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Not Very Much Ado About Many Nothings

The continuous adjustment of my free/busy cycles leaves me with not as much time to blog on an extended basis as I’d like. More and more, I just dump a quick link into the del.icio.us bin and keep moving. I like linkblogging but I miss pontificating on random nonsense, as if I knew what the heck I was talking about…

Firefox 1.0 shipped this week and it’s very much worth a look from any folks out there who are interested in this internets thing the kids are always going on about. It still does the fast/correct rendering thing that its known for, and it’s also grown a pretty robust extensibility architecture. There’s no reason to ever use anything else on Linux, and it nicely short-circuits the massive volume of evil that gets thrown at you by nefarious operators if you’re taking part, as an inductee or as a volunteer, in Operation Enduring Windows. On the Mac, I’m willing to overlook it’s poor OS integration (no Services support… sigh) thanks to the frankly astounding performance of the G5 optimized build (I have never seen anything render pages faster, on any platform. It’s scary, in a good way) I stumbled upon. It makes me really hope for G5 optimized binaries of things like Safari and Mail in Tiger.

The Syndication Wars seem to be hetting up again, for some reason, which dismays me because I thought we’d reached the sort of live and let live equilibrium that you get when geeks STFU and code. Tim Bray’s succinct statement of the obvious has apparently opened the floodgates again. (overheard: It’s just RSS with different tagnames, users don’t care, RSS has won — ph34r my podcast, beotch, yada yada yada) I still plan on implementing and supporting syndication whenever and wherever it makes sense, and I think competition has helped, rather than hurt, this space.

If my comment spammer is to be believed, we are all fat bastards who play poker all day long and want desparately to mail order our diet pills, while fondling our flaccid male parts.

If I liked first-person shooters I imagine I’d be playing Halo 2 on the Xbox I don’t own, but instead I’m playing the World Of Warcraft open beta and eagerly awaiting the retail launch. I haven’t touched GTA:San Andreas, but I’d really like to remedy that this weekend.

I’ve really been enjoying a Merck release from 2003 that I slept on somehow, Tiki Obmar’s High School Confidential . Apparently there’s another release, Seasons that I imagine I’ll end up ordering. HSC, at least, approaches the man-machine divide by liberally rubbing live playing against the more typical Merck melodic/glitch/8-bit videogame aesthetic, to nice result. There’s a bit of “Lillypads B” that resembles what I hoped Sonic Youth would sound like when they added Jim O’Rourke on laptop.

Oh yeah, and I’m sorry.

:: Dave Walker 10:42 (EST/EDT) [+]

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