Entries from May 2003

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Mr Popular

Friendster growing like made

Obligatory Matrix Reloaded review

Saw The Matrix Reloaded last night with Gwen. I very much enjoyed it. Some people have criticized it for what it isn’t. I don’t care. What it is is visually interesting and imaginative, fast moving and audacious. It’s also a little pretentious in spots, but it also doesn’t take itself too seriously (nice gag: a [...]

Imagine my surprise

Paul Wolfowitz, traitor to his cause, has admitted that the whole WMD pretext for war was just that.
This is all-but the final capitulation in a series of dodges and weaves that the administration has been taking in the past few weeks on this subject. Some right-wing think-tank types have, hilariously, suggested that no, Iraq didn’t [...]

Burning Flipside 2003

I’m alive!

Privatizing UT?

UT poor-mouthing the lege. What about the PUF?

Spam report 2

Surprise! Spam still a scourge.

They hate translation, translation hates them

If you hate translations, don’t read them. Or shut up.

More thoughts on the iTunes Music Store

The interesting thing about ITMS is that it is integrated so tightly with iTunes, and that iTunes itself is a pretty slick program.
Perhaps Apple is still working out the bugs, but the initial rollout of ITMS is missing a huge opportunity: recommendations and aggregation.
Amazon already does recommendations based on what you’ve bought and what you [...]

Get your warblog-coverage on

The press says blogs are dumb. Again.

Paging David Nelson…

…Don’t try leaving town.

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