RasterWeb!The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is pretty funny. I mean, it’s a serious story and everything, but this weekend while I was working on a project which required visual attention, I played the LOTR: TTT DVD with the audio commentary by the cast, and while Elijah and Sean tend to make these deep introspective comments, Dom and Billy tend to make humorous remarks about things, all sort of true to their characters I guess…
Oh sure, you hear a whole lot about Identity Theft, but what about Identity Sale?
When asked recently by Czeltic Girl about Metafilter, I confessed that it’s been quite a while since I’ve been a regular visitor, so when I checked I learned that I am Metafilter user 577 (since March 8, 2000 anyway!)
I also remembered someone asking me about Slashdot a few years ago, and there too I mentioned how I used to visit Slashdot pretty often many years back, and my Slashdot user number is 871.
Most of the people I know have numbers that are a zillion times higher than those, which got me thinking… Maybe I should auction off my identity/user numbers? I mean, just think of the credibility you’d get if you could say “Yeah, I’ve been using Metafilter since 2000, I’m user number 577” or “Slashdot? Yeah, I practically helped start it! I’m user number 871…”
I’m tellin’ ya, fame, fortune, beatiful cars, fast women, prosthetic forearms, they could all be yours… Just make me an offer…
The The Milwaukee Weblogger Meetup Group will be meeting next Wednesday March 16, 2005, and while I’ve never made it to a meetup in the past, I’m going to actually make an effort to attend this one. (Though if I get there before 8 PM it’ll be a miracle.)
So, in the Milwaukee area? Got a blog? Show up!
I’ve known Brent for maybe 10 years now (well, in an online sense.) I think it’s been about 10 years, though I’m not sure, I just remember we were both involved in Frontier back then…
Anyway, there’s an interview at DrunkenBlog, and in it is this quote from Brent:
Life’s too short. I want to work on things I like working on. That excludes Windows.
Is that a great philosophy or what? I knew that Brent was a smart guy…
When you hear about a web-based RSS aggregator from Microsoft and it says it “doesn’t work in Firefox” are you at all surprised? Would you expect anything else?
Do you think it works in any browser/platform besides IE/Windows?
And if someone feeds you that crap about how it was developed using IE, but later they will make it work in Firefox or Safari, or lynx, it’s most likely a load of crap, and if it isn’t a load of crap, then it’s just proof that Microsoft hires people to build stuff like this that just do not understand the web, because the killer web developers/designers I know certainly don’t work that way…
Honestly, everytime I see something from Microsoft that someone else has already done (and done better) I’m convinced it’s just added to the MS CheckList so they can say “Yeah, we got that” as in “Search? We got that” and “Blogs? We got that” and “Aggregator? We got that” and on and on…