Well, I’ve been horsing around with plugins tonight. I’ve been wanting to reestablish the last.fm stuff, but apparently there’s some wacky javascript tricks that EZ Scrobbler pulls that aren’t too friendly with this theme. I like this theme, so the theme stays until I can figure out what to do with EZ Scrobbler. If you really want to see my last.fm page, go there for now.
I also found a killer WordPress podcast plugin. Can’t wait to use it.
BTW, I’ve been on a business trip to Langley Research Center this week, hence my absence. Sorry… heading home now though… have a good weekend!
P.S. I got to fly a Boeing 757 and try to land it. That is hard to do!
So, I’m sitting there watching TV, right? A bumper in the commercial comes from the local TV station and it proclaims that part of the sponsorship was from the “Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival.”
Immediate image springs to mind of a bunch of ruby-throated individuals sitting around in lawn chairs, pondering quietly.
Not too very long ago I came to the realization that in the past, I didn’t use computers to do much. It could be that I didn’t really have much to do aside from playing games and writing the occasional resume’, but as far as productivity goes, I’d never quite been in a job that required me to use the computer to be productive, in a way of speaking. I was never required to pump out much in the way of Excel spreadsheets, or Access databases. I was never required to do much more than the occasional Word document.
The hot post today that has the blogosphere churning is this essay by Paul Graham entitled “Microsoft is Dead.”
I like the way the author of this post has just suddenly realized that Microsoft’s business model is in trouble. I had an epiphany much like this while I was in the very den of the mothership itself. While standing on the third floor of building 25 in Microsoft’s Redmond campus… fighting with their products to get some test data put through on our… unusual deployment of their products… came the word that Apple went Intel. That’s when I had the epiphany: Microsoft is toast. Thus begins their slow, painful demise as people wake up to the innovations happening elsewhere. Microsoft’s lack of supporting standards and their blind eye toward security… combined with failing in just about every endeavour except Windows and Office… was finally starting to do them in.
You may not realize it, but there’s this blog post out there that is emphatically talking about something I expressed at dinner a few weeks ago. The author of this blog was present at the dinner, so this blogger is talking about a discussion subject that I indeed brought up.
Point taken.
I can understand how easy it is to get things mixed up in translation, but it really brings to light an interesting concept about communication via blogs. While it’s quite evident that Vo0 and Whitey have a fountain of everlasting love for the dog, the blog posts did not entirely express this love in a way that drove the point home. I’ve been known to harp on the negative, but the feeling I got from reading the blog posts was that said dog was indeed a hellspawn and I chose to think of him as such.
So, I have this question that struck me tonight and I’m hoping my army of readers (cough) can help me out with a resolution to it.
I’m faced with a nagging question – its relevance is no concern of yours. 🙂 But the important question is: do copyright and/or trademark issues prevent realism in stories and movies?
We all know that it’s a rare, rare thing to find realism in fiction when it comes to computers. Is there a known copyright or trademark fact that prevents this realism?
There’s all this hullaballoo about Twitter and the twittering and yadda yadda. It’s another company that has taken an amazingly simple idea that apparently quenches an odd thirst to be social.
Why do you think I call it odd? More on that later.
I do not find myself attracted to using Twitter. Occasionally I’ll find myself posting something in the little note areas of any messaging program I use to accomplish the same functionality and… hey, what do you know, my friends can see that message. I know, I know. Twitter makes it easy to change that message from my cell phone or a kiosk or… whatever… but… who cares? If you want to know what I’m doing, call me up… email me… or find some way to contact me using the pigeon RFC, whatever – and hook up with me for some lunch. I’ll tell you what I’m up to. Come by my office, knock on my door.
My motivational transportation has sprung a leak and suffered a flat. I’m at work, but could give a damn if I get anything done. The weather is too nice outside. I’ve not been able to shake the sleepy haze this morning and I have a tinge of a headache. It’s one of those headaches that you get when your assbone digs into the fluff of your chair so much that it starts to harm your circulation and you feel minor little spasms in the back of your head. Top that off with being quite hungry and knowing that you have several meetings to attend in the afternoon, it makes for a flat tire.
It seems like one of the cool things to do is to have multiple sites – multiple blogs, multiple photo albums (flickr, picasaweb, etc.)… just all things to all people. Why can’t there be one site that functions as the one site for a person and their identity? What is the requirement to need to set yourself up on multiple sites?
Is it because of the passing fads of social networks? At one time, everyone flocked to MySpace. Now it’s Virb and/or Twitter. Twitter will be a dead fad by the end of the year maybe – what will be the next fad?
