My TODO list for 2k9
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | Life, Random | 6 Comments
- Find more excuses to use the word “webinar”
- Get my guitar setup to play loud enough to make people complain
- Diligently watch MSNBC for more mundane details about the Obama family’s private life
- Continue my yuppie training via latte foaming practice
- Make a cover band so I can aurally redistribute the music that “defines me as a person”
- Inadvertently rip off other jokes such as that in 5. from Hipster Runoff
- Realize my full complaining potential by transitioning from writing blogs to writing letters to state representatives
- Answer the question “what is love?” even if that just means playing the song at every party I go to
- Find a band louder than Lightning bolt
- Refrain from making any other top ten lists…
“Comments”
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | Life, Random | 4 Comments
Every few days, or every few weeks as it’s turned out since my posts stopped being so frequent, people like me will open up their modest little blog and see if anyone’s reading. Sure enough, every so often there will appear a happy little speech bubble over the “Comments” button with the number 8 in it. Finger trembling from excitement, possibilities in my head. Will they be gentle words of encouragement? “Keep fightin the good fight, sport, someone will give a shit about your Web 3.0 or whatever it is soon enough!” Perhaps someone disagrees with me and wants to express an alternate viewpoint. I could even respond, leading to a correspondence, nay, a debate! I don’t want to think about the third possibility, but alas, I open the inbox and there it is.
“Monique, a Leaf fan, originate this definitely well-defined to believe. Now, let me core out that this was in no way an try to official one together is raise than the other. It was objective a goal to glory two things.” - picsoq
No. Not again. My blog has once more been overrun by 8 evil spam bots. Instruments of destruction. Some scientists have theorized that our planet may some day be destroyed by a form of matter that would endlessly grow, taking more and more room until it has finally consumed the entire earth.
I think they’re right.
“tQHWSA Thanks for good post” - johnny
“johnny’s” website is evidently http://4pppp.ru. I didn’t make that address into a link for a reason. Nothing against mother Russia, but I have a bad history with that domain suffix.
“appreciation you barest much for the news provided on the position. content turn any questions to ask admin soap.” - tavykyho pornaa
They were so close. They could have had it! The elusive, oxymoronic “intelligible spam comment.” Soap? Really?
“Хм, отличная статья 
” - Allereatonder
…I’m going to assume that wink was either friendly or accidental and move on.
It wouldn’t be the internet if there wasn’t some way spam could screw it up, would it? Despite our best security measures, some opportunistic computer whiz still manages to get their spam-tossing hell robots to figure out that the image contains the word “ludafisk” so that he may fulfill his lifelong dream of leaving unintelligible garbage on a blog with a link attached to a website either inappropriate, harmful, or both. Granted, It has been a long, long time since I’ve bothered with this blog, but I still can’t help but get my hopes worked up.
Location Based Internet
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Code | 1 Comment
Nowadays someone’s always introducing “the Internet of <whatever>.”
With blogging was introduced “the Internet of thought.”
With ubiquitous computing, we’ve got “the Internet of things.”
And with Myspace, “the internet of Your Extended Network!”
Yahoo launched a new pixel-happy, lower case named, and Web-2.0 chic “fire eagle” a few months back. Their launch advertised the beginnings of, go figure, a new kind of Internet. Web sites that get your location from your cell phone tower, your laptop, your wireless Internet connection, your text message, and whatever else they get their filthy paws on. There are just as many web sites for sharing your location with… well, whoever. They cite all manner of noble causes like coordinating medical activity, business activity, and gathering all your people together mentally to do it physically. “Geoscrobbling,” they call it. It’s just a little way of saying “oh, by the way, dear Internet, I’m over here.” The guys even provide you with a simple diagram just so you don’t get confused.
Copyright 2008 Yahoo
“But wait”, you say, “this all sounds familiar. Little updates sent to large groups of subscribers? An interface so simple you can update from anything?” It starts to sound a lot like a certain someone else who’s already got the “oh, by the way”-market cornered. When fire eagle launched, I really wanted it to be relevant. I really wanted to figure out some way to use it and have it be a day-to-day tool. Come to think of it, I mostly really wanted it to be something new so I could justify spending a half hour watching that guy talk about it on Vimeo.
If fire eagle really is a new idea, one of their shining stars in the starting lineup of supported sites, BrightKite, puzzles me a bit. Yes, you can update your location on the go with BrightKite. Yes, you can share random thoughts and amusing pictures along with your location. And yes, you can do it all with Twitter. No, you don’t need a fire eagle account if you don’t already have one. In fact, I have yet to see any applications for this that can’t be done just as well if not more easily with Twitter, which is already insanely well established and really popular to boot. Yahoo did spend a lot of money on this, though. There’s a reason why, right? Did they reinvent the wheel again? What did I miss?
edit:
I was thinking today.. and fire eagle doesn’t deserve this sort of chewing out. It’s an api. It relies on other things to provide its usefulness. From the perspective of the avid mini-blogger, a la twitter for example, yes, this is useless. But you don’t build an API immediately knowing that it will become relevant. It’s a concept. We don’t know where the concept is going yet, and we can’t presume to.
Good eagle. You didn’t do anything wrong.
The History Meme
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Code | 1 Comment
Stolen from Zach Hale who stole it from Dive Into Mark
On RainyDawg’s server as root:
darude:~# uname -a
Linux darude 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 08:42:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
darude:~# history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -r
n | head
166 ls
66 date
46 net
37 nano
30 crontab
16 df
11 exit
10 cd
9 ifconfig
8 ssh
As samwr:
samwr@darude:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | s
ort -rn | head
57 sudo
14 ls
9 locate
7 ssh
7 nano
5 tail
5 su
5 ping
4 /usr/sbin/useradd
4 groups
samwr@darude:~$
RADIO SHOW - Season 4 Episode 2
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Radio | No Comments
This time I’m back in full form. I’m sorry if you missed last week’s show, but if I get around to it it may be available in “podcast” feed form soon. It would be better if I made that available for all DJs though, on that note.
Pretty equal pickins from Peter and I this week. On that note, he’s doing like a show and a half each week. Check out “Hot Dolphin!” Mondays 9-11 AM on RainyDawg.org. Featured heavily this week are bleeps, bloops, and rainbows (read: Chip Tune, IDM, and the Wham City scene).
Make sure to fast forward 30 minutes. I was late this week :[
Tracks listed in handy reverse chronological order after the gap! › Continue reading