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Monday, May 19, 2003 |
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Play This Game! Want your own? Get it here, courtesy of FLOOBLE.
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The Daily Pic 
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Interesting Stuff The Spiritual Message of 'The Matrix' If you're like me, a big chunk of your weekend was spent trying to piece together the twisted puzzle that is The Matrix. Are Neo et al really still living in the virtual world? Are they even human, or perhaps just elaborate programs designed to believe they possess free will? Hopefully all will be revealed in November. In the meantime, check out the NPR story for a few morsels of metaphysical insight. You can hear it with either WMP or RealPlayer. The other thought I haven't been able to shake out of my head is the image of Joel Silver sitting on top of a giant pile of money. 6:03:59 AM comment []
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Bookmark This! DVDPriceCompare.com An excellent resource for those who regularly shop for DVDs online. This easy-to-use site enables you to enter the title of a DVD you are interested in purchasing, then instantaneously provides a list of price comparisons among several major online DVD retailers (Amazon, DVDExpress, Buy.com, etc.). It can even calculate your total purchase price once you take into account taxes and shipping charges. In addition, the site provides a list of regularly updated coupon codes and special offers from the retailers, saving you still even more. Bookmark this one immediately. 4:59:33 AM comment []
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Personal Entry "Because some days you just can't catch a break..." So my feeble attempts at trying to set up this journal on a remote webserver over the past two days have ended in spectacular failure. It all began Saturday morning when I signed up for an account with Hostfolks.net. 400 MB of storage space, 15 GBs of bandwidth per month, a simple site management interface and a free domain name (www.rightmindexpress.com) thrown in to boot... all for $100 a year. The sign-up process was easy and tech support was fast and responsive so overall I've been very pleased so far and would probably recommend them. The nightmare began when I tried installing Movable Type onto the server. I wanted MT mainly because it seems to be the preferred blogging tool of choice, judging from many of the sites I've been perusing recently. Unfortunately, MT's installation process is apparently also the most complicated, requiring at least a rudimentary knowledge of MySQL, CGI scripts and other things I don't know anything about. Basically, when it comes to web-related tech stuff I'm about as useful as a screen door on a submarine, to borrow the old cliche. Anyway, after about eight hours of unsuccessfully attempting to get that up and running I finally gave up and tried switching to pMachine, which seemed to have an easier installation process. Four hours later, nada. Next came Blogger. By this time I had accepted the fact that I would have to sacrifice versatility for functionality. Basically, I just wanted the damn thing to work and be done with it. Although it lacks the elaborate bells and whistles of MT and PM, Blogger is supposedly as simple and easy as it gets. So of course, for me, it was anything but. If you can't upload a site from Blogger to your server, you know there's a problem. Finally, I ended up turning to Radio Userland which, to be honest, was my last choice for no other reason than the fact that it's the only service you have to pay for. I had a trial account on Radio that expired months ago but somehow I managed to reactivate it so here I am. Oh yeah, and I couldn't get Radio to upload to my server either, so now I'm just going to run it off their server for the time being until I figure out why the fuck everything I try to do in life always ends up being an exercise in futility. 2:22:45 AM comment []
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