Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Akira on DVD?

Oh please oh please!!

Anime on DVD: Frequently Asked Questions #akira

Internet Wasteland

Internet Wasteland

Holy crap. Even At Home (-87.3%), Earthlink (-82.0%), Inktomi (-88.2%), RedHat (-95.5%), Vignette (-82.2%), Walt Disney Internet Group (-85.0%) and Yahoo! (-84.7%) are on this list of 211 companies that have lost 80% or more of their value from their 52 week high.

Good thing I didn't invest in any stocks directly. (Sorry to those who did)

My mutual funds were up big time thanks to SciTech funds earlier this year... that growth is likely gone by now. Good thing I'm diversified.

Templates in Conversant

Today I read about Jason Levine's new Manila plug-in, altTemplate. Finally, Manila sites can have more than one template (okay, two with the home page template)!

Not to suggest Jason's work isn't valuable or appreciated, because it is, but I'm sure Jason would agree that allowing multiple templates in a CMS is hardly a thriller of a feature. More like, why the hell did it take so long, and why did a 3rd party have to do it?

A flexible templating scheme is something Conversant, which this site is based on, has had since the beginning. Not as many people know about Conversant, so to the power users who find multiple templates appealing, here's how it's done in Conversant.

Some pictures to illustrate...

Each conversation (ie: DG, web-site, sub-site) has a list of templates that are editable in the administration interface. Here's a listing of the templates in the this conversation.

Here's what you get when you click on the "weblogs2" link to edit that template... (note these images are all cropped, this is only the important parg of the page)

In Conversant's Structure Editor (where you define the pages and folders in your site), you can choose a default template at the root level of your site that will apply to all pages in the site unless a different template is specifically chosen for a sub-folder or page.

In this conversation, the default2 template is applied to the root folder (not shown), but I've chosen the weblogs2 template for the home page since it has special elements like the "last updated" line and the weblog archive calendar.

When you don't want to specify a custom template for a particular page, you leave the "Template" option of the page to its default setting: "use parent folder template".

I'm glad Manila site operators can now have multiple templates per site too... it's a great feature for any respectable CMS to have.

Lindros is facing a lot more than just ‘risks

Lindros is facing a lot more than just 'risks

Hold on a second, read this paragraph about a former NFL'er with post-concussion problems:

"Some days I have good days, other days I don't. I might have a headache all day long. I might have blurred vision. I might have involuntary muscle twitches in my leg or with my eyelid. Sometimes when I am trying to communicate, I have trouble with word retrieval. Other times, my speech slows."

Umm..

Sometimes I have blurred vision (not too bad though). I have involuntary muscle twitches in my leg, very infrequently, but very often with my eyelid. Lately (since I burned myself out in October working over 250 hours in less than 3 weeks) I've had trouble with word retrieval, and other times, my speech slows.

What the fuck? I knew things weren't quite normal but could I be suffering from something close to post-concussion syndrome as a result of my burnout?

Unbreakable

Last night I saw the movie Unbreakable. Go see it.

Wow. That movie was right up my alley. I want to say so much about that movie, but telling you my story now would spoil the movie for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet.

Perhaps I'll write the story up on a separate page, and put a big spoiler alert on the top of that page.

BTW, don't read ANYTHING about the movie anywhere until you've seen it. I had the movie half-spoiled for me by a news-site that didn't announce it was giving information about the movie when talking about next year's Oscars, I'd hate to see others fall into that trap.

Unbreakable is now my #2 all time favourite movie, right behind The Matrix. #3 is Fight Club, #4 is ... I think, Gladiator.

Salon.com Politics | Miami’s rent-a-riot

Salon.com Politics: Miami's rent-a-riot

"GOP spokespeople have said that at least 750 Republican activists have been sent into South Florida from around the country to oppose the recount, with the party picking up the tab for a number of them."

Dear Rebuplican,

How proud are you to read that senior Republicans are responsible for causing riots?

This is absolutely pathetic.