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From the Mailbag: Archiving Yourself —

Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:40:07 +1100 From: David Dean To: Jason Scott Subject: article request Do you get many (any?) of these? Anyway, I figure as an obsessive hoarder, you’ve got some great system for storing your old files – notes about projects ideas, half completed code-bits, word files that you might just want […]

Not Finishing your Film in 5 Easy Steps —

Being someone who finished a film, I get a lot of nice e-mails and discussions going with people who are working hard on films and want advice from me. Naturally I do my best to give them whatever I’ve learned along the way on both the previous and current productions, so that I can help […]

Conceptporn —

It is very important, nay, critical for a weblog writer to not just consider an idea but to coin a nonsense word which makes it sound like they originated the idea, when in fact nobody else might have thought it worthy of calling it a special term. It’s the weekend, so it’s my turn. The […]

Wozipedia II+ —

Besides being an idea guy, I’m also an impulsive idea guy. Hence, I can now announce: http://www.wozipedia.org This is basically a wiki with a bunch of initial work by me and a few others, with some room for expansion and some rough ideas sketched out. If my previous behavior is any indication, this will progress […]

Wozipedia —

I’m an idea guy; I like coming up with ideas. Some of them come to fruition and some are in a sort of holding pattern. Maybe I’ll pick them up again, and maybe not. There’s one I’ve been kicking around for well over a couple years. It’s had a number of names, and “Wozipedia” is […]

The Calibration —

I made the relatively hard decision not to have Vista in my home. This is tough for me, because I’ve been using Windows computers as my front-end to my stuff for over 10 years, and I have done an awful lot of work on that operating system family. Walking away has the potential to be […]

The Wikireporter —

For reasons that become less clear with each passing day, I have a feed coming from Wired News. I think part of it is a nostalgia regarding how Wired used to be when I first stumbled upon it when I was 24, and the other part is that over time I’ve appeared in it. And […]

Lyons Pinball —

I had a very successful weekend in Colorado. I got to interview two interactive fiction authors for GET LAMP, and even got in an interview with an arcade owner for the arcade documentary. As previously stated, if I can fit in something for ARCADE, I do it, but never at the cost of a text […]

The Very, Very, Very Long Tail —

Like a lot of people on the web since 1993, I have a semi-static defunct webpage about myself located on my cow.net website. (I think the fact I own the domain COW.NET also indicates how long I’ve been around.) On the COW.NET page about myself, I welcome people who are browsing, and invite them to […]

Fear —

I hated a lot about the middle school I was transferred into in 7th grade. This is good, because there really was so much to hate, and it was best to get started on that right away. But let’s focus on two things: computers and fear. The school had a computer lab, like a lot […]