RR (19,7,2): Posts, lack of
Must be the microblogging thing. If you look at my earlier posts from 2008 and 2009, I was posting almost every other day, and with rather short posts. Oh, and sometimes with pictures. I realised I haven't bothered to get any pictures up on here for this year. I did take screenshots of Fedora 13 (two posts back), but I just couldn't be bothered to upload them.
Let me explain. To get pictures on Blogger there are two ways. One is to use the image upload button thing. And that button is not available in HTML mode, which is the mode I use most of the time. (Yeah, "most", not "all", since the rare times I use tables and not-so-rare times equations and images it's pretty handy to check that the output looks okay.) And before the UI change in Blogger, the upload image button placed the image at the top instead of at the caret (the vertical line thing indicating where you're typing), which was heaps of stupid, but still better than that not being present at all.
The other way, which is the one I use now, is to upload the images manually, then link to them here. Except now I'm still using Google to host the images with Picasa (or whatever their image service is supposed to be called). Needless to say, this is quite tedious. For some months last year I was trying out an image blog, e1a12bf1, but then it was tiring. The process was like this: first, manually adjust image with Gimp, second, go to picasaweb.google.com, third, click "Upload", fourth, navigate to image directory, fifth, go to image page on Picasa Web Albums, sixth, get link to full-size image. Six bloody steps. One hundred times. Admittedly the first and fourth steps will definitely be present regardless of how I upload images, but still.
So anyway. Back to the microblogging thing. I've been posting about a dozen times a day (haha) at Twitter, offering little glimpses into my current thought processes. And if thought processes are really what you want you can head to Concentrated Entropy. That blog has lots of copypasta, but also original content. It's (mostly) unoffensive, but I don't make guarantees on that. There's also little QC there, so most of the shit there will be shit. And the posts aren't really internally coherent, quite a few of them being like Wiki Walks. And the (really) interesting stuff (to me at least) are all password protected, except some of them have hints to the password (haha, look harder). And most of those passwords are distinct, some contain intentional misspellings, and all that bullshit.
Yeah, so where was I? Right, microblogging. I actually set up an identi.ca account, although I haven't used it yet. The most obvious way for me to use both identi.ca and Twitter at the same time is through a client program, and the one I currently have is Gwibber. But it's slow. I mean real slow. It takes more than twice as long as it takes for Chromium to start up and to load Twitter. And that's a cold start (like when you just started up the computer). Because I have Chromium open quite often, this is further skewed, with a warm start of Chromium taking less than half a second.
And getting back to topic. In the past there were few relatively long posts; my rant on Apple's page for Safari was at that time (2009, iirc) my longest post here (excluding images which tend to take up plenty of space), but now I've been writing significantly longer posts than that. Compare the lengths of my posts from 2009 and 2010. Definitely significant. That said…
At the start of July (or around there or maybe not) I'll do another post statistics post, having another year worth of posts from April 2009 to March 2010. It'll be great fun! The last time I tried this it took me hours to get stuff working; in particular the day-of-week data was ridiculously tedious to compile. And this time, post frequencies will still be measured in microhertz! For sheer lulz. At least converting from inverse days to hertz doesn't take much effort. (For the record, 1 inverse day is about 11.6 microhertz.)
For much of these holidays I've been watching anime. Seriously, I don't even understand myself now. Last year I just sticked to one series, spamming it all at once. (Well actually 2, since there was also a sequel.) This year, so far, I finished 11 series already. Actually 10, since one of them is still ongoing, but finishing anyway.
I mentioned some posts back I was planning to make a game. Well actually I didn't even bother. I managed to find a game with a rather similar concept, and took to playing that instead. There was a problem of lag since it was spamming OpenGL to get fancy graphics, but it worked. (Okay, I know I can install the official Nvidia driver, but I don't want to. If it's not essential I'm not getting it.)
And games. None of the Gnome games are fun. Some step out of that "pleasantly frustrating" territory and just piss me off so much I don't even want to play it anymore. Some are just plain boring. Some are stupid (ironically, gbrainy). (Actually gbrainy isn't part of Gnome Games, but it's a "game" and it's part of Gnome, so yeah.) Oh, and Ubuntu 10.04 removed Robots. Damn, that one was at least kind of fun. At least if you're playing for a while. If that's the only game you're playing not getting bored will be extremely difficult after some time. Same for solitaire really; at some point I was just gunning for speed records (without cheating). (43 seconds for Freecell. Can you beat that?)
And while typing that paragraph I inevitably lost the game.
