I’ve been attempting to repair one of my former cow-orkers inadvertently obfuscated programs.
It is one of life’s truths that there is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
Monthly Archives: February 2001
Play Money
Would someone care to enlighten me on just where Napster plans to actually get a billion bucks?
The RIAA and the other plaintiffs may be dinosaurs, but they’re not that dumb! Maybe some teenager who’s using Napster to rip off Eminem songs will take this at face value, but will anybody else? And does anybody think the Napster subscription model is actually going to go anywhere but down the toilet? Hello! It’s about getting music that you’re not going to pay for. Deal with it.
Blogging
I am still struggling to bend GreyMatter to my will.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Where are you going to go today?
The top ten reasons why eternal damnation is better than Windows software development.
Weird NJ
Your travel guide to New Jersey’s local legends and best-kept secrets: Weird NJ. I’m particularly fond of this vignette describing what’s become of the Asbury Park of my childhood. And the story of Jungle Habitat reads like some prescient Jurassic Park.
Digicams and Ubergeeks
Philip Greenspun runs photo-net, an immense database and website of all things photographic. His travelogues are immensely entertaining, and his online textbook should be required reading for any web designer. Here is his review of the Olympus E-10 Digital Camera.
Career Dissipation
It should come as no surprise that in our modern political world, you can buy a night in the White Houseor a presidential pardon. But a boat ride in a US Navy submarine? This has got to stop. And I’m sorry you f***ed up, Cdr. Waddle, but you were negligent, probably criminally negligent, and good luck at your court martial.
Updates
Event Horizon entries will be sporadic for the next couple of days until I get time to work on a Blogger replacement.
Blogger
Pyra, the dotcom that makes Blogger, is down to just one employee, but he says that Blogger will live on. Interestingly, Meg (co-founder and/or second employee, depending on who you listen to) doesn’t mention a word of it.
Peter Merholz offers his take on Pyra’s woes here:
A colleague said it best, and perhaps most brutally, when he said that it seemed that Blogger was run as “a hobby.” Numerous avenues for garnering revenue could have been pursued–none were. For me, that’s always been the most perplexing aspect of this whole endeavor. It’s as if there was simply a mental or organizational block toward accruing money. Which is fine for a hobby. But, and this is bleedingly obvious, not for a business.
Can it be that there are people in this business who don’t realize that it’s always about money?
It’s time to track down that Javascript that does what Blogger does, Ev’s assurances notwithstanding. Thanks, guys, it was fun while it lasted.
[Update: if you can’t get to the Evhead link, keep trying. Something is screwed up there; sometimes it asks for a password, sometimes it doesn’t. Anonymous login doesn’t work. Tell me again how much longer Blogger will live?]
[Another update: It seems to be a problem at Pyra. The Megnut link is now not working. Or maybe they’re mad at me for talking about them> :-)]