Jul30
Judge Judy was in the middle of taping her hit courtroom series when a 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit near Los Angeles. Watch as everyone freaks out and the defendants just stand there.
Akeem McLennon
Jul27
If you’ve never seen Dexter, it’s basically about this serial killer who kills other serial killers. It sounds kinda weird, but it’s actually pretty good. It’s one of my favorite shows. Anyway, for those of you who DO watch it, here’s a teaser trailer for the third season.
Jul16
Cool New Radiohead Music Video
I just found the new music video for House of Cards by Radiohead. If you don’t like Radiohead, you might still think how it’s made is pretty cool.
“No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.”
Jul12
Up until now, BlueLaguna.net and RealityLapse.com have been using the same servers. However, I’ll be moving some of the RealityLapse servers to a new network so I decided this would be a good opportunity to put all BlueLaguna.net downloads on their own separate server. On the surface, this really won’t affect BlueLaguna.net users at all initially since some of the servers will be in the same datacenter. However, in the near future I plan to order a server in Europe and Asia to better accomodate users in those regions. It also seems appropriate to change the naming convention for the BlueLaguna.net servers. Originally, they were all named after ancient gods so I will be returning to doing so. The Lamda server will be renamed to Thor.
RealityLapse.com users on the other hand may experience brief service interruptions do to DNS changes. Whenever a host name (such as omikron.realitylapse.com) changes to a new ip address, it can take a while for some internet providers to recognize the change. Most companies recognize the change within a few hours. Some however may take up to two days. Therefore I will only be switching on server at a time, starting with Omikron.
Jul01
I’ve been looking through AudioBiblio, Blue Laguna, and RealityLapse and I think some pages should be organized better.
In AudioBiblio’s case, I’m thinking that to home page (after you login) should be improved to include more features of the site. This site has a lot to offer and I’m adding new features all the time, but they might get lost if people don’t have time to explore (and the average person doesn’t). I’m also moving in the direction of including more icons and pictures all over the site to make it more visually appealing.
The navigation bar on BlueLaguna has become extremely long. I’m thinking of doing alphabetical menu items, but that can make that area too short in comparison to the content. I’m open to any suggestions, but this might be an opportunity to include some new features as well to fill up that space.
Last, but not least, RealityLapse also faces the same navigation issue as BlueLaguna. However, this issue spans across many pages. I’ve recently beefed up the music section, but that has also meant that the information pages for each anime has become cluttered with links. The list on the “Full Episodes” page has also grown extremely long. Personally, I like having one big page with all the downloadable anime series, but this can lead to a lot of pointless scrolling and searching through relatively small text. The blue subnavigation already organizes anime alphabetically, but I think the best solution will be to add additional filters that change which anime gets displayed. This will also be a good place to integrate the tags I assigned to most of the anime a while ago.
Jul01
Trying to decide on a cellphone
I’ll be heading off to Rice University this fall and I’ve been trying to decide on a cell phone provider. At the moment I have a PDA phone running Windows Mobile which I use to keep organized and synchronize all my email and contacts with my server. Although this works fine, my phone is kinda bulky and Verizon doesn’t really have any good smart phones. Right now I’m on a family plan, but the contract on my line has expired to I’m free to move to a new provider.
So far Sprint is looking the best. They’re supposed to come out with a new phone around September called the HTC Touch Pro that seems to be exactly what I’m looking for. They’re also coming out with this device that uses your internet connection to create a miniature cellphone tower with unlimited minutes called the Airave. Anyone have any suggestions?