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Since we're reaching an age where browsers will soon have the ability to handle local storage, we should have backup web sites. If andrewburton.biz is down, the browser should remember that I gave it a backup site that goes to my Dropbox account which has either a copy of the posts, a Fail Whale picture, or something.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:43:44 GMT
It's probably a sign you're a pathetic nerd when you sit around and think up distaff characters for a one-off joke villain from Empowered.
I mean, I like the idea of Ethariel and her origins being inspired by the Chloroformaster, but then...I'm me, so it's no big surprise.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:33 GMT
Got my used copy of Frontier: The Definitive Guide today. I've also been reading the online edition, but for $5+shipping it was worth having a copy I can read in the bed.
Ever since 2005, when I dabbled with Dave Winer's OPML Editor, I've been smitten with Frontier. Mind you, I haven't really done anything with it, but once a year or so, I'll load up the run-time, try to figure it out, get frustrated because it's unlike anything I've ever used, and put it away. This year, during my week off, I'm hoping to sit down and figure out enough UserTalk to do something with it. I'd like to write a JSON parser, to match the XML parser I wrote in LSL.
My other plans for the week include: build a LEGO deathtrap, write another version of Gringotts in Java, and get back to my Erlang and/or R studies. I'd also like to finish my retro-blogging program. So many things I'd like to do, and that's not even considering William Gibson and Adam Warren have books dropping that week.
There's seven whole days in my autumn vacation, 'til work comes along just to end it.
So the annual problem that causes frustration is having the time to do cool shit!
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:38 GMT
I suppose it's no surprise, but my favorite character from For The Win was Connor Prikkel. He's the kind of character I really like, someone a bit off-beat, intelligent, but not an Evil Economist of Evil.
FTW wasn't as enjoyable for me as Themepunks1 or Little Brother, but that probably has more to do with my currency exchange rate fetish2 than the book. As I said in my previous post, my 2004~2006 self would have declared this the best book ever, because it nailed down a lot of MMOG/virtual currency theories ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) khamon and I used to discuss in regards to Second Life, There, and such.
Cory Doctorow, as always, delivers a great book. I recommend it.
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1. It's called Makers now, but back when I read it, it was Themepunks, so that's what I call it.
2. It's not complete xenophobia, but RMB and INR disparity with the USD makes my skin crawl. I'm one of the wonks on r/Economics who says, "The dollar lost value? Yay!"
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:26:34 GMT
Woo! Using this as a guide, I've begun working on a WinSCP wrapper class. Right now it just uploads, but that's a nice start. As cool a Dropbox is, I really like WinSCP as a scriptable alternative to synchronizing files across systems.
And now that I've satisfied myself, I'll tear myself away from VB.NET and go write some PHP code.
EDIT: Okay, NOW I'll go write PHP code.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:26:31 GMT
 I kind of want to check out this Vexed show now. Any BBC show that has a guy in a wheelchair claiming to master criminal while holding a ducttaped blond in his lap has to be television genius. That or they are stealing my thoughts!
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:01:15 GMT
Help.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:47:30 GMT
I'm going to have to buy an iPad at some point, aren't I?
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:19:39 GMT
Okay, THAT was a good movie! Funny, great explosions, FUNNY, nice plot, FUNNY! Max is an amazing villain. I loved both of the postscript scenes almost more than the movie itself.
That definitely cleared my pallet of the horrible taste of rotten borscht from this morning.
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:52:58 GMT
As soon as the He&Mb cross-over is finished, I'm dropping this book.
If the cross-over is half as bad these first five comics, I'm dropping He&Mb as well.
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:49:26 GMT
Apparently there's going to be a Hawkeye & Mockingbird cross-over with Black Widow later this year, so I put BW on my pull list to be sure to get it, got the most recent five issues to get caught up, and I just read the first issue. My one sentence review for that issue: I can see why Clint dumped Natasha after a few dates and married Bobbi after one.
I'm off to slog through the other four, I guess. Maybe in this next issue Natasha won't get knocked out within the first half of the book, but having seen pages from issue #4 and #5, I'm not holding my breath for that. This book is like...it's like Warehouse 13 made by someone who thought it'd be best if they got rid of Claudia, Artie, Ms. Frederic, Pete, Leena, H. G. Wells, the Warehouse, and the artifacts.
This book is like reading a comic book about Myka Bering and Wolverine.
That should tell you how much I like He&Mb.
