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Wednesday, March 13, 2002
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I thought of a bunch of cool stuff I wanted to put in my weblog and now I've forgotten it all. That happens to me all the time. I think of stuff when I'm riding my bike or driving around. But by the time I get back to my computer I've forgotten it. If I ran Radio on my desktop instead of remotely, then I might have a better chance to capture some of those random thoughts, I suppose.
11:44:23 PM #
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My beard is coming in red. Somebody told me today that that means I'm of Irish descent. Is that true? It could be on my mother's side. My father's family is from Russia.
11:42:44 PM #
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 Day 17 of TheBeard™.
11:41:52 PM #
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How Duncan's Doing: Heartbreaking to read, but an excellent weblog. I hope Duncan makes a full recovery.
5:05:52 PM #
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Here's a pretty good D&D timeline. It has other D&D info as well.
4:55:29 PM #
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An interview with Gary Gygax. He helped create Dungeons & Dragons. He's your god if you were in to D&D the way I was in the 70's and 80's. One summer my friends and I played D&D every day. For 90 days. It was very cool. I bet if I were a kid today I'd be doing nothing but playing online games. Diablo and games like that. Wait a minute. That's what I do now :)
Anyway, D&D was my life as a teenager. I remeber walking into a Wizard's of the Coast store recently, amazed that there was such a store. I noticed that they had some kind of 25th Anniversay D&D set that contained the "original D&D book". I thought: "Original book? Don't they mean books?" There were three little pamphlets that started the whole D&D thing. And even if you read all three you still didn't really know how to play. That's one of the things that was so cool about them. So I asked somebody who worked at the store and he looked at me like I was crazy. "Anybody who knows anything about D&D will know what the 'original rule book' was," he told me. So I did a search on Google and refreshed my memory about the timeline for D&D rule books. It turns out that after the three-book boxed set had been out for a while TSR put out a revised edition they called the "Dungeons and Dragons Basic Set". It was the counterpart to AD&D. By that time I had already moved on to AD&D, so I didn't really pay any attention to the "Basic Set". So that Wizard's of the Coast employee was nuts. He didn't know what he was talking about. He probably got together with his buddies after work and joked about the "moron who was asking about some original three-book D&D set." I hope they straightened him out :)
4:42:07 PM #
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* Blogstickers has grossed $14 since 8th January 2001, an impressive run rate of over 23 cents per day, however with infrastructure costs applied it reports a net loss of $(134). This is on target with our VC forecasts and we expect to turn a net profit ahead of schedule by 2006. [Gary Turner]
I can't wait to get one! By the way, Gary has the best tagline that plays with the weblogs-as-"brain dump" theme. I wanted some variation on that theme, but couldn't come up with a good one. Gary's is best: "the place where my brain takes a dump."
4:16:22 PM #
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Apparently Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to Dragon Ball Z. They plan to make a live-action movie out of it. This can't be good. The animated series is really quite good. But I think it depends on being animated to really work. But who knows. With today's computer graphics, maybe it can be done. Here is yet another Slashdot forum on the matter, if you are interested.
12:22:08 PM #
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And here's a Slashdot forum on Google bombing and whether or not it will destroy Google as we know it. I think Google Instant Messaging is far more dangerous :) But that meme seems to have disappeared, so I don't know if it is still a problem.
12:12:20 PM #
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Here's a Slashdot forum on the new Window's file system being proposed by Microsoft.
12:05:10 PM #
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Microsoft is planning to put the next version of Windows on top of a database, instead of a convential file system. This is actually a pretty cool idea. The Be OS was built on top of a database and you could do live queries that updated automatically. Data would be found anywhere in the database. I'd post links to it, but unfortunately, Be is dead. I trust the same fate won't befall Microsoft :)
11:33:14 AM #
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How do I get added to the watchlist?
11:00:30 AM #
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BTW, another reason I blog is patents. My weblog is my "lab notebook." I keep track of my art here, lest someone someday take a patent out on an idea I came up with. I also try to point to other people's innovations so they get on the record too. Keeping a public weblog helps protect our power to innovate. [Scripting News]
That sounds like a good idea.
10:53:51 AM #
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One quick feature I'd like to see in REALbasic: a visual indication of private methods and properties in the code editor. I'm going to REALbug it and suggest it to the RS guys. I think there was a recent email about looking for 5-minute features for the next release.
10:49:04 AM #
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Sorry I haven't posted even once today. I'm working on my REALbasic XML parser. It works very well, thank you very much. I'm changing the API a bit so it conforms better to DOM. It won't be a conforming implementation, but I figure I can get as close as possible. Actually, conforming to DOM simplifies some things, such as handling node children. The DOM interface pushes me to handle children as a linked list, instead of as an array.
10:47:59 AM #
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© Copyright
2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
3/13/02; 10:48:00 AM.
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