I would realy like to see or start a convention podcast. I live in the middle of Missouri and work my ass off so I don’t get the oportunity to go to any CON’s. This however doesn’t stop them from happening so I’d be killer if all the recorded speaches n’ shit were broadcast on a convention podcast of sorts. It would be handy as hell to have one central source of convention speaches all organized & fed to our aggregators.
My podcast feeds have doubled in the last week attempting to find this resource. I found a whole shitload of cool tech podcasts but have yet to find a ‘convention podcast’. I know I’m being quite general about the idea but I’d like to see someone run with it if even sticking to a specific type of convention.
http://audio.textfiles.com does have some audio content from speaches and such but it’s not quite the fufilling resource I’d like.
Remember back in the day when you could learn a little HTML and create a presence on the web? Back when you could browse with a unix (text) based web browser. You know what I’m talking about. Back before geocities.. Even before Hotmail… Back when web based chat rooms were framed Perl scripts. Back when people didn’t realize security was an issue. Back when you could pay for dialup and share that username & password with friends all online at the same time. Back when the BBS systems hit an ultimate high in quantity and fell off in the same day. Back when you’re 56.k modem was killer shit since you upgraded from a 28.8. Somewhere along the lines when V.90 was supposed to mean something. Back when you could register anything as a dot com if you had the money.
I’m just rambling thinking of the young days when I thought I could make websites for people who wanted to “be on the internet”. It was so damn easy to do back then. Layout the design with tables or frames and fill in the content and you were done. It even remained easy up until the ‘dot com boom’ started and ended in the same day. Suddenly people wanted all this dynamic content. Search engine optimization became something you had to be ‘good’ at.
It all just keeps getting more and more complicated. Now I sit here today completely incapable of creating a website on my own anymore. Now if I want to get anything done I have to create the script or code base for it (since I guess that is the niche I have fallen into) and then run off and find a CSS person and a Graphics person and a usability expert and a database management freaking scientist. Now I have to build test cases, concern myself with scalability, load test everything from the first line of code. I couldn’t have ever thought when I was 9 to 10 years old that I would be refactoring. If asked that question I would have had the most awful blank stare. What?
Anyway, I’ve been working on a project w/a friend lately & I’m a little miffed I can’t do the whole damn thing myself. I hate waiting around for other people to do their part. On top of that I went out today to learn some CSS compliance and design stuff from one of the best CSS guys I know so I’m experiencing information overload. [/rant]
Things were just easier back then. =)
Bah. So my doctor says I have strep. She went so far as to prescribe me some penicillin and whatnot but she forgot to put the rest of the world on hold for a few days.
Note to self: Work does not stop when you’re sick as if being sick isn’t bad enough.
Do porn bots randomly harass you? I can’t believe they still do this. These things are just retarded.
[09:39] bwahahlisa22: hi… anyone there?
[09:39] skater133: only on sundays
[09:40] bwahahlisa22: oh your zhere 
hi…
[09:40] bwahahlisa22: a/s/l (age sex location)?
[09:40] skater133: should I block you now or later ?
[09:41] bwahahlisa22: im 27/f/USA. was lookin at your profile. thought you miight like to chat.
[09:41] bwahahlisa22: so what have youbeen up to skater133?
[09:41] skater133: My profile is empty.
[09:41] bwahahlisa22: cool. o was just hangin out watching tv. i was getting kinda horny (*blushes)
[09:42] skater133: My girlfriend is psycho and will kill you if you use the word ‘horny’ in a conversation w/me again.
[09:42] bwahahlisa22: feeo like a little cyber fun with me ? please please…
[09:42] skater133: death is iminent
[09:43] skater133: you crappy bot whore.
[09:43] bwahahlisa22: i think ill just take that as a yes… being as thaat im starting to get real horny here.. lol ok?
[09:43] bwahahlisa22: bot? whats that? spme kinda insult or something?
[09:44] skater133: bot? whats that? spme kinda insult or something?
[09:44] bwahahlisa22: oh you mean one of those auto talk things or something right.. loll. well if you were in my apartment right now id lift up my skirt for you and i think youd be convinced real quick
[09:44] skater133: is that a threat ?
[09:45] skater133: I’m going to hunt you down and slit your capacitors
[09:46] bwahahlisa22: alright how bout i get down on my knees in front of you and help you out of your pants?
[09:46] skater133: I’m only 13.
[09:47] *** bwahahlisa22 has been ignored.
I can’t believe how much comment spam I get. I’m getting tired of deleting it all. I just installed the Akismet plugin. I ran across it while trying to find a captcha plugin. Akismet is a live smart filter. I’m not a fan of captcha forms so we’ll see how well this works.
There are a lot of comment spammers. It’d be handy if we could just kill all spam traffic. There is a lot of crap traffic out there.