My friends mentioned their intention to get pets and name them as such: the dog, Gigabite, and the cat, Bluetooth. So adorable!
To my knowledge, there aren't any programming language wikis out there in the world, so I decided to make one. It's called Syntax. Like Vocapedia before it, it's still very much a young project.
If you're in the New York City metropolitan area and are in need of hard drive recovery, I'd recommend WeRecoverData.com - Data Recovery Labs.
For the curious, I paid $1200 after a free analysis of two drives (I'm dumb, I didn't know which one was broken). I don't remember if I got the busted hard drive back, but I did get the functioning one back plus a set of CDs or DVDs with the recovered data on it. One caveat is that the recovered data needs to be retrieved with a Windows program because the data spans multiple discs.
Other than that, I was very happy with the service. The girl at the desk is Filipino and the guy who answers the phone talks with a funny accent (English? Aussie?).
Oh AOL... When will you ever learn...
The problem with AOL is that it isn't the Internet. And it tries to be. Releasing this software is a step in the right direction (away from their dial-up software), but it's still wrong. Who wants a crappy, bloated media-center everything-whatsamajig? I know I don't.
It's called OpenRide, and you can take a tour! Complete with talking Flash movie.
One of the worst "features" they're pitching has to be the "Dynasizer". They've even trademarked the name. I mean, really? Dynasizer? Something that dynamically resizes four window panes? Whoa cowboy, step back! Make some room! This is the Dynasizer, know what I'm sayin'?
The frame rate in the movie for demonstrating the Dynasizer was really shitty. I bet you it was filmed on a PC. Frame rates for video will always be shitty on the PC. Like this Flash site for the new Blackberry Pearl. Shitty frame rate! Maybe it's the computer I'm using. But this isn't a sucky computer. What kind of multimedia specs are they requiring of their viewers for a not so sucky experience? I'm at a loss. I wanted to learn more about this new Blackberry, but the site is too slow.
[via towleroad]
Dammit... I actually liked FolderShare. I'm thinking... Purely because of the acquisition by Microsoft, the product will begin to suck. Microsoft will put all their shitty "innovations" into the product and make what was once rockin a piece of crap...
Luckily, that isn't the case, yet. FolderShare has been made free, and all the limits previously placed on file transfers are pretty much relieved. So, I heart FolderShare.
But more importantly, I heart Audiogalaxy.
Audiogalaxy forever!!!
From the Daring Fireball...
It’s too small a sample size to be statistically interesting, but all of the people I know who bought iPod Photos got the 60 GB models, and they all did so not because of the photo-synching features, nor because of the color screen, but simply because they wanted the larger storage capacity for their music. In fact, several of them still can’t fit their entire libraries on a 60 GB disk.
Please, amateurs. iTunes reports I currently have 70.88 gigs of music. So, what now?
One melancholic note regarding the new lineup: there are no longer any iPods using Chicago 12 as their system font. The color-display iPods use Myriad, the Minis use Espy Sans, and the Shuffles use, well, nothing. One of the first things I noticed about the original 5 GB iPod was that it used Chicago 12, and I always felt it was a nice bit of homage to the original Mac — not to mention that it’s one of the greatest screen fonts ever designed. (Chicago 12 was the default system font from System 1 until Mac OS 8, when Charcoal debuted.) It’s quite readable, but also very distinctive.
Wow, is this dude sick or what? Who pays attention to detail like that? I mean, I did, once or twice... Just fonts that stick out on Windows or Eric's resume... But man, that's crazy. Eagle-eye for detail.
So I was thinking... You know, after my bright idea of using Sign Language on the not-disabled for long range silent communication... What about other disabled-type things...
Braille. Braille for people that can see or are otherwise visually distracted... Then I thought of the Braille Glove. I looked it up on Google but they were mostly something about translating sign langauge. No, that's not it. The Braille glove would be fed like... E-reader texts. And I could read. With my fingers. Whenever. With a scrolling tactile sensor (those bumps?) on the tips of the gloves, just like a dynamic screen reader.
