Archive for March, 2009

Bob McGrath (Sesame Street)

2009
03/30
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WordPress Upgrade

All software should work as well as WordPress (what this blog runs on).

I upgraded to 2.7 from 2.1 yesterday, and not only was the upgrade flawless, it was simple.

In the world of software, why is it so hard to make software simple? WordPress == simple.

User experience is important, but I think the admin experience is even more important. And when I deal with Sharepoint or Exchange, or any complex technology product, simple is so far from the product, you wonder how it was even written in the first place.

Bravo to WordPress.

2009
03/25
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The world keeps spinning

Laying in the grass and looking up into the blue sky, crossed with clouds and the occasional contrail, I remember so many things. My mind is a film reel of the nonsensical. Unrelated items cross my field of thought, related, yet not related in any way, and I am left to wonder and ponder the connections between seemingly unconnected things.

Left to wonder how I ended up the future owner of a minivan. I clearly remembering vowing never to drive one in my younger days.

That’s a kick in the pants. The universe likes to remind us that you are not in control.

Not even an iota.

2009
03/23
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Brilliant analysis on geek vs. suits culture clashes

Quote from here:

But it brings the two cultures together in what are probably the worst possible circumstances: The old-skool scarcity-driven infrastructure probably didn’t know these people even existed. Or if they did, they had wildly inappropriate expectations about demographics and values and potential impact on the status quo. And the scarcity-avoiding geek culture that didn’t until until now give a damn about what “suits” did is now suddenly swinging the full measure of its attention to bear on this affront, and they’re processing it on fucking Internet timescales, without old-skool handicaps like “business hours” or “weekends” or “face to face meetings”.

Hilarious.

Another good quote from the same article:

Cue fan. Cue shit.

Priceless.

2009
03/16
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Watchmen

After reading all the shit on the internet about the wildly mixed reviews, I have two things to say.

1. I loved it. The three hours went by like it was a half hour.
2. The changes made perfect and very reasonable sense.

You cannot translate a book to film in its entirety. If you did this with any book, the resulting movie would be 100 hours long, and frankly would make it suck. Who wants to visually consume the minutia detail of the written word? For once and for all, they are completely different mediums, and should be handled differently. Apples and oranges, yadda yadda yadda.

Lord of the Rings was brilliant. Watchmen, though having its faults, was great.

Zach Synder did a great job. Period. Fanboys should try to think just how hard it is to bring anything to the silver screen. To keep any original idea intact, much less, wholly intact, is nearly impossible. Too much money involved.

Soooooo for all the reviews out there that beat the movie up over this or over that, whatever. It doesn’t make it any less of the film that it is.

And it is great.

2009
03/09
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