For all you mac-heads out there –
1100 G5s in a cluster – and I guess there’s a little mac-head in all of us….
That link came to me by way of DarkLemon which features a way rad css menu. Darklemon was courtesy of antipixel by way of my bro’s most excellent disassociated.
And love this slogan, courtesy of this commie bastard:
Who said that everyone was running for governor of California?
I can’t believe that Fox produced and ran three seasons of “The Family Guy”, as Peter, Stewie, Brian and the gang cut it pretty close to the bone and it sounds like Fox are a bunch of fasci….
I had been bitching about how slack the Gravis web site was. I got a hell of a surprise the other day when I went to the Burton website to look at snowboards and saw a Gravis logo on the home page. I guess that Burton have taken over Gravis? Or has Gravis always been part of Burton? Anyhoo, Gravis.com now points to its own section of the Burton web site and I reckon the new site is much better. Hopefully this means that it will be easier to get Gravis gear now. In London it is hard to get anything other than the bags….
Ray Ozzie is pretty cool . I love this bit:
In 1993 or thereabouts, we saw the emergence of TCP/IP, HTML, HTTP, Mosaic and the Web. From our perspective, all of these were simplistic emulations of a tiny subset of what we’d been doing in Notes for years. TCP/IP instead of Netbeui or IPX/SPX, HTML instead of CD records, HTTP instead of the Notes client/server protocols, httpd instead of a Notes server. And we were many years ahead in other ways: embedded compound objects, security, composition of documents as opposed to just “browsing” them, and a sophisticated development environment. I am quite embarassed to say that we frankly didn’t “get” what was so innovative about this newfangled “Web” thing, given the capabilities of what had already been built.
Now this is a coincidence – I finally get to listen to Active over the net and I’m tuned into ‘Anger Management – Keeping music evil’, and they play a number which feature a sample from ‘The Wicker Man’ which we watched the other night. My flatmate, Rich, who is a bit keen on metal/industrial/etc was telling us how The Wicker Man had influenced some of the bands he knew of.
Cool movie – those crazy pagans…
On Saturday we had to go into work for the day. We tried to find a radio station to listen to online. After listening to London’s xfm for a while I got sick of the loser DJ (why are all commercial radio DJs such dickheads?). We tried Radio Active in NZ, but it rarely works.
I then thought of having a look at National Radio – you couldn’t listen live online but you can listen to recent shows – morning report from the previous day and so on. The thing that struck me instantly was the accent. It sounded so strong. But then it has been over a year since I’ve been back to the ‘new country’. Of interest to me is how a home grown product compares with international big hitters. I had a spell last year listening to BBC 4, and National Radio is definitely its equal. Kim Hill is great!
hurrah – they’ve posted the 42 Below Vodka ad again. If you’re a NZ’er, enjoy, if not, good luck, this may not make much sense!
Always seemed to me that the dude got a bit of a hard time. Freedomblog was the first domino blog template that was freely distributed, and quite a few people based their own blogs on this template. I had a poke around it, but of course I could never use someone elses template (maybe just some of the bits I liked). Using a template I hadn’t developed would be like paying a man to fix things around your own house. I’m the kind of guy that will completely trash something that is broken while in the process of attempting to fix it, rather than concede to a tradesman.
Anyhoo, freedom blog was a nice piece of work, it had a full Notes client and web client interface, and many embellishments and fuzzy frills.
Jake at Codestore then released the template for his most excellent blog. Anthony critiqued it (no link sorry). As I remember, it was a fair enough critique, although perhaps he shouldn’t have mentioned that Jake had stolen the name DomBlog from Anthony.
This caused Jake to become angry and he had a go at Anthony. From memory, and my memory isn’t the best, a few other people also jumped on Anthony.
After that, Anthony, who had been writing in his blog regularly, just faded away. Then the other day, Heini reported that the site had gone. Now, forgive me if I read this the wrong way, and I’m aware that english is not Heini’s first language, and so I’m probably making something out of this that isn’t there, but even Heini seemed to have a bit of a ‘tude about it:
“Okay, I never used the tool, I rarely visited his site but in some way I do not like if someone leaves without saying good-bye.”
I’ll leave the last word to Ed Brill, and say ‘hear hear and well done mate’ to Anthony in advance:
“Anthony, if you are out there, thanks a lot for kick starting a healthy segment of this community, and good luck in your future.” – Ed Brill
I found a site with a list of all(?) the Formula One cars ever. Here’s one of my favs ….
