tin_the_fatty radio weblogphotography is a road long and lonely...(Untitled)- January 28, 2003 Signing Off I am retiring my Radio weblog. You are invited to visit my new MovableType weblog.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/29.html#a286 (Untitled)- January 25, 2003 Big Music Labels Dying Very interesting commentary. In summary, 75% of music are published by the big 5 record labels and their subsidaries. Last year all of them were either losing money or barely broke even. They blamed music privacy and file sharing. We think otherwise. This commentary pointed out something new to me. Since earlier 90s all the music labels were pushing those boy bands and girlie bands to teens. None of these bands lasted more than a few albums and music quality were...http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/25.html#a285 (Untitled)- January 23, 2003 The Shutdown Yesterday The housing estate I live in has had its penta-annual electricity check yesterday. No electricity for most of the day, so my computers were all shut down in the morning before I left the house. Well it is all back to normal now. I hope.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/23.html#a284 (Untitled)- January 23, 2003 Po's Gig is Back Here. For US$40HK$320 a year, Radio is very good value. Folks probably pay more for 40MB of web space alone. It really is a very good way to host a weblog.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/23.html#a283 (Untitled)- January 20, 2003 Hobson's Choice I went to a school play "Hobson's Choice" when I was in Sixth Form. It was the first time I came across this play and this story. It was good performance and I liked it. When I said to my schoolmates that Hobson didn't really have much choice, they told me that the whole idea of the story was that Hobson had no choice. thttpd is working really well on my OpenBSD gateway machine serving up my weblog and a few other under-utilized small sites for friends, It is run chroot()'ed,..http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/20.html#a282 (Untitled)- January 19, 2003 Fight Spam Some very smart people met up on fighting spam. Slashdot, as usual, has a follow-up This comment is most interesting. I use a few DNSBLs, and althou this blocks most of the spam houses from my mail server, there are quite a few false positives (the so called collaterial damage). I use services from godaddy and paypal, and both are blocked from my mail server because their IP addresses appear in some of these DNSBLs, meaning that I would have to manually put their mail servers into...http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/19.html#a281 (Untitled)- January 19, 2003 TODO List Finalize draft letter to be sent to hkgolden.com for Po. Finish Rico's workflow program. Look into setting up MovableType to replace my Radio weblog. Radio is good value-for-money for what you get: software plus update plus web space. However, I am cheap, and have no use for web space provided by Userland. Radio have problems handling double-byte Chinese characters with grace. I also don't want to devote one good computer to run Windows just to run Radio, nor do I want to run...http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/19.html#a280 (Untitled)- January 16, 2003 Collateral Damage We snapshooters shoot each other. A lot. We also share our pictures. Roy shot Po awhile a go, at a canteen we visit often, and posted the picture on news:news.freeforum.orginterest.photography. Normally this would be total unremarkable. However, a loser of the name passer-by-02 stole the picture, put a mosaic on Po's face, re-posted the picture onto a web bulletin board, claimed to be the person in the photo and challenged others to break the mosaic. It seemed that this...http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/16.html#a279 (Untitled)- January 12, 2003 The Important Character Jar-Jaromir in The Return of the Kind Funny.http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/12.html#a278 (Untitled)- January 11, 2003 Speed is Important in Usability I only used Apple's new browser Safari for a shortwhile when it first came out. Apple has just posted an update, so I downloaded it and played with it some more. Safari is FAST. The more I use it the more I appreciate its speed. I have to admit it now, that its speed makes the Internet more pleasant to use. Althou I am tempted, I doubt I would use Safari in its present state as my default browser (which at the moment is Chimera). With tabbing under Chimera, I..http://radio.rollingegg.net/2003/01/11.html#a277 |