Ok, I know that very few of you are programmers, but....
If you are into Java at all, you should really check out Kohsuke Kawaguchi's Blog. I try to remember to check it out every once in awhile.
27 January 2006
Belief-O-Matic
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Damn social sites
Ok, there was LiveJournal, but it was annoying cuz it was (for the most part) just a blog.
And there was Friendster, but it was too damn slow.
And there were many others, but none of them seem to matter for long.
MySpace just keeps crashing or saying things are disabled or.... and it isn't nearly as easy to browse through past blogs as other sites (like Blogger)... and they REALLY screw you over when it comes to customizing your site (not allowing & sign or javascript in your CSS for example)....
We've been hoping that Google would pick up the slack... but their Orkut service is also running ASP. Maybe that's why they haven't made it a bigger deal.
And I heard that TagWorld are spammers....
So, what does that leave us?
I think that once we have our server running again, we should design our own. Worst case scenario would be that not many people would use it. Best case scenario, Google would pay us to let them host it and hire me to work on it.
So, what kind of features does it need that these others don't have?
Complete customization control -- ie: XHTML+CSS but NOT like Blogger where it requires rewriting everything from scratch to change one CSS element.
Ajax -- I want to be able to drag'n'drop to make changes to my profile instead of submitting them to see what they look like.
Free
Hosting of content. We can give people a limit (500MB?) but should not limit it to something like 12 pictures. That's just stupid for a social network. We would have to make sure that people are responsible for their own content.
Ability to link to friends who are on other services... So, in your Friend's list, maybe some would show as MySpace, some Friendster, some TagWorld, etc...
New modules/plugins should be easy to obtain. If someone writes a music player that will do playlists, make it something that can be drag'n'dropped in a page editor.
So some of you may be thinking that I am stupid for posting this -- that someone like MySpace of Orkut may see it and beat me to the punch. Good, then I would have a worthwhile service to use without having to waste my own time writing it. More power to them.
Sylkwyrm | Looks like you are going to work for google whether they like it or not ;-) Posted by Sylkwyrm on Fri Jan 27 02:42:00 PST 2006 |
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Malachi | Damn skippy :) (I haven't heard that saying in soooo long, had to do it) Posted by Malachi on Fri Jan 27 02:45:00 PST 2006 |
Kittybat | I like tribe the best- I only use myspace because my friends are here- if they switched to tribe, I would never need to use myspace again. Posted by Kittybat on Fri Jan 27 15:11:00 PST 2006 |
veluxx | you should go to OS Con, GOOGLE recruits like mad up there. Oh yeah, I guessI just keep hoping Myspace will get better, it even showed up on yahoos front page. I bet it gets bought out, and becomes the butterfly it has so much potential to be. Posted by veluxx on Sat Jan 28 11:45:00 PST 2006 |
| Malachi | hmmm.... OSCON 2006 will take place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon July 24-28, 2006. Posted by Malachi on Sat Jan 28 12:24:00 PST 2006 |
| Malachi | TagWorld seems to have nice features, but I am leary about trying it since there are so many reports of them spamming people. Besides, none of these sites supposedly "allow" adult content (though I have seen quite a bit of it)... maybe I should move to one that does. Taking a quick glance at this article shows some interesting research... Ryze evidentally show you the links between you and other people... which is much better than how MySpace says someone with no friends (not even Tom) is in your extended network. Also, it allows you to set rules for who can see your contact information. That is kinda kewl. Tribes, according to the article, doesn't allow much personalization and is mostly just groups [myspace terminology]. LinkedIn is strictly for professional use - can't even add pics. Friendster... well, we've all tried it and not stayed.
Posted by Malachi on Thu Feb 02 01:22:00 PST 2006 |
Today's Net News
It appears the government is taking Google to court for trying to protect your privacy. If they loose, I imagine Google will remove the "Personalized Search Results" and quit caching what you searched for... Personally, if I was them, I would make my logs roll daily or something so that the oldest logs that could be supoena'd would be todays.
In other news, the XPrize has some cash available to you if you can decode the DNA of 100 people within a couple weeks.
Looks like the newest hacker trend is to install backdoors into your BIOS which then wouldn't even matter what OS you are running. Very interesting - and disturbing.
