07.14.02
Posted in General
at 12 pm
Step 1: Register TrashPlanet.com or some similar consumer friendly domain name.
Step 2: Design a logo, layout and visual style for your site.
Step 3: Write articles, create links and invite guests to write about the environmental impact of disposable products.
Step 4: Write articles, create links and invite guests to write about the alternatives to disposable products.
Step 5: Let others know about your site. Publicize it on the web and in environmentally oriented news sites. Also target consumer product review site like epinions.com.
Step 6: Scope out a number of high volume consumer products that advertise their ‘trashability’ as their number one reason for being.
Step 7: Create labels that can be added quickly and easily to the back or sides of said boxes that blend into the packaging and subtly lets consumers know that they can “Find more info about this product at yourdomain.com”.
Step 8: Apply the tags liberally at stores in your local area. Avoid the one store that you shop the most at in case you are banned from the store.
Step 9: Repeat process for other issues such as overuse of ‘anti-bacterial’ agents which will simply provide us with stronger bacteria in the long run.
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07.09.02
Posted in General
at 12 pm
Google has released a Google Box, a stand alone server that you can basically plug and play into your network and have your own Google inside. That’s all lead up to idea number one:
The E-Bay box. Have a box that will have the various pieces of crap that your employees are normally selling *outside* of your company’s network.
Idea number 2? The latest name for my band: “Oss Rolson and His Friends from the Morgue.” My Goth band is finally on its way.
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07.08.02
Posted in Apple, Tech
at 12 pm
I have been working on my iBook (600 MHz, 128 MB ram, 15GB HD, AirPort) with slow progress being made towards feeling comfortable with it.
I’ve been working in OS X, nearly non-stop. The only time I’ve booted OS 9 was simply to check to see if I could boot OS 9.
It’s been a bit awkward, to say the least. It’s one thing to move to a completely new Operating System. You have the benefit of having everything be differnt, you don’t bring much bagage along.
But *my* switch to X comes as a studder step, a shift in different directions at different levels. I’ve brought along a few necessary tools, DragThing chief among them with it’s keystroke commands for launching apps. Just today I got Fetch installed (Though 4.0’s only a preview release, I’ll have to register if I want to keep it)
The Dock is a little difficult for me to control yet. I’ve thrown it up agains thte left side of the screen mostly because I like having the access on the side of the screen, not the bottom, but if it’s on the right side it covers up the scroll bars of windows.
Beyond that, this is the first time I’ve had a laptop of my own. Sure i’ve had this Compaq from work, but I’ve never done much more than use it as a glorified typewriter for reports with a little bit of HTML development. Now I’m faced with truely bringing the concept of a portable computer into my computing environment.
Since my desk is still covered by my B&W G3, I don’t sit there unless I’m accessing older files directly, so I’ve ended up mostly using the laptop from bed, having my mail and web access siting on my make shift night table.
I’m reading web sites constantly. History, technology, discussions, opinions, all manner of matter has prevaded my mental environment. I’m not sure if it’s a good thing.
Ergonomically, I need to figure out some things. My back is still unhappy with most of my positions, and my right wrist remains in a brace for the tendenitus that I’ve developed over the course of the last few months.
Portland is getting some real rain tonight. It sounds wonderful coming down outside our bedroom window. Perhaps I should set down this digital tool and listen for a bit…
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07.04.02
Posted in General, Media, Tech
at 12 pm
I just came across a great pair of reads in the form of two articles written by a BattleBots builder. His team’s bot is quite innovative and it’s great reading his workup of the control system.
The second article isn’t finished because he’s not allowed to announce if he won or not until the show airs later this year. I wish him post-competition luck!
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06.30.02
Posted in General
at 11 pm
Very soon now, I will be making journal entries from a new Mac…
(Congratulations to Brazil on their FIFA World Cup victory.)
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06.16.02
Posted in General
at 10 pm
From a mailing list I’m sub’ed to:
ONE OF MY INTERESTS is “the media” in general. Long gone are the old days when one company could only own a few radio or TV stations. While you were sleeping, one company has managed to buy up *1,200* radio stations with over a billion listeners. Waldo in Virginia, a reader and friend of mine, alerted me to this — as well as a new web site that’s dedicated to letting people know what’s going on. He notes: “Clear Channel’s 1,200 radio stations control 60% of all rock programming, they own the vast majority of the musical venues in the U.S., they own the lion’s share of billboards, talk show hosts, and popular musical acts. THEY decide what bands get famous, and what bands are doomed to play the bar circuit. If you don’t understand why your favorite local band just can’t seem to make it big, http://www.ClearChannelSucks.org (new window) has the answers. The music that you hear on the radio isn’t played because it’s popular, but because the labels paid for it to be played. If that’s a problem for you, that site is the place to do something about it.”
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06.13.02
Posted in General
at 10 pm
Hold onto your seats… I’m surfing the Net *wirelessly* from my Newton.
*W-I-R-E-L-E-S-S-L-Y*
Newton 2000 plus Lucent WaveLan Silver Wi-Fi card plus the recently released drivers. I am in Geek Heaven.
The Palm VII I lug around has started looking… weak. This so rocks.
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06.12.02
Posted in General
at 2 pm
Recently seen on a mailing list:
“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of hell.”
– St. Augustine.
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06.02.02
Posted in General
at 6 pm
I’ve had a simply wonderful day with Amy. Here’s a nice vinette to wrap it all up:
I’m sitting at a coffee shop, on the Park Blocks downtown. Amy has brought her Powerbook and we’re using the wireless net connection put together by PersonalTelco. It’s beautiful out, warm sunshine and green leaves filtering the heat. We’re sitting next to my convertible while Amy reads out the play-by-play for the Sacremento/LA game. I close my eyes and… relax.
Life is pretty damn good on Sunday afternoons.
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05.31.02
Posted in General
at 11 am
I just took a look though through that list of features for Jaguar, aka MacOS X 1.2. And I saw this:
“Pulsating gumdrop of death pointer”
I swear that’s in there. Would anyone like to explain this?
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