"Shouldn't you be going?" Yuping asks.
"No," I reply.
"I'm trying to get you out of the room if you haven't noticed."
"Why? You have a hot date coming over or something?"
"No, I just hate you."
Living with Yuping is a laugh a minute. No, really, it is.
10/31/2000 06:27:17 PM | +
SegaWeb.com: Features: PS2: Disappointing Gamers -
"Tell me honestly, when Sony announced their uber-console two years ago, did you ever expect that you would be waiting in line for six hours just for the chance to buy one of these new units? Did you ever expect there to be a memory card shortages? What about the over-heating problems? Did you ever expect the launch list to be full of nothing but sequels to old PSX games? That the backwards compatibility wouldn't be fool-proof? Most of all, did you ever expect PS2 launch games like Tekken Tag Tournament to actually look worse than 18-month old Dreamcast titles like Soul Calibur? Yeah, well... neither did I."
The PS2 launch has only made me happier about my Dreamcast purchase last year.
10/30/2000 01:45:16 AM | +
"Remember that whole launching this weekend thing?"
"Yeah."
"Totally not going to happen."
"Figures."
10/28/2000 10:56:31 PM | +
I probably shouldn't link this... but...
Pretty much every The Thin H Line comic strip involves hentai, necrophilia, incest, or masturbation.
It's comic genius. [Obviously not for the easily offended.]
10/28/2000 10:24:15 PM | +
Hackers Break Into Microsoft System -
It's one thing to have your network compromised. Nothing is completely secure.
But when you're a software company... that makes operating systems... and your own development servers that house your next generation source code, running on your operating systems, are compromised, it raises some seroius doubts.
But it's not that they were compromised. It's that they were compromised for three months. For three months. What kind of company are those guys running? It's pathetic.
10/28/2000 03:08:06 AM | +
O'Reilly Network: Knocking on AIM's Door -
But that same group of companies, including Microsoft (as well as Excite@Home, Phone.com, and Yahoo) has formed IMUnified, a coalition of companies to develop interoperability between the various companies' messaging services.
In case you're not fully attuned to the irony of this, AOL's position in the market is so dominant that Microsoft has been reduced to joining a coalition with other companies championing open standards."
Interoperability is not a technical problem at all - AOL has just repeatedly destory all attempts by a "competitor" to communicate with AOl IM users. If the government refuses to regulate instant messaging like any other communications infrastructure things will probably never change. AOL has no motivation to allow interoperability.
10/27/2000 07:40:16 PM | +
Filler Friday: Bathroom Atrocity Diary.
Note to self: make sure no one in my dorm ever reads über.
10/27/2000 11:29:19 AM | +
"Dude, I need to use your computer."
Ian then proceeded to go to amihotornot.com and rate people for like an hour.
You're presented with a picture of a person, and then you rate them on a scale of 1 to 10. Then, you're presented with another picture, and off to the side is a smaller version of the picture you just rated, along with their average score.
It's disgusting and disturbing. Also, addicting. I had to wheel the chair away from the computer to get him to stop.
What I find most interesting is that the "average" score seems to be about a 3 or 4. Either most people are really ugly, or people have unreasonable expectations about looks.
Or people net savvy enough to submit a picture are just uglier than the norm. Also possible.
10/26/2000 10:21:21 PM | +
"Can't go, I'm launching this weekend."
"That's what you said last weekend."
"Well, actually, I've said that the last four weekends, but this time I really mean it."
10/26/2000 01:36:29 PM | +
Lately I don't like the sound of my own writing.
10/26/2000 01:30:13 AM | +
A wise man once said -
10/25/2000 01:48:26 AM | +
It's not just me, AIM's ads really are unacceptably annoying.
This is relatively old news but my favorite legitimate nihilistic media terrorists produced AIMazing to deal with it -
The portions it renders into just happening to be the ad-filled ones. It always cracks me up that the Nullsoft is owned by AOL. I love those nullsoft guys.
10/23/2000 09:13:04 PM | +
I just want some form elements to disappear and reappear or be disabled based on a dropbox. Why does it have to be so damned complicated?
