Floozy Speak!

Lots new. Tag Board is gone, got rid of it. It started slowing down the refresh on the page for some reason. So like community zero, I axed it. But I've added a Live 365 broadcast which I'm trying out for 14 days to see if thats even worth it or not.

I'm not always crankin tunes at home but I like the idea of creating daily broadcasts and mixing them up with my own little commericals. Now commericals come with Live 365 at the base rate. Sorry you'll just have to endure or provide me a server, a la shoutcast. I'm using ATT's text aloud app to create witty jabs at soooo many of my great fans on this planet. The current playlist has six wonderful commericals, keep tuned in and maybe you'll hear one.

I've added the hiptop blog link on side as well. Honestly I dont hiptop much unless im traveling. Ya i know.. or well let me just say, if i'm living a normal life i'd blog on that more, as of late work has been crazy and I just havent had time. This MT stuff is far more interesting for me. I still need to figure out the category thing too, I'll work on that.

Soon Floozy will be up on its own pretty URL and its sister site fashionpixel will be buzzin along as well. Now fashionpixel is going to be more media dan orientated, kinda get the brunt of my graphics and video and whatever i come up with stuff. More personal on the creaitve side than on Floozy which I want to be more of rambling portal for the collective of friends that use this site.

I need to put in a crossfader on this winamp action. Yes im using winamp2, sorry, have to for now. I wish all these plugins worked on 3.

Lots new out there, not much to talk about now, too busy messing with the code. Thanks to all that came out to the Lextant open house, it was good, and man Tyler makes a mean dip, dang tasty.. oh and Vicki's margaritas were to die for. Very tasty.

Posted by dan at 07:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Trying to keep up with kids today? Its a mad mad world!

Among college, high school and middle school girls who own keitai, keitai e-mail use is effectively 100 percent. Boys are not far behind with 88 percent in the middle school and high school group and 96 percent among college students. This contrasts to the lower numbers of adults over the age of 20, where usage hovers in the 70 and 80 percent range. The more striking contrast is in the volume of text messages, where teenage usage (averaging about 70 messages per week) is double that of the next age category -- twentysomething users. For instance, 69.9 percent or teens and 59 percent of twentysomethings use the mobile Web in contrast to only 24.7 percent of fortysomethings. The changing dynamics of meeting-making are only the tip of the iceberg in the changes that mobile media bring to how we coordinate, communicate, and share information. The older generation complains that keitai are linked to bad manners, particularly when people use them on public transportation or during meals. Parents worry that they can’t keep track of their children’s friends anymore, since the home phone is no longer a site of incidental intergenerational contact. Yet even those who complain about keitai are usually keitai users themselves, and are participating in the social negotiations defining and regulating their use.

Posted by dan at 09:07 AM | Permalink

Gah, wednesday. I wish it was Saturday. In fact i'm taking friday off. I need a day off and for the morning you all need this and this and some of that and man I really miss this game cause the other day I found a cool spot to set up and get some action.

Speaking of that game, I've been reading the guide on it about this tactician class. How strange and truly new this kind of class is RPG online gaming.

Tactician is really a unique class in any MMP, what they get to do is they run around with a big wrench and construction set and they create Turrets on the ground. And these are basically little autonomous mobile Pets that shoot at anything incoming with blasts of magical energy. These are, I have to admit, not the best at hunting monsters but, if you're defending an area in PvP, a few Tacticians can totally lay down a fortress. Then once you actually create the Turrets, you go in with additional skills that you can modify the Turret to fire Area of Effect shots, heavy shots that take damage off the Turrets, and that sort of thing.

I've also read online about how they are useful in groups in dungeon play; walling of sections of the room while the group focuses on a particularly hard mob etc. All sounds very interesting. Ya.... thats it!

Posted by dan at 07:07 AM | Permalink

Well I got blogamp running. I had to play around with a bit of java and css to make it all look like dis floozy wants it. I need to turn off the "its a link but its not" thing, if I can. I threw bob the code, maybe we can turn that off, or is that just a java thing? I also had to install winamp2 to make blogamp work. Not a huge deal, just wish it worked with winamp3. Anyways, more cool stuff to play with. Next up to add will be either amazon wishlist stuff or blogsphere.