But then I wonder. How much cognitive effort is required in reading without the eyes?
It's a good reminder of the old design axiom: "If everything on the page is important, then nothing is."
This folksonomies business is bullshit... The only reason people think it's cool is because it's packaged differently, just like blogging and Moleskine notebooks (I bought two today, haha).
Look. People. Please.
Tags are the wave of the future because why. One, they are better than categories. Traditionally, items in a given universe can only belong to one category. Sucks for hybrid things like children born of an interracial sexual encounter. Tags are better because one item can have multiple tags.
Two, the tag/category universe is unlimited. Traditional categories were usually pre-defined by the system. Now, you can go off and define your own tags. Good for you.
Am I missing anything? Oh right. The social aspect. Your work bleeding into others. Bravo.
See? C'mon guys, this stuff isn't hard. I've been thinking about it for a long time... And now it gets all popular. And now I'm bitter like the spitter.
::spit:: !!
Folksonomies. Total bull. (Ahh, but remember, I didn't say they weren't cool or useful. They are. I'm just saying...)
(in response to a Slashdot post about folksonomies)
I'm in the middle of trying to seduce myself into using RSS... Another time in my life where I'm not really itching for something, but everyone else is using it. Painful, so far. To me, reading little feeds of other people's content... Lame. It denies me that whole package experience. And it just plain sucks. Readers suck. I'm trying to find a good one. Bloglines... I dunno. Glorified global favorites list?
Today (I'm so far behind) marks the era of downfall. Once upon a time, there was Tech TV. It was eh (good). Then this new punk G4 came along, it was... I dunno, it was something. Then, G4 merged with Tech TV. The geeks became angry. And now, as of late, the Tech TV name was dropped from the merger. Where is our tech channel now amid this channel of ... video game-ness?
I hope the channel crashes and burns. People seem to be so upset with the changes... How can the channel possibly survive? You're telling me that people who play video games ON their TVs actually watch shows about other people playing video games? This isn't Korea and it's not Starcraft!
It's not like me to wish ill will upon others (yes it is actually), but I hope this statoin does badly. There's no amount of convincing or protest that would fix this short of executives wasting their money and seeing the err of their ways. So yes, good luck with that name drop and content change. I hope it fails miserably. I hope you waste all of your money and have no idea what to do with yourselves, having the geek population gawk at you and record your failures. Then, maybe Tech TV will come back to us.
Jerks.
I'm getting so lazy. The barrier for entry on editing is like... Way too high. I wish I had Front Page, so I could update my research page. But... I don't. So there. And instead of me hitting Ctrl+D every time I find something cool, here's my attempt to actually summarize my research, via relevant links, on what I've found on the union between blogs and wikis. My main point now? It seems to be stale. Discussion hasn't happened in 2005, but 1998 and 2002 and the like.
Bill Seitz's Wiki Weblog, and Web Log
Information Architect's Wiki Blog Discussion
On the aside, something I tried doing. Originally, I wanted to make a 5K wiki for the 5K contest, and I did. But I didn't submit it. Very, very basic Javascript... But here seems to be a full implementation, TiddlyWiki. Sounds like that game you play with jacks and a ball, tiddlywinks?
Jeebus, another aside. I have it in my bookmarks, but I don't have it here. One Google vote! Widgetopia.
Well, I stole those last two links from this guy... Just like every other site, it's a great site. There just seems to be a handful of people who like talking about blogs, and wikis, and social software... I want to be That Guy. Hmm...
This one is the motherload. Wiki Weblog PIM. See that last one? I didn't even think of making it a PIM... Awesome page. I contacted him, but he never got back to me. Maybe he avoids his e-mail in the same way I do. Haha.
The Wiki Log page at Meatball Wiki.
Hmm... Another thing I've gathered... Since we also have to mention barriers of entry... Is that it is indeed unacceptable to write in two tools. We're trying to synthesize information that comes out of our heads and fingers Once and comes out onto the computer screen Twice, somehow... Write Once, Read Everywhere, or something like that.
