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May 27, 2004
i'm kenyatta cheese. who the hell are you? - part 2
sorry i forgot to explain:
i'm IMing with my friend, michelle, when she tells me that someone has taken on my old AIM username "kenyattacheese." Say what!?! Why would someone take my old screenname? More peculiar - my screenname is my name. And bizarre as the world may be, I feel pretty certain that the possibility of there existing another kenyatta cheese within the known kenyattaverse is pretty much nil. So i decide to IM this guy to figure out who he is.
As you may have read, he wasn't too forthcoming in revealing his identity. So looking at kenyattacheese's IM profile (if it isn't a spoof) suggests that "Jack" is in high school or college. In particular, googling "KINGCO CHAMPS" brought me to King County, Washington State. While "IHS Track" is most definitely the Inglemoor High School Track Team. Interlake High School was my first false positive until I realized that their track team didn't have their own domain like Inglemoor.
he's good with IM shorthand (idk, nm)
And he likes the movie Office Space (or at least the quote in his sig, "i used to be by the window....")
So my hypothesis is: he's in high school. he's smart. he's an athlete. he has a peculiar but good sense of humor that most high schoolers think is a bit odd. he thinks Nicole Ari Parker is hot. So he looks up her page on imdb which leads him to the page for patrice's film which i worked on back in 97. which leads him to the full credits where he finds the name "Kenyatta Cheese" which cracks him up. He decides to use it as his sn.
And hence, our big misunderstanding.
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May 25, 2004
i'm kenyatta cheese. who the hell are you?
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May 14, 2004
MT WTF?
I completely missed this today, but SixApart released Movable Type 3.0 today, along with a new licensing scheme.Everything's essentially gone from free to $100, unless you run a MT install with one weblog, one author, and on a single proc box - then you can get the free version. oi.
I'm not as upset about this as other folks are (if v.2.64 ain't broke, don't go paying $600 for it.) But it's hard not to expect the erosion of their user base.
I guess I am pretty concerned about it - I mean, MT is pretty much synonymous with self-run blog sites. If more folks switch away, trackbacks become useless. I can't think of a single project that i worked on in the past year where I didn't recommend movable type for the backend. And I mostly work with community groups and fledgling non-profits. There's no way i'm going to tell a group with an annual web budget of $500 that 40% of it has to go to sw. (Hello textpattern, drupal! Nice to meet ya!)
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May 13, 2004
a brief lesson in crisis management.
abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse. abuse.
if you keep on using the word abuse, no one will remember that it was torture.
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May 7, 2004
The Olsen Twins no longer represent the people....
...and reveal themselves as shills for Hollywood law interests. I knew they'd be exposed some day.
From a review of The Stepford Twins' new movie:
It's interesting to track what constitutes villainy in Hollywood movies today. Whereas once villains were bank robbers, drug dealers, white-slave traders, psychotic losers and abusive husbands, this movie's villains are intellectual property thieves as the microchip contains pirated music and movies.
Oh yeah, and the villian is played by Andy Richter using a Chinese accent. There are so many levels to this. And it clearly goes all the way to the top. I wonder what these folks will think. I'd ask them, but then I'd have to admit to reading the review.
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May 6, 2004
BrowseTV episodes available as BitTorrent downloads.
So I encoded four episodes of the laptop TV show -slash- videoblog that I produced for my site and for cable access television, BrowseTV and posted them to Drazen's DV Guide for d/l. Although primarily for teevee, I call it a videoblog b/c I used the net (blogs in particular) as my source of content, created audience participation by allowing folks to engage me in IM conversations live on air, and distributed it as a live stream for the web and as a live TV show for access (free, baby!) Who said videoblogs had to involve lots of polish and editing? Just go video in through a webcam, mirror your desktop and record it to tape/disk, give yourself a loose script, get handy with app switching, and show interesting links for five minutes at a time! ;)
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May 5, 2004
all hail bikesagainstbush
interview with josh over at weblogsinc. so wait - now i'm confused - who invented the magicbike? yury or josh? ;)
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all hail magicbike
yury's magicbike is in the news for the next 24 hours. techtv, and idmag, provide the amplification. and slashdot.
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May 2, 2004
Ministry of Truth.
Passages like this worry me:
Five of the eight minutes Bush spoke to the White House correspondents were devoted to a serious message about the service of Americans -- in the news media and the military -- in what the president called "a period of testing and sacrifice."