Inspired by friends who have undertaken to clog up the intertubes and the recent popularity of various animals even more grammatically challenged than myself, I am pleased to announce that now I, too, HAZ A BLOG.
The old order has changed since NCSA Mosaic and my first Home on the Web, but such is the way of things. The same subtle conceit that fuels my allergy to the notion of personal weblogs lived down in ~/public_html/ somewhere too. We were more like children then, and the world seemed younger, emptier, more inviting. For some, I suppose it still does. For some, I suppose it is.
I mark my ground again, though, as with a stake raised in the llano estacado. I was here…for a time.
Oh give me a home where my cell phone won’t roam,
Where the MPEG’s and MP3’s play,
Where no site would host and inflammatory post
And the modems aren’t busy all day.
[...] Still Alive Jonathan Coulton wrote this fitting theme song to portal, called Still Alive. There is an interesting interview with Jonathan where he talks about how he got connected with the Portal team at Valve and recording the song with Ellen McLean. This is all really incredible coincidence for me because a coworker was pointing me to Re Your Brains which ended up being the song for a popular World of Warcraft music video (under the Creative Commons copyright). Then I contacted another friend mentioning that he should learn to play Re Your Brains, not knowing at the time that Coultan also wrote Still Alive. There is even a rendition in Engrish using the popular Japanese Vocaloid I recently mentioned, Hatsune Miku. [...]