So I’m going to be home most of the day today. Aside from managing the Senior Project, I also need to write a 20-page paper on why Apple Computer is best-in-class in the PC industry, and coordinate some DNS changes for an application for work.

Speaking of, anyone know how long it takes your average DNS to propagate (I know worst-case is 48 hours)?

Asa Dotzler was kind enough to provide some linkage to my commentary on the Mozila project. Thanks, Asa.

I realized that when I was looking at my site statistics today that all this time I was looking at the wrong numbers. Apparently, I was reading my average daily visitors as my total visitors for the month. Then I realized how many visitors were coming in per month. Wow. I also just noticed that we’re running at about half-capacity with our monthly bandwidth. Looks like I’ll be looking for ways to slim the site down a little bit.

PlugSocket rules. I asked them this morning why the search feature on Our Story wasn’t working. Two hours later: boom!—fixed. They also apologized for the patch they installed that caused the regression. Heh, that’s okay. It could have been a lot worse.

Apple computer is hiring. They want a senior engineer to build the new iTunes application for windows. Very interesting—I thought that they would have already been in development for this. I wonder if the Music Service feature will also employ a KHTML web core as Apple’s Safari does now. Speaking of Apple, they’ve managed to make the iPod even more desirable. I could look at this page (scroll down for full effect) and drool all day.

I messed with “the brand” today. Blogrollers should (hopefully) notice that our site title doesn’t overflow to two lines, now.

Decision-making seems to be a common theme in my thoughts lately. Every new thought, after being thought about, turns to the “decision-making” meme in my head and asks, “How do I apply to you, decision-making meme?”

Decision-making meme says back, “You are a metaphor for me. Link us together in the brain, for we will be stronger if we join forces, and you will get a percentage of the attention that I receive from the other thoughts who have joined me in the past.”

And I go, “Shut up, you guys, I’m trying to go to sleep.”

- Eric Benson, decision making. Eric seems like a pretty interesting guy. I’d read more, but I have to finish this %&#@ paper.

Via email from Nathan Oostendorp (who wrote this), Everything2 has an RDF feed of top 10 creative writing picks for the day. Sweet.

When, oh when, will MovableType feature Trackback checking to see if you’ve already pinged another site? Mark and Asa now have multiple trackbacks for this blog.

Ugh. Too much distraction. No more wireless internet today.

Our senior project final presentation is due this Tuesday, meaning that deep, introspective, navel-gazing blogs may be a bit scarce in this space. In brief:

Mozilla: Why You Should Switch to the Firebird™ Browser. As if you haven’t read enough reasons already. Speaking of, the new version of Phoenix should be out in two weeks, which is exciting. I’ve been using the most recent builds and they have been totally solid.

Two points to anyone who can figure out where the description quote came from.

Christian Answers: Requiem for a Dream. A surprisingly positive and non-fundie review of the independent film. Sarah and I just watched Requiem last night. Extremely well done example of filmmaking, if you can stomach the gripping tragedy of watching four peoples’ lives destroyed in ghastly—at times pornographic—ways: I was physically ill after the movie. The review suggested that the film could be useful in teaching people the horrors of drug addiction, which raises the question: do we need to go to such extreme examples of graphic violence (etc.) to drive the point home? Do we live in a culture of such insensitivity that it takes such measures?

Netflix rules, Bankbuster sucks.

Taking on Ken Walker: since my last discussion of our Google ratings, Our Story has climbed to #6 on a search for “Ken Walker” (we’re still #1 for “Ken Sarah Walker“). I’ve recently taken to posting my full name when I post comments on other sites in order to dethrone the other Ken Walker from the #1 spot. This caused a bit of an ethical dilemna for me: I’m effectively trolling for links. I constantly have it in the back of my mind when I’m perusing the ‘net that the more diverse sites I comment to, the more my pagerank goes up for “Ken Walker.”

Verdana me no likey. (Sarah says she likes Verdana better than Trebuchet—doh!).

Did you know that you could create two blogs to work together as a uniform site? That’s how I manage the “static” and “dynamic” content on my senior project homepage. One blog uses the blog title for the filename (such as clients.shtml—clients is the name of the blog title) and allows me to edit the markup for the pages that don’t change very often. The other blog works like a regular news blog for weekly-or-so news postings. I’m looking forward to redesigning this site a bit once I’m released from the mind prison.

Because everyone else is doing it: Zombo.com

Speaking of navel-gazing, I recently added our site to the GeoURL project, whose goal it is to map websites to Lat/Long coordinates so you can see websites in your neighborhood. Cool idea, but I’m a bit disappointed with the results. Aside from one outright offensive blog (you’ll know it when you see it), the majority of the sites within 50 miles of here are self-obsessed New Yorkers who prattle on about boorish nonsense. Now, I realize the irony of a blogger calling other bloggers self-obsessed—we’re all in the same narcissistic boat. But do some people have to be so tacky about it?

Jason Ingram Band, The Rhythm of You: My Father lays a fat groove, and I’ll dance until he’s done.