Morme to The Internet:
”…welcome to
the site. I’m a puppy.”
Monthly Archive for June, 2003
bpdw.commentary moved today from the Daisy Hill Puppy Server
Farm, near Ann Arbor, to the beautiful Pleasant Meadows Dairy Server
Farm, near Detroit. Just waiting on the DNS now.
I apologize in advance for any inconvenience related to your being unable to find
my vague references to bittorrent, “ScantilyClad,” Dora the Explorer, and
Sweet Cuppin’ Cakes.
UPDATE [MONDAY EVENING]: I have tried www.bpdw.com at a Kinko’s in
Dearborn [in the course of another project, not because I was that
worried about it] and it seems to be resolving correctly from there and
from my class tonight, so maybe the DNS changes are still propagating.
I let my registrar handle my DNS [hey, it’s included in the 12-euro annual fee, can’t beat that with a stick]. As soon as bpdw.com went live here at the Pleasant Meadows Dairy Server Farm, I gave GANDI the new IP. So bpdw.com points directly to the new server now and you are reading this, but www.bpdw.com gives you a generic GANDI placeholder page. Mystery of mysteries. But I will not bother my jaunty French pals until tomorrow later today, if the correct DNS still has not propagated.
…is seeing that someone did a search on Google Brasilia for “greatest
city name” and the only result that comes up is me. I would now be a living
googlewhack, if three words and
quotes counted. As the rules stand now,
I am nothing. But watch as I “focus” with the help of the left trigger
button on my Xbox controller.
[As Britain focuses, the action slows down. Subtleties
that previously zoomed right over his head now drift lazily by, leaving
ripples in the air. Britain runs up the wall, then vaults off it,
catching the other Google results, now manifest as policemen, with
spinning kicks, blowing them away.]
There you go. A lot of people are saying the Matrix game sucks. They
are all wrong. It is awesome. That is all.
This is welcome news to me. Though I have become exceeding spam-savvy I have an old address or two I would like to use that I currently have heavily sorted. I occasionally miss out on something good because I get hundreds of spams a week. In the early days of the net I signed up for a lot of mailing lists promising “marketing discussions and free tutorials” as announced by the old new-list list-annouce list at NoDak. After a few weeks I began to realize these lists were crap and mainly designed to attract spam marks, but by then the damage was done. I will likely register that address with this new Michigan list, if it becomes law, because it certainly can’t make things any worse.
Not quite the same as buying it, but cheaper and I didn’t even have to get up from my chair. [You’ll need some combination of JavaScript and Flash to get it going, though.]
[EDIT: After listening to this, then, um, acquiring digital copies, I eventually sprung for the two-disc deluxe version with the DVD with videos and 5.1 Surround remix. Who says downloaders never buy?]
Authorized or not, I really want this shirt.
[EDIT: Link is dead now. It was a "Barry Jive and the Uptown Five" t-shirt, a reference to the pop band Black's character fronted in the film adaptation of "High Fidelity.]
The most interesting part of this piece to me was the list at the bottom, of the most-blogged news sources. New York Times — wow, what a surprise.
You know there are people out there who aspire to be as influential as Joi Ito and this Lockergnome character. And they would probably get a big kick out of being eviscerated in this fashion, too. To me, being a Most Inflential Blogger is probably a lot like being Miss Dairy Farmers of Vandalia, Ohio [apologies to any Vandalia residents who may happen across this]. Of course, the fact that I think a Vandalia resident might somehow happen across this is probably the first sign of similar dementia.
Carry a CD with you and turn any PC into a customized Linux funstation instantly-ish.
- KnoppixMAME: burn this with ROMS to a disc and play your favorite arcade games wherever you can get to a PC.
- AdvanceCD: burn this one instead and you have more room for ROMS and the capability to emulate all the MESS console and computers too.
- Movix: burn this and movie files to carry with you and play a presentation or film on a PC without having to pre-install DivX codecs and all that.
- DyneBolic: burn this and have access to various and sundry A/V recording, editing, and streaming utilities with a pretty GUI. Seems like it would be handy for netcasting concerts and similar events.
Okay, this is an overstatement. Nobody’s forcing you to use combined view. But I’ve tried all manner of trendy newsreaders, and NNW Lite is my hands-down favorite because it gives you the option of selecting headlines from the dock icon or using the beautiful three-panes-and-the-truth interface.
But apparently there are some misguided folk out there who demanded to have everything on one big page, like in AmphetaDesk. Have fun, whoever you are.
Incidentally, the only newsreader I’ve come close to enjoying, as much as NNWLite, on Windows is FeedReader, which is free and which uses three panes. The only drawback is that it defaults to MSIE as its renderer for individual items in the item pane — so if you click on a link from the pane, it opens in an IE window, even if you’re a Mozilla junkie and have it set up to take links from the items-index window. Also, sometimes it just sort of forgets to open a new window for links and the link you want to read more of just replaces whatever you were reading in your browser window. But other times it works fine. This may be a Mozilla problem and not even FeedReader’s fault. In any case it’s minor enough to let it slide and still prefer FR. Another bonus: it doesn’t make you download the MS .net framework.
