Facebook means when someone you only barely know “friends” the first girl you ever had a crush on (in first grade), you can see a picture and not even recognize her.
From now on no one will be lost to history. Not anymore.
Whenever I go downtown, I feel like an Ex-Con casing the joint
Old iPods are Against The Law
September 8th, 2007Why do the new iPods (Classic & Nano) only output video to devices with an appropriate Apple chip embedded in them? Why is this chip apparently part of the iPod Hi-Fi even though that product is nearly 2 years old and apparently discontinued?
Why does iTunes 7.4.1 offer to report problems with MovieRentals?
Three words.
New DRM, sucka.
It sounds like bad news, but on the other hand, any draconian regime that’s controlled by neither Microsoft nor the US Federal Government might be an improvement.
As usual, we should continue to assume there is a lot of crazy shit going on in 95014. I almost thought they were all crazied out.
AutoPilot
September 4th, 2007If there’s ever a Super Nintendo emulator for the iPhone, I’ll have to run these Super Mario World custom levels that play themselves.
[too bad it's YouTube and the sound is often out of sync]
Anyone remember Glider Pro and Ward Hartenstein’s AutoPilot house?
Ganalytics isn’t also an Obstetrician
September 2nd, 2007
Google Analytics is so fancy. In some ways it’s more interesting than the old 
SiteMeter I had long ago. In other ways it’s harder to figure out, especially since it’s clearly geared to helping you figure out how effective your Google Ads are.
I don’t have Google Ads but maybe that shows my age. Not that I pre-date the Google Ads, but that I tried to sign my blog up for them when they first came out, and I was rejected. There were rules that sites had to have a broad appeal and so on. But I’ve seen so many awful sites with Google ads, I bet they wouldn’t bat an eye these days.
My main worry right now is filtering out my own viewing of my own website so that doesn’t skew the stats. When I fiddle with the site design, I mostly do it live, so I keep re-loading. You can filter out particular IP addresses but mine apparently just changed in the past week to one that’s not even in the same Class A subnet (!!?). I guess that’s what happens when your cell phone and landline plan are run by two different companies with the same name (AT&T). They don’t even know who they are.
So now what.
If any of my — apparently/maybe/roughly — 10 unique weekly visitors has advice, I’m quite eager to hear it.
I’m not too concerned about the traffic. What’s here is only marginally worth reading. But since I’ve staked out a claim, I know I can be found when need be. When I was stuck in the NYC Subway during the blackout, my tale was linked far and wide!
… which then lead to massive comment spam on the subsequent blogs, and that permalink is now defunct (here’s a new one for a while). Well fuck.
I’m having trouble getting the hang of facebook even though I’ve been an honorary member for months. I started my social networking saga with Friendster and these newfangled ones are past my understanding.
One thing I do like is photographic subterfuge where I can upload unflattering pictures of people, tag their names, and have the shots show up in their albums! I’m sure some people won’t figure out how to un-tag. And with iPhoto 08 I’m a quick-draw on college drinking pictures!
Another fun app lists all the “destinations” you’ve been to, by city. This will take a while…
At first I was going to stick to places I’ve spent the night, but what about day trips and workplaces? I can’t confine my world to the domiciles of my many parents and girlfriends.
Plus the damn app keeps presenting a list of nearby towns. Foreign cities are easy enough since you usually don’t get out into the suburbs; or even if you do, you don’t know it or care.
But I grew up in New Jersey and I think that alone added about 100 “destinations” to my list. Facebook kept presenting them and I kept clicking “yeah I’ve been there”.
I think the rationale I have now is if I can conjure up a separate memory for a particular place, then it counts as somewhere I’ve been. I’ve probably driven through Ho-Ho-Kus, East Brunswick, North Bergen, and a million else in New Jersey, but I don’t know it for sure. I don’t even know if I got all the Oranges and Caldwells.
Hell some towns in New Jersey don’t even have residents, they just have an airport or a train station.
Test of embedded youtube
August 23rd, 2007Does this work, Bri Bri?
When I grow up I want to be like Michael Cera.