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Saturday, June 30, 2001
as i sit here, i hear fireworks going off. big ones. how weak is it when a town does their 4th of July fireworks on June 30th??!?!?! oh, la...
(9:05:35 PM)
Friday, June 29, 2001
warning: pet-peeve venting ahead.
people, it's really simple. "it's" is a contraction for "it is" or "it has". "its" is the possessive form of the pronoun "it". and "its' " isn't a word.
when you're writing a sentence, take a split second and ask yourself if your sentence would make sense if you replaced your it's/its with "it is". if it does, you want "it's". if it doesn't, you want "its".
i guess i can see why some people are confused about the correct usage, but it just drives me nuts to see smart people misuse these words so widely!
(12:32:49 AM)
Thursday, June 28, 2001
Microsoft drops Smart Tags from Windows XP. yay!
(7:56:04 AM)
hey look, i now work for yahoo!
(7:40:17 AM)
Wednesday, June 27, 2001
wow, that's taking "corporate branding" to a whole new level!
(9:08:36 AM)
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
there's been a big buzz in developer circles lately over microsoft's new "smart tags" functionality, due in office xp, and msie 6.0.
smart tags will allow microsoft (and others) to make specific words or phrases appear with squiggly lines under them on any document.
this is also true of web pages, even if the web page author/owner didn't want those squigglies to be there. a list apart has a great breakdown of what smart tags are. (and here's a technical how-to)
to some folks, smart tags on web pages represent a serious breach of their rights of expression or ownership. others, like a few guys i work with, think this is just a really useful new feature, and that people are over-reacting to the potential for abuse. i'm finding myself more and more convinced that the former camp is right.
smart tags are going to create huge problems on the net, and will lead to a microsoft-owned internet. and that stinks. i highly recommend joining or at least closely monitoring the smart-tags email group if you're interested in preserving a non-ms owned internet.
(12:04:18 AM)
Sunday, June 24, 2001
shockingly, mtv actually played some videos this weekend! but only for 24 hours, and only so they could promote mtv2, their "all video" sister channel. anyway, as i was flipping by, the video playing caught my eye. it was this bizarrely-styled animated semi-hip hop song, with a really cool hookline.
turns out it was gorillaz, "clint eastwood". gorillaz is billed as a "multimedia animated project" by several music biz veterans. very cool concept, and this first video is amazing.
i was tempted to buy the album, but i've talked to a few people who said the album feels really disjointed, and the amazon reviews seem to indicate that the songs on the cd are stylistically all over the map, but generally cool. mebbe after another song comes out...
(10:49:37 PM)
Thursday, June 21, 2001
like last year's first dodger game of the year for me, tonight's game contained a bizarre happening: the dodgers won in the bottom of the ninth when the opposing pitcher hit the dodger batter, with the bases loaded (thereby forcing in the winning run). (how's that for a run-on sentence?!)
the weather was gorgeous for a night game, and we had some decent seats, just to the third-base side of home plate, in the third deck.
a good time was had by all 3,000 fans who actually stayed to see the bottom of the 9th. gotta love the la sports "fans". it's truly strange how indifferent most angelenos are to our sports teams. i was talking about this during the game with my friend sam, and my theory goes like so:
- given: la is made of a giant population (not to be confused with a population of giants, mind you) of heterogeneous people spread out across thousands of square miles.
- theory: most residents have limited contact with their fellow angelenos, because everyone drives everywhere. you therefore have few occasions to talk to your neighbors or other random people on the street. therefore, you don't need common things to make smalltalk about.
- theory: the great la weather means that people can be outside, and therefore are less likely to sit inside watching their local sports teams.
- theory: because of the weather, location, and diversity of the emmense la area, there's always a broad range of things for people to do and to focus their attention on. this diminishes the focus on the local sports teams.
compare la to st. louis or chicago or cleveland or detroit or {pick pretty much any city known for having great sports fans} in all of these regards, and i think these points are plausible explanations why most dodger games aren't sold out (and even when people do buy tickets, most people roll into the stadium in the second or third inning, and leave by the eighth, even in tied ballgames), why we don't have a professional football team (in the country's second largest tv market), and why la is known for its beaches, and not its rabid sports fans.
what do you think? let me know.
(12:33:04 AM)
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
the collaborative photo projects and commentary make photographica an interesting site. but it's the way the underlying software works that makes it neat to use.
compare the way it looks and works to the plain-jane photo.net. i'd say that photo.net--which has been around much longer--has better content (more cool pictures), but i much prefer the experience (the layout, the colors, and the way photos get displayed) of visiting photographica. which do you prefer, and why?
oh, and by the way, i'm drooling over the new coolpix 995. my wallet is on fire...
(12:05:27 AM)
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
kermit (k r·m t)
v. ker·mits, ker·mit·ting
1. To move swiftly on foot so that both feet (sort of) leave the ground during each stride, with both hands waving wildly in front of and above one's head, like a fleeing Kermit the Frog.
(8:20:04 PM)
Monday, June 04, 2001
this weekend was the first full family reunion for my dad's side of the family in over 15 years. had a great time lazing around the pool with my aunts and uncles and cousins. hopefully it won't be another 15 years before we're all together again.
(6:51:00 PM)
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