Archive for July 2004
Online Photo Sharing
Posted on July 22, 2004 by Ching under Web.
There’s a great article about the growing popularity of online photo sharing in the July/August 2004 issue of Technology Review. It’s about time someone noticed!
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Flickr
Posted on July 21, 2004 by Ching under Web.
I’ve been messing around online a lot lately. I get off at six o’clock now and I usually have a couple of hours before Brian’s gets home from work at eight so I’ve had a couple of hours to myself to just goof around the internet.
As you can see, I’ve discovered Flickr which truly is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It’s what generates the row of random thumbnail pictures above. Too bad it’s a Canadian product. Just kidding! No offense to all you Canadians out there, eh?
Anyway, have you all tried the newest version of Yahoo! Messenger? It’s loaded with features! I can still remember back in the day when it was still Yahoo! Pager. Now it’s capable of all sorts of things. It’s really neat. Then again, I’m easily amused. So maybe it’s not so neat to normal people. But then you won’t find out if you don’t try it now, will you?
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A Walk on the Moon
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I just finished watching A Walk on the Moon. Pearl (Diane Lane) cheats on her husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) with Walker Jerome “the blouseman” (Viggo Mortensen). I felt so bad for Marty because he plays such a nice guy. He didn’t deserve to be cuckolded. By the way, you can catch Liev in his new movie, The Manchurian Candidate. It looks very promising.
At any rate, have you ever noticed how Diane Lane is always cheating on her movie husbands and getting away with it? What’s up with that?
I’m so glad that Viggo has since stepped away from the “lover” roles. I realize that he has been a movie actor forever but I didn’t really notice him until A Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow). He’s such a great actor and I feared that he would get pigeon-holed. Thank God for The Lord of the Rings.
To other Viggo fans out there. If you haven’t already seen A Walk on the Moon, I highly recommend it. There’s a tremendously sexy waterfall scene that will get you dreaming of Viggo for weeks.
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I, Robot
Posted on July 18, 2004 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I were going to play poker at Whiskey Creek after dinner at Abuelo’s but when we found out that I, Robot was playing in the balcony (main auditorium) we decided to watch it instead. We figured we were going to go play poker tomorrow night at Fingers anyway, might as well watch a movie tonight.
We really shouldn’t have gone to dinner at Abuelo’s because we are broke, but Brian doesn’t ever like to go there so when he asked if we could go there for dinner I agreed. The mature thing would have been to say no because we are broke.. But usually I have to beg and plead and even then he doesn’t want to go. I figured I had no choice but to take this opportunity.
Of course, we could’ve gotten regular seats instead of sitting in the balcony too. We could’ve saved money there. There are just some luxuries that one cannot forgo. Much like some people can’t drink any kind of water except for Perrier, if a movie is playing in the main auditorium of 13th Avenue Warren we have to see it in the balcony.
I, Robot was really good. I won’t ruin the movie for you by giving you any details. All I can say is that the twist is really good. It’s kind of an action-packed feel-good movie. The ending is all warm and fuzzy.
Okay, that’s all I’ll say. Go watch it.
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Movable Type
Posted on July 16, 2004 by Ching under Web.
Mom and Dad’s website has suffered major comment spam in the last few months. I’ve been really lazy to do something about it. I feel really guilty too because the fix was pretty simple.
I mean, comment spam has been an ongoing problem for Movable Type. It’s their Achilles’ heel, so to speak. I guess it’s an easy hack. Bots just swarm and post one worthless message after another. If you’re like me, who doesn’t really check comments regularly, then it takes months before you even detect the problem.
Anyway, I finally got around to installing MT-Blacklist and it works great! I had problems adding the master blacklist at first because I wanted to add it all in one shot and the list was just too long. I chopped it up into bite-sited sections (I love cut-and-paste) and finally got my blacklist going. That should be the end of the comment spam (for now, at least, until the bad guys figure out a way around the blacklist).
Jay Allen is my savior! Â
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