Welcome to my first post from my new home. Cable modem works, ethernet router works, wireless access point works. I chose the SSID "payusmoney". Think that will discourage interlopers? Actually I'm hoping they will in fact be encouraged to do just that. I'll keep you posted.

Note to self: need a better battery for my laptop.

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One thing Netflix hasn't figured out is how to handle multiple viewers of movies in the same household with the same account. I would looove to have my own queue seperate from my dh, who is currently holding on to all 3 DVDs out of which I've watched all but 20 minutes. I held back last night and pressed pause (can a DVD break by being on pause constantly?) with 20 minutes left on the last episode first season of 24. Palmer is coming down the stairs ready to give his speech, children abandoning him and wife about to. (Why it's on pause: no scene selection on the DVD, so if I wanna watch it again I have to fast forward to the point I want. What's the point of having digital technology if these are the tricks you have to pull? This stuff should be standardized.)

Anyway I'm thrilled to finally be in on the 24 scene, albeit 3 years too late. My uncle wrote me to complain about what they did in the show in its most recent season - he was quite scandalized - but I couldn't comment as 24 was just a line in my Netflix queue. (He also wrote to praise a show called "Wanda" which may bring his taste into question anyway. Haven't watched that one either, as I don't even have rabbit ears, just Netflix). The relevance for me of 24 is it does a great job of holding on to cameras for the viewer. Each camera is completely discrete. The four pictures show up at the beginning, and you wonder which story they're going to take you to. You hope maybe a certain one, a line of the plot as yet unfollowed and potentially less of a headbang adrenaline rush than the one you just left. And that's the one they tend to pick. This will thoroughly influence my use of cameras in my own project. The great thing about SMS is hey, it's just text, so it's cheap. It has to be thoughtful, but other than that it's about as cheap to produce as you can imagine. TV is so limiting: that ER-like scene cost waaay too much to produce for what it did for the story.

I followed Scobelizer's link to cheesebikini, who is talking about Flash Mobs. I hope they will have one when I'm in New York June 28-July 12 (find me at Katz's). However I couldn't resist the following click: http://www.cheesebikini.com/blog/archives/000263.html

"The war against capslock." But it's not what I thought it would be. Survey question: what is the percentage of time you hit your capslock key and meant to do so? Me personally, I hit the capslock key almost once a paragraph accidentally. And I have NEVER needed it for its real purpose. To make matters worse, there are NO popular text editors with a conversion from allcaps to lowercase or back. This may seem trivial, but it keeps my hands on the keyboard constantly (the only way to turn capslock off is by pressing it again). This cuts back on my willingness to do easy mouse things like delete a word or phrase and move it to another place in the sentence. You know what I do? I use backspace and retype. All the time thinking if Steve Jobs was watching over my shoulder he'd brand me as a time-waster, a person who has only an Apple IIe view of technology and won't use innovation for optimization. Yes, I had an Apple IIe, but I'm "all about" optimization and if weren't for that capslock key I'd be happily optimized, using a word processor for what it does best. (Backspace is from the days pre-word processor).

Funny I should get the most hits from the post of mine that I'd least like to highlight. But I guess no publicity is bad publicity. I admit my weblog is not as spontaneous as other people's, as I often have to queue up stories in advance and then post them when I'm connected. This delay sometimes means I get some sense and decide not to post something. My only explanation for last Sunday was a) I had something queued in the maybe pile, and b) I was connected which is rare, and c) Nothing else was queued in the "definitely post" pile. So up it went.

This is the beginning of my day, and Wednesdays are the beginning of my week, so I'm desperate to get back to my compiler. I'm still working on the listbox copy to clipboard problem. I've made a little progress, mostly "internal" in that hey, aspx is a web page silly, so this is where you're working from, this is your toolset. You have javascript, vbscript, you can use <div> tags, but looking for the magic property for your C# form such as "enable copy to clipboard" won't yield results. I suspect I'm 5 hours of coding away from getting a button that says "copy to clipboard" from a listbox that rests on an aspx page. I wish that was my only task today, as me and my compiler need some quality time.

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