Dave Winer is having a live blogging session this evening at Harvard. I was planning on going but my dinner plans from last night got pushed off till tonight. I’ll definitely make it to the next one though.

Live blog this evening.

A reminder, tonight we’re having a live session here at Harvard. It’s not an intro to weblogs for newbies. I’m going to say that right up front. If you don’t know what a weblog is, you can hang out, and maybe we’ll get around to explaining what they are, and maybe we’ll only talk about other stuff. I have a few ideas. But we never know what’s going to happen at one of these until it’s over. Tonight’s session starts at 6:30PM, at Lewis International Law Center 301 on the law school campus, and will run between 1 and 2 hours. After we’ll go out and get some food somewhere (cheap) in the Havard Square area. It’s a good chance to meet other people in the weblog world in the Boston area. We’ll probably do these sessions pretty regularly through 2003 as the blogging activity bootstraps at Harvard.

[Scripting News]

There’s a crisp edge to the air. The perfect time to come on out and hang someplace warm with your friends. You know you’ve got cabin fever.

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of

music styles in the lounge at Vertigo. Last time our friends

downstairs at Anitya had a Growroom DJ play, Bon Bons was there for

support. Since he had such a good time upstairs in the lounge we

invited him to play the next time his pals were playing

downstairs. So, this week we’re joining together with our friends

downstairs to make this a big ‘ol festival of Growroom. Everyone

should brave the cold this week to see:

Bon Bons (Growroom) MA

(you know it’s gonna be a good time)

with resident dj’s

Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston

Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA

Peter Ellis – Boston

Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays

@ Vertigo (upstairs)

126 State St. Boston, MA

617-723-7277

10pm – 2am

21+ with ID

$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)

No dress code

www.changmian.com

www.dubcoast.com

www.vertigoboston.com

www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:

02/19 – Changmian night w/Dino [Changmian]

02/29 – Keith Kene – 409 – MA

And to view our calendar online (with support for you iCal folks):
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http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

And don’t forget Anitya, downstairs at Vertigo every week.

Wernher von Braun. “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” [Quotes of the Day]

I just discovered iConquer for OS X. It’s Risk, with network play. Augh. Risk was one of those games that used to be on the Mac waaaaay back when. I used to play it endlessly when I was on duty in the computer lab.

They actually did a nice job with this release. The game is Rendezvous enabled (of course), and when doing network play it sets you up to chat with the other players over iChat. Anyone up for a network game?

Morgan Webb from The Screen Savers just started up her own weblog using Movable Type. I catch The Screen Savers when I think of it, and her segments are cool (and she likes anime). Hopefully she’ll post to this more than she did her LiveJournal.

Mark Frauenfelder posts that he’s now got some sample experiments up from his book Mad Professor. There are three sample experiments: Goon Goo, Comeback Can, and Martian Volcano. I actually put this book onto my wish list a week or so ago because I thought it looked like lots of fun. I just wish my nephew was a little older so that I could do some of these experiments with him next time he visits.

They’re all pretty simple experiments too. I remember doing the Volcano one when I was a kid. That was one of my favorites. Though in my case we were using soda bottles and hoping to make them explode. Sometimes I miss being a kid (well, okay, more than sometimes).

So lately everyone’s been hitting the archive page for my first post on Wolf’s Rain. Lots of comments there.

I’m still really curious about where this show is going to go. We’re only 1/5th of the way in (assuming 26 episodes). And really we don’t have a lot. A little mystery here and there, a fair amount of character development. Lots of really nice animation. And a soundtrack I’m really enjoying.

Not much actually. I’m catching up on stuff. I’ve got DVDs going back to when I was laid off that I still haven’t watched. These damn digisubs will be the death of me. Though there is some damn good stuff out there right now. Wolf’s Rain continues to be very interesting. I was actually a little sniffly at the end of episode five. The new .hack continues to entertain me (I’m a sucker for cute). Naruto is still on the damn bridge (though it looks like things are about to be all finished up with that storyline soon). My goal this week is to make it through the rest of Figure 17, since it’s been sitting there waiting to be watched for a while.

But first, I have to finish watching the second Fruits Basket disc…

Yow, slept late this morning due to not realizing the power went during the day the other day. I almost never look at the clock next to my bed, I just know that when it goes off I have to get up. Of course this means that if it went off at 3:43 in the morning I’d get up then too. What can I say, I’m a creature of habit.

I’ve actually got a pretty full todo list for today, which feels pretty good. Now I just need to make sure I get all of it done.

My initial reaction to TrackBack when I first heard about it was: Huh? I didn’t get quite get it. I didn’t see the real use of it. But this weekend something clicked. Comments work fine for some situations. Someone posts something to their blog and you want to say something quick about it. But what happens if you’ve got a lot to say on the subject, or it ends up pushing you on a bit of a tangent. In my case it is times like that when I want to make a post to my own blog. The thing is, how do I tie that in to the page that inspired me?

In the past I had just put in a comment about the post and referencing the post I made. But there’s something about TrackBack i find more interesting. It helps promote traffic to places that might not ordinarily get it. For instance, I get a reasonable amount of traffic on this site, and I’m not necessarily looking for more. At the same time, when I post thoughts on someone else’s blog it is nice to know that there is a some way to connect those two posts and share that with people who read the original.

Here’s an example. I posted some thoughts about Safari and Opera the other day and did a TrackBack over to a post on Surfin Safari. Now, normally that post would have been made, and the people who read my blog would have read it. Dave Hyatt, the author of Surfin Safari, might have noticed in his referer logs that I had referenced his post. Other people probably wouldn’t have stumbled across it. This time with TrackBack, people have been hitting that page continuously. While nobody has commented, the connection between the two posts is more solid. It would be cool for someone to write up a site that tracks this kinda stuff and graph out the connections between posts.

So I think I give Trackback a thumbs up for now. I’d like to see Radio equipped to handle sending out pings. Maybe I’ll give it a try myself and see if I can figure out how to make that work.