Some great discussion over at metafilter concerning the Techno Greeks article, the latest Alertbox on content creation for the "masses," and the value of weblogs in all this.
I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot, it's kind of the basis of organizine, and I shared a little bit about it in the mefi discussion. As organizine wraps up I'm going to try and write some more coherent thoughts about it.
Yes, organizine will get finished, and I will write about it, and I will pass my classes. Really.
9/30/2000 11:51:49 PM | +
meta crap Friday at lunch my friend Ian handed me an insert that was in The Daily from steamtunnels.net, opened to an article entitled "Do you blog?"
The subhead was "Not just personal home pages, web logs reflect their creators' character."
I nearly puked it was so utterly ridiculous. I'd link to it so you could retch too, but lucky for you, even though the steamtunnels insert has "steamtunnels.net" at the bottom of every page, a search for blog on their site comes up with nothing relevant.
To be fair, Rabi was quoted and actually made some intelligent comments. The rest sucked.
In sharp contrast to this, Techno Greeks @ media.org is the most insightful and accurate article written about weblogs I've read since My Ass Is a Weblog.
9/30/2000 06:38:30 PM | +
I did filler friday for that zine thing. I think. It should be up sometime friday. I'm tired.
9/28/2000 11:49:44 PM | +
Sure, I may have some "issues" with school, but who cares? I have a muppet-skin pillow.
The new photos section is an organizine powered work in progress. I start class tomorrow, I should probably be a little more concerned about that and not doing web stuff.
9/26/2000 07:58:23 PM | +
The Summer Clip Show is something I've been trying to write for over a month. It's been very difficult for me to write it, and I'm still not very happy with it, but I had to publish it before I went back to school. I needed some closure.
Heading back to school Sunday. Yay. Updates will grind to a halt as I get back into that whole "school" thing.
I was really hoping to launch Organizine before I went back to school, but it's just not going to happen. I hate hyping things in advance and giving dates, so bleh, still no firm launch date. Umm, soon. Really.
9/23/2000 10:54:10 PM | +
I break my self-imposed silence concerning the not-so-super-secret-anymore project at the benbrown discussion -
"it was mostly designed to get me hott chixx. in that sense, the beta has been pretty disappointing."
9/21/2000 05:59:21 PM | +
"Although the G4 is a very nice PC, it doesn't make sense to purchase a completely different machine just to try an OS that may be nothing more than PrettyBSD."
Statments like that are probably not going to win them any points at that cult called apple.
Darwin is already running on Intel, it'll be interesting to see whether or not Apple ever decides to release a version of OS X for Intel to compete with Windows NT.
While I think it would be very cool and I think Apple could make a ton of money off of it, I'm guessing there's not a snowball's chance in hell of it ever happening. You know, that OS on a cheap, boring beige intel box would probably break poor little stevie's heart.
9/21/2000 04:19:20 PM | +
Yes, I'm "redesigning" - if you call what's here "design." Things may break. Sorry about that.
The red on blue finally got to me. I didn't think it was possible, but it did. I must be getting old.
Also, note to self: do not let ben make up the bio at the end of my uber articles.
9/20/2000 04:09:04 PM | +
Published with organizine, of course.
Yes, organizine is still in private beta testing; no, it's not done yet; no, I don't know when it will be finished.
9/18/2000 10:58:45 PM | +
This demo is kinda neat. Not exactly what I'm looking for, but neat. 9/18/2000 07:37:25 PM | +
Regarding my past rant about embedded text editors in browsers, I found this metafilter thread kinda interesting. Although after reading the article and trying out the javascript mentioned in this article I was pretty underwhelmed.
Josh pointed out some things at The MSDN Reusing Browser Technology site, and after poking around for a while I'm intrigued by the The MSHTML Editing Platform in Internet Explorer 5.5. I'm hoping to integrate this into organizine. (Yes, it'll be IE only, but don't worry, the app will still work in Netscape, just with a boring text box instead of the editor components.)
Dammit, I hate doing client side stuff... where's my highly skilled interface and design team when I need it?
Also, go watch trucklebunny and friends. Even if you've already seen it, go watch it again.
