That's a great picture. Happy birthday, Mr. Bradbury!
- Chris Baskind
From Mr. Bradbury, "The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week -- doesn't matter what the quality is to start, but at least you're practicing. At the end of the year, you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can't be done."
- michael sean wright
Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine -- man, this guy can WRITE
- TDavid
Another gem from Mr. Bradbury, "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
- michael sean wright
Happy Belated Birthday. 1920 was also the year my Grandfather was born and celebrated his on the 16th, currently he is trying to sign off from Sky Broadband and move to BT. He tried inputting his email on sky's sign off page and when after the 5th time it didn't accept his address he wrote in the box "I have used this email for two years now why won't you accept it!" they did..his theory is that there are people on the other side. His last words on the call was 'Keep your head up!'
- Jason
@ Jason- Great story! You mean there aren't people on the other side?
- michael sean wright
Heh, I was about to say i had posted a duplicate of this article...but this was a whole year ago. Wow, we've been using Friendfeed a long time.
- Jason Toney
Will anybody admit to buying and playing the godawful E.T?!
- TDavid
@Abby that was Adventure in all its blocky castle glory, yup.
- TDavid
Used to love Adventure with the keys and dragons. I never had Asteroids but my friends did. Never quite got the hang of it. I would accelerate too much and end up zooming diagonally across the screen out of control.
- Barak B
I loved Pitfall Harry. And even broke the score where you can send in a picture of the screen and they'll give you a patch. but dang my mom, she wouldn't take a pic of the screen so no patch for me. It was devestating!
- Jason Shultz
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wow, this popped back up from almost a year ago... dang! Do I have to start doing the E.T. noise again?
- Her Lindsay-ness
I love classic games. I still have an original Nintendo to play Mario:)
- Rob Cairns
I still have an Atari but I haven't touched it in years. I'm not sure if it still works. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to hooking it up again.
- jenali
"Users of free podcast host WildVoice.com have been notified that the service will cease operation next month. The latest (and perhaps last?) post on the company blog states:"
- TDavid
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All this gaming of followers stuff is alien to me. I understand it's about marketing but at the end of the day, if you don't have real people really interested in something you are doing, what's the point? You might as well do things that you love doing, you'll get more satisfaction in the end.
- TDavid
"I just haven't been able to get into all the who is following who stuff popularity stuff. It seems like the kind of thing we grew out of -- or should have grown out of -- once school was out. Even the word 'follower' doesn't sound right to me. I don't want to be somebody's 'follower' and yet that's the name ascribed to anybody that I click on to 'listen' to or 'watch' which I think are more apt. I don't make choices of what I like based on popularity, do you Dave? I will admit that popularity might lead me to check out something which I guess is the point of why somebody would want a zillion followers on these services but at the same time I'd rather have 1 person listen or watch what I'm doing because s/he liked it versus 1,000 who do it because of some (likely fleeting) popularity thing. What I think will happen going forward is that the people who were in this for phony popularity contests will fade away and the people who do it because they enjoy it will go on. As it should be. I..."
- TDavid
I'm thinking of adding http://twitter.com/#search... to this group, but I'm afraid it might be too busy. Please comment your thoughts/vote on adding that. Thanks!
"It has not been announced if it is a unique edition of Internet Explorer Mobile, or if it is the same as that which will be packaged with Windows Mobile 6.5, or if it is another browser entirely."
- TDavid
from Bookmarklet
"The Web browser is based on IE6, but unlike the browser in Windows Mobile 6.5 (which it has to be related to), it probably won't have Flash support - but Seitz says it's possible. They're still working on the software it seems - which isn't surprising given the Fall release date." -- via: http://www.zunethoughts.com/news...
- TDavid
"Contrary to some rumors, it will be based on Windows CE rather than Windows Mobile and is heavily modified from the standard version."
- TDavid
from Bookmarklet
"The finer details have not yet been announced, but the basics were revealed to me by Chris Stephenson, Microsoft's General Manager of Consumer Marketing for TV, Video and Music Business. As with the current Zune set-up in the States, it looks like Xbox Live owners will be offered a subscription service, allowing them to download content from the Zune Video catalogue. Microsoft has yet to reveal its content partners, or a subscription rate for UK users, but further details will be revealed at next week's E3 event in Los Angeles"
- TDavid
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""City Council 3050 AD," an original comedy conceived by Worktank, is based on local government C-SPAN channels that broadcast the mundane proceedings of city business. The show, set in the future, uses this dry backdrop to offer humor and absurdity, taking modern local and national political issues and recasting them in the future."
- TDavid
from Bookmarklet
"Wizzard announced podcast network results for the 4th quarter of 2008 and the first two months of 2009. In the fourth quarter of 2008, the Wizzard Media Network received 307,648,694 download requests for episodes ( up from approx. 270 million requests during that same quarter in 2007). The Q4 numbers contribute to the more than 1.2 billion download requests in all of 2008."
- TDavid
from Bookmarklet
"The market for the Zune should be podcasts. It should be geared not only to to those who create podcasts, but also for the listener. Sure the Zune is a good video and music player, but this should be the defining point. What should I listen to a podcast on? The Zune. Why? One-click subscribe, zune-to-zune sharing, as well as the whole social end. "Zune luvs Podcasts" ads and more."
- TDavid
from Bookmarklet
"Microsoft is "bringing our Zune Service, not the Zune hardware but the Zune entertainment service, to all three screens, PC, phone, and TV," CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street on Tuesday (download Microsoft Word transcript). "So it becomes a fundamental part of building a real business around TV sets.""
- TDavid
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"Thanks for the subscription :) Doesn't it all depend on who the 25 are that are subscribing? Respectfully, I think getting caught up in how many readers you have or don't have is a bit counterproductive. Focus on what you are passionate about, what you really care about, and the readers will be attracted to that energy. Blogging is just a format, after all. What limits do you speak of? Creativity has few limits. One can blog about a variety of things or focus on only a small few. Not sure I'm following what you mean."
- TDavid
"25, you sure about that? I've been subscribed through GReader for awhile. Not sure I've ever left a comment here before, but I see and read your posts. If the number is 25, then hey, it feels good to be part of an exclusive group :) There are multiple ways to look at smaller numbers. I prefer the cup half full perspective."
- TDavid
Interesting things to know, learn and/or ponder about covering: technology, news, geek, gadgets, humor and more. One of the CNET Top 100 blogs.
- TDavid
Zuneluv: "Anything you would like to see added, feel free to leave your comment. Personally I would like to see the addition of streaming internet radio on some player in the near future, and if it was the Zune, all the better. I like internet radio and listening to it, but I would really like to take it with me and listen rather then sit in front of my computer and listen."
- TDavid
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"Let's say you just opened a new coffee store in Queens and wanted to let people know about it. As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitterHawk to search for things like "coffee near:Queens within:8mi" (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global)."
- TDavid
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