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MTV support is BANANAS YO!

spent last evening introducing my kids to some classic Run-DMC and Michael Jackson videos...too much fun!

j.

boxee! boxee! boxee!

it's the saviour of my AppleTV.

in fact, it's good enough i'd say i'd recruit people to get an appleTV just to run boxee on it, and free themselves from cable. When they added Hulu support, it got to be nearly game over for any other kinda TV :)

i see the source code is available. unfortunately i have no mac dev box...there are some features i'd love to see (bookmarking, setting up playlists, tagging and rating) that i wouldn't mind giving a go at :)

j.

how shortly? ;-)

del.icio.us is still my winner.
it's far less noisy than everything else. i have nothing to prove; i am not trying to make a name for myself, i want to keep track of sites i find interesting.

del.icio.us scratches that itch.

j.

nevermind--i see now--it does allow you to import your old joints.

djp -- word man. will it import existing comments, or work along with them?

definitely man. looking forward to a sit down :)

i'm working on it, mate!

i'm finding that wordpress makes it really clumsy to run an environment outside of the production instance--i.e. i think it keeps the "blog name" in the *database*, making it more work than it should be to run a local instance. i spent about 2-3 hours total getting my blog into SVN and getting the database setup locally, only to find out when i hit the local site, it immediately redirects to blog.isaidjon.com.

oh well. i'll run a local WP and work on a theme locally, then bump it up to "prod" i guess...

how'd you find out about this site?

surprised to see new social networks come up when they seem to be becoming a commodity, with the plumbing already being done by facebook.

j.

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i vote for twitter staying *simple*. pownce confused me enough given the time i wanted to spend figuring it out that i abandoned it months ago. pownce looks more like a tumblr than a twitter.

this is true? i had to look at the date again to make sure it's not april 1. i've had this idea for years and years and years now (some 6 years). no desire to execute on it--good to see some entity finally taking it on, that can.

however i don't like the thought of having my health info stored with the same entity that also has so much else of my life, so i'll opt out of this one.

re: JOHN:

whois info

http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=204.11.203...

World Communications, Inc. WCI-SEA-NET (NET-204-11-200-0-1)
204.11.200.0 - 204.11.207.255
Bill Pierre Ford WCI-CUSTOMER06 (NET-204-11-203-32-1)
204.11.203.32 - 204.11.203.39

great. you're coming in from bill pierre ford, giving them nothing less than a glowing recommendation. sounds fishy to me.

j.

all snow!

yeah i'm digging it. keep track in the spaz user forums for spaz for the development version links, which are a ton better than the released one so far :)

and you are right. i do love you. :)

wow. that's some crazy stuff. guess where we wont' be going...

wow. since this post, i've developed dozens and dozens of rolls of black and white film. the only time i recall screwing up is during the loading process. and these are the primary offenses:

letting light in when i shouldn't have
loading when my hands weren't COMPLETELY DRY
being fumblefingers while loading 120 film, and bending the roll

i think most people haven't tried, 'cos they (like i had) tend to lump developing and printing together. printing takes an enlarger and a running water source (unless you want to do contact printing, in which case, from what i've read is pretty easy, but i haven't gotten myself around to doing it yet).

it's not hard; at worst its inconvenient. you gotta mix the chemicals, and find a place to store your chemicals, is the extent of my troubles...oh, well, i also have to make sure there's not a bunch of other crap in the sink when i want to develop (don't tell anyone but i use the kitchen sink, which gareth was pretty adamant about not using...he used the bathroom instead :)

if you use diafine, you'll mix two jugs of solution, then never deal with it again (seriously, diafine lasts *forever*). and it's super easy to remember--3 minutes A, 3 minutes B. and even from what i've been reading, you can shorten the B developer time to make sure it doesn't push as much! why doesn't the world use diafine? well...personal preference...but i'm not a pro, so i can't tell many of the nuances after i've developed, and tweaked them during the scanning process anyway :)

oh, and diafine just gets kinda gross after a while, too (but trust me, it's still working:)

oh, and check "dev" below, under possibly related posts. it shows a picture of all the stuff i used for my first batch.

j.

thanks y'all and much love.

Leslie -- happy belated birthday dang i don't think i hit up your facebook w/ a greeting. need to.

yeah kathy--when y'all heading out?

j.

i spin much of everything

originally hip hop

but i *love* spinning house
and drum and bass...

j.

go ahead man, no problem!:)

Cheers, bud.

i'll be showing my photos there....now if you heard about djing then that's something else altogether (although i *do* dj :)

you should head out, and not drink. ;-) it'd be great to meet you.

j.

the other way around. why? so i won't have to do it more than once. i don't care which way it goes, actually, just as long as:

a) i don't have to do things more than once.
b) i've a way to keep my posts somewhere as my own (i.e. "cache" or store the myspace posts locally, as a backup)