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Yes I was in on the joke. Owen asked me to be the “straight man” for this little prank, and I must say it worked out quite well. Owen and Scott are both very much committed to Habari for the long hall, fear not.
Well today saw the release of the Developer Review of Habari, and the departure of two of the founders. They could have chosen a better time to leave, but to each his own I suppose. I wanted to talk about this now, before other sites like HabariWank blow it out of proportion.
Read the rest »So I am trying out the “Next Big Thing” in video sharing, Viddler.com
Most of you might be thinking, “Whoopty Crap, another video site.” I can forgive you your lack of enthusiasm; it mirrored my own at the beginning. But after playing around with it a bit, Viddler has some rather novel, and I tend to think, inspired features missing from other services.
Read the rest »The Apple TV">Apple TV is now shipping, and some lucky blokes like Walt Mossberg were given demo units to play with early. I don’t have much to say, other than as it stands now I will not be purchasing one, and here are some reasons why.
Seriously Apple, come on. H.264 is actually a beautiful codec; I have no complaints with the quality that you can get out of it. What I will complain about is the footprint. I can get the same, or better quality, from a DIVX encoded file that is sometimes half the size. Period.
Read the rest »Update: Do to lack of support for DVI on my ATI video card, I have had to dump Ubuntu and go back to using the MacOS. This isn’t something I am extremely happy about, but it works so I can’t complain too loudly. I will have pictures and a write up of what I needed to make everything work soon.
So I like to have side projects to occupy my time with; usually these projects are required to have nothing to do with web programming, and if I can swing it, nothing to do with Computers in general.
I like to build stuff, so I usually try to have something cooking in that arena. My current building side project is to build an altar for our home. This is a long, involved process and as such it is very much on-going.
My current short term project was/is to build a digital media center, to replace my aging EyeHome. I have an aging G4 tower lying around the house so I thought I would see how far I could push the hardware. Surprisingly I can push it pretty far.
Read the rest »No, this isn”t an official communique from the wild frontier that is Habari">Habari
, but it is a litle missive from yours truly about his favorite little baby. Read the rest »I am sure that is what a number of people are asking themselves… especially with the other people who have made the leap in the days since I spilled the beans here on Sillyness.
That is actually a very complicated answer for me to give, but I will try my best to give it. But before I begin with all of that, I thought I would take the time to set something straight.
Read the rest »If you are one of my more astute readers, you might have noticed that there have been some changes around these parts since Tuesday the 2nd of January.
Sillyness is now powered by Habari, a next generation blogging tool being developed by some familiar faces… that aren’t ready to have fame and fortune knock on their door just yet, so I won’t link to them.
Read the rest »So while taking a break from working, I checked out TiVo’s site, in hopes that they had come to their senses and lowered the cost of the Series 3 box, I noticed a link to a press release that had an interesting title.
Read the rest »TiVo announces plans for even more choice in bringing Web video content to the TV.
You didn’t know about me. Gee, thanks Rich.
I usually don’t do these things anymore, but seeing as it was Rich that tagged me I thought I would make an exception.
Read the rest »The Pulitzer Prize is for exemplary work in the field of Journalism, and as such is restricted to recognized Journalistic Entities.
Newspapers and other periodicals submit material to the Pulitzer, not individuals; furthermore by the stated statutes of the Pulitzer Commission itself (emphasis added by yours truly):
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