So, of course, my first instinct was to hand off the job to my highly capable interface design team.
Then I remembered that I didn't have an interface design team.
[update] - actually, it would be trivial if Netscape supported such cutting edge 1998 standards as HTML4
10/21/2000 07:25:44 PM | +
I used to care about politics. I think.
10/20/2000 12:47:57 AM | +
Ben Stein is giving a speech in the courtyard just outside my window.
He was invited by the Stanford Young Republicans, which gives you a pretty good idea about the content of his speech.
He keeps saying things about Gore's character, and how Bush will will uphold the constitution and laws and intoning that Gore won't, and that's the most important thing above any sort of policy issues or anything else, is respect for the laws of this country.
Reminded me of The New Science of Character Assassination articled linked at metafilter yesterday.
And we all know that former coke heads are some of the most law abiding citizens in this country.
Cheap shot, whatever, really, I don't care. Bush, Gore, whatever.
10/19/2000 06:34:38 PM | +
I can't deal with cell phone users.
It's not cell phones per se, there's nothing inherently wrong with the technology, just the assholes who tend to use them. Constantly. At inappropriate times. Around me.
It's about an understanding of etiquette and good manners really, and the average cell phone user seems to lack that.
But since expecting people to behave in a courteous manner is completely unrealistic, I'm looking for a more technological solution.
I want a personal, portable version of the C-Guard cellular firewall.
I need a cell phone bubble around me, so that people's cell phones mysteriously stop working once they get within a certain range of me. Oh, what a wonderful, wonderful thing that would be.
10/19/2000 04:10:49 PM | +
"I need a girl, because watching hockey and hanging out with you all the time is going to kill me." - my roommate pal Yuping.
10/18/2000 06:09:37 PM | +
Oh yeah, I wrote an article for über yesterday.
No mom, I don't smoke, and no I'm not actually going to start smoking.
10/18/2000 01:19:12 AM | +
Since today is blueblog's first birthday, this seems like a good opportunity to sit back, and look at how things have changed here in the last year.
"The Journal said the hackers were believed to have had access to the software codes for three months, but a source familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Friday it had been going on for at most five weeks."
"The companies were attempting to exploit a protocol that AOL made public, but AOL repeatedly blocked their efforts, saying that the moves undermine the security and privacy of its members. Microsoft even attempted to make its MSN Chat work with AOL, though it too later pulled back in favor of trying to win the battle by slinging mud instead of code.
"The world needs another quirky, general-interest weblog like the open source community needs Eric $. Raymond."
but regardless, I'm glad to see Rogers is weblogging again.
"This visualization plug-in for Winamp is one of the smallest ones possible. It renders nifty graphics into portions of AIM (if installed)."
"C-Guard Cellular FireWall is a jammer device that transmits low power radio signals, which cut-off communications between cellular handsets and cellular base-stations."
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10/17/2000 01:54:38 PM | +
So I was doing a quick look at terms of service pages for various free web services so i could copy one for as research for organizine, and the pitas one is definitely my favorite.
"We're not responsible for anything! If you make fun of some guy who runs a tractor factory on your page and then he comes and beats you up, it's not our fault. We will do our very best to keep the system running as smoothly as possible, but if something happens and disrupts service and it causes you harm, we're not liable. If anything causes you harm, we're not liable! Man I need a lawyer, this writing is awful. But legally binding suckah!"
10/16/2000 08:48:08 PM | +
Tomorrow blueblog turns one year old.
Unlike some others with birthdays coming up, I have absolutely nothing spectacular planned.
10/16/2000 01:24:47 AM | +
The latest in the fine line of texty texts: Shopping with Ian
10/14/2000 09:58:52 PM | +
10/13/2000 11:43:07 AM | +
I'm so glad I'm finally taking Latin. I've always wanted to take Latin, but it wan't offered to me in high school. Now I can walk to class, and chant to myself "o, s, t - mus, tis, nt" and "bam, bas, bat - bamus, batis, bant" and a host of others. I mean, there aren't any chants for my Introduction to Databases course, no way. Latin definitely wins in the chants department.
