Author Archives: David Crampton

My web presence

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I’m feeling quite the urge to aggregate and list the various incarnations of me that exist across the web. I have several home pages, blogs, memberships in rental/rating sites (like Netflix and GoodReads), information networks (better descriptor for Google and MSN/Live?), photo sites, and IM protocols.

Home pages are evolving into just such an aggregation, it seems. Since data is strewn across different networks and servers, but is readily available and backed up by those immense and professional services, why duplicate the information on a local server? Why not simply hotlink? That’s what the web is, right? It’s come full circle, except blue underlined text is replaced with super-mini-logo-icons.

You’ve seen them, you know what I mean. They’re up there, next to the URL in your location bar. Only now those itty bitty logos are popping up as identifiers for linking to and from those popular, immense, professional services.

I suppose the only reason to duplicate one’s data in this scenario would be for backup purposes. Because, really, what will it take to make Google (Picasa, Blogspot), Yahoo! (Flickr), LiveJournal, or the rest unavailable? What would it really take to wipe out the data that’s scattered all over the net for each of us?

In aggregating these links, are we making it too easy to be tracked onilne?

Weekly Word Count

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FoF Concept 1.5
Originally uploaded by Childe

There was once this super secret project, back in the day. and I were all hush-hush about our weekly meetings (Liasons? No one will ever know!) as we worked to make our grand idea into a reality. Stumbling block after stumbling block after brick wall cropped up in our path, and our idea changed and evolved over time.

I say evolved, because it adapted to survive. And the changes are so severe that they might just be generational. Of the ideas, I’d say that this one, the one that will finally see life ( *knock on wood* ) is the third generation.

Our working title is Fight or Flight, and the grandchild idea is a webcomic. The current plans are to update weekly, and we plan on having a several-month-long stockpile before the site goes live. The main character, tentatively named Willy, is pictured here. He was drawn by Rick Schlaack, who is one of the most amazing artists I’ve ever met. And the irony is, HE is waiting on US to get scripts finalized so that he can draw. Talk about a reversal!

With the concept art that he’s given us, I have absolutely no doubt that this project will take off. I’ve got my eyes on Penny Arcade, PvP, Megatokyo, and Looking For Group. And I think that we can do it.

Stargate SG-1: Season 9

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General Jack O’Neill (two L’s) has left for another assignment, General Hammond is long-promoted out of anything but cameos, so we get yet another new leader for Stargate Command. I liked Weir (though the second actress beats the first, I think) as a civilian commander, and now we have General Landry. His biggest pet peeve is that he doesn’t get to yell at anyone. Okay, I liked this character right out of the gate, I have to admit.

We also have Cam Mitchell, a fighter pilot who aided SG-1 in the Antarctica mission, and risked his neck so that they could activate the drone weapon. That particular mission gets darker than it was by looking at some of the sideline death that happened to protect SG-1. In fact, that’s a continuing theme for this season. Anyway, Teal’c is off on Dakarta trying to help form a Jaffa government, Daniel Jackson is finally going to Atlantis to decode all of the Ancient goodness that’s there, and Samantha Carter is at Area 51, busting up some scientist heads. Mitchell arrives, expecting to lead the old SG-1, and is told to pick his new crew.

Blues Brothers references about putting the band back together have never been so funny to me.

This season is -good-. It takes a while for it to get its rhythm after the abrupt change in casting ( /bin/import –partial_cast –main_characters Farscape.castlist ) and that’s the reason it got four stars, instead of five. I definitely recommend it.

Honored

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‘s son, Hunter, won’t be spending Father’s Day with his Dad, because of where he’s stationed.

He wants to spend it with me.

I can’t express how honored and amazing this makes me feel. My eyes threaten to leak every time I think about it.

*sigh*

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Attention Canonical:

Please do not use a piece of beta software as the primary/default browser for your next release of Ubuntu. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is sucking so loud I cannot hear my industrial beats.

In short, don’t do this:

SUCK > 00NTZ

Thank you, please drive through.