August, 2003 | Jason E. Shao

Brand New Used Car

Aug

20

2003

p. Well, Lisa and I are now the proud owners of a functional (finally) ’92 Hyundai Elantra. It’s amazing how little in the automobile department it takes to generate that rush you get from a new car. Though, I must admit for 1/20 the price of a new Honda Civic or other car, I think ...

Pirates of the Carribean

Aug

19

2003

p. I just saw Disney’s “Pirates of the Carribean”:http://pirates.movies.go.com . I must say that I was extremely entertained. “Johnny Depp’s”:http://www.imdb.com/Name?Depp,+Johnny performance in particular was stunning. Although in the previews, his character only served to disturb me, when taken in the context of the film his eccentricites were a perfect match that few other actors are ...

Textile Plug-in

Aug

17

2003

p. I’ve installed “Brad Choate’s”:http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php MT-Textile Plugin and am experimenting with taking my entries further in the direction of structured text. The Textile language, developed by Dean Allen and expounded in his “Textism”:http://textism.com website seems to me to be a much needed shorthand for properly using some of the many HTML constructs which exist, but ...

Macs & MT

Aug

13

2003

Michael Hanscom and some other people have finally started to post on something that increasingly has surprised me, and that is the level of Mac penetration into the Movabletype user community. (or is it the penetration of MT with those using Macs) When browsing Mac oriented blogs, a strong majority of them clearly are powered ...

Automated Loo

Aug

12

2003

Wired News has an article discussing the spread of automated toilets to America. While on the face of it this article may seem humerous, I think this is exactly the kind of application of technology and robotics that we will see proliferating as opposed to Marshall Brain’s commentary “Robotic Nation”.