10/11/2000 01:38:59 AM | +
I have to program a mergesort in MIPS assembly language. It's times like these I really question why I'm a computer science major.
10/10/2000 02:47:53 PM | +
The last couple texty texts are available as an RSS feed. RSS 0.91 to be exact.
Not very exciting, I know.
What is kind of exciting is that all organizine managed sites are going to generate RSS feeds by default.
But just 0.91, for the time being I'm not interested in dealing with the RDF enabled RSS 1.0, although savvy users will be able to generate RSS 1.0 as well with relative ease.
10/8/2000 02:14:40 PM | +
Hooray for Andrea's redesign. Double hooray for using organizine.
Umm, yeah, organizine. It will launch eventually. I swear. Soon. Near future soon.
10/7/2000 04:31:57 PM | +
Dandy Warhols Channel Karaoke, Porn For New Video -
It's my favorite
video right now.
10/7/2000 02:22:50 PM | +
Y-Craze interviews Dr. Frank -
You’ve mentioned in other interviews that you’ve had some pretty
bad love disasters—any that you could share with us?
"Well sure, a lot of them are kind of pedestrian when they don’t happen to you, but probably the most spectacular one was the one who had multiple personality disorder. The personality I was going out with turned out to be a 6-year old girl, which was weird. And she liked me but the 17-year old lesbian didn’t like me."
10/7/2000 02:17:57 PM | +
Filler Friday: Extending the Brand over at the big Ü
10/6/2000 11:20:46 AM | +
I'm trying out notifylist.com. Looks like yet another fine service from everybody's favorite bear lover, Andrew.
"The concept behind this video is that [we're] telling the story," Taylor-Taylor described, "shot in what looks like a kind of '70s European porno. Then it has the words going [across the screen] underneath. It's a karaoke video. So, halfway through it, as soon as the story part runs out, we switch to the karaoke bar, where we're playing like the karaoke band and we're set up next to the karaoke screen."
10/4/2000 11:52:52 PM | +
The view from my room 10/4/2000 07:20:58 PM | +
It's November 4, it's free, it's right in my backyard, and even though I would never, ever refer to myself as an "artist" in "new media," I'll definitely be there. (Except from 1 to 2 pm, can't miss Latin class. Nope, can't miss Latin.)
Will you be there? Please say hi.
10/4/2000 12:09:40 AM | +
I can't wait for Tom Frank's One Market Under God, which should be out soon.
10/2/2000 08:24:02 PM | +
eMedicine, Inc. Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software [via ev on cam's cms list] -
"...the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to the company’s proprietary Group Publishing System (GPS) software. The GPS enables collaborative, enterprisewide publishing and allows authors and editors to create large, multi-author projects—online content, journals, books, and manuals—entirely on the Internet. Jeff Berezin, chief technical officer and architect of the GPS system, said: 'The software is unique—it is the only enterprise software that allows all production to take place on the Internet. The system allows authoring and editing within the GPS environment or through word-processing programs like Word.'" Oh crap. It's one thing to hear about stupid patents, it's a whole other thing to hear about them and think about how the stupidity of the US patent system could allow someone to sue me for a project I'm just finishing. There's a *patent* on producing documents entirely on the Internet? How ridiculous. Now, even if we ignore the current crop of web based content management and publishing systems, there's also the minor detail that the first ever web browser by Tim Berners-Lee was also an editor that allowed "all production to take place on the internet."
10/2/2000 03:11:57 PM | +
useless I'd almost forgot about my stupid ureach free voicemail at 877-376-8488. (Which of course, you should call, right now, because I'm a needy, needy person.)
I love having free voicemail. I mean, somebody called me from a Texas area code, 512, and hung up, and someone called me from a NY area code, 212 and hung up. Isn't the web and free voicemail great? I think this is why the voicemail number didn't survive the "redesign."
10/1/2000 07:02:51 PM | +
kudos to haughey. 10/1/2000 12:08:00 AM | +
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