From IAwiki signed Victor Lombardi:
# One is a post, the other is a note # One is actively engaging the reader, the other is passive # One is speech, the other is text # One is monologue, the other is reference source
It's stuff like that, this weird dichotomy, that makes it really weird to be uniting two platforms where their philosophies might actually be mutually exclusive. Which goes back to my sentiment about having exclusive features and exclusive content... That kinda sucks, but what if it's the only way in fulfilling the vision? I mean, admitting to oneself more categories certainly takes away the mental burden of making everything under the sun fit one umbrella.
Users at the original wiki also like discussing Thread Mode versus Document Mode. And hallelujah to whoever mentioned Mixed Mode.
Ooo, features I like mentioned on IAWiki. Access by date: wikilog/yyyy-mm-dd, access by range: wikilog/yyyy-mm-dd:yyyy-mm-dd, access by post id: wikilog/id12345, access by wiki namespace: wikilog/hotjuice, access with anchors: wikilog/etcetc#12345
Actually, slashes may be better than dashes, since they emulate the true hierarchical nature of dates... But then again, for date range, dashes would definitely work.
Leslie Orchard's shot at Weblog With Wiki with accompanying discussion.
There's Snip Snap. I see it... But I don't get it. It looks like the wiki and weblog posts are completely seperate from one another. Teh suck?
There's Tao of Mac. It's another paradigm where blog posts and wiki posts are seperate... There's like a name space and a data space. I'm still unsatisfied with that... And one interesting thing to note: he doesn't allow public edits. Hmmf. And there I thought public edits were the end all be all of everything. But seriously, would you want someone touching your stuff? I mean, it still is my information at stake here... Hmm...
I've been thinking of having one authorized super user, me... Where all of my posts would be... Protected? Like... Anyone could edit them, but once they do, they'll have this bright flag on them notifying everyone that its contents may or may not reflect my own, since I don't know how much it has changed. Then I can reapprove the edit and take away the badge. No?
Hmm... This final push to page was inspired by When Blog Meets Wiki.
I'm already at the "So" section of the page and it states something that I knew blogs had one advantage over wikis... Blogs are top posting. You post in the middle of space and time, but it's top posting. It will appear current, new, and extremely important. The only slowness to wikis is their nature to... Be on a topic. To choose a topic. Make an edit. Stuff like that...
So if we had to expand that to lowest common denominator or lowest barrier of entry, I'd say category-less top posting requires much less energy than topical editing.
Here's another helpful listing of the features of blogs and wikis.
Juggling some comparisons... Blogs are personal, and wikis can be, but don't have to. Lowest common? Wiki. So our target is an open platform that has a dominant slant to the primary author.
Blogs can have static pages, but they can be edited. Again... Edits.
Interlinks are painful. Wiki links are painless. Solution?
Wikis aim to create documents. Aim, but don't have to?
Thread Mode becomes Document Mode becomes topics...
Blogs capture the process of thought, while wikis capture the process of writing.
Temporal versus structural.
Blogs, written in the moment. Wikis, written in the topic. So a post, or whatever fundamental unit of writing, must either be created in one of the two fashions. I can write whenever I want, and have a topic automatically given to me (No Topic counts as a topic) or write about a topic, where The Present is the only physical time available to me.
And to emphasize the terrible, addictive, Everything2-esque recursive nature of the web, all of the above was taken from Blogs and Wikis. And he makes an important point, probably one that I've been stressing all along. Blogs represent a new wave of ease of use. I'm sure one Slashdotter has said it, that blogs are just... This mask over using timestamps and FTP. There, I said it. That's just what blogs are. A couple of hyperlinks, timestamps, and good, automated use of the FTP protocol. But it's so easy and fluid, it just looks like another platform. On the flip side, wikis represent another side of ease of use. A low energy entry into the world of contribution. Do you have something to say? Does something stick out as wrong? Just go ahead and say something. It's the Ultimate Democracy, by far, where everyone is truly equal. I somehow don't like that, feeling vulnerable all of a sudden. But that's what it is.
