Dan’s Blog

Yes, it’s been 3 months that this blog has sat here like a lump, clogging up the precious Interweb tubes. What can I say? In my life priorities, blogging is waaaay down there. Scrabulous and Risk on Facebook are much higher. Oh yeah, school, finding an internship & job, and other responsibilities too. I’d like to blog, but seem to go in spurts. So here’s to hoping that I get back to it. But not now. Now I must investigate music tagging (ID3) and ontologies. Well, not now. After dinner.

Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something (even through a spike in traffic). Every now and again I ran across something that I mean to blog about, but don’t write it down, so off it goes. I need a good way to organize the things I want to blog about…

Anywho, it’s been busy here. Papers, family visits, reading, etc.

I will report on an interesting conversation that my brother and I had this weekend about the ordering of movies/books. As I previously reported, I saw Hot Fuzz and loved it. This weekend, Eric and I watched Shaun of the Dead, which he thought I would like more than Hot Fuzz. That was certainly not the case. I enjoyed Shaun, but it didn’t catch my attention like HF did. We determined in a situation like this, the first movie a person sees will set the stage for expectations. HF is a VERY different movie than Shaun. So, I was expecting an HF-esque movie, which Shaun just isn’t. The same can be true for The DaVinci Code & Angels and Demons. I read A&D first and loved it. When I read DaVinci, I was not impressed. When I polled people who thought DaVinci was better, most of them had read it first. So, to make a long story short (too late): the first movie/book in a series will (most likely) be enjoyed more because it sets the expectations for the second movie/book. I also think that Shaun is a movie that will be enjoyed more the second time around, there was a lot to pick up on.

My goal was to post something every day. Guess that didn’t happen. If we had a 28 hour day, it would still be yesterday.  Frankly, I barely surfed the web today. I’m up to my eyeballs in work.  Contrast sensitivity is my friend and enemy.  Also, I need an ipod that magically charges itself because I ALWAYS forget to recharge it.

I’ve been looking around for a good pre-made Wordpress theme to use on the site and thought that the picture of smoke in this one is apropos (and ironic) since I recently quit smoking. 6d 3:53 hours ago, in fact (I’ve saved $40.04) (I’m using QuitTime to track this info). Cigars are my new thing, so smokiness is still valid I guess.

I’m kinda excited to actually have a blog. This will be attempt #3, I think. But the last two times around, I had to manually install/maintain the site. Wordpress seems to be a lot easier, so I won’t have to dedicate time I don’t have to site maintenance.

So, yay, I have a blog. Some of the things that you will see discussed here: cigars, music, sports, aquariums, human factors, usability, business, computers, just to name a few. No doubt more will pop in there. So, enjoy, read away. I wonder how long it will take before other people start reading this blog.

I love the fact that you can just install wordpress from cpanel. Nifty.