Gecko Bloggle

I’m running into an autosave bug that acts more like a “save and revert” of some sort.  It’s BRUTAL to be typing for five minutes, rest for a second to think about what you want to say next, and then watch it clobber most of the last paragraph and replace it with some earlier text.

I was doing a little post just now, to give it another chance, and it LOST THE POST I was typing, even though it seemed to think everything was just peachy.  Ctrl-Z to undo?  It put back the last word I had deleted.

Niiiiiiiice.

I think I’ll stick to wBloggar for now.

Also, I found A Softer World via Karlababble:

Go over to Cheeseblog and read the rant about Tyra, America’s Next Top Model, weight-myth, beauty-myth, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

And if you’re not going to do that, then just stop. Stop telling me what beauty is and isn’t. Stop telling me it exists as something that can be defined, held up for examination, emulated. Stop thinking I am so stupid as to buy this kind of lip gloss because your definition of beautiful girl is wearing that lip gloss and if I buy it I can be beautiful LIKE HER or, even better, beautiful LIKE ME, unique, because I am wearing the lip gloss that makes unique girls uniquely beautiful.

Stop telling us it’s okay to not be perfect when the definition of perfect is based on sales and marketing.

So go over there and read the whole thing.

So we did it again: Got together on a Monday night and yammered for a while, played with some audio gear (this time we actually had LESS than last time, and it sounded BETTER somehow), played some music, drank some gunpowder tea, and then put it on the Intarweb, ’cause that’s what little dudes do…
Click on the link for Unknown Origins Podcast #4 (right click to download).

• TalkyBit 1
• Tom Waits – Step Right Up
• Porno For Pyros – Pets
• Badly Drawn Boy – Once Around the Block
• TalkyBit 2
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Honeybear
• Aimless James – 1996
• The Dears – You and I Are A Gang of Losers
• Talkybit 3
• Holly McNarland – Elmo
• Hot Chip – Colours
• Talvin Singh – Mombasstic
• Talkybit 4
• Lionrock – Snapshot On Pollard St.
• The Herbaliser f. Latyrx – 8pt. Agenda
• TV On the Radio – Wolf Like Me (f. Katrina Ford)
• Talkbit 6
• Gecko Temple – Shea’s Lounge
• Hollywood Meat Slammers – Dubbest
• Bonus Bloopers/Your Hosts – Hot Buttered Robots (Phlegm Ball Remix)

Don’t forget you can put the following URL into iTunes, it’ll download our Podcast automatically for ya:

http://www.geckotemple.com/blog/?feed=rss2

I gotta say, I’m really diggin’ Sony’s Bravia ads for the “Color Like No Other” campaign. This one’s just sorta… Pretty.
The Hole – video powered by Metacafe Nice little tune, too.

Pretty awesome. Here’s the playlist from YouTube of the videos as posted by my buddy SkonenBlades while he was at work (a Yaletown gaming company that rhymes with Stocksrar). Don’t know if his video’s all over TV yet, but he emailed it to our YahooGroups list just after 3pm.

Check it out.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me on the 2006 Canadian Blog Awards, I held third!

I now get to put one of these in my sidebar.

Congrats to Off the Grid and Amber Mac, who took 1st and 2nd in the Sci/Tech category.

Considering the span of this category, I’m happy to have even been considered.

Complete category (for linky goodness):

A View From The Isle — Amber Mac — BPWrap — Easternblot — Gecko Bloggle — Penmachine — Off The Grid — StayGoLinks — Stevensmac On Blog — The Homely Scientist — The Other Bloke’s Blog — The Science Creative Quarterly: The Filter — Xsamplex

I don’t know how the heck it happened, but I made it through round one of the Canadian Blog Awards in the Sci/Tech category.

