Apparently all lightweight, useful web applications are destined to be eaten by Yahoo!. (See also: Flickr.) The Yahoo! Search Blog has another take on the acquisition of del.icio.us.
Archive for December, 2005
I would ordinarily just have delicioused this, but the necessary quotable block exceeds delicious’ “extended” field:
I got there at 10:45 and Doom didn’t even come on till past midnight. Doors were at 8:30! I got so bored waiting that I had to leave the show to go buy some sour gummy bears and an Utne Reader. (This was the only non-pornographic magazine the corner store had.) “Utne” rhymes with “chutney,” in case you were wondering, which you probably weren’t. I think it’s targeted at aging hippies. Note to self: next time buy porn. [more]
Zelda spoilers: Slashdot suspects that Twilight Princess may feature the end of Link, or at least, the end of a Link. The argument: We know from Wind Waker that the “Link” character gets reborn from time to time, and we know that Twilight Princess occurs between Ocarina (in which Link is alive) and Waker (in which a new Link is chosen). So is Twilight the story of how Link failed to save the day? The hint: Shiggy says Twilight will be the last Zelda game “as we know it”. Link, fill up your hearts!
Well, after talking about going traveling for so many years, I’ve finally made the plunge and have officially started making plans to travel around the world. I’ve always had the travel bug in me somewhat, having been fortunate enough to do some traveling with my family and through ski racing but I’ve never done the “backpack across a country” thing before, let alone around the world. After reading blogs and email updates from some of my friends who’ve already been traveling, I realized that I just had to stop talking about it and get down to planning it.
It turns out that Kenny Carruthers (author of Postmaster, Be/Apple/Danger alumnus), is now a world traveller. (He’s currently in Jordan.)
Dave: raiding the arsenal, readying for battle. He hasn’t updated delver in a while; the only reliable signal comes from tapping his bookmark stream:
I just finished my fifth track. Solid. (Theoretically I need might need six this time around, so I’ll have to recycle an old battle track [read: Danger Dave Theme Song] if the worst case happens.) Now to get this ish up on Ableton Live.
[I assume the DDTS is Anion? If so, well, that’s some low down shit.]
I noticed that my $9 in Best Buy Bucks expire today (12/3); I had planned to blow ‘em on a discount CD, but
- Lame: Best Buy’s “discount” CDs have shot up to $12.
- Lamer: You can use them on anything in the store, with the following exception: Only one may be redeemed per CD or DVD.
Screw that. I just decided to get an $8.99 spindle of CD-Rs (having finally decided that nonvolatile backups are probably a good idea).
The high school kid who rang me up said I couldn’t use all three; only two, because the total (before tax) wasn’t $9. Ugh.
I added a little pack of Advil to the purchase—which, incidentally, I tore into immediately.
Looks like someone else has been hacking Coke machines. Our hack, however, (part of a project for comp527 isn’t about breaking existing machines, but developing new ones that can be purchased from with a cell phone. The trick is to do it in a way that doesn’t require the vending machine to be connected to the Internet or POTS or anything. Will post more when we’ve got a report.
Oops: global/local coordinate bug in a QuickTime video overlay in Firefox 1.5. [screenshot]
Hmm. My SSH2 RSA keys suddenly stopped working yesterday.
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/dsandler/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 149
debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed
debug1: read PEM private key done: type <unknown>
They worked before; I haven’t changed anything about my ssh-agent setup in that time. (Yes, I rebooted for the recent Apple security patch, but the brokenness appeared before the reboot.)