I'll just conclude this post with a link: Richard Stallman's political notes. Read them, but bear in mind the writer is a free software extremist (he's the founder of this movement), so his views will definitely be at least somewhat biased.
PS: This is a postscript. Which means that the main body of the post has ended.
Let me explain. To get pictures on Blogger there are two ways. One is to use the image upload button thing. And that button is not available in HTML mode, which is the mode I use most of the time. (Yeah, "most", not "all", since the rare times I use tables and not-so-rare times equations and images it's pretty handy to check that the output looks okay.) And before the UI change in Blogger, the upload image button placed the image at the top instead of at the caret (the vertical line thing indicating where you're typing), which was heaps of stupid, but still better than that not being present at all.
The other way, which is the one I use now, is to upload the images manually, then link to them here. Except now I'm still using Google to host the images with Picasa (or whatever their image service is supposed to be called). Needless to say, this is quite tedious. For some months last year I was trying out an image blog, e1a12bf1, but then it was tiring. The process was like this: first, manually adjust image with Gimp, second, go to picasaweb.google.com, third, click "Upload", fourth, navigate to image directory, fifth, go to image page on Picasa Web Albums, sixth, get link to full-size image. Six bloody steps. One hundred times. Admittedly the first and fourth steps will definitely be present regardless of how I upload images, but still.
So anyway. Back to the microblogging thing. I've been posting about a dozen times a day (haha) at Twitter, offering little glimpses into my current thought processes. And if thought processes are really what you want you can head to Concentrated Entropy. That blog has lots of copypasta, but also original content. It's (mostly) unoffensive, but I don't make guarantees on that. There's also little QC there, so most of the shit there will be shit. And the posts aren't really internally coherent, quite a few of them being like Wiki Walks. And the (really) interesting stuff (to me at least) are all password protected, except some of them have hints to the password (haha, look harder). And most of those passwords are distinct, some contain intentional misspellings, and all that bullshit.
Yeah, so where was I? Right, microblogging. I actually set up an identi.ca account, although I haven't used it yet. The most obvious way for me to use both identi.ca and Twitter at the same time is through a client program, and the one I currently have is Gwibber. But it's slow. I mean real slow. It takes more than twice as long as it takes for Chromium to start up and to load Twitter. And that's a cold start (like when you just started up the computer). Because I have Chromium open quite often, this is further skewed, with a warm start of Chromium taking less than half a second.
And getting back to topic. In the past there were few relatively long posts; my rant on Apple's page for Safari was at that time (2009, iirc) my longest post here (excluding images which tend to take up plenty of space), but now I've been writing significantly longer posts than that. Compare the lengths of my posts from 2009 and 2010. Definitely significant. That said…
At the start of July (or around there or maybe not) I'll do another post statistics post, having another year worth of posts from April 2009 to March 2010. It'll be great fun! The last time I tried this it took me hours to get stuff working; in particular the day-of-week data was ridiculously tedious to compile. And this time, post frequencies will still be measured in microhertz! For sheer lulz. At least converting from inverse days to hertz doesn't take much effort. (For the record, 1 inverse day is about 11.6 microhertz.)
For much of these holidays I've been watching anime. Seriously, I don't even understand myself now. Last year I just sticked to one series, spamming it all at once. (Well actually 2, since there was also a sequel.) This year, so far, I finished 11 series already. Actually 10, since one of them is still ongoing, but finishing anyway.
I mentioned some posts back I was planning to make a game. Well actually I didn't even bother. I managed to find a game with a rather similar concept, and took to playing that instead. There was a problem of lag since it was spamming OpenGL to get fancy graphics, but it worked. (Okay, I know I can install the official Nvidia driver, but I don't want to. If it's not essential I'm not getting it.)
And games. None of the Gnome games are fun. Some step out of that "pleasantly frustrating" territory and just piss me off so much I don't even want to play it anymore. Some are just plain boring. Some are stupid (ironically, gbrainy). (Actually gbrainy isn't part of Gnome Games, but it's a "game" and it's part of Gnome, so yeah.) Oh, and Ubuntu 10.04 removed Robots. Damn, that one was at least kind of fun. At least if you're playing for a while. If that's the only game you're playing not getting bored will be extremely difficult after some time. Same for solitaire really; at some point I was just gunning for speed records (without cheating). (43 seconds for Freecell. Can you beat that?)
And while typing that paragraph I inevitably lost the game.
I'll just conclude this post with a link: Richard Stallman's political notes. Read them, but bear in mind the writer is a free software extremist (he's the founder of this movement), so his views will definitely be at least somewhat biased.
PS: This is a postscript. Which means that the main body of the post has ended.
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