March 30 2000
Lots going on! Just bought 'Galerians' for my Playstation. Pretty darn cool. And no, i have not finished 'Fear Effect' yet. Got a great link from Lalonde today - i don't really know how to describe it, but its a neat toy. (the following description is blatantly ripped off from Tony@secretlair.com) "Crazy fucking cool" link from supercrazymayhem. If you like robots. Well, virtual robots. They walk. And you can make your own.Saw the Egypt exhibit yesterday at the ROM. Some beautiful statues and jewellery. It was hard to imagine that most of the pieces were over 4000 years old. 4000 years! I was wondering if the sculptors were thinking that people would be seeing their work for that long? I know that i'm not thinking that folks are going to be looking at my webpages in 4k years! (i hope!) New X-man trailer, new 'Wazzzup' video, 3Ply flash humour, US Presidential video sampling humour, and i think that's it. Another Playstation game that looks great, and i will have to buy - Front Mission 3. Its got giant Mecha in it. And its strategic. And its by square. <sigh> I'm never going to finish 'Fear Effect'...
March 27 2000
Watched "Fist of Legend". Great action sceens. Jet Li is quite amazing. Also rented "The Shining", which is a pretty darn scary film. Figured out another sample from watching it - Skinny Puppys "vivisect vi" there is a song, i can't remember the name, oh ya, its "Fritter (Stella's Home)" i think, that has the sample "it's ok, he saw it on the television". I love that. Well, the thricely damned Oscars are over and done with. We now have to live with the ongoing aftermath of "oh, did you see..." and "what about..."'s for the next few weeks. Ba, humbug.
March 24 2000
Went and saw "Pitch Black" last-night. Pretty good, fun action flick. I liked the filters they used to make the desert sceens look 'deserty'. Crazy PS2 game from Japan - Primal Image. No, its not a fighting game. Just check it out. Cool Haiku from Chris RageBoy Locke on the Journal of Hyperlinked Organization Learning to think outside the box, "Crackerjack concept," she said, removing the toy.Bought "The Cluetrain Manifesto". The book is actually in support of the website, which is kind of a neat reversal. So far i'm liking it. Its all about how, via the 'net, markets are becoming conversations, and business has to start participating in those conversations. Not with marketing lingo crap talk, but with human voice. Anyway, its pretty cool. Steve McQueen's birthday today. And he is left handed. Ya.
March 22 2000
Speedball 2100 preview at dailyradar.com. Ah i remember the days of the bitmap brothers' games on the old atari's and amiga's. sigh.
March 21 2000
Workspot is pretty cool - just got into my own account. You get web space, a cgi directory (i'm installing Python), everything. You just want to make sure you have a fairly fast connection... Fun. More info about the i-Opener, a $99 computer. If you like to hack hardware and/or software, you should check it out. Run Linux without installing it? Check out Workspot.
March 20 2000
Went and saw Erin Brockovich over the weekend. It was really quite good. I was, of course, expecting great things, as it was directed by Steven Soderbergh, but was also a bit concerned as it stared Julia Roberts. Luckily, the film was great - i was never bored, it had a good balanced of emotion and was just a good film. I still like Soderbergh's other film's more, but this was defiantly worth seeing. You also might want to read about his new film "Ocean's 11". Mattel are being typical huge corporate bastards. On going development of The Tool continues. Some are questioning what The Tool will be used for. All i can say is, "All will be revealed in time". Well, actually you can watch the development of it - i update it just about every day. It is going to be used for online chats and games. It also might become my new 'website'.
March 17 2000
Feb has been archived. Bit of an update to The Tool. Biggest Bonfire Ever - Motorola is going to burn the Iridium satellites - $6 Billion. Wow. What to total cock-up. I'd be pissed if i were an investor... Unless i got to decide where a satellite went... Humm... More programming madness! Check out version 0.0.1 of The Tool. Going to bed now... more tomorrow...
March 16 2000
You know, you should always have this little saying in your head when you are programming/designing stuff: "Keep is Simple Stupid!". A project we finished a few weeks ago for work, i just went back to do a demo version, and found a way simpler implementation. Took me a fraction of the time to do then the original version. Damn. Man, i don't know what it was, but i was a coding monster last night! I couldn't sleep, so i got up and coded till about 3:30am. Got lots done. Implemented basic Marking Menus in flash (You can read all about it at Bill Buxton's page, or this article, also by BB). Cool flash game. The instructions are pretty poor - you want to make the symbol that appears on the left of the screen from the bits in the centre. Watch the blurring of the background 'stars'. Very nice.
Its from the new Stan Lee online comic thing (at shockwave.com), which, unfortunately, is pretty bad. The art and animation is great, story and dialog is poor - lots of stupid exposition, treating its views as stupid. Ah well.
March 15 2000
Right, so i'm going home now... have done some pretty cool stuff with Python tonight - a chat room in Flash! Ya baby. I will have it up when i get it looking a bit (lot!) prettier! But the code works - i've got a login and everything... Part 2 of this is getting the game (remember that) to work over the net... the tinkering goes on... Oh ya, big news - i've actually talked with Ryan, so he is not dead, just... not here. But i do think Lalonde is dead. "Beware the ides of March" Ummmm, that's about it for now. If you know something about QT streaming and can tell me about it, that would be great. Or even better, a good book about it. Ya, a book. Ummmmm, books.... I have to agree with Tony - i think Ryan's dead...
March 14 2000
Well, i appear to suck. No updates really in like 2 weeks. I must have gotten a life or something. I think actually its just that i've been reading too much of Tony's site. Ah well. Ok, i do have some cool stuff to tell you about. First, the Cybiko. Now, aside from the thing itself being kind of neet, there are some interesting possibilities that this opens up. Freenet - a distributed method of storing info online, with not centeral control. Interesting stuff.\ Stileproject.com - this guy is pretty much a nut case. Lots of wierd shit on his site. And he updates much more frequently then me. If you haven't been reading Tony's site, you should check out gloomveil.com, a site which is connected to the NeverWinter Nights game from Bioware (which you should check out anyway, cuz its going to be amazing!). Another good editorial online zine from compaq - "the rapidly changing face of computing". More evilness from the MPAA. And now for something completely different - what the heck is up with the weather?!
March 7 2000
Again with no new news. Sorry
March 6 2000
March 1 2000Way wierd/disturbing website - the stile project. Geezzz - the release of the PSX 2 in Japan was a day ago and i didn't even write about it?! What is going on with me?! Actually, i've been playing Fear Effect too much to notice much else - it rocks and you all should check it out. Just installed RedHat Linux on a box at work - weeeeeeee, UNIX fun fun fun!
HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:16:19 GMT Content-Type: text/htmlI don't really have any new news. Sorry. Ok, now i have some news - YOPI - the linux PDA. Check it out. I'd like one.