I found the perfect monitor for clint, i'm sure he'll put this on order right away! Say how many items do you own that are on Amazons Early Adpoter list? The ThreeDegrees beta from Microsoft hit today. Go check it out and load it up... er maybe.. I dunno just yet. Theres been some pretty harsh beta news on this app. I may wait a bit before I decide on giving it a whirl.

About 33,000 Nike basketball shoes plopped into the sea when a cargo ship ran adrift near Tacoma, Washington. They are unlaced and wet, though still wearable -- so beachcombers are trying to match them up into pairs. But finding one's mate can be tough when you're all soggy and bloated and covered with barnacles.

Owww bad Nikey! That's alot of shoes man. Hey I just saw this "Dead telescopes in full-screen QTVR panoramic glory" on BoingBoing.net as well... kinda bums ya out a bit eh?

Posted by dan at 11:41 PM | Permalink

I used to love computers. I wanted the newest, fastest, best one. I loved new games. I love programming them. But at some point in the last ten years, I lost my love. Computers went from sexy playmates to ugly business machines. They went from unlimited potential to broken dreams and promises. They went from the bright future to hell. Now I pretty much hate computers. Can't live without them, wouldn't want to, but I get frustrated every time I have to use one or set one up or anything. They just aren't FUN anymore. I no longer believe that computers can help me solve problems, let alone solve them as I used to believe.

Surely the computers themselves are better than ever. Faster, more powerful, more features, etc. So why don't I love them more?

Posted by at 04:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well I picked up a 19" monitor from Mikey last night (thx!) and a KVM bend over molly in the price switch from Microcenter and hussled on home only to then pluck down in front of the tv to watch Pulp Fiction. Ya know that was a really good movie. I mean just direction and style of the flick, ok sure its probably been done to death now but, Pulp Fiction kinda broke out Mr.SaturdayNightFever, i mean it brought his career back on track. Dr. Q has another movie coming out, i forget the name right now.

Ok I the fiction to sleep and wrestle with the monitor crap. Behold I get a curve ball cause the 8500dv doesnt do hydra-vision. Dang I kinda wanted to do that. The 9700 pro does just dandy but that would cover up what I want to see.. basically I'd like to work on the main pc and still watch dvds on the other or have the option to push the second monitors feed of the movie off and give me 2 monitors again... this probably makes no sense. Anyways I sorta got what I wanted but I need another switch heh.

Goin into work a bit late today. No webcam updates until I return this evening and figure out my cable mess.

Posted by dan at 09:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

The problem with retail in Ohio is that no one here has ever seen good customer service. When you hire someone to help customers, they act as they've seen others act, ignoring the customers, harrasing the customers, or wandering off to the bathroom. Learn the product? Answer questions? Ring out a customer promptly? Hell no! Why do that? A retail job in Ohio is all about wearing a shirt.

Posted by at 03:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

pop2blog
Copyright (C) 2003 Charlie Reitsma.

pop2blog was created specifically out of a desire to take the jpeg images which the Danger Hiptop (aka T-Mobile Sidekick) is able to capture and email and post them as entries in a MovableType weblog. It can be seen in use on this site's main blog page. Because it makes use of MovableType's XML-RPC, it should be easy to adapt this script to work with any weblog backend that uses the Blogger API.

pop2blog, when executed, checks a given pop3 email account for email from a particular list of allowed senders. When email is found, pop2blog parses the email for text and embedded jpegs, and performs one of three tasks, depending on the content type discovered:

-If text is discovered, pop2blog uses the subject line as the entry title, and the text as the entry body.
-If text and an image is discovered, uses the subject line as the entry title, and the text as the entry body, copies the image into an images directory with a unique name and a "now.jpg" name.
-If an image is discovered, copies the image into an images directory with a unique name and a "now.jpg" name.
Lastly, pop2blog deletes emails it successfully posts to the webpage, and reports the subject of messages that were not blogged.

pop2blog was inpired by Joi Ito's work on mail2entry, and is only possible thanks to Aaron Straup Cope's Net::Blogger and Mark Overmeer's Mail::Box.

Please send (non support related) comments and enhancements or modifications to the code (as outlined by the GPL) to bix@bixworld.com.

