It's all new!
It almost works!
IT'S... Receptacle v2.0!

I've just put this code live and I'm running out the door to celebrate Aaron's birthday. Unfortunately, that means I can't deal with any of the crap that broke in the process of going live. Hopefully, by the time many of you read this, most of it will be in working order.

I'll write a full post later on discussing the change, my inspirations, and some of the new and yet-to-be-revealed features. Until then, have a look around and talk amongst yourselves about how handsome I am.

ForgetFoo points out this week that email makes you stupid. I thank him for doing so. I suppose on some level we all knew it. Even though it involves "reading" and "writing" and other stuff we probably still associate with "nerds" and "poindexters," I think we all knew that the use of the smiley and the either overly casual or downright overzealous use of punctuation was affecting us all negatively. We do it anyways. The damage is an abstract, it's too hard to quantify. My girlfriend "only smokes when she drinks."

Anyhoo. The sheer tonage of emails and blogs that I read and write throughout the course of a day have rendered me a blithering idiot (see above paragraph), so I turn back to my old friend the television which, as ForgetFoo also points out, now makes you smart.

Adobe announced this morning that they will be acquiring Macromedia for $3.5 billion worth of stock. Is it me, or is creative software starting to look like savings and loan? I think we're really down to one and only one contender right now. We could actually see boxes on the shelf labeled Adobe Freehand in a few months. Or, even weirder, Adobe Coldfusion.

All I know is this: Macromedia products will begin requiring activiation across all platforms, and I should have bought stock.

Read all about it.

IKEA end table, mint - $60 (Janus, moon of Saturn)

Craiglist is now offering to post your classifieds in space. Not the web space or virtual space, or even what we typically think of as meatspace. Outer space. Post a new listing and check the box and "The friendly folks at Deep Space Communications Network (DSCN) will beam the postings trillions of miles into space using redundant klystron transmitters and a satellite dish."

This is all a result of craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster winning an eBay auction "for the first private communication transmission light years into deep space." Weird.

Maybe one of the good people of the planet Marklar will want to be in my rock band.

Read the Craigslist explanation

Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, people are freaked out by it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What really got me was this weird perspective collision created by overlapping satelite images.

They're not just watching you, they're bending time and space around you.

Thanks to Google Sightseeing.

Well, it's official. I'm no longer a Disney employee. Wait, I never was a Disney employee. I was a contractor. And Disney doesn't have employees, they have 'Cast Members' (shudder). Lemme start again:
Well, it's official. I quit.

I started this week at a company called Proxicom in Marina Del Rey. That is, my paycheck will say Proxicom on it, even though I'm working in the office of a group called The Designory on a joint venture for clients Nissan / Infiniti. New organization and a lot of technologies butting heads. Growing pains all around, but it seems like a good bunch. there were some shennanigans in getting started and I somehow got slid into a role as a Flash Developer, which isn't something my business cards have said in quite a while. It's all good though, I can dig the Flash. I will say that it's nice to be free of that last contract. Onward and upward, right?