July 2003
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I’ve added a new feature to the left sidebar. Now you can see what books, video games, and movies I’m into at the moment! As per my new method for linking to books, movies, etc., the name of the work will link to its official page if I found one, and the Amazon/Internet Movie Database links will link to the appropriate page on those sites. I’ve also jazzed up the whole affair...
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Quarter Blues
Most of my friends are going through quarter-life crises of varying severity. On the whole, each feels that he doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life, or that he knows but isn’t getting there any time fast. Most either don’t have jobs they like, or if they don’t mind what they do they still aren’t in a field they want to be in for much longer. I’ll go...
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5 Days of TypePad
The geniuses at Six Apart who invented MovableType are starting to show off more of the features of their upcoming TypePad service, and it’s looking really cool so far. The problem with having an MT weblog is that you have to run and configure it all off of your own server. LiveJournal is currently the big centralized service, but TypePad seems like it’s going to have a lot to offer....
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Comma Use
A few things about printed English have been bothering me lately:
A big pet peeve of mine is when people leave out the last comma in a list. For example: last night I ate dinner, watched tv and played video games. The names of most law firms are like this. I temp’ed at this one: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. The problem is that the commas denote seperation....
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Don't Buy It
So BuyMusic has launched, and the Mac community is not very happy about it. Word has it that the service isn’t nearly as slick as the iTunes Music Store, it isn’t as reliable, though the price is lower it isn’t consistently lower, it doesn’t give you the same rights for every song so you can only burn/copy some of the songs and can’t transfer some songs to mp3...
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Sympathy for the Star Wars Kid
If there hadn’t been other people around, I would have cried. I just read Wired News’ coverage of the “Star Wars Kid.” I’m loathe to admit that my maturity level has reached a point where I can’t find some things funny. Sure, watching what I’ve seen of the movie, I admit that it’s hilarious. But then I read about the kid. He had to drop out of school...
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This post by Kottke is fantastic. I reprint it in full here:
It was a dark and stormy night (with cheese)
Mariann Simms has won the 2003 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction
Contest, “a whimsical literary competition that
challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence
to the worst of all possible novels”. Her submission:
They had but one last remaining night together,...
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Downloading Album Art Made Easy
I ran across a neat little iTunes script today while reading Plastic Bag. You just select a song or group of songs in iTunes, go to the script menu, selected “Fetch Art,” and it’ll connect to Amazon.com and download the album cover for every item in the database. Then you can select the songs and copy them into iTunes, so that when you play music you’ll be able to see the...
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One Step Backward, Into the Future
After much deliberation, I’ve decided to switch to AT&T Wireless from Sprint PCS. We’ll see if frequent dropped calls and poor service are just a Sprint thing.
The fun part is that I now have a shiny new Sony Ericsson t68i to play with. I’ve already very pleasingly used iSync over Bluetooth, putting all of my phone numbers on the new phone in under a minute and set...
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The Onion
It’s been a while since I’ve read an entire issue of The Onion. Usually I read a few and then scan the rest. Because, really, once you’ve gotten acquainted with it you can pretty much guess what an article says by its headline. But today I’m bored. Very bored.
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Anyone who has played DR can tell you that text is where it’s at. Who needs A/V anyway, huh? Just ask the teenage girls on the metro busy texting their American Idol votes a few months ago. Text is the way.
So who remembers Star Wars Asciimation? You know, that time some lunatic rendered thirty minutes or so of A New Hope into a text-based movie. But of course we know that that trilogy is...