Lightning fast is what it is. Gmail I mean. No kidding. It's lightning fast even on my dial-up connection! Incredible. I was invited to try out a free Gmail account about a week ago and well, it rocks. It just flat out rocks. You get one gig of space, you can import contacts from most other email programs (Outlook, Eudora, etc) or services (MSN, Yahoo, etc), and you can invite other people to try it out too! Plus, it's hosted by Google. Can't beat that. You can learn more about it's features here:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html
I would highly reccomend it for anyone looking for a good email provider, change in email or, something that they can check while on the road. Unfortunately, it's not available to just anyone. You have to receive an invitation from someone to create an account. Oh well. Hopefully it will be available to everybody someday.
30 December, 2004
23 December, 2004
Has anyone seen this?
Has anyone seen the new "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" extended edition? They added a whopping fifty extra minutes to a movie that was already about three and a half hours long! I haven't seen it yet but I really want to. Check out these bonus features:
- Four commentaries, with over thirty participants from the cast and crew including Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Oscar-winners Richard Taylor and Howard Shore, with Andy Serkis contributing additional dialogue between Gollum and Smeagol.
- Thirteen documentaries that go behind-the-scenes and tell the stories of creating Middle-Earth
- Two interactive maps
- Galleries with thousands of production photos and conceptual sketches and features
- And much more
Pretty awesome huh? I got all that information in a New Line Cinema newsletter. If you are crazy about LOTR like me you should get some newsletters. I'm not sure if you would get many anyore seeing as all the movies have come out now. :) Oh well.
Does anyone know if there is any way to upload pictures to your blog from your computer? I don't have any pictures anywhere on the web. Could you let me know if you have any ideas?
Well I guess that about wraps it up for today. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
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15 December, 2004
It continues...
Well, a new day begins. Nothing exciting happening today. Oh well. Anyway, on to REBOL. I
must make clear before going any further that it's pronounced like "rebel" not "reebol". As I said yesterday, you should look at http://www.rebol.com and read all about it. I haven't tried any other languages but, from what I've heard it's really good for a lot of things compared to other languages. If you want to buy a book on REBOL, there are only two in english at this point. One is the "Official Guide to REBOL" and the other is "REBOL for Dummies". There is at least one other book also but, it's in french. (if you're from France or speak french, check out
http://www.rebolfrance.com) I haven't read the "REBOL for Dummies" book yet and I am working on the "Official Guide" at the moment. I am also working on starting a rebsite (REBOL website) for the very very beginning people. If I get it up and running I'll post the link on here so you can look at that if you are interested. Now, don't go getting the impression that I'm a REBOL master or anything. I am quite the opposite. You can ask me all the questions you want and I'll try to answer them, but no garunteees.
Changing the subject. Does anyone know of a cheap or free HTML generator? Something like
Frontpage or Dreamweaver but, a lot cheaper. There is no way I could afford either of the above. I really want to make an actual website but, I've tried HTML and well, quite frankly, I don't like it. Too many unnecessary tags and, well I'm not going to go through everything I don't like about it. Anyway, if you know of somewhere I could download or purchase something like this please let me know. It would be much appreciated. The download couldn't be too big though. (stupid dial-up) Changing the subject again. Is anyone an Oingo Boingo fan? As I write this "Good for your Soul" is playing in the backround. Some of you might think I'm a little weird but, I really like 'em. Danny Elfman is incredible. He's written too many soundtracks to count. He also wrote all the music for "The Nightmare After Christmas". Incase any of you haven't seen it, it's the stop-motion animation. You know where they have to take 24 pictures for every second of film? Insane. He's also the singing voice of Jack in that too. Amazing. I am very compatible in my music listening ability. Sometimes I listen to classical piano, sometimes opera (very rarely), rock, Oingo Boingo (they don't classify as any of the above.), and everything inbetween. The only thing I probably never listen to would be rap. I just can't stand the stuff.
Once again, the subject is changing. :) Have you read "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini? If you picked it up at the library once and then set it back down because of the dust jacket quote,
you made a big mistake. The liner notes don't make it sound very good but it's incredible. It's
book one in the Inheritance Series. It's going to be a trilogy. If you are at all interested you
should check the book out at the library and look at http://www.alagaesia.com. The amazing thing is he graduated from high school at fifteen and published his first book (Eragon) at nineteen! I'm pretty sure he's twenty-one now. That's kind of an inspiration for me. It show's me that I can do anything I want at any age. I guess I couldn't join a retirement home at thirty though so...
