hmm, lin is in the 47th percentile of surname popularity in the us. it’s also in the 87th percentile of female first names.
joe utsler’s site is really neat. it’s well designed and clean w/o being boring and soporific (like my site) and has a clear sense of organization and sections. eventually i’ll have to develop a cms where i articles, permanent features and blog postings, and everything else under the sun (well, at least some other interesting things) coexists peacefully on mysql. that’s the goal for the summer. anyway, back to utsler.com, i really like his grade 5 time capsule. i wonder if i’ll ever be organized to post up (or at least have captured) any of my old stuff one day.
blogger is up. too tired to post my backlogged posts. my friend gordon (whom i’ll be travelling to sxsw w/ next week) has his own blog now – personally i think that garamond is a bad choice for fonts. if he wants to go serifed (or non-verdana as the case may be) he should try georgia, which is much easier on the eyes… non-related usability observation: many blogs don’t have named anchors to individual posts. blogger doesn’t build that in and doesn’t really offer a human-convenient way of doing it (ie, i use the <$BlogItemNumber$> tag for each post, but that has no relation to the date/time/order it was posted, and i can’t have an anchor just to the date, etc.. something i have to remember when i get a chance to eventually work on some content management code (working on several related projects with that once i get some time and breathing room). hmm, brilliantly convoluted writing courtesy of lack of sleep.
oh, i found a cool weblog analyzer that doesn’t force me to compile all kinds of libraries ala some analog frontends i’ve yet get the time to play with and now maybe never will have to. this webalizer really does look slick. of course, i could write my own evil javascript queries to find out all the gory browser/system details that the extreme tracker gives as well.
jizz! it’s in german but sf-fan.de has production pictures of the new sci-fi channel 6 hour miniseries of dune. dune’s probably my favorite science fiction novel of all time. i remember reading it quite a few times back in middle school (strangely enough, my first introduction to dune was through the original (cd-rom version) virgin software dune game that was bundled w/ a multimedia kit i got).
ok, fanboy raving aside: chani looks like some drugged out crackwhore in the photo and stilgar’s eyes are way not blue enough. the fremen have blue within blue, the eyes of ibad. however, the sets do look cool, they probably haven’t finished post, the new gurney looks a lot better for the role (patrick stewart is awesome, but he was just the wrong guy for the job- same sentiment applies to lynch) and gurney’s knife rocks.
yay, i’m remembered. 😉
interesting bruce sterling article on the future of business at fortune
figuring out the proper way to use the <BlogDateHeader> and <BlogDateFooter> tags makes me appear slightly less psychotic in my postings.
i liked the way the hyperoffice.com site looks so much that i signed up.
random foo rhymes with log.nu, nqpaofu, jahoo!, le temps perdu, , and strange brew. incidentally, also half rhymes with desuetude, oneswellfoop, and depending on how it’s pronounced, alamut. ok, i’m missing some but i’m getting tired. not even going to try for apocopated or other type of near rhymes.
hmm, that was a really long post to do on whim. my procrastination kung-fu is the best. it will be a looong night…
next on the avoiding schoolwork todo list: learning listproc.