First and foremost, hope everyone had a good New Year.
Was at my Jay's girlfriend's place for New Years, and it was a good time. Thanks a bunch Colleen!
Otherwise a *lot* of Dance Dance Revolution was played today. Teaching my family how to play. They all actually thought it was pretty fun, but thats probably cause it reallly is. But man what a workout! (Hey Caitlin, be prepared, I'll challenge you next week!)

Well, 2B is about to begin. More or less. The good news is that I'm home. The bad news is that I've gotta start school again. I'd just wish that I could get a job to work at for 2/3 of the year and go to school for my own benifit the other 4 months. Instead it will have to work like this. While classes do start tomorrow, I'll update what classes I'm taking when I actually decide that.

First of all: Dean smells. So does UC. I'm waiting for him to implement a real time posting system. I've even offered to do all the work converting it to something like Blosxom if he wanted. Anyway...

Its link list time!

• my porn name: traditional web fluff, generates (somehow can't quite see the code) a pr0n psudeonym based on your name
• olsen twins countdown: more web fluff...a realtime countdown to the 18th birthday of the Olsen twins. (And then the Olsen twin pr0n can begin!)
• canada, uncensored: the highest resolution images of canada ever taken. cool stuff
• kartoo: an odd little search engine. Aims to better organize the results, be interactive...but still far from perfect. Interesting though.

hmm...guess i didn't really have many cool links as of late. I should surf more then. Bye for now.

Well, its a unix timestamp. 10000000000000000000000000000_{base 2} (2³⁰ = 1073741824) seconds have passed since the epoch. For those not familiar with programming, the real epoch was January 1, 1970, at 00:00.00 UTC. Woo!
Only the truly l33t will know that it happened today (Jan 10, 2004) at 13:37. Heh.

So, I have my news sources, I have aggregators working for me. I have handy bookmarks and homepages. And I've realized that I don't do any surfing anymore. I've selected news sites that I think will give me what I need, but outside of me finding specific information, there isn't much I do to find new sites of information. For example, all of my links in the last post were from other people (friends, and blogs/news sites). How does one originally find out about my porn name? It seems an impossible task, although once I know about it there are easy ways to find it.
The majority of web popularity though, does seem to be simply from word of mouth. Where'd you hear about Homestarrunner? I heard it from a friend, and proceeded to tell my friends that didn't know. Eventually it will get featured in some sort of piece of news declaring its popularity (for example Time magazine) only increasing its popularity with people outside of this particular loop.
So what ever happened to browsing anymore? I've realized that when I'm browsing, I just look through my same news sites in cycles. Every now and then I'll be forced to find a specific piece of information and browse outside of these sites, or one of my news sites will inform me about a site that they found or was told about.
I could go into more anecdotal evidence here, but looking at my most recently used bookmarks, I've noticed a distinctive trend. But maybe that is just the way of the interenet. It is primarily based on a referral system. Without a link (hyper or conversational) you go nowhere. Hmm...
Maybe I just don't like the fact that once I've chosen my news sources, I'm forced to read whatever they give me. Kind of odd.

Ah, one of the best tracks of all time. Finished Symphony is great. So is Hybrid.
Anyway, I've been coding for a while over here. Learning CGI and Perl and how they can work together, which was nice and easy. I'm making it for Unconventional Conformity so that posts can be made in real time. Previously posts were somewhat archaic, I email Dean a post, and he uploads it once he checks his mail and runs it through a parser. Not anymore. I got sick of it, so I decided to do something about it. Next, maybe I can get him to actually create an RSS feed too! No periodically updating website should be without one, it has a better metaphor to life.
There will be nice effects trickling back to this side of my blogging too, although either way an end user such as yourself probably won't see it anyway. But my life will be easier. Meh. Maybe I'll up and rewrite all of Blosxom. I would if it wasn't already so good. Heh.

Things in the past half week: worked on a login system for the friendly site unconventional conformity. Works rather well now. Still stuff to do, but I can also apply the code I've worked on to the silent q. Which is nice when that happens. Yay.

CTRL-A was this weekend. Some pretty good shows, but they took off Inuyasha! nooooo! The Machine and the person who has the machine's joystick came down to watch. Vampire was run by him. Seems like all that needs to go in the diary for the past few days...probably have a list of links coming up sometime soon.

Well, the first comic has been completed. While the q still isn't officially started, unofficially, it has. The site will probably officially launch sometime in February, but comics will be going up before that on an erratic schedule.
Go visit the silent q now!

I just read a pretty good interview on Ars Technica with Robert Love of the Linux kernel and GNOME communities. Talks about the way the new preemtible kernel works, what that means to program nice values, and new file monitoring and device systems. A good article for anyone interested in linux's path.

I'm beginning to like thursdays->fridays. When CS is due, that is. Mmmm...go CS assignments.
And whats up with machall? Seems to be down. Damnit.

So it seems to be qed's quasi-texan websurfing roundup!

Hey look: you can buy (for a measly 10 bucks CDN) Watchmen (sniff...and now they are no more) concerts! I like the fact that I can get, in its entirety a concert I went to. Be nice if they were a little higher quality though. A bitrate of 128 Kbps doesn't quite cut it anymore.

Check it out: the Sony's QRIO did some voice acting in the new Astro Boy anime (yeah, the new one that Sony's making...heh). See BBC article for details. Note to Sony, make a 5 foot version and sell it to me (with a proper discount of course). Now.

Speaking of anime...(what a beautiful segue)...theres a new Fist of the North Star! Oh, god.

Also, Weta put out a package of concept art for the Live Action Neon Genesis Evangelion movie. Some name localization is taking place it seems Rei = Ray, (that one is kind of odd) Asuka = Kate Rose, Misato (probably) = Susan Whitnall.....meh. There will be changes, it's an adaptation...but I'm really looking forward to it. Really.

I just ate up the demo version of Uplink. The game is just sooo much fun. Quasi-realistic-hacking for hours of fun. Played the demo for about 10 hours over 2 days this week. I just may have to buy the Linux version.

Miss that old soothing sound of a modem dialing up? Here, a 56K Modem emulator is online. I just had to put it in my "/etc/init.d/networking" startup script. :)

Another reason why I love gnome. GAAT. Everyone needs an easy, graphical way to convert images to ASCII art.

Also I'm thinking of mainly just crossposting on UC, but then again, the net probably doesn't need two copies of my thoughts. Maybe it should become some sort of those meta-blog (see: planetdebian planetgnome and others) but Dean wouldn't go for that.

And well, that seems to be all this time...