selfstasis

The Red Bull Gods, aka Patrick our Red Bull delivery guy, dropped us off a little gift yesterday. Oh what a sweeeet wonderful sight it was. Little might be an understatement. Words couldn’t describe our delectation. As Patrick said his goodbyes and whispered his last words of wisdom to IT, we cried. We promised the same care and love. It was a touching moment. When the door closed behind him all hell broke loose. Austin hit me from behind with my own chair. No, it’s not made of wood. I woke several hours later to find, IT,….GONE. I will have my vengeance.

One of my friends from college unleased his coding talent to create SUPERFISH.org. Basically think of Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, and Gallery 2, but created by a genius. Who the hell goes into Psychology then becomes famous for programming facebook? LOSER! I think I’ve previously expressed my beliefs in social networking. It’s a phenomena spreading like the herpes virus at an e party. You don’t want it but now you have it might as well go with the flow. Basically, it’s not my thing, but hey whatever floats your boat. But corresponding to Facebook or MySpace or anything like that, I think it’s an excuse for people with low self of esteem to increase their visibility to so called “friends” especially myspace - oh look at my friends, oh look! She’s a girl and her friends listing consist of 50 guys so called “friends”. Guest what they’re thinking, idiot. Or vice versa. Yes, yes - call me a bias s.o.b because I am bias. I am an asshole. Whatever happened to going out and trying to physically say hello and meeting a new friend. Get a life and go out. Absorbed some sun.

Yeah, it’s one sided. But just to show solidarityblahblahblah - here is legitimacy. Okay, okay…….the implementation of the social networks through facebook (and myspace - you know what i’ll take that back - myspace is useless) do have a some legitimate uses. Quite frankly, it is interesting to those who care who is connected to who (i don’t care) and students can find real friends at other colleges to keep in touch. To me that’s it. Oh, by the way, I’m using “Social Networking” in a loose loose LOOSE way. Do you even know the complexities of a “Social Network”. I’m not going to explain - open a book and learn something.

Anyway, I went off on a tangent. SUPERFISH is the topic. Matt Novak from SVC created the site. I volunteered to design the front page and graphical components. The goin is slow unfortunately due to the load on another project from work. Sorry Matt. Superfish concept is cool but don’t take my word for it sign up and try it out. More functionalities will be added on an iterative basis. Matt doesn’t stay up all night like he use to - wuss. Development of one of the headers is below:

I can finally talk about my new toy. The Treo 600, no, not the 650. The 650 would be nice but spending all that money is insane. It offers bluetooth, twice the processor speed as the 600, and a newer OS. Other than that their practically the same. What I was excited about before I purchased my Treo was the SDIO capabilities however my research fell short of finding whether or not the SDIO could actually support bluetooth or wireless lan cards. Unfortunately, it does not. I was pissed. Even Palm advertised the SDIO capabilities as “live” or “plug & play” or at least that is what I wanted to believed. You know what I just double checked. Palm writes, “SD I/O (Secure Digital Input/Output) ready” - so I’m wrong - it isn’t “plug & play” - just “READY”. Bastards. Oh well, I should have researched that angle before I bought the phone. Anyway, I’m still quite happy with the phone. Before, I bought the Pocket PC/Phone Audiovox Thera, what a piece of garbage. The Pocket PC capabilities was useful however the phone itself was annoying and not very well developed. That experience ended when the screen cracked under pressure in my laptop bag. It supported SDIO but no drivers were available for that device as well. Others have hacked the 650 to use wifi sdio cards but they are not available for the 600. damn. Now Palm and Microsoft have teamed up to come out with the Palm 700w with Pocket PC. Someone out there is probably salivating at the chance to be the first to load Linux into that model. Below is an image from the Treo 600 camera. I’ve reduced the 640 x 480 image to 300 x 225.

It’s been a while since my last post. Lots and lots of activity. There’s been buzzin on the web. Lots of hype on flock(way cool) - its coming, ning just came out, and radar is on its way. I really can’t give my opinion towards Web 2.0 and Social Integration projects. I see the potential and power but quiet frankly - it’s just not my thing. Ofcourse then again, by just saying that and maintaning a blog/gallery is a venerable conundrum. I’m screwed up. Nay, I have a bias opinion. Let’s talk about AJAX. Ajax is powerful but people are just figuring the power now? I don’t get it. I understand it has been building up, but, hello, Asynchronous Javascript + XML (ie AJAX - ooooAAAAhhhoo) have been around forever - CAN YOU SAY D-H-T-M-L? I see the power it’s undeniable but in all that hype have people figured out the issues with the technology? For one thing, cross compatibility is going to be a issue (a pain in the ass) that isn’t necessarily easy to just throw together on the fly. Have you heard of FLASH/Actionscript, FLEX, LASZLO!!! Since the implementation of Actionscript with Flash 4, developers and designers have been trying to use Macromedia’s Flash for RIAs and have done so successfully. With Flash 5 and Actionscript then to Actionscript 2.0 with Flash MX 2004 Pro, and now with Studio 8 with eventual Actionscript 3.0 (rumors but its an eventuality) - RIAs using flash have become robust to stand on its own. Heck its been standing there for a long while right in front of your face. For me, I fell in love (plutonic geek developer way) with Actionscript/Flash in my softmore year in college, thanks Suman, and it’s never been the same. Have you seen a real designer/developer developed flash site?? I mean a real flash site - it will rock your world. AJAX is probably here to stay and yes I’ve been reviewing my Javascript and XML just in case. It’s always good to have that in your bag of tricks. There is no such thing as too much. But, I’m never going to stop developing in Flash and I’m going to keep telling people to keep fighting the HYPE.