If you are looking for a music label for your music, here's one that is fighting the RIAA.
| Sylkwyrm | Decode the DNA of 100 ppl? Am I one of the hundred?? Creepy. :-/ Posted by Sylkwyrm on Fri Jan 27 02:39:00 PST 2006 |
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| Malachi | Yep :) Posted by Malachi on Fri Jan 27 02:44:00 PST 2006 |
26 January 2006
Park Street
Degrees of Separation
Ok, I have always assumed that games like "6-degrees of Kevin Bacon" wouldn't apply to me personally. boy, was I wrong...
I stayed with Jef Jaisun for New Year's one year (he's my ex-roomates dad)
Jenna was in Keeping the Faith with Ed Norton
Ed was in The Score with Robert De Niro
Robert was in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon
Me->Jef->Jenna->Ed->Robert-
5 degrees of Kevin Bacon
damn
| Sylkwyrm | That puts me in 6 degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon! Nice work. Posted by Sylkwyrm on Thu Jan 26 08:08:00 PST 2006 |
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WILL POWER! | Jenna Elfman....HOT Posted by WILL POWER! on Thu Jan 26 09:33:00 PST 2006 |
So glad I am not in Alturas
I am really glad I am not there (where my parents live) right now... This is what you have to look forward to if you try to leave town:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist2/cctv/cedrpass.shtml
County: Modoc
Route: 299
Postmile: 51.48
Elevation: 6034
Silver | That's not bad. you should have seen the roads here on Friday night. we got 6 inches of snow in 8 hours, and for some reason the plows were driving around with their blades UP. they were just spreading salt on 3 inches of snow. fucking morons. Posted by Silver on Thu Jan 26 00:42:00 PST 2006 |
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| Malachi | Did you catch that it is looking up a hill and already over 6k feet? That's how I got snowed in for a year - in June! Posted by Malachi on Thu Jan 26 00:49:00 PST 2006 |
| veluxx | I've been on that road. Posted by veluxx on Thu Jan 26 01:20:00 PST 2006 |
| Malachi | Why were you in BFE? Posted by Malachi on Thu Jan 26 01:26:00 PST 2006 |
| WILL POWER! | I work at Ski Ashland. I drive the employee shuttle in that every day. Rear wheel drive rulz. Will Posted by WILL POWER! on Thu Jan 26 09:32:00 PST 2006 |
| Malachi | You're lucky it is only 4500 feet :) Posted by Malachi on Thu Jan 26 09:39:00 PST 2006 |
News from the Net
Once again, the RIAA is trying to invent new laws. In this case, it gets kinda stupid because according to them, if your CDRom drive is shared; and you put a CD in (and don't make a copy) you are breaking copyright law.
Want another season of Firefly? Well fill out this short survey and cross your fingers.
This one was from the other day, but it had been /.ed, so not mentioning it till now. IPSpotting for the uber-geek in ya.
And on the TV news this morning, they were talking about how the United States is starting to bust people for breaking US laws while they are in other countries... so, does this mean they are going to bust americans in amsterdam who buy weed?
25 January 2006
Which Rocky Horror character are you?
You are Riff-Raff. You have some freaky astro-boy
hair later on in this movie!
Which Rocky Horror character are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
What is really funny about this is that I did Riff for Irena's Rocky party... Hey Janneke, remember doing my makeup? ;)
| Silver | Janneke doesn't get on myspace.. and I've called you Riff for quite a while. :) Posted by Silver on Wed Jan 25 04:00:00 PST 2006 |
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| Malachi | She may not have logged on since August, but she is here. Posted by Malachi on Wed Jan 25 04:05:00 PST 2006 |
| Silver | I didn't get this at first, but I wanted it so I cheated on the questions You are Eddie. You no-good kid you, party on to the grave. Which Rocky Horror character are you? brought to you by Quizilla Posted by Silver on Wed Jan 25 04:05:00 PST 2006 |
| Sylkwyrm |  You are Colombia. You rock in that special way only the squeaky can. Which Rocky Horror character are you? brought to you by Quizilla We all saw that one comming right? Posted by Sylkwyrm on Wed Jan 25 05:31:00 PST 2006 |
| Kittybat |  You are Janet Weiss. Your apple pie don't taste so nice. Which Rocky Horror character are you? brought to you by Quizilla Posted by Kittybat on Wed Jan 25 12:29:00 PST 2006 |
| WILL POWER! |  You are Brad Majors. Good for you, you wuss. This fucking figures.... By the way, anyone ever here from Lauriel lately? Posted by WILL POWER! on Wed Jan 25 12:57:00 PST 2006 |
| Kittybat | I see her every few months- I don't have direct contact info though. Life seems to be treating her pretty well. Posted by Kittybat on Wed Jan 25 16:38:00 PST 2006 |
Lori's CafePress blog
Ok, so for any of you who aren't supposed to read Lori's Post, you can click here instead.
