The one application that I try to stay away from more than any other is Real Player. Or Real One, or whatever the hell they call it this week. If Real Player, Real One, whatever, just did what it's supposed to do; which is to play video streams, then that'd be great.

Unfortunately, playing video streams is only a very small aspect of what Real Player does; Real Player, most prominently, is a small bastard with inferiority complex and delusions of grandeur, not too different from Napoleon...

Although I have no ambition to learn Ruby, the programming language, Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is too entertaining to not read, too bad it isn't about Python instead...

I'm not a religious person myself, due to my agnostic, or even atheistic, perspective. But nevermind that, because if I was into spirituality, karma or for some other reason cared about how some deity might judge me after I die, I would have an even harder problem understanding the reasoning...

Another re-design, the fifth or sixth yet, or something. Thanks to CSS and PHP, implementing the new layout and design was a breeze, I barely even had to rebuild a single page in Movable Type...

I wonder if I'm alone in not having been raised to think or to believe any thing in particular. I wasn't raised to be religious, nor to be agnostic, I wasn't rasied to have specific core moral values, nor to think highly, or poorly, of any particular person, people, religion, ideology or anything else I can think of...

Writing this post, I realized that I had some sort of contributive complex, and I've now realized that I don't have to contribute at all. That doesn't mean that I will stop weblogging, nor that I will start pulling these heroic fucking stunts like Andy Baio is doing, but rather that I'll go on doing what I've been doing; aimless commentary. Writing just to write, as long as someone will read it. For reasons I can't fathom, a lot of people are...

My experience is that people have come to depend on smileys as a sign of what the writer is expressing. Especially in forums on the web, the participants seem to rely heavily on smileys to give them a hint as to wether a post is serious or not, wether the author is trying to be funny, or ironic, or not, etc. Even when the irony or the joke is so obvious that it's barely even funny, someone always misses the point unless there's a smiley stating the obvious...

I've taken up Taekwondo again, like, just over a month ago. It's nice to be back in the gym. I train really hard, twice a week, for two hours at a time. The rest of the week is spent healing internal and external wounds sustained during those training sessions. I'm...

Sometimes it becomes painfully obvious why some people loathe weblogs. Right now is a time like that. Every blog I visit informs me that Mozilla Firebird has been renamed Mozilla Firefox. Gee, thanks guys, I had noo idea. And now I did it too, damn it. Blogging gets old, you...

I recently watched Gus Van Sant's latest work, Elephant, a documentary about the kids at Columbine High. Gus is no slouch, at least not when it comes to technical performance, camera and actor direction and so forth, I'm not sure about the script though. The characters are very, shall we...