Day: January 19, 2006

  • Today is a minus-one kind of day.

    Take a number. Make it something in the upper double-digits or even the low triple-digits. Call it “N”, because we love vaguely algebraic notation. (Those of you who know my sheer unbridled joy at working math problems are snickering impolitely, here.) Out of any given number of days, your number “N” minus one would be the total days on which I don’t post anything to my LiveJournal account.

    I only have the silly thing so I can use their oh-so-convenient “friends list” feature, which saves me having to bookmark (and check) each and every one of the dozen (or so) LJ accounts that I keep an eye on, and so I can leave non-anonymous comments. If these people would just post on a decent, self-respecting regular blog system like normal folks (stop that snickering; I can hear you), I wouldn’t have to do this. Necessity is the mother of additional logins, or something like that.

    Today is a “-1” day, for I’ve posted another couple of LJ icons, which is just about all I’ve done post-wise with the account since it went up. Hey, if I am going to comment on stuff there, I might as well have some silly icons of my own to do so with, right?

    Of course, if I start coming up with more icon ideas I’ll throw off the entire equation, won’t I? Hmm.

  • Google & dMarc: Top Ten List

    I quote here an email seen on the Entercom engineering remailer, courtesy of one Chris Tarr, Director of Engineering for our Milwaukee stations:

    For those who didn’t hear, Google purchased dMarc, purveyors of Scott Studios and Maestro.

    From the home office in Newport Beach, California, here’s the TOP TEN THINGS THAT WILL CHANGE NOW THAT GOOGLE HAS PURCHASED DMARC…

    10. The logo on the front of the computer mysteriously changes for every holiday.
    9. Jocks who need a quick fill song now have a button on the screen marked “I’m feeling lucky.”
    8. When you try to put in a liner, the computer says “Did you mean…” and picks one spelled the right way.
    7. Altavista and Zabasearch just bought every “Mister Microphone” in the country.
    6. A song search for any song by the “Barenaked Ladies” also brings up six pages of porn sites.
    5. “VT-32” now trading as “VT-46.87” after inexplicably exuberant run-up in the minutes after the sale was announced.
    4. Hundreds of stations now offer prestigious email addresses to listeners on “dmail” server.
    3. Jocks now spend hours mindlessly surfing the music library.
    2. Next corporate buyout result: “MTV-bay.”

    And the number one thing that will change now that Google has purchased dMarc…

    1. Revenooooooooogle Suite!!