If you'll look to your right, assuming you have Flash installed, you should see the newest addition to the site: a Twitter badge, a sort of public metablog where anyone can post mini-rants, or just whatever happens to be on their mind at the moment. 'Tweets' tend to require less overall thought than a typical blog post (for me, anyway), and as a bonus, can be posted from darned near anywhere (by phone, BlackBerry, or via the Twitter site itself). Since I tend to post here only sporadically, you'll probably be better able to find out what's on my mind if you keep an eye on my Twitter page (linked on the right).
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I've just noticed how short my posts tend to look when viewed on the front page. When the sidebar extends further down than the actual body of the page, in my mind, that translates as a problem. So, until I eventually learn to write longer posts, I'm going to double the number of posts displayed on the front page as an interim solution. Yes, I do tend to be overly neurotic about this sort of thing. Chalk that up to having to deal with even more neurotic people for the past six and a half years.
So, I got my copy of the Kingdom Hearts II soundtrack today. I like. While a lot of the tracks are remixes from the first game, most of them sound much better -- though there are exceptions. Now, all I need is the game...which I finally broke down and ordered from YesAsia today. I'd better start brushing up on my Japanese...
In other news, I finally picked up and installed a copy of World of Warcraft. Daaaaaang...I knew I should have resisted the urge. So much for my free time for the next few months. (But hey...at least I remembered to post something here, for once!) So, if any of you playing on Agamaggan spot a hapless, bumbling undead mage wandering around aimlessly...hook a brother up! :D
On yet another subject (I will find a way to put something from every category in this one post, just you wait!), I've rediscovered the usefulness of my second-generation iPAQ hx4700, after dabbling with another pair of Windows Mobile devices -- the i-mate PDA2K (HTC Blue Angel) and Qtek 9100 (HTC Wizard). Of those two, the Wizard is my favorite: a tiny, full-featured Pocket PC Phone Edition running Windows Mobile 5, with built-in Bluetooth, 801.11g, GSM/GPRS/EDGE capability, and a 1.3MP camera to boot. On the flipside, I just upgraded the PDA2K to WM5 (using an unofficial ROM, since I'm not using the device for anything particularly important), and it seems to be behaving just fine for now, where it had serious stability issues under its native WM2003SE. I'll see how it performs over the next few weeks or so, and post a follow-up then with my verdict.
Meantime, I'm debating what to do with this year's tax refund... A large part of me is wanting to splurge on a new 17" iMac Core Duo, whilst the remaining part (commonly known to most as "common sense") strongly advises saving instead of spending, seeing as I've got (yet another) move followed immediately by a cross-country drive to Florida coming in a couple months. Decisions, decisions...
And...well, that's about it. I guess I had to run out of stuff to babble about eventually.
Just one more quick reminder for anyone who ended up here (instead of at the article you expected) from an outdated search engine link: the old Spectator Mode archives can still be found at http://www.specmode.net/blogger.
As the title implies, I'm finally getting around to getting the backend of the site up-to-date. Odds are I'm going to find a new and innovative way of breaking something in the process, so don't be terribly surprised if you click something and something odd happens.
The entire SpecMode archive from the past couple years can be found at: http://www.specmode.net/blogger/
If you came here because you got a 404 from a search engine link, don't despair: the page is still there! (OK, that was a bit corny...) Click your 'back' button, and add the text blogger/ right after the www.specmode.net/ address.
[example: http://www.specmode.net/2005/04/tiger-topic-of-interest-spotlight-and.htm should be edited to read http://www.specmode.net/blogger/2005/04/tiger-topic-of-interest-spotlight-and.htm]
EDIT: Oops. I forgot about everything in the images folder...hmm. It might take a bit, but I'll see about getting those all back online sometime in the next week or so.
The domain transfer should be just about complete (at least it seems so from my end), so let me welcome you to the new Spectator Mode, featuring Movable Type! OK, maybe it's not all that flashy yet, but I'll be working on that in the weeks to come. In the meantime, I'm working on publishing the contents of the original Spectator Mode blog in a temporary directory here until I can figure out a way to port everything to the MT database.
