Author Archives: Filemon

Mar 21 2006
Technology

Photo Bug

I’ve noticed an interesting behavior in my iPhoto library. Not an application error or anything like that but I’m actually looking at a pattern in my behavior.

I have over a thousand photos in 2003. Then eight hundred or so in 2004. Then about six hundred photos for 2005. I’ve only got sixty or so photos for this year, and it’s a quarter over.

I’m not sure what is prompting the decline in photos. However, I did have that road trip to Walt Disney World in 2003, which was a lot of photos.

I do enjoy the virtual logging of my life in tiny snippets of time. With EXIF data, I know exactly when and with which camera. With comments and keywords I can search for specific people and places. Right now I’m cataloging and commenting on New Year’s Eve photos.

Which are very interesting, but I’ll leave it at that.

Mar 10 2006
Uncategorized

The First One

I really enjoyed Phantasy Star Online (PSO). I was there when it launched on the DreamCast. I was there for the DreamCast launch as well, but that’s a different story. There was just “something” about PSO that grabbed me. I’m not sure if it was the lineage of the earlier games, the sci fi rpg trappings, or the Diablo II elements. Knowing me, it was a combination of all three.

I got hooked when I started playing the online component of the game. Initially, I was dialing in using the DreamCast’s integrated modem. When I first started playing, it was fine. Then I wanted a bit more. Continue reading →

Mar 08 2006
Uncategorized

Law School

Today, I was on time, perhaps even early for work. I place the emphasis on was for reasons I am about to reveal.

Fate, it seems, conspires against the prepared.

I went to bed early, got up early. Even had time for two cups of tea. Browsed the internet and left thirty minutes before I normally get out the door.

As I approach the bus stop, the bus leaves. There goes ten minutes but I am still early.

The next bus arrives, and I get on. Another ten minutes passes as we wait for other passengers to get on. So far, still early.

Then, the bus breaks down, and all of us get off the bus. However, the bus driver notes we can get on the law school shuttle and disembark reasonably close to campus.

I get on the law school shuttle and I notice three things:

  1. It’s quiet. Almost everyone is studying.
  2. People on the shuttle are older. What little conversation I overheard was about clients and work.
  3. The smell of leather permeated the entire bus.

I guess someone just got a new briefcase or something, but the odor was strong, bordering on pungent.

But it was a nice change from the overcrowded, loud, main campus shuttle.

Mar 07 2006
Games

Guitar Hero

Good job people, I think enough of you bought it. The scuttlebutt is that Red Octane plans six to seven Guitar Hero games out by mid 2007.

I’m guessing Genre specific issues of Guitar Hero, similar to how Karaoke Revolution is going Country.

It’s good to see the music games being successful. Speaking of which, I think that Beatmania is still on track for a late March release.

It only took two decades to make it stateside.

Mar 01 2006
Uncategorized

jEdit

I was messing around with the theme bits on my site in Notepad (yes, I know) when I decided to look for an open source solution.

jEdit is open source, it highlights the code and indents it properly. For my purposes, it seems to work well, since all I’m doing is tweaking wordpress themes.

Makes me want to muck about on the site a bit more.

I guess that’s my way of saying that things are going to break around here.

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