nxdrive-cf – type-1 comfpact flash for your springboard, supporting encryption, compression, and extended fat attributes, all for $50. cool.

the secure digital future is coming. freedom = slavery. but it comes in such a sexy package. enjoy.

just saw the new fatboy slim video. it rox0rs.

freehand 10 is coming out soon. among the new features are a new user interface (the 1993 widgets for retiring them) as well as a bunch of neat flash features (smart cursor joins, editable symbols). also support for such whimsical features “Embedded Fonts in MAC and WIN EPS files.” good thing that earlier versions didn’t bother with such excessive luxuries. *snicker*

don’t you hate it when you have so much stuff to do that your brain shuts down and you get nothing done?

The Awful Forums – Behold! The Official George Bush Photoshoping Thread – damn fine stuff.

Bic SoftFeel Jumbo Stic Ball Pen, Blue, Dozen, $434,938.00 at your friendly neighborhood staples.com

i was working on a web page design with a friend, and was doing a little two-column css thang, and discovered to my surprise that although the design (html & css) validated fine (no, that’s the surprising part), and looked peachy keano in ie5 (multi-divs fixing for ie5’s box model inadequacies), the float was funky in mozilla until we floated both columns. grrr.

i got an invitation to participate (as “part of a carefully designed sample”) in usc’s student satisfaction inventory, a survey designed to measure my satisfaction with all aspects of the usc undergraduates experience. after about 50+ questions (rating importance and satisfaction on 7 point +/- scales), i had quantified my (dis)satisfaction with my usc experience. at the end, i was asked, given the choice, if i would have done it again… based on the quality of what usc provided i said probably not. of course the question is a hard one to answer, because i never would have met any of my friends here at usc and of course the past 4 years have played a very large part in shaping who i am… i think my friend was right in saying that he’d be just as unhappy at any other school.

in other graduation related stuff, i got an email on this whole senior event deal, and although no one else i know had any excitement at all on it, this memory book thing caught my eye. i was sorta itching to some design, so i eschewed the template/examples provided and designed my own little page (577kb jpeg).

i’m sorry, it really shouldn’t be funny, but i couldn’t stop laughing after seeing a screenshot of matt’s mefi design hawking (123) cheap hosting.

looks like the page has been taken down now.

This. is. amazing.

(background info on it)

also blatantly stolen from matt 😛

thanks to dinah‘s suggestion, i wrote off an email to new riders because i had missed out on picking up a promo galley of jz’s upcoming book, taking your talent to the web. i got a cheery reply from susan nixon, the publicity manager at new riders, and got not one, but two copies in the mail today. so, i guess i have a copy to bring and show my advanced design class tomorrow. with jeff veen’s book out right now, and the upcoming books by derek and jz, new riders is building up a pretty cool web design library.

on a semi-related sxsw note, i noticed the other day that jason kottke put up a link to my site recently on his recommended reading sidebar which is accounting for about 2% of the hits on my site this month. haha, i’ve quantified “the kottke effect.” hmm, i briefly spoke w/ jason again this year in austin. um, i reintroduced myself and then drew blanks on conversation. i mean really, what are you supposed to say to someone whose site that you’ve been reading for 2 years? one day i’ll figure it out.

speaking of history, i moved all my old homepage stuff to leonardlin.com – i figured i might as well get started early before usc shut off my account for good once i get out this summer. i wonder how hard it will be for google to stop pointing to the old url? for your browsing pleasure, i also managed to dig up some really old stuff. the oldest extant index file i have from my usc account is a file called index_old.html, which has a dec 10, 1997 timestamp. it’s a loggy-linklisty type of thing. just thought some people might be amused. i have some older stuff somewhere on one of my old hard drives (predating college), but that stuff is probably too embarrassing for me to bother digging up.

ooh, while i’m on the nostalgia kick. (once you start mawkish, it just won’t stop… you gotta just let it run it’s course). i started doing logs for my classes, and my fa410 class (complete with nonworking permalinks) was the first one that tried blogger with. i guess at that time i was reading a little megnut, evhead, and onfocus having discovered “weblogs” earlier in the year. i think calamondin, peterme, and camworld were some of the first that i had encountered. ok, i think i’m pretty much done navelgazing / putting off work.