Here's the Wikipedia article on what we're after...
Another person's thoughts on the holy union at Blogging Roller...
Ugh, I can't stand the name bliki. It seems so... Juvenile. And then watch me get caught years later accusing the world's number one social revolution of seeming juvenile... Wikilog. Much, much better.
Still actively looking up more wiki resources... This is probably the longest entry, both physically and time-wise, I've ever written... But one thing keeps coming in my mind as this analysis for barrier of entry. "You can, but you don't have to." A lot of software is assisted by user intervention. Just give me a little more data. Please. But! You don't have to. If you don't want to.
In the forum space, Rod Waldhoff presents a very simple equation: Wiki + Blog = PIM (identical post here).
On Blog Wiki Integration, users talk about the difficulty of the task.
Wim's thoughts on the Wiki Blog.
Wiki Blog Integration at Andrew SW.
Engel Wiki is someone's thesis, attempting to do the same.
A very Chinese-heavy page on Wiki, Blog and RSS.
And for good measure, an article on What's a Wiki? I mean, since we all know what blogs are, compare Wikis to them, right?
If you draw a Venn diagram of all things wiki and blog... You will notice two new categories (as with all things Venn A and B). There may be things that are of a wiki nature, but do not and maybe cannot exist in blog nature. Consequently, there are things that blogs have that wikis do not. Thus, the wikilog system we are after may contain this attribute of mutual exclusiveness.
That sucks. The Idealist part of me was certainly hoping for the perfect union, where one piece of software could be treated as a wiki and blog independent of one another, content inclusive. This Venn analysis seems to hint at that which isn't possible.
And speaking of not possible, there's one more section to the Venn diagram, and that's the Universe. There are certain scopes to data and knowledge and the project that aren't meant to be handled by the wikilog. That... Also sucks.
Mmm, Gish looks tasty. A la The Screen Savers. I'll play it, one day.
This is the Halo Effect and this is an article about Apple Computers. People who like iPods will consequently like Macs. Mmm.
- You use the word efficient a lot.
- You get a warm, fuzzy feeling when you hear the term all-in-one.
- You send single-word e-mails whenever possible.
- You don't want something you'll never use.
You know me, you really know me!!!
When I read about epist circularity, I think of digital reputation and P2P networks... A large part of these networks, or any easy communcation channel, is spam or noise (I guess we should philosophically equate spam and noise in signal studies?). One way around that is by reputation or karma. The better you act, the more we should trust you. But as this article states, why would you trust the report of one's self? It'd be tarnish! The solution I see so far is to trust one's peers. But peer communication is costly. And! Spammers are starting to dupe themselves and make fake peers. Total masturbation right there. Terrible. Just terrible.
Edit: It's so dense with academic philosophy and roundabout language, I can't follow... Or I don't feel like reading. Whatever. Time for a nap!
I'm watching Invent This on TechTV and this guy is crazy! He's electro-shocking ants... What a mean guy. But I guess the ants were really... bugging him... Oh!!! Dis. =)
Edit: Three exclamation marks for George/Julius. =)
One user's view on how to gauge Wikipedia's quality.
Eh, why make it so complicated! Just pick 10 articles at random and then do the quality test. I don't really see the need for the by-traffic analysis. I mean, I do, but simple random is just so much more... Simple. Er.
My brother and cousin were trying to tell me of this new Nokia phone stick... I can't find it though. So I think they're lying. I'm trying to broaden my search by not using the word Nokia and this is what I came up with so far. The Cell Phone Stick Idea.
Every time I look at the word "molester" my brain tries to parse it as "mole-ster" instead of the agentive of "to molest", and now I have an excuse to name a piece of software MoleSter, so I'm going to use it. [Slashdot]
I think the Zen Micro looks nasty. I mean, if we're really a part of the iPod revolution/generation/era, whatever you want to call it, then companies really need to step up. Apple always manages to show how important the concept of design is to a project. Me, I love design. Wish I was a design major. Maybe at Carnegie Mellon I'll be one!!!
