UPDATED: now with tuesday morning and cleaned up too!
my brother is still in town.
unger is in town, and now (still!) awake.
i’m (watching (watched) neil) debug neil’s qmail setup. (he did a great job, too).
it’s probably someone’s birthday.
Happy belated birthday to jim G.
interesting. i mentioned the other day that i seem to be fodder for japanese search engines, and they stopped spydering the site immediately thereafter. i just checked my technorati links cosmos, to find it unchanged, despite my front page listing on at least two blogs: Mac Net Journal and Malixya (got RSS?). those i found in my referer logs, but i hit blogdex and Google for other links. one claimed a link from Joi Ito, which i didn’t find. instead I found pointer to a post by Dave Sifry on Technorati’s growing pains. So i shouldn’t and won’t complain. it’s amazing that this stuff works at all.
saw a bunch more episodes of Farscape tonight, including Scorpius’ origin and scratch and sniff, which can best be described as the disco episode. What makes the show something other then Crichton’s ship of Alien Women is the writing, which frankly is so much more snappy and pomo then most SF. Since the funniest and most referential lines are Ben Browder’s, i’m assuming he improvised them. it;’s a hard show to pin down, and a harder sell to new viewers, you either love it or hate it. hairball says it’s a fantasy, i’ve referred to it as the lifetime channel does sf, and Classic star Trek style stationary action and adventure (until they got the budget to really get messy). as always when watching tv SF, you have to seriously suspend dissbelief: the pineal gland isn’t located in the chest, people…
Gillmor points to a Winer post on seeing the candidates pledge to keep the web free from the influence of the entertainment industry. he ends with the now traditional, “ask not what tthe internet can do for you, but what you do for the internet?”Gillmor comments, and draws a picture (ask your self whats missing from the picture). besides, even if one of the Dems is elected, and repeal the Broadcast Flag, it’ll still be years before anyone can get an HDTV, despite sony and ikegami having shown working prototype equipment ten years ago. And You Still Won’t Ever See any DAT Decks At Walmart.
( i’d like to go further, and demand that the candidates tell us who owns them. it’s easy with shrub, just add “big” and/or “wealthy” in front of most anything foul: wealthy child molesters, big polluters, big time powerbrokers, wealthy layabouts, big, wealthy robber barons, you get the idea. with some of the Dem candidates i’m not so sure, and it bothers me. i’d like to vote for the right special interest groups, the ones that matter to me. better yet, i’d like to vote for a candidate that’s owned by my special interest group, the unemployed people who now sleep on public transit. oh, wait, we don’t have any money to buy one of these shits…)
hairball has noticed certain keyboard keys lag in OS X. now i’m begining to notice it. is it real, though?
(which reminds me, all the mac sites are reporting on the new rendevouz sharing feature of Panther’s Image Capture. try it, it’s fun at partys, i used it last night at Lamprey)
while i was napping Greymatter was updated. new features, new license, new look. it’s ease of use, relative ease of install for a CGI and independence from database software make it an almost perfect first Content Management System if iwas a first time bloger and uninterested in RSS, i’d seriously consider it. even if you change your mind later you can import it’s posts into another CMS that supports RSS. on the downside, it doesn’t support any of the bloging API’s, which means no fancy posting tools other then bookmarklets to help you blog. i admit a fondness for it, as this blog started out on Greymatter. if you plan on using RSS (and you should) i’d say try Blosxom for your first blog. industrial strength in a small and fairly easy install, with tons of features and tons more third party plugins. but i digress…
while i was sleeping, spencer updated Subliminal News with RSS, and lands in my auto generated blog roll as a result. now if he would only post the entire the entire Trondant Shaman back catalog as Mp3’s, or least put up a cd or 3 for order, life would be much better. the feedback solo from the halloween show at Batteries Not Included is one of my fondest memories, and Hairball and i reminisce about the 3 piece show at Lower Links all the time, just last week, as a matter of fact. alas, all my TS cassetes were lost in the eviction, but you can download some of Spencer’s MP3s from here. (and Spence recomends the sounds of the sun).
while i was snoring really loudly, uControl was ported to Panther, and moved to Sourceforge. check the blogroll for the link.
