I have quite a few posts queued up at the moment, so I’m going to try to get them out so I can get to some more interesting/recent developments – nice trip to CA, admit weekend, etc. On a quick aside, there is an annoying bug in the most recent version of Wordpress that the post timestamp remains when you created the entry, not when it was published. Anyone else come across this?...
Ragnar let spill the very happy news that Dreamfall’s story will continue. He’s already fended off nay-sayers of the episodic format with a follow up Q&A. First of all I’m ecstatic that Funcom decided to continue the story. TLJ and Dreamfall represent the equivalent of a very good independent film that was meant to tell a very long story, and you keep hoping they continue to fund it (see Firefly). Even more so than TLJ, Dreamfall ended abruptly, obviously wrapping up a small part of a much larger story....
Clemson vs. Florida State (12:00pm) Maryland vs. Miami (2:00pm) Duke vs. NC State (7:00pm) Georgia Tech vs. Wake Forest (9:00pm) Despite the ugly ending to the Duke/UNC game on Sunday*, we have entered the greatest two weeks of the year – Conference Tournaments and Round One of the NCAA tournament. This week especially should be declared automatic personal time, or at least legislate every business maintain multiple television screens worth of games during the work day....
Arriving in theaters this Friday is the latest adaptation of a Frank Miller comic, 300 – and I’ve been looking forward to it for months. Sin City broke the ground with the novel green screen work that gives both films such a great comic look and feel. Sin City was a collection of short stories interwoven into a feature length film. 300 looks to be a much more intense single story surrounding a legendary battle between an out numbered army of Spartans and the entire Persian army....
Its actually fairly rare that you can call engineering beautiful. Engineering can produce beautiful things, but the widget or construction itself doesn’t often come to mind. However, you must check this out. A new bridge in France that is really breath taking. We’ll ignore the question of “why” for a moment (it does seem a bit excessive), but it really is a photogenic bridge. In the same vein, can you imagine the span between San Francisco and Marin County without the Golden Gate?...
After resorting all my posts into new categories, I realize every single one of my old posts that included a picture from my gallery don’t work anymore. If I remember correctly, I had some sort of plugin that took care of that and its no longer installed. I’m going to try to go back and fix them this weekend. Right now I’m testing out a new plugin (WPG2) to help embed gallery images into posts....
Related to a previous post regarding great 80’s cartoons, I stumbled upon a great 30 minute mix of 80’s cartoon intros. Needless to say it was a fantastic trip. You quickly realize there was a lot of great stuff that you remember very fondly, and then a bunch of stuff you’ve never heard of and think, “Someone must really have been on something to come up with this.” And the name Don Schimer keeps popping up as the producer for many of the early 80’s shows… I’ll have to look him up later....
Two features that have been a long time coming – Virtual Albums -- aka "Flickr style tags" Improved Watermarking support I’ve been flirting with the features and interface of Flicker. There is no doubt its highly polished and feature rich, but I just couldn’t do the $24/year (even though its not a bad price) and give up the control and freedom of a “host-your-own” solution like Gallery. I took a quick peek at what the competition had to offer and still came back to Gallery hands down....
Some great news out of the KDE 4 development: Dolphin will replace/coexist with Konqueror as the main file manager. One of my few issues with KDE is Konqueror – trying to be both a web browser and a file manager, when it really is more a web browser. All the options are basically exclusively oriented toward web browsing and its incredibly convoluted “Profile” system. Its truly indicative of feature creep....
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it Mark’s Corollary Those who learn yet still insist on make the same mistakes are uniquely qualified to predict the future