28 Feb 2000
I finally broadcast my radio show, Showtune It Up, for the first time this semester (our radio station, WLLC, has been having technical problems). Now we’re broadcasting through campus cable instead of over the internet. So, I can’t watch the display panel anymore and tell if anyone’s actually listening or not. Bummer.
I like being able to tell if anyone’s listening to my show or not, just like I like knowing whether people are reading my weblog or not. I’m glad I’m running my own server and can track my visits. I can also see who’s pointing to me (but I’ve been delinquent in thanking logs like passerby, parenthesis, and prolific that have pointed to hit-or-miss.org and web queeries).
27 Feb 2000
From a weblog I’ve been reading more and more frequently… Ryan puts us other webloggers who merely link sites to shame and creates something of his own: a parody, My Name Is (Ivelnikov), of rapper Eminem’s signature song.
26 Feb 2000
Hot Damn!
I’m on fire! I’ve been considering switching to Blogger (which I’ve been using for the new collaborative blog web queeries) so I could have a pop-up form that I can select from my right-click menu to add entries. Well, I’ve managed to develop my own pop-up form by looking at the javascript for the Blogger form and tweaking it. I am a fucking genius!
26 Feb 2000
Salon interviews the screenwriter for the upcoming Harry Potter movie and I breathe a sigh of relief. It looks like the rumors of the film being “Americanized” might not be true.
“The first thing I said to Warner Bros. was that I love the characters — and that is the whole movie. Obviously you need a plot, but the charm of the movie should be these kids, and you have to be as faithful as possible. The picture has to be British, and it has to be true to the kids. I’m speaking from my own experience, but I find that children 7 and under respond less to special effects than to characters and to what’s happening to characters. And Warner Bros. seems to be wholeheartedly embracing this approach — that if you don’t care about the kids in ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re not going to care about the movie, no matter how remarkable the dragon or the flying broomsticks.”
(via Ghost in the Machine).