A Personal Blog
Archive for March, 2005
Great Halo Video
Mar 31st
… Btw, I am so not in a working mood today. Thankfully, today isn’t a high-output day.
Things like this fantastic Halo 2 video don’t make it any easier to get the work I do need to do done, though.
Hehe @ Startup Sounds
Mar 31st
From Prangstgrup is a great video: startup sounds.
Also on the humour plate today, a rocking new “daydreaming” game: Head Space. I rocked it hard up to 10,000 points.
Offline Today
Mar 30th
Just a note that I’ll be visiting my brother today, so I’ll be effectively offline.
Have a great day :)
I Love LazyCoder…
Mar 30th
… I don’t normally single out great blogs anymore (there are too many), but this guy deserves a massive pat on the back or somesuch. I met him while I was in Seattle and enjoyed his perspective during the dinner. I mean, c’mon, anyone who can say this deserves a medal:
I hate it when this kind of undeserved arrogance leeks out of Redmond like butt juice after a week long Olestra and chilli bender. When will you realize that your real enemy isn’t Linux, it’s your bloated, self-important, user-hating management and culture?
[ quote from LazyCoder himself ]
Yahoo! 360 Invites
Mar 30th
I’ve now demo’d Yahoo! 360. I’m not incredibly impressed with it as a blogging platform. It’s really, really great as a “true” “My Yahoo” type of system, where how you interact with others is all in one place. That’s really nice, and is likely what I’ll continue to use it for. I particularly like the integration with LaunchCast.
Anyways, if you want an invite, drop me a comment (with a valid email address, obviously) and I’ll send you one.
It’s fairly simple, fairly easy to use, and fairly good at what it does.
Who’s it for? Existing Yahoo! users.
It’s too complicated to be a Blogger replacement. Too simple to be a business tool. Too quirky to be a huge draw to anyone who isn’t already a “Yahooligan”.
But, it’s alright for what it is. But maybe I’m just missing something. Maybe I should be more excited by one of the first social blogging platforms ever. But I’m not.
I’m happy to be impressed with this later, and I’m happy for this to evolve. Maybe it’s just that I don’t know anyone who’s working on this product, there was no warning about it, and the exclusive nature of “you can only see my blog if you’re a Yahooligan” have combined to give me no real reason to get excited.
I’m happy to establish more connections with folk at Yahoo, but besides Jeremy, I know of few people actually reaching out in the way that a lot of top folk at Microsoft are.
