i find myself agreeing w/ a lot of matt’s thoughts, definitely capturing the whole introducing yourself to ppl who you know but don’t know you (my end).
i don’t think blogger is as limiting as some might thinkabout publishing long tracts. ie, you can easily set it to show one piece at a time, without a timestamp, etc. (like matt’s and brig have done) in fact, the main limiting factor of bloggin is just that you can’t change the text area by draggin either the window or frame/area. nothing that some dhtml wouldn’t solve for ppl w/ modern browsers (mozilla or ie). plus, add in a little cookie action and it would remember your preferred window size… or you could do it the old fashioned way and type it in a word processor, but who wants things like spell checks, grammar, and cogitation on the web? heheh. (proof reading is for sissie) ;-P
it just occurred to me that jz has been doing both a blog (daily report archives go back to july 97) and big stuff forever. of course, some ppl are just awesome like that. i just found myself changing the word guys -> ppl. how pc of me. oh, and there’s a line between inspiration and copying which i find strange jz might have missed. some of the designs that he mentions in his mar 15-19 post are more descendents of some of his design memes rather than rip-offs. not to mention, it’s a bit amazonish claiming ownership of solid borders and multi-tone solid colors in rectangles (which is the natural shape for tables). still, i suppose jz may feel a bit like rms sometimes, ie getting a bit shafted. don’t worry, we love you jz. 3.7 million hits and counting.
while i’m brainfarting (i always am, now that i think of it), i got my cdnow order while i was in austin. actually, i got 2 or the 3 cds. instead of getting the mdh soundtrack, they sent me nin’s pretty hate machine. of course it’s the cd that i really want that was screwed up. i’m enjoying the kcrw: rare on the air vol 4 cd. some kick butt tracks. a real cool thing is i finally found out that this lick that i really liked from the boxer trailer is actually by a song called st. teresa, by joan osbourne. (btw, the links to amazon only speaks to how difficult and crappy it is to link stuff to cdnow, seeing as they don’t modularize and put the sid at the end like amazon–i’m still on the boycott until the patent thing gets resolved. this means more than posting a carefully designed letter making pandering, empty promises. when they finally do what’s right, i’ll be able to shop with them again, until then, the wishlist builds — random complaint: wtf with moving all things on the home page i’m used onto the right side? and their still sneaking their ugly redesign. <sigh>).
wow, this turned into a monster. unfortunately, this half an hour came out of time i should have been doing work.