No Lori, I didn't post here as a way to attack you or anything - just thought you wouldn't appreciate me replying to your post with that link.
| Silver | "Honk if you have WMD's" I love that one. I want it for my car... Posted by Silver on Wed Jan 25 02:07:00 PST 2006 |
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| Malachi | Want some pretty pictures? We could always put those on CafePress shirts :) Posted by Malachi on Wed Jan 25 03:45:00 PST 2006 |
News from the Net
First, some hypocrites... MPAA admits to unauthorized movie copying. Ok, so get this. This guy makes a movie that is about to show at the Sundance Film Festival called "This Film is Not Yet Rated" about how the MPAA is full of double standards. He sends a copy to the MPAA and specifically requests that they not make copies. They tell him how his films confidentiality is their biggest priority -- then procede to make copies for their employees!
Second, Diebold is in the news again. The state Division of Elections has refused to turn over its electronic voting files to the Democrats, arguing that the data format belongs to a private company and can't be made public. Let me just make it easier on them -- These require the GEMS software to decompress them from the Diebold "gbf" format. They can be examined and manipulated in Microsoft Access after they are decompressed. More information can be found here.
This study did a study of the brain and found that both democrats and republicans were adept at ignoring the facts -- specifically, the reasoning centers of the brain were not activated when they were presented with evidence that contradicted their party views. Guess it is a good thing I belong to neither party :)
With my recent foray into looking for new employment, I found this article about Google interesting :)
It appears that they have finally modelled HIV and possibly even found a way to prevent infection.
And this one is for Layne. It appears that IBM is working on a better speech engine that, among other things can translate live broadcasts real-time. They specifically mention subtitling Arabic broadcasts into English on-the-fly.
Meningococcal?
As I listen to another report of a meningococcal death locally on the news, I have to wonder -- has anyone else noticed that all of the deaths were shortly after arriving at the same hospital?
If I ever get it, do NOT take me to L.E.
24 January 2006
Arrested for being at the park after hours?
I missed which Portland Parks they were talking about (and couldn't find the link on their site yet), but Good Day Oregon was talking about how the police are now arresting people who are at certain Portland parks after 9pm.
| Sylkwyrm | So they can arrest us even if we're not having sex in the park? :-( Posted by Sylkwyrm on Tue Jan 24 01:05:00 PST 2006 |
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| Malachi | Yep. Maybe they are trying to encourage that behavior, since people will get busted anyways ;) Posted by Malachi on Tue Jan 24 01:15:00 PST 2006 |
Layne | It started in the Park Blocks because of all the kids that would hang out down there and sell drugs. It doesn't mean you can't walk thru the park you just can't straggle around. I do remember hearing it worked so well they were going to extend it other trouble spots, but I don't know where. Posted by Layne on Tue Jan 24 05:53:00 PST 2006 |
| Malachi | Well, the comment on the news this morning was that they were "closing" the parks at 9pm and the police would start arresting anyone who was there. They didn't mention walking through versus loitering... It is possible they only mean loitering... but since it was a change last night / today, it is also possible that they would consider it trespassing if they are "closed". Posted by Malachi on Tue Jan 24 05:56:00 PST 2006 |
| WILL POWER! | What a bunch of bullshit. Sorry, you're under arrest for being in a public place after dark. I pay taxes. I own that park. Posted by WILL POWER! on Tue Jan 24 07:09:00 PST 2006 |
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