Not sure what would have caused it… cuz I know it ain’t counting just page refreshes…
Note the “24 hours” column.
See, I’m used to getting two or three hits every other hour or so… I guess someone’s visiting.
Time to keep it up. Thanks for the support. Couple more posts coming… and maybe if I have enough time, I’ll be able to retrofit my old entries before the end of the week (kinda busy… prepping…). Hooray for WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS)! XML parsing… hooray…
Wil Shipley’s Delicious Monster taken online.
The thing is that with Delicious Monster, you have the bar-code scanning feature, which is amazing. That way, you don’t have to do as much work as typing in all the metadata on the books, CDs, DVDs you want to input. AND all the prettiness that makes it a beautiful Mac OS X application. What more can some who’s bought all types of media “products” (not content, mind you… oh, the post ideas floweth: Difference between product and content).
With yoursharade though, you get the niceties of the social networking features of the Facebook API. I can definitely see this growing to be an advertising-powered web app, including leveraging (I’m using it again… uh oh…) the data stored about the user’s items to create focused advertising.
Of course… we all see what the next step is: putting the two together. Earlier, I had the idea/concept like yoursharade, but never really decided to follow through with it… but man, it’s quite clever they’re employing the Facebook networks.
Which brings me to another point: Has facebook become the de facto standard for keeping “in touch” in the college community?
And why the heck did I cancel my account?
All these things… answered soon…
Look, Ma! It’s Presentations
Which brings me to my point: In the case of Google (who has the cash flow, the server farms, the super-coding monkeys) and various other Internet giants, building the most obvious of web apps is okay. I mean, this actually supplements their grand vision of taking over the wo… er… nevermind.
But for the rest of us and the VC-wanting start-ups: Wake up.
It’s true, though: An idea is never something completely new. It’s always either a mixture or a better version (or both) of preexisting ideas.
But really… “mashup” startups are just as annoying as link-stealing blogs. Seriously. Enough.
Apple released a statement on the 12th (and in a few weeks, this is going to be the wrong link), with my commentary, as much as I can remember having on that day:
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.
Yes, Mr. Jobs. We want to give you money! We knew June. Of course, a nice rebate would be good.
[Sidenote: By the way, I'm most likely not going to get one. Why? Two reasons: Programmability and Power.]
However,
I don’t likes the looks of thissss.
iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
“We screwed up. But you still love us, right?”
Of course, Mr. Jobs. We love you. Here, have some more money. When’s Leopard coming out so I know to save up my $150?
While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October.
October? Wasn’t the original date Spring 2007? What, is Apple pulling a Vista?
We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
But of course, had I known this announcement would be made the day after I started my IRA Roth… if I knew about Leopard missing the already pushed back deadline… if I knew the market would look like this for the week to follow:
Blah.
This post made by an ex-Apple employee definitely sums up the possible reason as to why… things are becoming shaky, just a tiny bit.
I took an hour trying to tweak the categories on my site. This is how I’m taking my break today. Nerdy, no?
I realized my “Industry Commentary” category was mostly about content and media. I mean, seriously… what was I thinking when I labeled that category… half of my stuff on this blog should be commentary, anyway.
Added a “Gadgets” category. I know I’m going to be needing it…
Removed “Blogging and Writing”. I wanted to post on things about how to write essays and little grammatical things I picked up along the way… but seriously, me? Write? Please.
I started adding descriptions to every single one of my categories. It’ll help me keep on top of what goes where… and when I need to start renaming/splicing/merging categories.
I swear, there was a time when I was stressing how I needed to lay out the foundation for every single category I would cover on the blog. What a waste of time that was.
But I think there should be a tool… with a really nice UI that can help me with recategorizing and tagging of multiple posts in WordPress. I’ll get searching on that. Or better yet… it’s… another project idea?
Whoo hoo! Broke it! Huzzah!
Alas… Google ranking has fallen again to 3 (2 for yahoo). I think joshkim.com is suffering from some spam bot attacks… but we won’t go into that.
Just wanted to share. Now go back to the rest of your day.
Need to fix them… but so little time…
Too much time spent on learning things like Quirks Mode and DOM scripting and Box Model… And when I mean learning, I mean trying as hard as I can to memorize everything…
This stuff is useful. Where have I been these 5 years… I swear, it’s a different world. I feel as though I took a time machine 5 years into the future. I’m so not ready for a career in web development.
Hopefully, someone will pay me to learn it very, very quickly. I wondering who… hoo?
Ya wonder hoo?
Oh right… wasting time with silly things. We won’t get into what those silly things were, but silly things, nonetheless. Bloody…
I think a good way to start describing or defining something is by approaching the problem from a different angle: what it ain’t.
I’m doing this here, more or less, to be able to come back, time and time again, and reflect on why I write on this blog to start with. An added bonus is also that you, my readers, and keep me on track. It is possible, though, that one day, one or many statements will become false or unnecessary, but until that day comes, I hope to stick to them.
The bullet points.
Sounds much too like timesheets and TPS reports, but to sum it up:
Growing, Learning, Sharing, Defining. The World and Me.
Or something like that… yeah…
Until Derek told me… I didn’t know such a word existed. I figured it out, with my four years of Latin and 10+ years of English, but still… wow.
I think my other friends have probably thought of me as such… and just didn’t know of the existence of this beautiful word.
It’s true, though. I love to figure out the process of anything, be it:
But alas… meta is closely becoming a prefix/suffix I enjoy. *hint* *hint*.
I really want to read it. I really do. But after reading about 10% of the post, I realized the CSS to this post was atrocious. What is the deal with horizontal spacing? What is the deal with the width of the column on this heavy text post?
After disabling the CSS, enlarging the fonts and shifting the window to make the text column a little bit smaller, I still realized that… something’s very wrong with the spacing of words. I thought “acycletothe” was a word I never heard of before.
Dang it. There’s another book/essay experience ruined. Blah.