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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:24:05 GMT

A NEW ERA

After about eight months at Xanga, I'm going independent. I'm going to a new blog powered by WordPress. It's really simple and has nothing right now, but in the near future it'll be expanding, I guarantee it. So check it out.

http://da-Man.com/blog

So I hope you'll join me at my new home. It'll start looking cooler pretty soon, hopefully.

(I wanted to get da-blog.com but it seem some crazy PHP coder already beat me to it. lol!)

Friday, February 18, 2005

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:54:51 GMT

Mat Kearney is amazing. Seriously, you just need to hear it. OK, so you can probably hear enough to know if you want to get it on www.matkearney.com.

I found some cool new technology. Mozilla, the cool people that brought me this nice browser Firefox (which still has a couple letdowns to IE, but I still like it), bring a whole new way to create applications. To develop the interfaces of all the Mozilla apps easily across platforms, they created XUL. This is a highly standards-compliant XHTML system that defines a whole GUI and application. As long as you have Firefox or a couple other programs installed on your computer, you can run any XUL application, no matter if you're on Windows, Linux, other Unix, or Mac OS, among others. You can do menus, pop-up dialog boxes, etc. It seems to be pretty easy to code, and as long as you're not using IE, it'll probably work. Who knows, if it gains more popularity, then it'll probably be adapted to IE in about 20 years. Here's a cool example that allows you to search Amazon.com. If you want, you could download/install it on your system and run it outside of Firefox too. So check it out.

A friend and I have been talking about the upcoming Narnia movie and the books. I was talking about how I hated the post-1994 numbering of the books, and here's yet another good link to propose why one should read the books in the order they were pubished for dramatic, purist effect.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:08:34 GMT

Well, I'm happy that happened. Last night I was looking at my movie collection going, "I've watched all these in the last couple months and there's none I want to watch right now." Luckily I noticed Toy Story sitting in the back of the piles of movies, and decided to watch that. And not only did I realize that I had some quality movies to watch, but that I had lots of special features that I hadn't watched too. For example, after watching it, I watched it with a commentary.

Emery's good stuff. Pretty hard, but also very musical. At first I wasn't impressed, but after Bert wrote a nice review, I thought about 'em again. Speaking of which, I should post a couple new reviews for cMW this week.

Monday, February 14, 2005

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:40:02 GMT

I found some interesting stuff today. For example, there's a little black box that can predict the future and be influenced by others. An interesting scientific read, if I do say so myself.

Monday, February 14, 2005

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:12:10 GMT

I love this movie. It's such a fun time and even does give you something to think about. The scary part is that within a year or two of that movie releasing, they started running shows like "Survivor". Scary.

I think I'm coming down with one of those flus or colds or whatever. I hate it, I feel like doing nothing and feel tired. It'll probably last for the next couple days, unfortunately. And my throat and sinuses get all clogged up. I know I should be doing some work, but there's absolutely no motivation or energy to do them. It's no fun.

Oh yeah.... yesterday at a spiritual retreat with some friends I had some great conversations about work and stuff. One of them might turn into a job for a company, and while it might not be web design, it may be programming that'll make a good living. Plus it's in an industry that's booming right now... wireless Internet access. The best part is I know three people who work at this company, which still isn't too big, I think. So pray that those connections would help and I could get a nice job!

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:13:04 GMT

I couldn't find it on Amazon's playing now, but I'm listening to 4th Avenue Jones' upcoming Stereo: The Evolution of Hiprocksoul album. It's killer.

This afternoon I witnessed the documentation on the death of an art form. It was a 40-minute documentary called Dream On, Silly Dreamer. Basically, it's the story of those hundreds of artists who used to make Disney animated films. It starts where they're talking about the 80s and they were just making movies out of the trailers and warehouses on the Disney campus. They were treated like nobody special. Then, they created Beauty And The Beast, a big blockbuster. Then, after Aladdin and The Lion King, they were treated like movie stars. But soon after, in early 2002, they were all laid off because Disney found that 3-D animated movies were making more money. Disney really downplayed it, but it is really a tragedy. It was good to hear the stories of those who made those magical movies and their tragedy. It's very well put together, with some really fun animation filling in the story between the interviews. Plus, it was a free screening, so it was way cool to see an indie program. I hope a lot of Disney shareholders saw this flick before going to the yearly shareholder conference in town tomorrow. They need to hear what the executives won't tell them.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:50:10 GMT

Alright, here's my links of a couple more articles and links mentioned on Slashdot recently:

Why Open Source Is Good
Really Get Rid of Your Landline
The Death of MapQuest: Introducing Google Maps (Beta)
Bring Enterprise Back From The Dead, Pay Your $12! (Like I Care)
China Builds "Meltdown-Proof" Nuclear Reactor

Some interesting stuff there, folks.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 03:56:12 GMT

Do you have a wireless network in your house or your business?

Well, if you do, make sure it's somewhat secure.

Here's a story about what can happen if you're not. If I wanted to play around with a website, I could do most of this stuff too.

Monday, February 07, 2005

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:51:56 GMT

This is my favorite AudioA album. It rocks.

This morning the nominations for the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards were announced. Not that really anybody cares, but this is the point where we all exclaim either "Who rigs these votes?" or "What are the GMA members smoking?" I mean, seriously, nobody listens to Selah, Casting Crowns and MercyMe are way, way overrated, and they couldn't find enough hip-hop songs so they had to nominate two John Reuben songs!

I know, nobody here cares about Christian music. Well, I surely don't care much about the Gospel Music Association's view of Christian music, that's for sure. Totally out of it, that's all I have to say.

Saturday, February 05, 2005

Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:49:56 GMT

That's right, Never Take Friendship Personal. The label sent it, and I'm so glad they did. Anberlin soooo rocks! And, as usual, cool packaging from Demon Hunter's Asterik Studio.

Am I just paranoid, or do other people have the following problem?

This morning my sister called saying that my brother, a freshman at St. John's University, was going to be playing at St. Thomas, the college from which I graduated this past May. He's only on the JV, so the game started at 1pm. For some reason, though, I'm kinda scared of the place now. I feel like I'm not suppoed to be at St. Thomas because I don't live there and stuff. It feels kinda like I'm invading days gone by. I was worried I'd see somebody who knew me. No, wait, I was worried but also kinda hoping I would see somebody too. It would be fun to catch up with old times, but also kinda odd.

I think I know a couple of the problems. First of all, most of my friends at UST know I've been looking for a job since I've graduated, and I feel really bad saying that, since graduating in May, I still do not have a job. Of course, I worked at UST through September, but it's still a long time. Secondly, I'm afraid to approach somebody that I think is somebody I know. Mostly because I'm half-blind, I have a habit of seeing people and thinking they're somebody I know. Usually they're not, but for me to tell, I almost have to walk right up to them and say hi, which is a bit scary to do. It makes it pretty darn obvious if I walk by a person that I'm checkin' them out, and if it's not the person I thought it was, that looks pretty suspicious.

So, after the game, I went to what is my closest thing to the place I hung out on campus, my former work, the computer lab. I even think that Colleen was working, but was too afraid to really look and check. The place still looks the same as it did in September, so it's all cool.

After that, I had a nice 50-minute walk from St. Thomas back to my house. It was nice, and I got to listen to the whole Lovedrug CD while I walked, so that rocked. However, there's still way too many puddles on the sidewalks... it's almost like walking through a minefield.