Well I guess that's all for now. Anyway, check REBOL out, listen to Oingo Boingo, read
"Eragon", and well, keep checking on this blog! :) Later!
must make clear before going any further that it's pronounced like "rebel" not "reebol". As I said yesterday, you should look at http://www.rebol.com and read all about it. I haven't tried any other languages but, from what I've heard it's really good for a lot of things compared to other languages. If you want to buy a book on REBOL, there are only two in english at this point. One is the "Official Guide to REBOL" and the other is "REBOL for Dummies". There is at least one other book also but, it's in french. (if you're from France or speak french, check out
http://www.rebolfrance.com) I haven't read the "REBOL for Dummies" book yet and I am working on the "Official Guide" at the moment. I am also working on starting a rebsite (REBOL website) for the very very beginning people. If I get it up and running I'll post the link on here so you can look at that if you are interested. Now, don't go getting the impression that I'm a REBOL master or anything. I am quite the opposite. You can ask me all the questions you want and I'll try to answer them, but no garunteees.
Changing the subject. Does anyone know of a cheap or free HTML generator? Something like
Frontpage or Dreamweaver but, a lot cheaper. There is no way I could afford either of the above. I really want to make an actual website but, I've tried HTML and well, quite frankly, I don't like it. Too many unnecessary tags and, well I'm not going to go through everything I don't like about it. Anyway, if you know of somewhere I could download or purchase something like this please let me know. It would be much appreciated. The download couldn't be too big though. (stupid dial-up) Changing the subject again. Is anyone an Oingo Boingo fan? As I write this "Good for your Soul" is playing in the backround. Some of you might think I'm a little weird but, I really like 'em. Danny Elfman is incredible. He's written too many soundtracks to count. He also wrote all the music for "The Nightmare After Christmas". Incase any of you haven't seen it, it's the stop-motion animation. You know where they have to take 24 pictures for every second of film? Insane. He's also the singing voice of Jack in that too. Amazing. I am very compatible in my music listening ability. Sometimes I listen to classical piano, sometimes opera (very rarely), rock, Oingo Boingo (they don't classify as any of the above.), and everything inbetween. The only thing I probably never listen to would be rap. I just can't stand the stuff.
Once again, the subject is changing. :) Have you read "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini? If you picked it up at the library once and then set it back down because of the dust jacket quote,
you made a big mistake. The liner notes don't make it sound very good but it's incredible. It's
book one in the Inheritance Series. It's going to be a trilogy. If you are at all interested you
should check the book out at the library and look at http://www.alagaesia.com. The amazing thing is he graduated from high school at fifteen and published his first book (Eragon) at nineteen! I'm pretty sure he's twenty-one now. That's kind of an inspiration for me. It show's me that I can do anything I want at any age. I guess I couldn't join a retirement home at thirty though so...
Well I guess that's all for now. Anyway, check REBOL out, listen to Oingo Boingo, read
"Eragon", and well, keep checking on this blog! :) Later!
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09 December, 2004
In the beginning...
Well it's begun. This is the first entry in the blog of, well, me. But you can already see that so, let's move on. Okay. If anyone would like to criticize me on my blogging technique please do. I am completely brand new to this so, some advice would be much appreciated. I'm really in to computers. I like gaming even though I wouldn't be classified as a gamer, I'm learning programming in REBOL (for all of you who haven't heard of it, see below), I listen to all types of music (from rock to classical), I read lot of books (mostly science fiction/fantasy) and well, blog!
Anyway, about REBOL. You really should check it out if you are a programmer or would like to become one. You can look at http://www.rebol.com and download the free version. You should also look at the X-Internet and IOS if you own a small buisness or something like one. It's another file transfer system besides all the FTP stuff. Even though there is no free version of that, you still might want to look into it.
Well I'd better get offline. (incredibly slow dial-up) As I said before, please criticize me all you want. I need it. Thanks in advance,
REBOLyte
Anyway, about REBOL. You really should check it out if you are a programmer or would like to become one. You can look at http://www.rebol.com and download the free version. You should also look at the X-Internet and IOS if you own a small buisness or something like one. It's another file transfer system besides all the FTP stuff. Even though there is no free version of that, you still might want to look into it.
Well I'd better get offline. (incredibly slow dial-up) As I said before, please criticize me all you want. I need it. Thanks in advance,
REBOLyte
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