But, enough dreaming and back to reality. You, Creative, need to step it up. No nasty colors. No nasty interfaces. Me? I haven't used the device. But it just doesn't feel cool. Feel cool. Feeling is a very difficult thing to capture, in my opinion. Good luck.
I really like the Cingular and AT&T marketing campaign design: blue and orange. What a fantastic color match up! Who knew? The advertising board must have been having a field day.
"Yay, we get to mix and match blue and orange! Complementary colors, yippie!"
Err, it might have went on something like that... Anyway, what really is sexy to me is this new Motorola RAZR. It's so sharp it could cut you! I mean, I got all this junk mail at home (my Mom says I don't even know what real junk mail is) and the thing that caught my eye, besides all of the beautiful Cingular models was this razor of a phone. It's so sleek. The advertisement I was looking at measured it in double-digit millimeters. So that took me a while to process, but justly so. That is the psychology in advertising. Hello? Double digit millimeters? That's centimeters, folks, and centimeters are indeed 2.54 portions of an inch. So this phone isn't terribly miraculous, but that definitely make it sound that way. Thin is beautiful, because this is opportunistic, and opportunistic is accessible, and accessible is used, and used is useful, and useful is satisfaction.
All the beautiful people are using the phone. Hence, through some terribly applied form of faux logic, if I use this phone, I too, will be beautiful. Ah, the powers of association.
I'm falling for the ad already. But rightly so, it's a sexy piece of technology. With all the bells and whistles. But I could care less about bells and whistles. My current phone, Nokia, doesn't have any. And I think that's great. Finally, I'm part of the small ass phone club. And it feels good. For the same reasons listed above. Small is satisfaction.
Well, not all things small. Just technology.
Maybe if I technologically augmented my member...
Err, nevermind. Move along. Nothing to see. OR IS THERE?
So, the new Ad-Aware is out... Don't get me wrong. I love Ad-Aware. Love it to death. It's free, it's easy. All good things. Except one. What does SE stand for? The full product name is Ad-Aware SE and I've been doing a shallow look and can't seem to find out what SE stands for... Terrible marketing department. Just terrible.
When I'm not focusing on school (which is always), I'm thinking about an Audiogalaxy Revival Project... There was something about the way Audiogalaxy gave me music, and I want to recapture that magic. And here's what I came up with so far.
Bittorrent is great! I love the way it maxes out download speeds, and I don't think it should stop. Yes, it's better for large files, yet at the same time, I guess the algorithm could scale for lower end files. The load is either peer-loading or group-loading. Peer loading would be fine, I guess, if the files are light... MP3s are light, right? I dunno. That is flexible.
What I did settle on, however, is the inherent volatile nature of MP3s. Large, Bittorrent-friendly files satisfy hash algorithms easily because those files don't change. What does change frequently are MP3s. And MP3s are composed of two sections, data and meta-data. The data section, hopefully, doesn't change. But the meta-data, the ID3 tags, change all the time. Since at least one part changes often, the actual MP3 file has many hash keys, which is bad for file sharing. So what can we do?
We openly embrace the fact that MP3s are different. I wondered about this when I was using Audiogalaxy, but with the way information was presented, Audiogalaxy didn't really let you choose what you wanted, unless you really dug through the menus. What I propose is as follows...
Let the ID3 tags have first priority in defining how an MP3 is indexed, Audiogalaxy style. This is primarily by Artist, Song Title, and Album. Then, as a second priority, let the structure of the file name, Artist Dash Song Title define the meta data for the MP3. Then, when an MP3 is downloaded from the Audiogalaxy service, let it rewrite the meta-data section of the MP3 in both ID3 and file name. Thus, when the service re-indexes this new information, it will consistently contribute back to the pool of information already there.