Posted by dan at 01:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

OK so i got this new pc for pvr, dvd burning, shoutcast serving and much much more... and as always I planned on something simple but now I want it just like i have it at work and that means complicated. Two monitors, 1st pc uses one, 2nd pc uses both and there a kvm switch in between. Why that? I dont want to do the whole double keyboard mouse thing. So need the switch, but i also want to see a bit on the second monitor whats happening on the second pc while im doing something on the first pc. It really makes sense when ya see it. Course in view of saving money it doesn't make sense at all. A switch will run me 80-120 probably by the time i get the cables, and a new monitor, say the 19" 1600x1200ish will run me $220-300, it all just adds up. If I was really amazing I'd go the 17" LCD route but that tacks on another 500 probably but saves space and heat. I dunno.. Decisions decisions.

So need the switch, but i also want to see a bit on the second monitor whats happening on the second pc while im doing something on the first pc...

This post and image upload and linkage is made possible via wBloggar. Yet another tool in what I hope will be an arsenal of usable blogging apps. I dig the spellcheck, i really need that. We got a little horizonal line action, block quoting, image uploading (i take it sees the plugins and adapts or something) and all the font ^extra glory of formating. Its even got tables and java script. I'll have to mess with those later.

Course it all brings me back to the code. The days of dreamweaver made me forget all the tags.

Posted by dan at 06:52 AM | Permalink

Wow the tail end of Sunday really came together. I had a hilarious conversation at Staples with a little gal on Avery label products. Quite the flirt'ster she was and in my near dead sleep state I rambled right along with her. I never knew the inner workings of the Avery codes. They really do mean something. Wow.

Thanks to Troy for figuring out my webcam stuff. Once again I had to actually code it by hand into the site. Dang, that was kinda fun coding. So check it out man, webcam action!! Ya baby! That's Floozy!!

I just wanted to start my week off right in saying FO Todd. I was going thru my massive image directory filled with, well all kinds of stuff, old images ive had for years and I stumbled upon my great No Tolerance Todd art.

Posted by dan at 11:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Hey I think this worked too. This is wBloggar a desktop XP tool to update blogs.

Posted by dan at 08:44 PM | Permalink

A wee bit under the weather today or something. I felt like sleeping alot. Probably due to stressin over work issues. But most of them sorted out, still gonna be a long week coming up, and I really want two more days off.

Figured out the links part. I had to resort to manual HTML, whats up with that?!! Coding?! I dont do coding man.

Lotta daNotes developement this week. I've been doing research on competitive type apps for daNotes and theres not really anything that does what its designed to do, which is take notes better of course when it comes to usability testing. Still i checked out the Etholog some guy coded back in 1997 and its a whrirl of big buttons and codes and yadda but i didnt get the sense it could really give me any notes of what occured in the test. Its more for watching apes, and how that ape over there sniffed the other ape's back for 30mins kind of logger. It does do pretty graphs at the end but im not interested in that. So then i go check out Odlog and that basically does the same thing. No real note taking in them, more stat taking. Why read up on them? Cause i need to build this help file and i wanted a piece of their marketing zest if they had on to piggy back my own marketing zestness i need to write up for daNotes.

I keep returning to the two basic things I need done well, time code and coded comments. daNotes does that. Then i have to play the mindset of what people at work will say and I know they will.. like actual pc to ilink connection, but thats a messy box i dont want to head into right away. I did think of maybe having a daNotes add on that you can launch that just spins up the clock on the timecode generator. Cause initally you have to have yer act together before you log, and well, knowing how it happens in the field... well you know, people dont just do that. So ill have to think about this some more. Oh and I'd like to do some testing on daNotes. Maybe do a web design test and then test people using daNotes to see if they can use it ok and or give me and bob more ideas.

Ok back to coding this help file.. crap i need to go to staples too! POOF!

Posted by dan at 05:26 PM | Permalink

There you have it people the wonderful world of images! You too can bridge the gap and overcome yer inner most urges especially now that we got Franky in our lives today! Lets see whats happening. Oh Clint built the new pc, the dvd burner box 8500dv extrodinare last night. Very cool, I need to talk to Troy about cable spliters though, Troy see me after class. Driving in the DENSE fog last night was fun, could hardly see the road. Though I like nights like that, cool to run around in the fog with a camera just seeing how it'd pick up in the image.

