February 18, 2007

Wii be surfing

Posted by Scott at 10:32 PM

Wii - For the first time ever this showed up in my Apache web server log files for this site:

75.68.116.71 - - [17/Feb/2007:08:41:05 -0500]
  "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 11850 "-" "Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1309-9; en)"

That's our living room Wii surfing the web wirelessly to our own homepage. From there I showed the family the photo album I'd put up yesterday, skimmed the weather, etc. It's a bit surreal to see your website on a television or a game console. A PC or laptop, sure, but your TV?

Sunday - Today was a typical Sunday when the folks are visiting. Michelle took the girls to early Mass. Dad and I brought the boys to meet them for breakfast since we'd gone to Mass yesterday. Mom slept in. In the afternoon Michelle took mom and Abby to The Christmas Tree Shops and AC Moore. Crafty Abby must have been in nirvana. Meanwhile dad and I took Claire and the boys out for some ice cream and got the vehicles rinsed of their winter salt. After the boys went to bed, the adults went to The Mile Away for a nice dinner. I've never had a bad meal there and it's hard to leave hungry.

*sigh* Must we really go back to work and school tomorrow. I mean, isn't it President's Day!? Ah well, I do like being able to pay the mortgage, so a-commuting I will go…

Writing - Back when I was a young computer geek in the early to mid 80's, Byte magazine was THE magazine you read to stay current. The internet was not wide spread and coming to people's homes. And one of the regular columns in every issue was science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor. About a week or so ago I found that he has a website. In a sense one could consider him a proto-weblogger. His site isn't what we've come to expect from weblogs, with their very organized structure, permalinks, syndication feeds, comments, etc. but it has what has often defined weblogging: very regular updates of real content by ordinary people writing without a supervising editor. Gritty, opinionated, personal… and he's been doing it a long, long time, years before we had the tools we use now to automate it. I'm pretty sure he's been doing this "old school" — just firing up a text editor and writing it by hand. I did much the same for the first few months. "Content management system? We don't need no steenking content management system!" Since finding his site, I've enjoyed my visits to "see" this old friend from my younger days.

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