April 2002 Archives
Ok, so here is a great example of flash and video integration - a video chat app
, using only the flash plug in. Pretty cool. The deveopler is under an NDA
about the backend server tech that he used, but i bet its Macromedia's secret
video streaming and conferencing tool they have been alluding to since the
release of MX.
Tony has a link to a good article about Indy Media. A little history, a little about how it is still trying to figure out what it is. Worth the read. You should also actually check out the available indy media - go to the IMC and find a local center for your location (here is ontario's)
Ah more law's to restrict access to content. Or really just to protect the MPAA and RIAA.
The new Car Wars rules are finally available! Picked
up the first 3 sets this weekend, hoping to try them out next weekend with
Ratboy and some other freaks. Fun fun fun. So many hours spent playing this
game in highschool. Much more fun then grade 11 english. If anybody else is into it, drop me a line or add a comment.
From mr. humpstrees comes this great poster art
site. I like the second one in, the one with the 2 hands reaching down towards
a yellow star, the Richard Buckner one - really, there are lots of great
ones here.
Oh man, from Mike's blog i found out about a new service Google is offering - "Google answers"
. You can ask questions with a dollar amount for how much you'd pay to have
the question answered. You can also sign up to become a person that answers
the questions. You get 75% of the total. Wow. This just reminds me of so
many sci-fi future scenarios, it kind of freaks me out. This is so like the
classic idea of the computerized "librarian" or the rouge group of hackers
you go to for info... Also interesting to note that all the questions and
answers enter the public domain (ok, actually, i bet they are still "owned"
by google, but anybody can read them), and any other regestered user can
also comment on any question (this is a no fee thing - more like a news group).
It's kind of interesting going through all the questions already asked and
answered.
Its late (early), and i feel like rambling. Too bad for you all! Luckly,
i don't really have anything to say, so i will cut this short. Oh, and good
to see some folks still checking out the site (Ryan)! Thanks.
In an interesting twist, here is a newspaper that started from a blog. And the article that pointed me to it.
Oh ya, i'm trying out a comment system
- if you are so inclined, you can add a comment to any of the posts via
the comments link (which probably says "no comments"). Try it out, let me
know what you think - there are one or two other free commenting tools available,
so if this one doesn't work out, we can try another. One thing i've already
noticed is that it takes longer to render the page now, cuz each comment
link has to make a call to the comment server, so, for a full page, that's
a fair number of extra web calls. Again, let me know how it works for ya'll.
Thanks to uigui for the comment system!
Ok, so i know that i'm only 3 years behind on this whole game thing, but
i just got "Dungeon Keeper 2", and i've got to say, it rocks! Very fun, not
too crazy a pace game, with many funny bits thrown in. And, since it is 3
years old, you can get it cheap, all (most)
of the bugs have been found and squashed and there are a few (3) bonus packs
that you can get too. Pretty good for 10 bucks!
Oh no - more photos of Neverwinter Nights! Looking pretty good...
From Rui, "The Newt that Never
Was". Looks pretty nice - again, so far ahead of the curve....
Thanks to Tony for the props yesterday!
Finally got mozblog
working again! Should make blogging a bit more regular. I'd forgotten to
install jslib first, even tho it clearly states that on the install and
home page. Anyway, version four is pretty great, if you have a blog hosted
by blogger, or one that uses the blogger API, you should check it out. Note - you also need to be using Mozilla as your browser... For you mac heads, Chimera looks like a nice zilla based browser...
For those of you not in the Toronto area, our normal temperatures should be someplace in the low teens. Today and yesterday were both over 25 deg. celsious. We are all doomed.
Ok, everybody that has cable should check out Adbusters un-commercial that will be playing on April the 18, some time during the Wolf Blitzer Reports, which starts at 5PM Eastern.
Hey! Back from 2 weeks of not work and little computer-ing! You might have noticed some problems with the domain and email - Just trying to get out from the clutches of Network Solutions... Still working on it... anyway, hopefully there will be more coming from me now. Be sure to tune in ...