Last night I signed on and tried the THERE beta. Its basically a Sims Online concept, ya know, twist baby twist. It looks flashy, er made of flash that is. Its not bad for a concept i guess. Its instant messaging meets do whatever you want 3D cel shaded world. The avatars are decent and you get 10,000 there bucks to start you off in your instant messaging be well quest. The beta is only open for certain hours of the day. Mostly nights and weekends. Franky is in there, if anyone tries this let me know and i'll meet ya inside.

I've been messing with an mp3 album maker mix down app, ya know take 30 songs, add cool voice clips, complie down to a set mix etc. Theres a few apps out there but they are all kinda blah at the moment. I did have fun with the text to speech engine from att. Need to mess with those a bit more.

Ok to me massage! Wooo.. and yes back to work. :(

Posted by dan at 11:20 AM | Permalink

A Perl script to check a POP3 mailbox and post messages to your Blog.

Emails that are successfully posted are deleted and the script maintains a log of its actions on your Web server.

Ok someone explain this to me, will this work for my wanting to blog via email to this website? via my email or the hiptop?

Posted by dan at 09:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

So basically this is possible. To update the blog via hiptop. That worked out nicely. I still like the email concept better. This posting interface looks fine but the blog doesn't come out well. Maybe I need a hiptop version of it.

Posted by dan at 01:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

One of my favorite all time trance tracks is Silent Harmony's - Save The Whales. Is the classic build up and break it all down trance stormer. I've never heard it on the dancefloor, I wish I did cause it'd be awesome I just know it. Its one of those tracks that always ends up on the tail end of one of my CD compliations.

I've been thinking about Shoutcast and running a DanTunes music tunes box. So like always I scour the net for info. Actually along the way I look for mp3's as well. Or just anything really. Music just fits the mood, gets the creative thoughts goin. Oh I remember this one... Still from Boymerang. Sadly he dropped off the planet after his first CD I wonder what happened to him. I always had a cool quake video in my mind for that track.

Speakin of Quake, Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats always makes me think of that first Quakecon. That and SpinSpinSugar were big back then. Its cool how songs can trigger memories and events.

And of course Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats was the bombshell edit I made for Akon 1997, or was 1998? Anyways I wanted to create a cool promo dan type video ya. Using this song and a few cool edits.. the "DO IT NOW" was born. Course I made it for fun. ADV wanted to use it as a tool, ok but we gotta pay the artist I said. "Fuck that, lets rip it off!" heh. And so it was ripped off. Watch one of the many "DO IT NOW's" I made, aside from the jungle mix and you'll see... we ripped this track off pretty well. I still like the noise factor of the original though.

As for new sounds I really like Underworld's latest CD. Stuff like Dinosaur Adventure 3D... very cool stuff, lotta old school grooves coming back on the scene, course old school for works like Underworld is going back to its roots in furious dance and noise etc. Another big stormer, a huge tune on the dance, yet another i missed, it would of been grand to see and hear it played on some nice big loud thumpin speakers is Who Da Funk's Shiny Disco Balls. Which is a must for my playlist these days. Great tune, mass head bobbin there.

Other fabo snippets of greatness: Driving to Heaven Elvis Remix ( I used this track on a Nationwide video hehe), Die Another Day Deepsky remix (i used these guys for a trailer video at ADV), It Just Wont Do by Tim Deluxe makes me think JiggleFest baby, though eurobabes are kinda not my thing really but in any case, this track is current all the rage as well.. la la la la la la... And since were doin videos we gotta mentions Tatu's All The Things She Said, the russian lesbo duo that is bustin loose on MTV2 these days.

Posted by dan at 10:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I think Jimmysmack has already lost interest in his new toy....

Posted by at 08:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

F.O. Dan!

Posted by at 12:02 PM | Permalink

That my account works. Night.

Posted by at 10:53 AM | Permalink

Its amazing to me how software makers make a product but dont use it. Ok maybe they used parts of it. But over and over and over again there are these little instances that pop up and kill an experience for someone due to a simple tiny aspect of the experience.

