so i recently installed a stats plugin for the blog, then realized that it only works when people view the individual posts. there are a couple of methods of making this happen. I’m trying one of them out, it works like this:

Continue reading ‘meta-post (turns out i didnt like it)

i don’t know if i like it like that tho… maybe i just need to edit the theme (”more…” instead of “continue reading…”)? let me know what you think in the comments.

originally i had hoped to have all the contents on one page. i envisioned the page starting at the bottom with the most recent post, and scrolling up to get the older stuff. so reading it chronologically would be very fluid. i got it working, but had some non-trivial bugs so removed it when i went public.

maybe i could make a theme that would show a single post, but would dynamically expand with user requests (keeping everything on a “home page”) but still making each individual requests…

on the other hand, this seems like a lot of work for something whose only use is to boost my ego…

i have come to realize that my post yesterday implied that anonymous *itself* was the solution for utopia. thats not entirely what i meant, but thats what you get when you have a blog who’s premise is to publish first drafts and pre-first drafts…

its more of their mindset and call-to-action: they are members of a generation of people fighting for what they believe in. “the grassroots generation”

matt spent a bit more time after our discussions and has summed it up very nicely.

go read it

now

please

i’ve come to re-think my first post regarding the fact that huge social change for the better will not be possible before we create intelligences superior to ourselves. the source of my newfound hope: anonymous.

some media outlets report that this group is composed of “terrorists” and “biggots” and generally mean people. this may be true, but these labels can be just as easily applied the group of people that aren’t anonymous. thats the tricky thing: membership. with a group purely based on anonymity, it is impossible to maintain any sort of exclusivity. anyone can claim to represent anonymous for whatever cause that individual chooses.

but as this huge thing with the church of scientology gathers steam, more and more people are *acting* (not a lot of people actually act on their beliefs these days) to support a cause they believe in, with no reward for doing so other thank knowing you’re “doing the right thing”. taken as such, it is a noble endeavor to say the least.

i would guess that a large portion of the protesters on sunday (this one has videos!) weren’t members since before the first video was released, and with the ever-increasing media coverage, their numbers will grow exponentially.

after scientology, what social change will they catalyze next?

I thought flash was supposed to be a solution to all our cross-browser woes. Alas, nothing is ever so simple.

I’m trying to detect a well-formed but unavailable url (eg. when you’re server goes down) using the HTTPStatusEvent.

it simply reflects the HTTP status code (if any) that is provided by the networking stack.

“Perfect!” I think to myself. Then… FAIL:

Some Flash Player environments may be unable to detect HTTP status codes

And by “some” they mean “everything except IE running on Windows”. All other browsers fail to feed the flash player itself the status codes so they all dispatch values of zero.
Looks like its time to take the train to timeout town… (sorry)

just got the pictures of the nintendo themed xbox (hence nesbox) i modded for jess. check this baby *out*!

(there are more pics coming… i need to adjust the levels & crop them all when i get home)

update: the pics are up! thanks vveerrgg

well, it looks like there really *is* a limit to how long something can be on the internet before it gets linked to. i guess if i truly wanted to keep this a private sanctuary for my thoughts and ideas, i wouldn’t keep showing it to people. hahahaha

readers beware, the content can vary between raw and half-baked. rarely do i wait for the egg timer to go and let my thoughts sit on the windowsill for 20 minutes before hitting that ‘publish’ button. if i do… then the new thoughts start to back up, and i get… i dunno, my metaphor has seemed to have lost its steam.

this post is now a choose-your-own-adventure. insert something witty here… (and by ‘here’ i mean the comments)

i should make games for older supercomputers. older in the way that they are no longer the bleeding edge of computing hardware and would therefore have a knowledge base on how to use them to work from, but also much more powerful than anything the consumer market is about to see in the near future. (this would obviously be a pre-singularity idea, as the “near future” will become way too short a timeframe)

sure the games wont have a large userbase, but they could break the way for pushing consoles to their limits earlier in their release cycle. the same reason why the games at the end of the release cycle can make use of the hardware the best… if you start using the hardware for gaming way before the release cycle even begins… you’re already a pro when it hits.

recall: from dereck’s book… you can only really get to know ~120 people… so companies (eg. mec?) have started to limit the size of their offices to such a number and then open a new office when you need more employees.*

what if you set up an online community like anonymity that. anonymous sure… but you know your connected to everyone in the group by like, 2-3 degrees of separation. invite only, and once the population gets to ~100… start a new polis. (acro means high, polis means city. acropolis. high-city.)

each branch of such a company could perform R&D tasks… and each branch benefits from the success of the others. breakthroughs and steady progress welcome. learn from each other. sounds like communism…

-wise (wīz) suf. Forming adverbs of manner, as anywise, lengthwise, otherwise.

coastwise (kōst wīz) adv. To project one’s consciousness into parallel realities where external factors are set up in such a way that success is almost unavoidable.

Real progammers program coastwise.