of weird turn in the last year. It’s becoming more and more common for the more popular games to try and sell more merchandise than just that particular game. Two recent examples from my gaming library include Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Madden NFL 2003. In order to get to additional cheat codes for Vice City, one can purchase one of the six soundtrack cd’s that go along with the game or the boxed set of all six cd’s. In order to get to some of the cheat cards in Madden, one must own other EA Sports games. I suspect that many other gamers fall victim to the same anxiety over possibly missing out on something cool that I do, leading to the purchase of some or all of these additional objects. I wonder how long this will go on before it gets completely ridiculous.
Here’s why I haven’t set myself up with a blog on Danger’s hiptop site. I can’t believe how clueless this particular decision is. I write stuff, I should get to decide how it is available to others for their use, end of story. (via evhead)
So sad. We’ll miss you Oolong.
This review of Windows XP Media Center Edition is a good informative read. I was curious, despite my entertainment hobbled living room layout, if this is something I should be considering. If they had found a way to make these machines also play Xbox games, they would have added another selling point.
Oops. Seems that the power went out in my house at some point when I wasn’t there in the last two days, and I failed to notice. As a result, I haven’t been able to update. I should have checked this out last night, but I changed my sleep schedule this week to a much earlier to bed and earlier to rise one. Updates resume, well, now.
Apple has already updated the .Mac home page with information about some of the things that are being announced in relation to that service at MacWorld today. The biggest seems to be an online address book that is iSync compatible.
Macromedia has made Mac OS X compatible developer editions of JRun and ColdFusion available as of today. This is a landmark moment for both companies in my opinion, and a major boon to those of us who develop with ColdFusion, but also enjoy the chewy goodness of Mac OS X.
Update: Infoworld Article on the Subject. I find the fact that Apple refused comment amusing. When I was at Macromedia Devcon 2002, I talked at length to Phil Costa, the Product Manager for ColdFusion, and to the Apple folks that were at the show about this particular subject. Apple said that they wanted Macromedia to support their platform with their server technologies and that was one of the reasons that they were at Devcon in the first place. So, when they finally get this, they refuse comment?
Here’s Apple’s worst move yet, assuming it’s true. They have continued to squeeze more and more revenue out of their customers, and I can only imagine that it is now getting to the point where people will begin abandoning them for this. This move takes away one of their competitive advantages over Windows in a big way. No a good vibe at all, but it sticks with the theme set by iTools, get people used to something when it is free, then charge them for it.
In keeping with resolution number one below, I have started the year off by delving into some books. I read on a regular basis, and I probably read close to 100 books in 2002, but I wanted to create a formal goal that would make me want to strive to read even more than I had been. So this week I’m reading:
I’m very amused by this listing of Cockney Rhyming Slang. Part of the reason I’m amused by it is the fact that I needed it in order to understand something someone I work with said.
At the risk of embarassing myself quite badly, I thought I would go ahead and post my New Year’s Resolutions here. Somehow, I think that makes them more real. So here goes, in no particular order:
- Read 100 books this year.
- Drink more water, less coffee and soda.
- Go to the gym two out of every three days this year.
- Worry more about myself, and less about others.
- Get up earlier, go to bed earlier.
- Relearn to read non-fiction.
- Quit smoking.
- Make this Web site a labor of love.
- Write more.
- Learn Object Oriented Programming better.
- Do one major house project each month.
- Be more financially responsible.
- Enjoy things you already own rather than buying more stuff.
- Be a better friend.
- Meet a new girl.
- Improve my work ethic.
Welcome to 2003. I look forward to this being a year of personal growth, enhanced learning, and increased health. My New Year’s Eve was enjoyable and a little wild, and I spent it and New Year’s Day with some great new friends. One thing I know for sure, I am excited by the opportunities that life has presented me with for the New Year. I hope everyone else had a good safe New Year’s Eve, and I wish everyone the best in the new year.
FlyGuy is incredibly amusing. (via Boing Boing)
The NFL is complaining that Midway’s NFL Blitz doesn’t accurately reflect what happens on the field with late hits and violence. This is crap. It’s a video game, I’m not certain if people in the league office are familiar with video games, but they often do not mirror “reality” very well. Umm, it’s sort of the point y’all.