Saturday, May 24, 2008

Even more miscellaneous... The old Buffy/Willow fan fiction archive Ikoly died. The site owner seems to have disappeared into the teeming masses. At the same time the BuffyWantsWIllow and BuffyLovesWillow groups over in Yahoo Groups were hacked and trashed by the hacker so people can't subscribe (or resubscribe if they got "lucky" and the hacker unsubscribed them.). They are still alive but on life support. There's one moderator left (but not the group "owner") and Yahoo seems to have washed its hands of the mess. There's an explanation over at WiffyForums (A new web forum set up by Howard Russell, a longtime Wiffy supporter, when BwW died.) Fortunately, Howard has also rescued the stories from Ikoly and with help from several others has put them on a new server. Go to Ikoly 2 to check them out. If you had an account on the old iKoly you'll have to check with him about getting a new password. 6:34:18 PM    Notes [] More Miscellaneous... I signed up for Apple's iPhone Developer program -- the one that lets you sell iPhone/Touch software through Apple as an individual developer. It's $100/yr (+tax in TN of course) (Does the NDA I signed even allow me to say that?) But I haven't had any time to spend learning Objective C so I can actually do anything with it. I bought a refurbed 8Gb iPod Touch so I can test the software I haven't written yet :-> on something other than my main iPod. But that's as far as it has gotten... The hardest part is coming up with ideas for something worth using on something like an iPhone. Sure, it's a miniature computer. But the phone/pda form factor is an issue. I have several ideas for software that I think would work... - two that would be considered work related - which means if I actually wrote them the company I work for would end up owning them. (One of the perils of being in software development for a software company is that grey area of who owns any original idea that you come up with. We don't all work for Google with its apparently generous IP rules.) - A couple fan fiction related. Sort of fic writer tools. We'll see what happens. 6:18:43 PM    Notes [] Miscellaneous News... Gas for the red buggy is now $4/gal around here. Yes, I know it's more expensive elsewhere in the USA. But that first tank of $4 gas was a shock to the system. I'm checking into getting a car with better gas mileage but since the red buggy is paid for and car loans for used BMW's are hard to come by... I'm not sure what I'll find that will be worth getting. Especially since I want manual transmission and that's rare in the model I want. Not sure about the color but this is the basic model and price I'm looking for: http://www.zibe.com/for-sale/Used-2001-bmw-5_series-530i_sedan-manassas-va-1565857.html If they still have it in late June I might have to take a trip there... I've paid the site hosting fee for this blog for another year. Assuming "Userland" is still hosting/supporting "Radio" blogs for the next year. Next year... I'm thinking of finding a different web host -- one that lets me do more than a basic blog. I'm swamped with work... a project I was hoping to have done has gone seriously over time (For assorted reasons -- only 1/4 of which I'll take "credit" for myself. It was a pick-up because the client wanted it done sooner than the original project owner could get to it and I was "free". Unfortunately, it turned out to be much more complex than I was told/expected and since I'm not the one who did the time estimate on it and I didn't have anything to do with setting the deliverable date... ARGH!! Unhappiness in Mudville.... And a learning experience... to say the least... 5:46:36 PM    Notes []

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