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Ok, I indulge in those “what character would you be” tests every so often, but I thought this was interesting because it’s actually right. If I were a Kevin Smith character, I think I would be Brody.

Brodie

You have a genius intellect

and an awesome sense of humor. You can sarcastically put someone

in their place without batting an eye. Your only problems seem to

be that you have trouble acknowledging your true feelings and you

may use your humor as a defense to hide what you are really

feeling. But, your godliness overpowers any insignificant flaws

you may have. Even if you tend to pass gas during very

inconvenient moments.

Take The “Which Kevin Smith Male Are You?”

Quiz!!
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Bandwidth Demand at American Universities – I won’t claim to understand how everything’s routed but USC’s bandwidth usages has been off the scale. Looking at the local InterMapper charts revealed the active ports on one of USCnet’s routers to be at over 3-600% usage on Thursday, and almost 200% on Friday (first day of classes were on Monday).

Wow, some really really interesting comments in here. Looks like KaZaa is the big dawg as far as bandwidth consumption goes.

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Hmm, $1,800 for either an LCD iMac or… an MTV computer! Now, which do you think your average college kid is going to pick? But wait, don’t answer so quickly, for you see, the MTV computer has ‘MTV-specific content‘ [Sidenote: remember when MTV used to be cool?] and their new music player. (And as a bonus, you get crunchy DRM for free! Never worry about having fair use rights again! Do your part! The freedom to innovate!)

Yah, this is gonna sell like hotcakes. Welcome to the 21st century.

Completely unrelated: Just got back from seeing Brotherhood of the Wolf. What an awesome movie. It’s very damn good; it’s beautifully and creatively shot, and it’s funny, and fun, and super-stylized, and stylish, and exciting, and utterly and unabashedly romantic and fantastic and cheezy; oh, and filled with buxom peasant girls… and Monica Belluci. What a hundred pounds. So in summary, you owe it to yourself to see this movie.

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Yesterday, one of my new co-workers (he just started work about two weeks after I did; he’s been programming forever and was a founding member of the now defunct WaSP) tells me about HTML-Kit. Now, last night, while reading the /. discussion on RMS‘s “We can put an end to Word attachments” editorial, I noticed a reference to HTML-Kit on a thread about demoronizing Word generated HTML (something that we were also discussing at work the a few days prior). Hmm, there’s no point to that, really, but I wanted to say that HTML-Kit kicks so much ass it’s not funny. The cool thing is that I don’t have to re-install HomeSite now. Screw you Macromedia!

BTW, the best suggestions about Word alternatives is using RTF (one of the suggestions was something I actually did while I was at Xerox; instead of paying for an ASP DOC/XLS writer COM module, I actually just generated HTML and gave them the proper MIME/extension type to the client-browser. Vióla! Instant Office compatibility). Also, there’s a nice little solution on how to make people use RTF.

Now, TextEdit on OSX is a great little application for reading and generating RTF’s, which is the one thing that’s missing from both UltraEdit and HTML-Kit.

Peculiar sidenote: Quite a few /. discussions have been uncannily relevant this past week. A short list:

It’s weird. Sometimes /. just gets in this awesome groove, and sometimes it’s, I dunno, posts on Aibos.