March 2006 Headlines
| Title | Date | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Flinging Four Things at the Meme | 03/03 | Blogging, School |
| Interoperability | 03/22 | Blogging |
March 03, 2006
Flinging Four Things at the Meme
Update 3/3/05: Whoops, I'd copied it from Rich's version, which was missing some of the categories. Added those in, but I'm sure I screwed up the order of everything.
Okay, when I get tagged twice, I guess that's a sign I really oughtta participate. So, without further ado:
The Four Things Meme
Four shows I enjoy:
- Mythbusters (oh, I suppose you knew that already).
- Lost
- The L Word
- Battlestar Galactica
- How I Met Your Mother
- Grey's Anatomy
- Weeds
- Robot Chicken
Oh, sorry. Television rotted my brain to the point where I forgot how to count! Or maybe it wasn't the television?
Four movies I can watch over and over:
- Finding Nemo (okay, truthfully I actually liked Monsters, Inc. better, but I can't hurt the feelings of the fishies)
- Garden State (this should not be a surprise to anybody)
- Aliens
- Beauty and the Beast
Four jobs I've held:
- Paper-hatted grill dude at McDonald's
- Word-processing/data entry temp
- Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer (which, come to think of it, is an awful lot like Software Engineer, but I haven't had any other jobs that I can recall).
Four cool toys:
- My Canon Digital Rebel (yeah, to me, it's still a toy).
- Astrojax.
- Magz magnetic construction toys.
- The hopes and dreams of other people, bwa ha ha ha!
Four of My Favorite Dishes:
- Tortellini pomodoro alfredo from Frankie, Johnnie, and Luigi Too!
- Halibut sushi (hirame). But don't tell the fishies!
- Couscous with Artichokes, Feta and Sun-Dried Tomatoes (well, Erika makes it without the artichokes).
- Caprese.
Four Web sites I visit daily (uh… not counting Gmail and my Sitemeter stats):
- Last.fm (powered by Audioscrobbler).
- LiveJournal.
- del.icio.us.
- And Flickr of course!
Four places I've lived:
- New Hartford, NY (next to Utica, which is not too far from Syracuse)
- Diamond Bar, CA (about 15 minutes north of Disneyland)
- Berkeley, CA
- Sunnyvale, CA (no, not Sunnydale)
Four places I've vacationed:
- Amsterdam (honeymoon counts as a vacation, no?).
- San Diego.
- Seattle.
- uh… does staying in a hotel in San Francisco count? Or Mountain View? We don't really vacation much.
Four places I'd rather be:
- Washington D.C., making a real difference in this world.
- New York City, living the urban life.
- The engine room of Serenity.
- Behind the wheel of a McLaren F1 car, kicking the arses of both Schumi and Fred.
Four bloggers I'm tagging.
Well, I don't know if they do memes or if they read me, but I'm tagging the four SJSU student bloggers that I know of. San Jose State reprahzent!! Yeah, yeah. This from a guy who was wearing a Cal hat today (well, I haven't bought any SJSU gear yet).
Oops, that wasn't four. Yeah, me are an kollij gwajuwett. I suppose that's why I'm going back again to get it right this time.
March 22, 2006
Interoperability
Man, somebody should tell LiveJournal, MySpace, Xanga, Flickr, and Friendster (and del.icio.us too, while I'm at it) that they should really consider adding the feature where users can friend people in other systems. Not only would that be hella more convenient for the users, but it will drive more traffic to everybody's sites. Huge untapped market there. Tricky part is just how to display updated friends pages for friends in other systems, but at the very least a text link with an asterisk to show new activity should be fairly simple.
Yeah, yeah, I know. There's already RSS or Yahoo! 360. But it's a pain to track down all the feeds, and you've already done the work of adding them as a friend already. Besides, what percentage of the users out there know and use RSS?
