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)
Log Box
January 13, 2003
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)
January 8, 2003
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.
January 7, 2003
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?
January 4, 2003
January 3, 2003
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.
January 2, 2003
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.
December 31, 2002
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.
My summary version of 2002:
- Still Laid off, doing small projects. Boring.
- Lots of sitting around the house. Boring.
- I go to SXSW. Fun.
- I go to Las Vegas. Fun.
- I go to California. Fun.
- Working again full time as an independent consultant. Rewarding.
- We settle with our former employer. Finally.
- I go to Maine and Nova Scotia. Great Fun.
- I loved her for eight years, she breaks my heart in an instant. Not so much fun.
- I attempt to recover. Eeesh.
- I go to Connecticut for Thanksgiving. Fun.
- I continue to attempt to recover. Aaargh.
- I return to Connecticut and New York for Christmas. Fun.
- I am tired of the recovery process and decide that I have to move on. Hooray!
Top Five Things I bought this year.