transcendental petroglyphs

will leshner's cave wall scratchings

@ Saturday, February 2, 2002

"Somehow, I recovered everything, and--Bonus!--my trial period reset itself. Don't worry, Dave. I'm giving you my money on Feb 8, regardless."[Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob]: Dang. Wish I'd known that before I went and registered today :) (Just kidding, of course.)

comment ()  7:57:41 PM  #

Wow. I finally got through all of my news. On a tip from another weblog, I had all my news items checked by default. Then I could read through all of them and click delete. But I don't think that quite works. I want to be able to remove just those items I've read and leave the others for later. So keeping items unchecked by default is the better way to go for me.

comment ()  7:48:51 PM  #

I really need to start using HTML tags in my posts. Instead of "stir" I can just as easily write stir, or stir, or stir, or even stir.

comment ()  7:31:12 PM  #

Is there something wrong with me? Sometimes I cannot remember how to spell the simplest words. In the last post I couldn't remember how to spell "stir'.

comment ()  7:29:45 PM  #

stir-fry spam.

comment ()  7:28:49 PM  #

Wow. I'm a Googlewack. Probably because I mistakenly put "Googlewacked" in one of my posts. So if you do a search on Google for "googlewacked" and "leshner" you get just one page. Mine :)

comment ()  5:38:39 PM  #

Idaho Officials Repeal Term Limit Legislation: This is a good first step. It looks to be more a political thing than a popular thing, however. Term limits, if not unconstitutional, is, at the very list, a dumb idea. Besides, we've always had term limits. It's called "election day".

comment ()  5:25:21 PM  #

I went for a bike ride with my daughter today in the canyon near our house. I haven't ridden in something like four weeks. I'm out of shape but not as badly as I had feared. My daughter had trouble with some of the hills. It isn't a tough trail by hard-core mountain biker standards, but it is more than a challenge for us. I took us farther than I should have. As usual, I forgot that we had to come back home.

comment ()  5:22:08 PM  #

We were going to buy in-line skates for my daughter, but, in the end, she just couldn't agree to wear the pads. So we didn't get them. Now she blames us for it. She says her friends tease her about wearing pads. We don't want her to get hurt. She says that none of her friends wear pads and they never get hurt. I don't believe that.

comment ()  5:04:19 PM  #

'His last vague recollection of London includes the statement; "I'm just going for a drink, see you in about an hour".'[Rogi]

comment ()  5:02:51 PM  #

I just had a horrible thought. What if Google Instant Messages kill Google. How could that happen? Well, what happens to any form of communication on the Internet? Spam! So soon I'll bet we start seeing weblogs getting spammed with Google Instant Messages. And Google itself will be filled with 'em, thus rendering it useless.

comment ()  12:01:53 PM  #

SJL: "It's one of those special days: 02/02/02." [Scripting News]: Yes. And it is my wife's birthday. Happy Birthday!

comment ()  8:49:03 AM  #

OK. I just discovered a serious (I think) problem with the way I think about referrers. If I put a link to another weblog on my page and then follow it from my desktop homepage, then that weblog gets a link to my desktop page in its referrers page. They can't follow that link. To work correctly, they need a link from my cloud page. That way, on the off chance they actually want to find out about me, they can.

comment ()  8:44:01 AM  #

So what happens when I've used up my 10M of space on UserLand's server?

comment ()  8:37:29 AM  #

"Once the disorientation clears, you begin to realize how weighed down you are by your own unrealistic hopes and expectations. After you drop the baggage of things that don't fit, you can start taking joy in the things that are right for you, regardless of the effort to reach them." [Burningbird]

comment ()  8:36:28 AM  #

I do have to admit one thing, though. I have always been avid reader of Scripting News. But when the first iMacs came out Dave said that Apple was making a mistake if it thought that customers wanted style over substance. I stopped reading then and there. I didn't go back for over a year. That comment was clueless and it made me so mad I couldn't read any more of Dave's posts. Plus the fact that I thought Dave had gone crazy charging almost $1000 for Manila when I'd been using it for free as Frontier. When I finally did go back to Scripting News I found out about Radio and I realized that Dave had been on the right track after all. I think he always wanted to do something to create a community. And a really big community at that. He didn't want a couple hundred or even a couple thousand users. He wanted (and wants) millions. He needed to do something with low or no barrier to entry. But, of course, he still needed for UserLand to make money. In other words, he needed to do a killer app that was inexpensive enough that even Will Leshner would pay for it. That's Radio.

comment ()  7:56:15 AM  #

I finally registered Radio. Wow. I didn't think I'd ever buy anything from UserLand. Not that I don't like them. I do. But first there was a free Frontier. Then Manila came out and it was too expensive for me. Radio is just right.

comment ()  7:47:52 AM  #

Do You Pay for Your Shareware? [Slashdot]: I'm afraid I'm a bad boy. I did pay for Fruit Menu, though. I plan never to produce shareware (I'm not against others doing it, I just personally think it isn't for me). I think the internet is very much about fame and fortune. First get famous and then fortune will follow. Asking people to pay for your software is not going to get your software out where people can see it. Many people will feel too guilty to use it and won't. Others will use it without paying. A very few might pay. So I can't believe you can really make money at it. Ambrosia does appear to be one company that can. Peter Lewis also made a go of it, but I think their software is more commercial that share ware. My plan is to keep my stupid little apps free so that people can feel free to download and try them for as long as they want. Before I had a job that was exactly what I did with a little app called MailSniffer that sniffed for POP mail. That got me my first really decent-paying job.

comment ()  7:34:08 AM  #

According to the LA Times (and I've heard it on NPR as well), Isreali reservists are refusing to fight for the safety of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. What do I think about that? I'm very pro-Isreal, but I have a lot of respect for what the reservists are trying to do. I'm certainly not in favor of Isreal's opressing anybody to further its ends.

comment ()  7:25:33 AM  #

I wrapped the picture of the unicycle in yellow wrapping paper. The picture itself is in a manila envelope. So she'll open the yellow present to find another yellow present. The wrapping paper looked kinda lonely by itself so I took some red tissue and tried to fashion a kind of flower. It worked ok but I'll bet she won't think so :)

comment ()  7:19:29 AM  #

It doesn't work. That last post was something I wrote last night while at Starbucks and it doesn't flow with what I wrote before that about my wife's birthday. Maybe carrying around a notebook won't do me any good. But at least I could take notes. I just have to be careful how I work those notes into posts.

comment ()  7:16:56 AM  #

I think I'm going to have to start carrying around a notebook to write down stuff to go in my weblog. I'm thinking about it all the time. Then I get in front of the computer and I forget all the stuff I was going to write. Dang.

comment ()  7:15:32 AM  #

Good morning. Today is my wife's birthday. I'm giving her unicycle, but it hasn't arrived yet. So all I can give her right now is a picture of a unicycle.

comment ()  7:14:46 AM  #