I have but one bookcase in my room which I used to store my manga, comics and such. The bottom shelf has always stored my large collection of almost 10 years of GamePro magazines. Lately my comic and manga collection has grown larger, and I stopped subscribing to GamePro over a year ago. So I packed up the magazines, and I’m getting ready to sell the whole collection on ebay.
Yes, you heard it right here. I finally had some free time to do computer work, and I did some. I wasn’t lying when I said the shit-talking days were over. Every single blog entry from my old blosxom based blog has been finally ported over into this newer WordPress blog. Hopefully next week I will update to the newer WordPress 2.0 and it will rock the house. In the meantime, feel free to explore the archives and read any of the good stuff you may have missed.
There have been lots of developments lately in the music industry. More accurately, there are developments in the lack of a music industry. The old ways of charging for albums and having a controlled radio are going away. Mp3 download services and podcasts are out in full force. Despite this important and beneficial shift in models there is still a major problem that needs to be rectified. Music is still a one way street.
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You may have recently noticed some new posts on this blog that are just sets of links. That is from an experimental feature on del.icio.us that I setup. From now on every day there will be a post automatically appearing here which contains all of my social bookmarks for that day. I hope someone finds it useful.
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You may recall a previous blog post I made about games using AJAX. Web pages with the ability to read and write to databases via XML and update the display without reloading allow for the possibility of games that work in any web browser without plug-ins or large bandwidth consumption. But the games would still be limited to what you can draw using CSS and HTML. Thanks to the new canvas element in the newest versions of Firefox and Safari this is no longer a limitation.
I sort of have this pet peeve with computer software. When something doesn’t work exactly the way I want it to I have to fix it. This sort of explains why I keep switching and tweaking window managers and themes. My current peeve is with RSS and Atom feeds, especially when it comes to podcasts.
There has been something bothering me very recently that I would like to share with you. I’ve been getting all my news from the Internet for over 6 years now, and I can’t say I’m more pleased. Google, Firefox, RSS, del.icio.us and others have all combined to make my browsing experience better and better over the years. Thanks to these technologies I can acquire new information in a very small amount of time without having to manually filter out a lot information I don’t care for.
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