01.10.07
Link Wednesday: The Berners-Lee Strikes Back
On Wednesdays, in the absence of actual content, I bring you Unpaid Advertising. Basically, this is a listing of things that have caught my eye over the past week. I hope you find it agreeable.
I used to really dig the old AudioGalaxy piracy music sharing service for one reason which I have yet to see anywhere else: I could order my home computer to download files from any other web-enabled computer in the world. AG relied on a “satellite” application which pulled data from a web front-end. So, let’s say I was in the radio studio on-campus. If I heard a song I really wanted to keep, all I needed to do would be to log into AG and pick out the file. By the time I got home, the song was on my hard drive, all downloaded and awesome. While I know for a fact that the music industry would get the world’s largest collective case of explosive diarrhea if iTunes ever implemented that, the next best thing would be this little trick, which more or less does the same thing but for torrents. If IM file transfer wasn’t ridiculously flaky (as LifeHacker reminds me) I’d be more psyched about it. Oh, don’t let the Mac-ness scare you; I’m sure it’s a trivial change to do this on a Windows-based machine or even a comparable Linux client.
While it’s not strictly a link, per se, I have to say that I picked up a copy of Getting Things Done, the by-now-famous productivity manual by David Allen that has been nearly a staple of the OCD-super-geeky-crowd. Why I’ve resisted joining the movement before now is painfully unclear to me from this side of Chapter 3, as quite frankly it’s f%$#ing brilliant. Most of it’s common sense, yes, which probably answers my question about resistance; but it presents it in a wonderfully programmer-oriented way (completely unintentionally, apparently) that so far has really helped me figure out that even though I have WAY too many projects on my plate right now, I can and will get a handle on them– and it’s oh so hackable, judging by how many PDFs and ‘here’s what I do’ guides are out there. Expect more logorrhea about GTD from me in the future.
And now, cheap laughs that make me feel better about my past job hunts.
I suppose that in the absence of an actual blogroll, I should at least point out that I kind of miss working with Joel Pan, back when I was assisting with RPGamer. Though now that I think about it, the blogroll is on my “Projects” list.
Box art for FFVI Advance was released over the weekend. I’m definitely waiting for the reviews to come in (based solely on how badly IV Advance burned me and those I know– I haven’t even touched V Advance, partly because I never liked V but also partly because of this), but in my best estimation I don’t recall seeing that particular Amano sketch of Terra before.
Finally, the man who contributed in large part to feeding me in the last half of my college career has died. I’d make a gag about it, but honestly, there wouldn’t be much to it. So, yeah.