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:35:23 GMT
I'm about five hours into the sixteen hour audio version that is For The Win, which has been sitting on my computers since it came out.
Having been out of the MMOG loop for a few months...haven't played CoH for at least six months, and the last few times I played in almost two years was to mule for dvandom a couple of times...I'm not really up to date with what's what in that world.
I'm digging through recent-ish Terra Nova, but that seems to focus on the 3D worlds...and it doesn't help that SuperPokePets! is the only game I play either...are there gold farmers in Facebook games?
EDIT: I think FTW would be more enjoyable if I hadn't spent the last two years binging on r/Economics (or, you know, didn't have a BBA degree), which means these little Econ 101 exposition pieces are a bit more boring than M1k3y's anarchist planning dumps. That said all this stuff would have really impressed me back in 2004~2006 when I was researching/playing with/complaining about scarcity in Second Life.
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:58:57 GMT
My Firefox cache saved those sensationally spoileriffic scans from the preview I was looking at last night. Suffice to say, Empowered Volume 6 can't get here fast enough!
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:53:16 GMT
Amazon's "Inside Look" for Empowered Volume 6 was showing me a wealth of previews at work, but I didn't have time to read everything because my ride was outside. Arrgh. Now at home, the preview isn't half what I was seeing at work. SAD SAD!
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:21:53 GMT
I think the reason that this panel continues to bug me, even more so years after it was published and since I've been working with a VMWare stack, is the sheer silliness of it.
My old argument was that Oracle should have backed her data up with a system kind of like the one in Jenna And Me: encrypting her data, breaking it up into tiny chunks, and then stenographically hiding those bits into thousands of photos spread across the net.
My new argument, after having used VMWave (with a SAN) professionally, is that even the puniest of setups...not to mention what the Justice League, Justice Society, Titans, or one of Batman's backup Batcaves might use...have more than enough free space to dump a few hundred gigabytes of data.
I really do like the idea of Batman discovering that the SAN in one of his satellite Batcaves is nearly full. "Barbara, have you been backing up data here?" "You've got five of those caves; you're not going to miss a few terabytes."
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:12:34 GMT
Making a note to myself to look into JOKER Yurusarezaru Sosakan. From the bit I've seen it looks like Leverage by way of Deathnote, with Det. Goren as Nate Ford and Det. Munch as Frank Castle.
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:20:17 GMT
Okay, I like WinSCP. I still want to study that C# FTP library I found and translate it to VB.NET to get a better grasp on how FTP works, but for now, for SFTP connections, WinSCP is made of win.
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:27:21 GMT
So that's two songs about traps Grey DeLisle has sung.
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:57:12 GMT
Batman == Nate Ford, gruff perfectionist who's always five steps ahead of everyone
Catwoman == Sophie Devereaux, beautiful theif who has a reciprocated thing for "Batman"
Nightwing == Second only to "Batman" as a strategist, more physically adept, women throw themselves at him.
Robin (III) == Alec Hardison, snarky hacker who wants to become his mentor
Batgirl (III) == Parker, trained from a youth by a silver-haired man to be the ultimate specimen of his profession until she began following a brighter path
Commissioner Gordon == Detective Captain Patrick Bonanno, he's a cop
Huntress == Tara Cole, knock-off of "Catwoman"
Jason Todd == James Sterling, trained under "Batman" but uses those methods in more ruthless ways
Vicky Vale == Maggie Collins, original love of "Batman"
Thomas & Martha Wayne == Sam Ford, whose death sent "Batman" down the road of his vigilante mission
Alfred Pennyworth == alcohol, the secret weapon that keeps "Batman" going
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:35:43 GMT
Well, that's a nice little set of objects for turning a hierarchy of directories in a semi-relational table. Now I just need to cobble together a UI and a basic template system, and it'll be 2001 all over again.
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:20:19 GMT
HAWKEYE & MOCKINGBIRD #1 - 27,552
HAWKEYE & MOCKINGBIRD #2 - 20,531 BIRDS OF PREY #1 - 50,428
BIRDS OF PREY #1 2ND PTG - 4,537
BIRDS OF PREY #2 - 44,064
BIRDS OF PREY #3 - 43,420 The world just doesn't make sense to me. I think if I knew how to enjoy the top half of Batgirl as much as other people, maybe it would.
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:19:02 GMT
Why does it cost 4 times as much to get a Windows VPS as it does Linux?
That's a rhetorical question by the way.
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:51:39 GMT
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