Well, that’s not an entirely true statement. I *DO* know how the heck that happened: I have some wonderful friends and readers who were kind enough to go and vote (every day!) and I ended up with enough votes to place third. How Canadian can one get? If I’d come in first, I’d be embarassed that someone somewhere was doing something they weren’t supposed to be doing, but luckily the contest only allows one vote per day per person, so I can’t just let my devious mind sit there and hammer on the Vote/Back buttons. Second would have felt sorta like I was a poser or someth-

That’s it: #3 is the “kitchen party” of any contest.

But no! I really didn’t harness my techie skills for evil! Not that I’ve ever done that in the past on slightly less… stringent… online sweepstakes? (Seriously folks: I think gone are the days when we can sit at our desks and alternate clicks between the “See if you’ve won” and “Back” buttons for hours on end. If they hadn’t, I’d have a truckload of iPods in my storage locker right about now.

Oh, and Happy Birthday to SomeChick, even though she did end up at home with a Snuffleuppagus (is that how that’s spelled, or am I now going to get hits from other typo-addled muppetfans?)

Put that under your mouse and click it.

It was recently pointed out to me that I’d been nominated for the Canadian Blog Awards in the category of Best Sci/Tech Blog. I asked aloud why this was the case, I was reminded of a few of the geekier things I’ve posted about in the last… while or so…

Let’s recap a little (ooh, ooh, a clip show!):

We’ve got programs that makes phones call other phones, taxidermied robotic owls, optical mice and turntables *do* mix, iPods minus the iTunes, awesome bluetooth iPod remote headphones that crack in half three weeks after you get ’em, elderteapots and yell-controlled blenders (both in one post, too!), sites you don’t click on, network drive mapping problems (my MOST popular post ever, sadly), video/audio fragmentation performances, wicked-looking games that never actually get launched ever, me writing about DNS and Active Directory the way some blogs write about food, Google putting yoni in my bible pocket, going on an absolute TEAR regarding LG’s marketing video made in 2001, commenting on Boogaloo Shrimp (from Breakin’ and Breakin2 – Electric Boogaloo) and then having HIM SHOW UP in the comments on my very own blog, hassling the guy who put Princess Leia in the GoldBikini (it’s okay, I work with him), finding secret messages regarding a certain digital audio format in my can of Edwards coffee, our cat smuggling LEDs in her ocular cavities, guys playing a cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” while ruining a number of kitchen appliances, fighting with a whole bunch of people online over who gets to spell what with fridge letters, insane robofish, the Rohypnol version of “Who’s On First?”, carrying a midget around as a cryptographic tool, and who could forget “Why a deep focus in my temporal lobe makes me hate Kirk Cameron in specific, and religious zealots in general.”

So, yeah… It’s been a long and weird trip these last three years…

Thanks to whomever nominated me, it’s nice to be reminded why I write any of this stuff down…

Check out this crazy-looking laptop foldy flippy laptop camera keyboard screen doohicky.

The new Samsung P9000 – with optional nunchucks*

“This new device from Samsung is an abomination before God. Somewhere in Duder-onimy, God said with a fury that a laptop shalt not lie down with a cellphone as a cellphone lies down with a PDA. This is not as God intended, read your Bible. Also, you’ll find no mention of the platypus, likewise an abomination.”
– Crunchgear

All I wanna know is this: Does it make the same noise my Motorola phone does when you close it? I’d like to see that if it makes the same “schwuklackie” noise, only times three.

More pictures and specs available at Engadget

*No, not really. That’ll be in the P9000n.

For any of the folks out there who use their Blackberry, PalmPilot, Treo, or cel phone (ouch!) to surf Teh Intarwebs, you’ll find that this blog now detects your miniature screenage and adjusts accordingly, throwing out all the pictures and flash-based doohickery.

…and no, it doesn’t look any different from a “real” browser, so don’t ask.  Livejournal readers?  You’re going to be vaguely confused by this post, so just spin on, Holl.
Want your WordPress-Based blog to do this, too?  Tough.  Try this link.