My 2000 pc, my main drag of a pc at work is a slow and clunky dell. I wish it would die forever so that i could get a new piece of gear. One thing that totally drives me crazy on the box is how in internet explorer I cant ever seem to find the thing that turns off the CLICKS it makes when you click on links etc. And since my audio is usually jacked up because the avid box for some reason doesnt use the power speakers, i dont know that one either, but just plays a default level regardless and i usually have to crank it up to hear when i switch back to the 2000 box and click on something i get the big CLICK!

So first I think, tools advanced features etc... nothing jumps out at me. Nothing says what I expect it to say. I try help and yeah i try like 12 different variations on how to explain what i want off. Sound clicks, clicks via mouse, whatever, just the fact that CLICKS isnt in the help file when myself and six other people here at work all go "search clicks" and it doesnt come up is hilarious to me. Why wouldnt the makers of this app think about how people use it and actually understand why people would want to search for "clicks" and my god the help thats out there is so fubared or needs special you need to register for the help knowledge base yadda dadda... google is faster than that.

Totally hilarious.

Well now ive turned off many things and the sound is gone! Excellent. I need this PC to die soon! I cant wait. Ok back to editing.

Posted by dan at 08:50 AM | Permalink

So how many buddies are on yer instant messaging list? 5? 10? 15? 250? Yes thats two hundred and fifty. That's alot of buddies there Bart. But thats becoming more and more common with todays youth and I can say that now cause ive been involved with actual research that supports that.

Why so many? Whats happening? How are you changing the way you communicate? It all feeds into the ---- always on aspect of living. This always on is a neat thing. Think about it, what does it take to always be on. Why do you want to be always on and does everyone want to be always on? Can you be always on and still anyonomous? Can I be content with being offline? If I choose to be offline is that acceptable?

Always On is in baby. I see it. I'm there! I'm just bummed i didn't register it already. Someone beat me to it. Ok and add the network part. But whats there deal? Did I sign up? Sure why not. Is there anything there? Not really. Did I just see an old MarkV caddy rip thru our parking lot? Yep. Thats kinda neat.

Posted by dan at 06:13 AM | Permalink

I didnt eat much last night. 2 Cheezeritos, some chips and helluva dip, a glass of milk and 6 oreos (for dipping), and a balance bar (my new addicition) and thats it. Then i played some much needed GTA3 on the ps2. Its so relaxing to plow through crowds of people in a fresh tuna truck. Its even better to hit the ramps just right and get yer truck high enough to land on the subway train rails. BONUS! Still I didnt eat enough.

I know I didnt eat enough cause whenever I dont eat enough, i get strange and wildly vivid dreams. Tonights was a bit shorter than Saturdays but still pretty interesting. Kinda scary at the end. I was at my old neighborhood pool and someone put a gator in the 9 feet and of course at some point in the dream i was in that 9 feet with the gator but I managed (cause me arms are long) to reach around and close its snout a bit when it came dartin around me. Course as a result of seein the gator im up a bit earlier this morning. So heres yer blog.

I'm sure work has to do with part of the dream. They always overbook me when it comes to video. Everyone needs their video done all on the same day. Thursday is this weeks crunch point. So far in the grand scheme of things three of the four videos will probably make their deadline. The biggest pain in my ass currently is no suprise but i'll just say its Company X, they bite. They always give us the JUMP and we jump... course we charge them out the ass so I guess its all good.

Course in the end the pressures can all be solved in the edit as long as, yes lets say it again, we got the codes. Ya got timecode?! If ya dont, then get the fuck out!

So is the gator the work i got to do today? The miracle edit of goodness that somehow makes Company X happy? Maybe, probably.. i would think so. I think i'll go in around 7am as well and just crank it out a bit better since of course not just an edit has to occur but all the other crap no one ever factors into the timeline: the encode to avi, the slapeth to cd, the label making, the bump to minidv to be bumped to vhs, and the classic case of "can you deliever that to my undeliverable location??... say in 10mins?" which will always be the case. Then of course I have everyone else staring at me going "what about my video..." plan people! Thats all I can say, if you want the dan magic then SHOW ME THE TIME CODE!

