Monday, January 13, 2003

Mena said, "For those who use Movable Type and are interested in moblogging and blogging from PDAs and handhelds, this purchase is good news." It sure is. I've been contemplating a move to some other backend setup for some time. This might push me over the top. 3:39:17 PM

Interesting that the Analysts at Jupiter are now keeping blogs, but I didn't find anything insightful on any of them thus far. (link via Scripting News) 3:29:30 PM

I have another major beef with the hiplogging feature of Danger's Sidekick service. You cannot include links in your postings. Now, I'm not really a blog purist by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that the ability to post more than just a bunch of plain text is a basic blog feature. I mean, this is one of the primary purposes of having a blog in the first place. Come on people, get with the program, get some perspective on what people use their blogs for, and clean up that darned copyright statement too. Update: You can include linked text in your postings. It just uses a non-HTML markup to do this as explained here. 3:02:21 PM

Console games, especially those for the PS2, have taken a sort of weird turn in the last year. It's becoming more and more common for the more popular games to try and sell more merchandise than just that particular game. Two recent examples from my gaming library include Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Madden NFL 2003. In order to get to additional cheat codes for Vice City, one can purchase one of the six soundtrack cd's that go along with the game or the boxed set of all six cd's. In order to get to some of the cheat cards in Madden, one must own other EA Sports games. I suspect that many other gamers fall victim to the same anxiety over possibly missing out on something cool that I do, leading to the purchase of some or all of these additional objects. I wonder how long this will go on before it gets completely ridiculous. 2:01:57 PM

Here's why I haven't set myself up with a blog on Danger's hiptop site. I can't believe how clueless this particular decision is. I write stuff, I should get to decide how it is available to others for their use, end of story. (via evhead) 8:50:42 AM