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Month: October 2001

  • Survivor

    Oh God. It’s that time again. Any hot tips this week?

  • Fighting Irish

    Ever wonder where “Fighting Irish” came from? That link reminds me of the time my friend Crawford (who can usually be found leaving comments on TD’s site) brought an exchange student over to our dorm room during the middle of an away football game. We were all watching on the TV and trying to explain to this South American girl what the hell was happening. Then she asked the inevitable question about our school nickname. Undaunted, Crawford grabbed the phone and dialed the Reference Desk at the library. The little old lady couldn’t give her a definitive answer, so rather than simply let it go at that, Crawford pressed on with the conversation. “Are you watching the game? What was up with that call?” And the poor woman was forced to try to explain pass interference. It went on for some time. I believe Crawfy called her several times over the subsequent years, usually to ask about whatever game was on just then. That woman probably hated us.

  • Robin Hood

    Robin Hood was apparently secretly gay. Hey, if my lover went by the name “Little John”, I’d probably keep it a secret too. 🙂

  • Bring It On

    Bring it OnAs a present to myself for being so diligent with the pre-move preparations, I bought one of the greatest DVDs of all-time yesterday: Bring it On. I can hear you now: “What’s that, w-g? A cheerleading movie??” My sister said the same thing til I made her watch it last night and she loved it. And it stars Jesse Bradford (who is my new high-school boyfriend) and Eliza Dushku (Faith from Buffy). I even watched it again this morning with the director’s commentary, which is pretty damn funny by itself. Bring it On is the poo… so take a big whiff.

  • Branagh as Lockhart

    What? Gilderoy Lockhart will be played by… Kenneth Branagh?? Didn’t see that one comin’.

  • iPod

    Somebody likes the iPod. I know what I want for Christmas.

  • RDF

    Check this out! I just came across a newspaper article in which I’m quoted about Roald Dahl… except I never spoke to the reporter. He simply lifted some quotes from my Frequently Asked Questions page and made it sound like I had been interviewed. A bit sneaky of him, don’t you think?

  • Moving

    It begins. The Snook and I are finally making concrete moving plans. Much business ahead. Wish me luck!

  • iWalk?!

    Ooh, sweet! I want an iWalk! Now I just have to get rid of my old PDA. I might just give it to Snookums so he can put Linux on it and play around.

    Update: Looks like that story’s a fake. The real device is called an iPod and it’s a conventional mp3 player, albeit a tiny one with a massive hard drive. Still cool.

  • The end of homemade websites

    Jakob predicts that web services will spell the end of homemade websites. Though he misses the obvious huge example, I think he’s probably right to an extent. But on every project, you have to gauge the importance of the requirements and whether spooging those into a pre-built solution is acceptable. For example, I use PicoSearch for search functionality on my Dahl site. It’s not ideal, but it’s not enough of a priority for me to expend the time and energy to write something myself. But for both RDF and w-g, I decided that I needed to write my own database-driven blogging system. Blogger isn’t always reliable and I wanted something that I could have more control over. So while I think web services are going to lower the barrier to getting online for a lot of people, I don’t think they’re going to completely negate the need for people who know how to create custom solutions. The longer you’re online, the more you want to create a unique place just for you.