When John Locke turned the gear to move the island.

Seeing that typed out now I realize that’s where I should have stopped watching it.

No problem though, not watching the last season. As graham chapman would have said ” ok, stop this it’s gotten silly”

hmmm, where to start. ok, it’s not for beginners, and it’s not for anyone who wants to do something really advanced. and it’s not for intermediate bloggers either. i’m not really sure who the intended audience is supposed to be i had a problem at all stages.

first i chose a template. i was disappointed at the lack choice. but because i was testing a trial account, i picked one i thought i was half interesting and tried to work with it.

once i had the template i tried to do two things i thought would have been obvious. one, i tried to change the colour of part of the template, but it couldn’t be done, clicking on the section i wanted and changing the colour didn’t change what i thought was highlighted, only part of it.
two, i tried adding a widget for comments. not possible but at least the comments can be accessed from any post.

finally the showstoper. tried to import my current blog (ie. this one). i tried each method. i couldn’t do it via login, but i got a “successful” import via a previous xml export. problem was that it didn’t show up on the journal page (yes i checked the structure menu, etc.) nada.

so 1 day into my 14 day trial (giving it a good couple of hours) and i think i’m done with squarespace.

when boxee fires up you have to login. why? what if i’m only going to access local content? is it for the “social networking” aspect? if so what if i don’t want to get or send any recommendations? dumb idea, i expect when it gets out of beta there will be workarounds from people who feel the same way.

and speaking of local content why do these media aggregators make it so hard to get at your local content? ok i didn’t read any boxee docs but it should have been relatively intuitive to set and use a local directory.

plex makes you jump through a few hoops also. but works for the local content.

and front row doesn’t even let you.

one of the first things i do on a computer i’m going to use on a regular basis is install the pager most and Vim.

i tried macvim but it was not the vim experience i wanted. i have my .vimrc and .gvimrc in the obvious places but no joy. eventually gave up on it and started using textmate.

i started using macports because there were a few linux programs i wanted to use on the mac, the above mentioned most being one of them.

recently decided to see if there were a gui for macports and found porticus. browing through the software available i found gvim. plugged in my favourite .gvimrc and now i have a real working gvim on the mac.

well that was under leopard, dealing with macports under snow leopard is something i want to tackle when i have the time to do any troubleshooting.

wait for mediots (media idiots ™) to say that dan brown is “claiming” various things they don’t agree with or are patently absurd. even though it’s a novel where author’s make stuff up for the plot.

i was a little disappointed that the bert sommer performance wasn’t included. easily the best tune played at woodstock. i can only assume it was RIAA executive feepers that had some problem with the rights. goobye RIAA (you DO know that you’re on your way out right?) none of us will be sorry to see you go.

after watching the who do “summertime blues” again, i can definitely say they’re version sucks dead bunnies…loud. sorry pete it doesn’t need electric guitars and wrong notes. or the stupid voice of boris the snorter (in joke for you who fans), or even pete’s reedy vocals. T.REX still does the best version of the song.

and my favorite gripe about woodstock? jimi “pretentious wanker” hendrix. i read some where that he would only appear at woodstock if he played last. pretentious wankers are like that. so what does he do, goes out there and plays with his teeth. you take his guitar pedals out of the picture and half the uploads on youtube sound better than he does. if you ask me the funtwo kid can play circles around jimi hendrix. how old was that kid when he made that? if you don’t buy that,then at least yngwie malmsteen, stevie ray vaughan or steve vai can.

AND….AND my favorite part? he didn’t play for half a million people (or whatever the final number turned out to be) he played to about 165. ok i didn’t actually count the number of heads, but if you take a look at that scene in film, you an see it’s not too many more than a thousand people. they’re all crowded to the front of the stage with a wasteland behind them.

looks good on you, you poser. pretentious wanker. how he got to be in the guitar hero category is beyond me.

anyway, the real tragedy of the movie is definitely the missing bert sommer tune, then it’s jimi hendrix.

here’s some guitarists that play better than hendrix: ritchie blackmore, rik emmett, eddie van halen (another wanker, but he can play guitar, oh, and eddie, you didn’t have to turn your back during solo’s, turns out you didn’t invent the hammer ons or pull offs), jonny lang, kenny wayne shephard, steve lukather, paul gilbert, trevor rabin, lawson rollins, dave murray, adrian smith, alan shacklock, or this guy. don’t know who he is, but he plays better than jimi hendrix.

at least the piano/keybaord slots are safe, your choices are keith emerson, rick wakeman, ken hensely, or jon lord. my vote’s for rick wakeman, this is why. and so is this.

anyway rant over. i’ve been thinking about doing a podcast about music. only two real hurdles in the way, can’t play any music without writing cheques to the RIAA. and my audience. anybody NOT musically informed. that would be pretty much anybody who didn’t know the connection between babe ruth (the band), fleetwood mac, and whitesnake. or never heard of those groups to start with. or ever heard of slik, hawkwind, blodwyn pig, or RDM (yes, that’s a ‘D’).

a big [flashing neon]thank you, knob[/flashing neon] to those who didn’t like it and wanted to ruin it for the rest of us.

otoh, forklift now has a permananet delete option to (thankyou, thankyou, thankyou to the binarynights guys. it’s the perfect replacement to the mac’s finder.

i noticed that the rc1 version is “windows 7 ultimate”. i expect that “windows 3 task version” will be a whole different experience [snrk]