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New user? Sunday, January 20, 2002
Was bound to happen...
Dave Winer has updated the Frontier/Radio 8 section of the credits page, which was previous marked as a draft. I was pleasantly surprised to see myself and others who had been invited and contributed to the endgame of the Radio 8 testing process on the list. Heck, I was pleasantly surprised to have been invited at all.
When I made the comment about WinerLog and censorship on Friday, one of the first things I thought was, "I bet I'm removed from the credits page for this...". And I was right. I was hoping to be pleasantly suprised, but I guess my cynical side was right this time.
Personally, I've always liked shit disturbers... emotional people who care enough to be vitriolic. (Dave himself is exactly that kind of a person. hint) Yes-men and brown-nosers are boring to me, and rarely advance the status-quo. Dave thinks this way too; I know because we've spoken about it on the phone. (one of those times Dave appreciated my talent instead of despising my observations and brutal honesty)
Anyway, I write this as a follow up. Not to blow my own horn, but just to note I was acknowledged in the past, that I have contributed to Frontier, even when I was a pain in the ass (I was). This is what Dave called taking the high-road, and he used to be consistent about this.
I'm third on the list for Frontier 5.0. I spent a ridiculous amount of time testing that release, especially on Windows. I'm first on the list for 6.0. I provided a nice quote about it for an article on MacUser, among other things. I'm also on the list for Frontier 6.2.
Times appear to have changed.
Another observation... desperation makes people do weird things. I'm noticing it in my own behaviour, like telling people I'll work for $X when I'm really worth $(X*1.5) and could probably have gotten $(X*1.25) had I asked for $(X*1.5), and been in line with market value. And keeping a lot of things about my life to myself instead of sharing them here like I used to.
Some day, I hope my life returns to a happy balance so I can tell you all about what I've been going through, and be open again... be myself.
Saturday, January 19, 2002
It's kids play for Mario
"It was the same thing in Vancouver and Calgary, too," he said. "A lot of young kids."
Oh man, what I wouldn't do to be at that game in Edmonton tonight. :-(
2001.a and 2001.b
Last week I was thinking about 2001, which was really two years... one from Jan 1 to September 10, and another from September 11 to December 31.
There wasn't much happy to report in 2001.b. Things pretty much sucked all around.
2001.a was pretty decent, though. One of my favourite world moments from 2001.a was when Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon. I hope the world finds something in 2002 to celebrate with as much joy as Crotia (and Croatians everywhere) did that week.
I hope to have a little baby to celebrate soon. :-)
Friday, January 18, 2002
Winerlog
I read WinerLog from time to time. "Logging Dave Winer. Because Somebody Has to Do It." Sometimes they're beyond outrageous, and seriously offensive. I'm sure what they say bothers Dave Winer. As DW said JLG said, the higher up the tree the monkey climbs the more people can see it's derriere...
Lately, WinerLog has been unable to ping the weblogs.com change notification server, and the evaluation Radio8 site they created was taken down
This really bothers me. For the record, I find it very offensive and suspect that they would block a weblog on weblogs.com, but, to their credit, they continue to host WinerLog for free on editthispage.com (although they have threatened to kill the site before and relented after public opinion suggested that would be a bad idea). UserLand Software, Inc., might (IANAL) be within its rights to do what they're doing (but recent cases suggest this is a slippery slope), but that's besides the point.
If this continues I think the weblogging community should discuss whether or not it is tolerable to rely on weblogs.com when it doesn't allow all weblogs to participate.
Update: I just found out that the MetaFilter community has been discussing this too.
