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May 25, 2003 Today is towel day. Don’t leave home without a towel. I have mine around my shoulders. (That I just got out of the bath is a pure coincidence.)
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you — daft as a brush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
May 24, 2003
I was thinking a bit about how to integrate a template system with MT so I could have non-blog stuff with the same visual presentation. Then I thought “to heck with it” and decided to just write it as a normal blog entry. This will be the about/colophon page.
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May 24, 2003 Various user interface graphics by Susan Kare, who has done (among others) the famous icons for early Mac, Windows 3.0, OS/2 Warp and more modern icons such as the icons used in Gnome. And don’t miss the cute t-shirts with her icons. Moof!
(I’m starting to feel like MeFi…)
May 24, 2003 Well, since I can’t sleep I made a quick hack for Kung-Tunes. Since I didn’t like the default date format, I wrote a PHP thingie that translates the time and tells you how long it’s been since the current song started playing. It’s viewable on the front page of the site.
Here’s the code. Just use it as the format for the currently playing track.
If you use it and like it, please leave a comment or a trackback.
Oh, and use on your own risk. I’m not responsible if your cat spontaneously combusts after you start using it.
The Winamp version uses Blogamp and a modified version of this PHP file.
030604: Oops. Hydra did nasty things with the character encoding. Fixed now.
May 24, 2003 RSS → CNET: “But Microsoft is betting that new security enhancements planned for later this year could make renting music, rather than owning it, more attractive to consumers.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
Screw you, Microsoft.
…and why the heck am I still awake?
May 23, 2003 John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes interesting stuff on why he considers Mac better than Windows.
After having used OS X for a couple of months, I agree with what he has to say. I still want an iBook.
May 22, 2003 Cool. I’ve been accepted by Atari as a beta tester for Horizons. I just can’t remember when I signed up for the thing…
I’ve been thinking about checking out some MMORPGs for a while. This looks like a good opportunity. I just hope there will be genuine role playing opportunities. If it’s just another hack’n'slash game, I’ll probably leave it behind.
May 22, 2003 Found via NSLog: a small site titled One word, so little time. You are given a word, and then get sixty seconds to write about what you think of when you hear that word.
I like the concept so much that I think I’ll steal it; every now and then I’ll go over there and check what the word of the day is, and then write about it here. Probably not constrained to sixty seconds; when I start writing I want to write.
Also: Word of the day at Dictionary.com.