I was a bit punchy in the meeting yesterday too I think. I just hate it when we do things to slow ourselves down. Lets assign that person to watch this person and this person to watch that person. As if that will actually happen in our fire drill enviroment. Dunno. Sure lets try!

Its not all bad though, lotta good work happening, lotta new projects which is what keeps everyone alive. Some new learning opportunities as well. So its mainly just a rant really, gotta get back in there and crank it out.

Posted by dan at 05:41 AM | Permalink

I just pulled this off of BoingBoing, another great early adopter blog!

"MSFT unveils Groove-for-teens
MSFT has shipped a kiddee-Groove, a file-sharing/IM/collaboration tech aimed at teens, called Softie. The project sounds kind of neat, until you realize that it's got an assload of DRM built into it and, in the end, does less than Napster did.

Here's how the software works. You invite friends to form a posse of up to 10 participants. Representing the group on your desktop will be a colorful image, either one from a set provided by the software or something one of the group has produced. (It could even be a digital photo.) If you're online--and since threedegrees assumes you have broadband, you're probably online all the time--you give your friends a holler simply by sending the equivalent of an instant message. Everyone in the group will see it. If you want to send them a digital photo, you simply drag it over the icon and it shows up on everyone's computer. Then there are "winks": small animations that you trigger to run on everyone's screen. Some of the standards include big lips smacking a kiss or a heavyset cartoon character who drops trou and cuts the cheese. (Sending these to oldsters might cause a NetGen gap.)

The most ambitious feature is called musicmix, an online equivalent of a pajama party where people take turns playing deejay. Each group member contributes favorite tunes into a shared playlist, displayed on a dashboard with a customized "skin," and everyone listens together. A click from any participant can choose a new song. Then everyone chats about the tunes. Interestingly, men and women use this feature differently: guys will see it as a contest--who's brought the coolest tunes?--and do virtual chest-thumps introducing the hottest bands. Meanwhile, the girls use the music as background for their chats. "

Its interesting cause much of the focus of the questions we asked were centered on this kind of stuff. Cool. Want more info!

Posted by dan at 12:03 AM | Permalink

Many of you have heard me talk about this Microsoft project I've been working on. I mean I was basically gone all of January on this baby. It's called NetGen and for the most part its about tapping into college students and observing them.

We proposed a day in the life project where we'd follow them for a day as flys on the wall and talk about the technology they use and about this "wish" they asked for and old Bill granted.

Cool thing was, most of the time, the "wish" just didnt pan out. Which was excellent cause it makes for great data. You thought X but it turned out you really just want Y and maybe E.

Well while I was surfing tonight I came across Microsoft Watch, and that took me to a few links that really explain this work we're doing for them pretty well in fact, so i'll toss you the links as well.

The inital idea.

Newsweek Article on an aspect of it.

Microsoft Watch's piece on it all.

Whats cool about the net is just digging you can dig endlessly. So I was just about to finish this up but then I saw this link to threewhatever.. is this what they're working on as a result of our research? I mean theres this kinda push internally for us to come out and make a big deal with our findings, even though we just did the exit interview segment on this year long study.

So then I do a search on google for this url.. now I get more data like this and i get to read a few people post back in forth in a fourm about what this 3degrees is going to be. I think p2p is an aspect, and instant messaging is in there as well, and phone technology as well.

Then I see things like this "in any event, if you go download MSN Messenger 5.0 (http://messenger.msn.com/) and add me to your buddy list (hint, my email address ends in threedegrees.com) we might be able to play together in the near future..." Now thats interesting...

Well NetGen covers a broad range of topics really, i'm sure it all funnels into multiple projects but this is just one thing we do. Also, just to note.. Lextant had a piece in Monday's Connect Section of the Dispatch this week.

Posted by dan at 11:45 PM | Permalink

What the hell is this?!? Someone explain this to me.

More essential blogs to read! Oh ya and until daNtunes comes online list to SomaFM or ErrorFM!

Oh ya and heres that skinny on AudioBlog.

Posted by dan at 11:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Well I found this... thing, this could work right?

Posted by dan at 11:10 PM | Permalink

Well for one I like this look. Its soooo clean. Secondily it moves me.. it makes me wanna write. I see this page and I go damn it looks good already and I needed to do was write! No freakin out in my mind on how to make that one pixel look just right. Face it dan, focus on what you do best. Ramble.

