May 06, 2003

JREF

When I'm not blogging, you can often find me at the JREF Forums. Not at the moment, though, because they seem to be fairly seriously broken.

I ran up a quick forum server thingy for people to visit until JREF is fixed: the JREF Storm Shelter. I wonder if I'll get any visitors...

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May 05, 2003

No Link

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who doesn't need another link, looks like he writes a lot, but most of his blog is really made up of quotes. Well, I can do that too:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

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Pibgorn

Which reminds me: Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney. Read it. It's good. Though sometimes slow-moving. Right now it's in the middle of a long and complicated sub-story, so it may not immediately make sense. Stick with it.

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Blogger New

Tastes great, less screwed-up archives. Or so they say. I'll give it a whirl with a test blog before the wholesale migration.

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Still Raining

At this rate we might as well unevolve back into fish. Or maybe just amphibians.

But there are many parts of Australia that are still in drought. Sydney is where it is, after all, because it does rain a lot here - relative to the rest of the country.

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May 04, 2003

Land Of The Lost Blogs

'Smatter of fact, I did write a blog entry on Friday. It went something like this:

Blog of the day is Sedgewick's Adventures in College - or it would be except that by some strange twist of fate Stupid Stupid Blogger™ is down again and I can't update my blog.

Anyway, I know exactly how Joanna feels when she says "It's 5:18 in the frappin' morning, and I still haven't gotten any sleep." I do that all the time. At least I'm not in college any more, so the only exams I have these days are these once-a-month get-it-right-or-your-ass-is-fired bill runs.

I love bill runs.

Or maybe that's the Travacalm talking.

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Barf Time

Not to mention the bout of food poisoning.

Very much not to mention the bout of food poisoning.

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May 01, 2003

Mnglrglrflbl

It's that time of month again.

I work as a programmer in the billing department of a small phone company. Our bills go out at the start of the month. And we run a sort of just-in-time development process. And there are always changes to be made. So for two or three days each month I don't sleep.

Or blog, of course.

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April 30, 2003

iPodonia

James Lileks wants a new iPod too.

Great minds, and so on.

What he actually got was a swing.

Read it.

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April 29, 2003

Gotta Getta iPod

I gotta get me one of them iPods.

The new models are cooler than ever, even if the "dock" looks worse than useless. 30GB of storage, 6 ounces, 8 hours playing time. Connects via FireWire or USB; doubles as an external hard disk for my perennially full Sony Picturebook.

You can even play Solitaire!

Clearly, what Apple and/or Sony need to do is smoosh this thing together with the nifty Sony Clie NZ90, which wonderful as it is, is direly lacking in storage. Then add a multi-system cellphone and GPS and you'll have the ultimate geek gadget.

Except by that point it will weigh as much as my Picturebook, and still do less.

Never mind then. I'll just take the iPod.

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Googleage

Meanwhile, Google has picked up my blog! If you search on "Stupid Stupid Blogger" I'm right there. On page 2.

Funny how that works, considering that no-one links to me and it took months to pick up my other site.

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Blogosphere

I'm part of the Blogosphere Ecosystem!

'Course, I'm an Insignificant Microbe, coming in at number 1964 out of 1966, but you have to start somewhere, right?

Right?

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April 28, 2003

Whuffie Again

The other problem with Whuffie, of course, (and Doctorow does touch on this in the book and in the interview) is that it is controlled by positive feedback.

And we all know how well that works.

For those who don't, consider your favourite economic boom-and-bust - from the tulip craze to the Great Depression to the dot.com bubble. Or lynx and hare populations in the Arctic. Or consider a nuclear explosion, which is a great example of positive feedback. If you're lucky, positive feedback will give rise to boom-and-bust cycles. If you're unlucky, you'll get a boom-and-splat.

Not a good way to run, well, anything, really. Unless you want to make a very large bang.

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Whuffie

To be fair to Mr. Doctorow, he does point out in this interview that his society would not function as described; and that it would need:

some kind of antitrust law or garbage collector that periodically comes along and randomizes Whuffie

Of course, unless you've brainwashed 100% of the population, the anti-trust laws or garbage collectors will need to be backed up by the men with the you-know-whats.

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Shimashou Shimashou ShimaOJI@$#F@#(

Episode 5 of Rizelmine went plooie too. Sigh.

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Down And Out

Oh, yes.

As always, by the light of day it's neither as original nor as interesting as it was at 4 A.M. But here goes:

When you are designing your Utopia, remember this: People will be people, and to make things work, somewhere there will have to be men with guns. And it does not necessarily make things better for them to be hidden from view.

What brought this on? Last night I was reading Cory Doctorow's new book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. It's not a bad book, and you can download it for free, which is always a plus.

But the society described in the book simply wouldn't work - unless there are, somewhere behind the scenes, men with guns.

Read it anyway.

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Brain Fried. Core Dumped.

I had an interesting an original thought last night that I wanted to share with you.

Unfortunately, I've forgotten what it was.

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April 27, 2003

Oh, Look!

It's raining. How... novel.

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April 26, 2003

The Dilemma Of Downloads

The problem with downloading stuff from a filesharing network is that you don't know what you'll get. The episode of Buffy that I downloaded using BitTorrent proved to be a dud - after I'd dragged all 433MB back to my PC over my sorry excuse for broadband. One episode of Jungle Guu was plagued with video glitches. One episode of Azumanga Daioh dropped out with a minute or so to go.

In case anyone is listening: I'd pay to be able to download these files directly from the source. That's pay as in actual money.

You'd have to get the price right, though. A DVD box set of Buffy runs about $120, or around $5 per episode (Australian prices). A download would have to be cheaper than that, and if quality is significantly below DVD standard, it would have to be significantly cheaper.

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April 25, 2003

Two Long Weekends For The Price Of One!

So, just how often does Easter coincide with Anzac Day to give a three-day working week?

I'd work it out, but I think I'd rather take a nap.

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