November 15, 2004
9:52 am
This was a great weekend, highly needed and coming at just the right time. I went to a party on Friday night thrown by a girl who went to Kenyon but who was in a slightly different circle than my own. As a result, I met up with a bunch of alums that I only […]
November 12, 2004
12:55 pm
So, I did it. I downloaded the archive of Tip of the Quill and cleaned out the spam comments. I probably didn’t get all of them, but nearly all of the 25,000+ spam comments are now gone, which shrank a 23MB file to a 1.4MB file. Now all I have to do is recreate the […]
I know it probably won’t show up in it, but aside from the other things I’ve wished the iPod could feature (Bluetooth, FM tuner, Rendezvous, 802.11g, phone, etc.), it would be really nice if the iPod could record. Imagine, a little line in audio port, the input converts to MP3 on the fly… It’s be […]
In William Gibson’s new book, Pattern Recognition, his main character works as a consultant for whether or not a new brand will work. The basis for her skill in this strange designomancy is a form of allergy, where she has strong panic attacks when she encounters an overblown brand such as the Michelin man. I’m […]
Courtesy of k10k comes my new favorite webradio station, Netmusique. Good 21st-century jazz. Goodfunky, definitely goodfunky.
For a long time now, I’ve been pounding the podium about how AOL sucks. While they’ve been pushing themselves as an easy way onto the Internet, what they actually delivered was an abysmal experience. This boiled down to four main points: Their “content” was usually just dumbed-down content from other sites. They always provided second-rate […]
I’m not sure why, but I’m having difficulty importing my old entries from Blogger. Maybe the Movable Type importing system wasn’t designed to import three years’ worth of old entries, which total somewhere around 750+ K. That’s a lot of journal. On the physical side of journal keeping, yesterday I closed out another one of […]
Yeah, when Nick mentioned my new addiction, he wasn’t kidding. I’ve long been a sucker for a particular type of RPG, the vaguely-cartoony, kinda-funny-but-also-tragic, epic, innovative sort. Think Dragon Warrior. Think The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Think Final Fantasy I-IV and IX. And now, Dark Cloud 2 for the PlayStation. This […]
Well, this is my first entry using Movable Type. I’m trying it out first with my weblog, and then I hope to do everything in the magazine using it. I’m not sure how well this is going to work, however. If anybody out there has experience with this and would like to volunteer to help, […]
It’s funny how the work you do for you is so different from the work you do for work. I’ve been working on my personal portfolio site, and I realized that putting together my illustration and photography sections have been fun, while assembling the print, video and online sections just have me groaning every time […]