Theres other reasons too, for awhile now I've been following all the main blogging tools: Blogger, Radio Userland, Movable Type, LiveJournal and pMachine, seeing who did what how and where. Obiviously blogger gets the props bein the big boy in the house. RadioUserland was pretty cool I liked the how it was pushing more the whole site feel thing, then I even tried pMachine but couldnt fathom the back end, but then I started reading alot of really great blogs all done with MovableType and well loved it.

Which blogs? I've sent the links out before, you all know the drill. But I love Smalla's Info Feed for starters, a very clean polished really meaty text look. I like that.

Then of course we have Gizmodo, a daily must read for me. I gotta have the latest on my gadgetness. I cant tell if its movable type or not, just feels like it is.

stevenf is another I dig, good stuff on the hiptop on his page. Another great one is Joi Ito a japanese venture cap guy that had a few internet startups in japan. He also gets alot of feeds from SmartMobs which is a great book I highly reccomend. Kinda feeds into my work at Lextant which is good. Makes me more up to date with what were doing for clients in testing and such.

So I just started to like Movable Type more and more. Then I did some more research on it. And I found plugins... ooooo and everyone knows im addicted to plugins.

So what will become of old fashionpixel? Well for starters I'd like to see it convert to Movable Type. Gets my ideas down faster. Meanwhile I need to do more research and get my hiptop blogsto it maybe Bob or Troy can help me figure out this one. :L And pictures and video files and all the other crap.

Basically Clint was right about the newness of stuff, its addiciting to me, and this isnt that new really but to me it is. So I dig right now, so lets flow baby.

Posted by dan at 10:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

"Michael Dell says he sees a growing role for Linux, but only a niche future for Tablet PCs." ----- Crazy, basically he's sayin he didn't jump into the R&D bucket in time to crank out a tablet where HP/Compaq, NEC, Fitjitsu, Acer and a few unknowns already did so. Behind the times there Mister DELL, I mean sure now tablets are a weeee bit more than what we'd like to spend on for a laptop. But given what it can do and the market its being pitched at, long usage, good battery life, etc.. i mean why would any manufacture turn down the aspect of such a device really? The convertables are basically laptops, just flip the screen around.

I say BS to mister DELL, you will make a tablet, mark my words! I give you a year to get yer act together, if by today come 2004 and yee has not talked or even mentioned or dare i say released a tablet... your edge has ended in the way of laptops.

Posted by dan at 10:05 PM | Permalink

So basically it works and its clean and neat! This is what the world needs simple publishing done in PERL! It looks nice it has value and essence, its about the people today and the days of glory ahead in the grand scheme of things.

Soon days of blogging will be upon us, did you that Google bought Blogger? Yep thats right so what does that mean? Could mean anything!

A place where childern sleep and babies understand the rules of our minds.

Posted by dan at 06:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

So... I'm on my second bottle of Cough Medicine.. And this one was made by a different generic manufacturer....

The first bottle tasted horrible. This second bottle I think may be even worse. They actually tried to flavor it with a type of strawberry flavoring... I mean what the hell, you don't just take something that tastes this bad and try to half assidly give it some yummy flavor... Bleh.

Posted by EGOne at 04:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

So why is it that the comments window is locked in size? Hrmmmm I'm sure there is a template change for that.. but the real question is... DO I CARE?

Where the hell is the Design Floozy who wanted this shit in the firstplace?

God.. It's almost time to dose up again... I really don't like this feeling...

Posted by EGOne at 04:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

So like i had to install Image::Magick to get everything to work.. Ya ya I know it wasn't required but have you ever known me to do something half ass'd?

So like that took most of the time and stuff.. I'm still not sure about this whole template thing.. Need someone to explain to me how all this shit works... I mean I know I type in this box and it gets posted and people can respond and stuff....

And I don't know how to push up images either....

Posted by EGOne at 03:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

So like I put up this moveable type thing just to Taunt Dan. I'll see how I like it and stuff... Maybe I'll move the Clubgraves site over to it so that multiple folks can have their blogs here or some shit like that.

Posted by EGOne at 03:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)