9/18/2000 03:18:34 PM | +
I'm just not all that excited about Mac OS X's unix core. At least not yet. Right now, I'm using FreeBSD, running enlightenment's eMac theme. (Of course, there's also the aqua rip-off theme, if you're more cutting edge, or windowmaker for that retro NeXTStep feel.)
Keeping in mind that my only experience with OS X was playing with a developer's release for about 5 minutes and reading Apple sponsored marketing about it, here's a quick comparison between the Mac OS X beta and a FreeBSD setup like mine:
| Mac OS X | FreeBSD | |
| os core | darwin (derived from mach, freebsd) | freebsd (bsd 4.4 derivative) |
| candy colored shell interface | standard | optional |
| hardware | requires overpriced ppc-based system, but usually has pretty translucent colored plastic | runs on almost any boring, beige intel-inside box you can throw together |
| stability | beta quality software (or, apple? stability? HAHA) | powers yahoo, cdrom.com. rock solid |
| native version of photoshop | no | no |
| able to run lots of useless precompiled old mac apps out of the box | yes | no |
| able to run lots of useless precompiled old linux apps out of the box | no | yes |
| includes internet explorer | yes | no |
| includes xemacs | no | yes |
| hype | lots | none |
| cost | $30 to be |
free for download |
9/17/2000 09:46:38 PM | +
Trucklebunny and Friends - will the fun ever end? [via andrew, requires flash]
9/17/2000 01:03:54 PM | +
If you've been having trouble reaching trenchant.org in the last day or so, sorry about that. I hate DNS.
I think everything should be ok now. Hopefully.
9/15/2000 09:15:09 AM | +
A brief excerpt from a conversation between me and Yuping, everyone's favorite grey-shirt wearing stanford cs major, and my soon-to-be roommate when I return to school:
"perl?"
"yeah, perl scripts, mysql database, running on freebsd"
"do u have a nice perl SDK?"
"yeah, it's called xemacs"
"up urs too"
Yuping is an angry little guy.
Oh god, I think I just posted a chat transcript. Kill me. Please.
Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter since I can't post because of DNS crap. I hate DNS. Bleh
9/14/2000 03:40:54 PM | +
adammathes.com - your adammathes super site.
I decided to go out on a limb and add graphics to a site I "designed." If you can call 16x16 two color icons graphics.
I'm trying to take minimalism a little more seriously in my "design." I think I'm going to redo trenchant.org too. It's easy and fun now that I'm using this nifty little thing called organizine...
I think it's kind of interesting how this page has slowly turned into exactly what it originally replaced almost a year ago.
9/12/2000 05:51:55 PM | +
Super secret project beta test has begun.
If you want in, just ask.
9/11/2000 12:13:35 AM | +
I always knew I had a face for radio.
9/8/2000 12:10:40 AM | +
Salon.com Sex | Porn-star secrets
"Tweezing is commonly used to remove a small number of hairs, for example, in the eyebrows. Most people consider it too time-consuming for large areas such as pubic hair. On the Web sites devoted to pubic hair removal, tweezing is rarely mentioned, and never touted."
Consider this the final closing postscript to this.
9/6/2000 02:15:59 AM | +
Summer 2000 FAQ - where I talk to myself and everybody laughs. Ha ha!
My DSL has been down forever, so if you've sent me email about the beta test and haven't gotten a response yet, yes, you're on the list and you will be getting more info soon.
Also, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the happyNETbox logo guy.
"happyNETbox will be a BOX where you can put things from the NET that make you HAPPY. Content, services, saved bits and pieces from all over the internet, all in one happy happy happy package."
To avoid any possible confusion, my project is not the happyNETbox, that's ben's project. My project wil be much much better and will be able to kick his project's ass.
No, that's not really true either. Actually, our projects are buddies. Good buddy pals. They're both growing and learning together, living on the same server just a few directories down form one another. Golly, they just grow up so fast these days!
9/5/2000 02:18:19 AM | +
Things are gearing up for the beta test for my super secret project.
If you aren't on the super secret project beta test list and think your should be, or you're just curious, let me know.
9/2/2000 03:42:27 PM | +
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