Wendy writes about blogging and sex.
How many of us bloggers are getting some regularly? Or, shall I say, how many of us who blog EVERY DAY, multiple times a day, are getting some regularly? [The Redhead Wore Crimson]
Yikes. This hit a bit too close to home. So I wonder if I start blogging less I’ll get some sex? Somehow I doubt it works that way.
I’ve been skimming around reading about FOAF, but I still have some questions. My biggest is to do with email addresses. All the foaf.rdf files I’ve seen include them in plaintext as far as I can tell. What’s to keep this from being yet another place spammers can harvest for addresses? Anyone? (Sorry, I’m just overly sensitive about the spam thing).
Robert Scoble posts that
Sean Alexander just posted some news…
Sean Alexander just posted some news about the Windows Media Blogging Plugin (and other fun things).
Okay, this may end up sounding a little snarky, but um, “yeah? so?” I read the post by Sean Alexander and it didn’t wow me much. Or is the big news that you can now get the current playing track from Windows Media Player? Blogging clients have been doing this kind of stuff for ages. Most LJ clients I know can do this (at least with winamp). On the OS X side of things you can easily grab that stuff from iTunes via Applescript. And the cool blog client I’ve been using lately, Kung-Log, can do that too. I guess I just don’t see what the big deal is.
If I’m missing something, please let me know so I don’t end up sounding like an idiot.
Niels Bohr: “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Well, after years of resisting, it looks like I will finally get my chance to play. When I checked my mail just a bit ago there was an email that started out like this:
You have been selected as one of the first participants in the EverQuest Macintosh Edition Beta test. If you are receiving this email, you are part of a group of people who will be the initial testers in the game. The feedback from this early group will be very valuable to us in deciding how to expand the test and focus our efforts from here, so we appreciate your participation. Please keep in mind that the product is going to have some bugs and issues at this point, and that is part of the nature of being in a beta test – if you’d rather wait for the completed product and not be subject to occasional unexpected results, we understand. Just let us know.
Should be interesting. I’ve never played the game at all, so I will really be just starting out. It’s downloading now.
Over on a blog I just started reading there was a post about blogs that have absolutely no information about the people writing them. I have a little bit of information here and there, but had been meaning to write a page that gave some general information about me. So, tonight after a nice coughing fit I put up an about page. Just a few small details. If there’s anything else you think I should have let me know.
Over on Apple’s web site they have a cool article about Liam Lynch, one of the people behind Sifl & Olly. It seems he just put out a CD that includes “My United States of Whatever”, which was one of the cooler songs on Sifl & Olly. Now, if someone can just help me get divx versions of all the episodes of Sifl & Olly I’ll worship them forever.
Heath Row talks about Turn on the TV 2003. Which has an “exercise in living through our favorite appliance” in response to TV Turnoff Week. While I think turning off the TV isn’t a bad idea (does that include watching movies or going to the movies?) I think people also need to be aware of just how powerful the media can be. Anyone else remember The Zen TV Experiment (referenced by the TV Turnoff Week page)? If you haven’t done the experiment give it a try.
My TV will be turning on this week most probably, but lately I haven’t really been ruled by it. I have about a week’s worth of shows in the TiVo that haven’t been watched. I’ll most probably go through soon and delete 90% of them. I just haven’t felt like watching much lately (though movies are another story altogether. I’ve got The Producers queued up to watch sometime today.
Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross are collaborating on a short short online called Unwirer. From the site:
This is a site where Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow are publicly collaborating on a short story for ReVisions, an alternate science fiction history anthology from DAW books, edited by Isaac Szpindel and Julie Czerneda. [Unwirer]
Neat idea. They’ve only just started it so there isn’t much next. They also have an RSS feed so you can keep up with each new part posted as it appears.
Ron Nesen: “Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.” [Quotes of the Day]