The hash algorithm should only concentrate on the data section of the MP3, since the ID3 is volatile. If there are... Multiple hash keys for one MP3 key, a la Artist and Song Title pair, then the Audiogalaxy service should do a simple random choice to decide which song to deliver to the user. Why.
Because popular songs stay and dumb songs don't. There's no real way for the service itself to judge the quality of an MP3 other than by the number of users who have it. So... By choosing a random MP3, Audiogalaxy is giving each file an equal chance at survival, while at the same time, reinforcing the statistic by which each MP3 exists in percentage.
That's all I have for now. I'm proud of myself.
Usability is paradoxically, not an easy subject.
Haha, get it? Usability? Not easy? It's funny! Because usability is (sometimes) about making things easy! Oh man, HCI jokes... The best.
By the way, I don't agree with the way the above sentence was formatted. Here's my proposal:
Usability is, paradoxically, not an easy subject.
Notice the extra comma.
"I am going to patent 'is too' and 'nuh uh'."
No big deal, we can use IsKnot or iSnot instead.
iSnot? So you work at Apple?
The iSnot. I like it. It has potential. I wonder how much it will cost.
I'm sure Apple will make you pay through the nose.
Spoken like a true Apple fan: asking how much it costs before what it does!
But now there's the U2 iPod. Black and Red. A testament to gaudy ugliness. It's like the A-Team Van was recycled with go-faster stripes. It out-blacks the iRivers and out-pimps the Creatives. Apple has definitely made a land grab for the ugly mp3 territory. Creative can no longer claim the Ugly Throne.
Might I be one of the first to suggest (and by first to suggest I mean that I don't show up on Google) that there should be a cell phone based on the Twiddler.
When I think Twiddler, I automatically think Thad Steiner. And in his presentation at NJIT, he affirmed what I learned in ergonomics class, that the human hand is in a more relaxed position when it is curled. How can I prove this to you? Well, lay your hand out on the table palm side up and just relax. See how your fingers curl automatically? Now, straighten out your fingers. That requires work. And me? I'm all about no work.
So, what's with this cell phone a la Twiddler? Well, it would be based off of the Twiddler model of typing. Imagine holding a candy bar in your hand with a closed fist. And that you're about to bite the top off of the bar. That top that you're biting off of is the screen of the phone. Instead of today's candy bar phones, where the viewable interface is on a face of the bar, this new phone would have the screen on the end of the bar. Very different, I know, but this would be the most ergonomic solution alive. Pointing at buttons one by one isn't very ergonomic as it is traditional, I think.
And that's the one battle that HCI people have to face each day. Will you be a revolutionary, with your scientifically proven ideas? Or will you work the common man's mind and respect tradition and prior experiences? Therein lies the problem and the most artful skill of balance, as with all things dualist and Taoist.
When I think about technology, there's only so much to think about. I keep seeing the same problems over and over again, and I think for the most part, they're solved. All the grunt work, all the math, it's done. All we need is presentation.
Like the searching of things. I think everyone and their mother uses SQL, or at least that's what I'm getting from the tech community. SQL is a way to interact with a database, and a database is nothing more than an overrated set of nodes, each of which have attibutes. Do you know how many things in this world fit that description? Jeez...
And all the while, I'm thinking the next file system or way of interacting with our computers will be something very database-esque, save, there's more abstractions, of course. Like time. Time is a great abstraction. The attribute in the database is just an epoch second. But what I really want is a time interaction abstraction, like a calendar, or "yesterday". Again, more concepts which have already been solved...
I think, if I had the time to properly document and reuse these philsophies and algorithms, I'd never have to actually write anything ever again. Pretty ambitious, I know. But, a worthy and notable goal.
Here's to the pursuit of science and knowledge. Cheers.
I'm not sure if this philosophy has manifested yet but... Here goes.
What if there was no such thing as an Inbox, Outbox, and Sent Items? Like... What if mail was just mail... And the mail I produce is part of the threads I create? Usually, when I reply to an e-mail, it creates a thread under the message I replied to. But I never see that. Shouldn't all that e-mail be in one view, so I can see my entire conversation with someone? I dunno, maybe that's just me.
