Entries from 2 Jan 03

Audio ads on the web

Well, this is a first for me. This page played a sound clip when I hit it, a guy saying “This column is brought to you by 3M.”
It’s a good thing I have a fast connection, or I would have resented the extra download time. As it is, it was pretty jarring. If this catches [...]

Adaptation

Adaptation=Being Charlie Kaufman

Happy new year

A new year, and let’s hope, a better one. 2002 was a tough year for a lot of people. I have little to complain about myself, apart from slow translation work. Funny, though, how money — or more accurately, the lack of it — tends to get in the way of so many things. Apart [...]