So I'm in my pervasive computing class and we're talking about privacy and the awareness of a given device. We watched this video that gave rules and scenarios… And the main thing that stuck out at me was the polarity of privacy and device awareness. So, my question is, are privacy and device awareness directly bipolar? Like, can a device be aware of its surroundings and act super duper intelligence while at the same time respect my right to privacy? Who knows… I just think, with all these pervasive computing things… We should be like ants. Only so few simple rules make up the greater part of who we are. We are complex as a result of smaller, simpler building blocks. It just makes the world easier to comprehend by then.
Here's one to GMail!
So I've just set it aside, not using it at all, scared to switch all my e-mail... Then I thought, hey! I could just mail forward all of my new stuff over there. And that I have. The results?
Outlook marked something as spam, and it wasn't, while Google kept it! Genius!
So, I was reading this entry about pianos and not really paying attention...
And it made me think about the human strategist and the computerized tactician. Just like the episode of Gundam Wing where Quatre was in charge of the mobile dolls. Humans are great at all that large abstract stuff, while computers are great at handling all those minor things that we don't care too much about. Abstraction, if you will.
So what if I sat at a computer-powered piano, you know, like one with those magic fingers machines installed on the bottom. And, there would be an LCD screen in front of me, and a mouse. So I could control the computer and play the piano at the same time.
"Computer, play the left hand part to heart and soul for me. gg thx no re"
How cool would that be? Duets, very doable now. It could use standard MIDI software. And the MIDI output would be translated to the appropriate keys on the paino. Truly a marriage of man and machine.
I just noticed that the intro string to one of the world's most popular cracking keys (FCKGW, for Windows XP) kinda looks like Fuck G. W.
*gasp* Like fucking George W. Bush?
dun dun duN!!!
I got a new phone. I won't tell anybody about it. I'll just be as dicreet as possible...
I figure if the whole HCI thing doesn't work out (how couldn't it?), I could either teach choir music at some high school or enter the music industry as a recording/sound editing guy. That'd be so awesome... Listening to bad people sing, and then make them better. Mmm, better...
0: Of the following, which is your favorite number? (Choices include i)
1: i??? That isn't even a real number!
2: Why do you have to make everything so complex?
3: I guess at the root he's simply a negative one.
Get it? The root of negative one? It's i? That's funny!!!
As I quote from a voice recorder entry...
If the CD isn't ubiquitous enough, what about the Mini CD? Or, what if they manufactured Mini CD drives for computers? Or laptops?
When I pitched this idea to Jay, he reminded me of economic cost. Is it really that economical to reduce the size of the CD drive? Don't the normal size and mini CD drives have the same parts? In their same parts, are you just reducing the radius of the drive and nothing else? That's crowded.
And are mini CDs that much cheaper?
Even then, it doesn't matter. I bought myself a spindle of mini CD-Rs and I found out that my shiny Senate laptop has a DVD/CD-RW. Sweetness. Mini CDs for everyone!
Mental note to all those looking for a PC alternative to the iBook or TiBook... Sony VAIO. It's the sleekest, smallest, most commercially available notebook I've seen so far. So, when I accidentally break all of my laptops and need a schway replacement, I'll be thinking of Sony first.
The perfect web browser has the following:
Speed - Internet Explorer, Firebird, Crazy Browser
Compatibility - Internet Explorer (in the popular plug-ins sense), Crazy Browser (minus the most excellent Google Toolbar)
Text Scaling - Firebird (Internet Explorer's won't cut it. I've tried making my own bookmarklets to help solve that area, but I came up dry)
Pop-up blocking - Present in virtually all browsers that matter
Tabbed browsing - So fast, so volatile, so the-way-my-mind-actually-works
Internet Explorer needs text scaling and tabbed browsing
Crazy Browser needs text scaling and the Google toolbar
Firebird needs to be even faster than it is, plus a little more support for weird ass Internet stuffs (mostly Microsoft technologies)
Umm... yes.