http://blog.greggman.com Entries from Greggman.com About news en-us 2008-07-18T23:58:29+09:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-10-28.htm It seems maybe I'm the last to know but I just found out about TED Talks. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is apparently a conference bringing together people from all different disciplines to share their ideas and inspire each other. Those talks are available online at www.ted.com and they extremely inspiring. They are each only allowed to be up to 20 minutes so they are very easy to watch or listen to. So far of the ones I've watched these were the most inspiring for me. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-10-28.htm news 2007-10-28T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-10-21.htm I found out about this site called CatalogChoice.org who is trying to make it easier to opt out of receiving catalogs in the mail. According to them more than 19 BILLION catalogs are mailed out each year. I know that I rarely want the catalogs I get in the mail. Some companiese are particularly agressive and send a new catalog every 2 weeks. I even get catalogs for about 6 previous tenants. If you are getting catalogs you don't want here's a very simple way to cancel them. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-10-21.htm news 2007-10-21T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-06-22.htm It looks like it's finally moved. I've turned comments and the forum back on. I'll cross my fingers things are all working again. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-06-22.htm news 2007-06-22T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-06-13.htm My friend 6955 showed me this yesterday....What's wrong with this picture? http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-06-13.htm news 2007-06-13T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-06-12.htm Facebook seriously sucks. I don't really understand how it got as big as it supposedly is. I can't connect with the person sitting directly in front of me because Facebook only lets me search for people who have registered in the same company, or college. WTF! http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-06-12.htm news 2007-06-12T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-05-28b.htm Popup ads and pop behind ads. I thought they were universally loathed. They have been the topic of quite a few comedy sketches. A few famous ones are the Dave Chappelle skit about a world where popups appear in real life. Conan O'Brian's staff trip to India which starts off with them and another I remember off the top of my head is Interfection from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. So, my question to you is. Do you hate popups and pop behind ads? Are they bad or do you care? http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-05-28b.htm news 2007-05-28T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-03-22.htm Those of you that have a Nintendo Wii probably know that it has a News feature. It's kind of neat in that it shows the articles and shows a marker on a 3d globe map of the world where the story takes place. Unfortunately it leaves a little to be desired in terms of matching the names of places to their actual places on the globe. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-03-22.htm news 2007-03-22T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-02-28.htm 2 years ago 4 of my friends at Sega got mugged the day they arrived in San Francisco for the Game Devlepers Conference. One of them got a broken tooth and a concussion. I don't know San Francisco that well yet but in the interest of trying to prevent something like that happening again here's a map. Consider the red areas places my best guess at places you should not go. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be careful everywhere but those areas in particular seem more dangerous. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-02-28.htm news 2007-02-28T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-02-08.htm I don't know how long they'll be up but if you've never seen them check out The Secret Life of Machines on Google Video. The Secret Life of Machines is a program that aired on the BBC in the late 80s, early 90s that explains how lots of machines work in super simple ways. It also used to run on the Discovery channel. It's crazy how simple some machines really are. One example, they make a tape recorder by showing that if you put rust on a piece of tape and manually run it across a recording head it will record on to the rust. Some of the cooler ones: http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2007-02-08.htm news 2007-02-08T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-12-25.htm I wish I had found Etsy before Christmas http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-12-25.htm news 2006-12-25T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-12-12.htm My friend Dave and his friends Emi, Yuko and Mike have a new band, the Moist Towelettes. They kind of sound like Puffy AmiYumi. Check'em out. PS: They sound even better better live. They need some better captures of their songs for their myspace site. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-12-12.htm news 2006-12-12T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-08-15b.htm Actually I'm very happy about this. Almost 2 years ago I set out to create Tanjun'ka to solve the problems of quickly posting images on my blog. I got it to a workable state but development kind of came to stand still. You can read about it on the Tanjun'ka dev blog Well, today or a couple of days ago Microsoft released what is basically the same product called Windows Live Writer solving the same issues in nearly the same way. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-08-15b.htm news 2006-08-15T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-07-25.htm My friend Sakura is designing clothes now. If you've got a baby check them out and order some :-) http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-07-25.htm news 2006-07-25T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-06-16.htm I'm trying to find a couple of songs I heard at a show the other day. One is Japanese or maybe it's a Japanese remake of an English song. The other is Spanish I think. I recorded a short segment of each song with my camera. If you happen to know the names of the songs please post them below. I'd really like to find them. Song #1: Don't Need Any Love Song #2: Spanish Song (Fixed the links) http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-06-16.htm news 2006-06-16T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-02-24.htm Everyone has heard of Firefox and many have heard of Opera but how many of you have heard of Sleipnir? I have no idea what their actual marketshare is but if I was to go by looking at my co-workers for the last 2 years it would be something like 90%. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-02-24.htm news 2006-02-24T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-02-14.htm I just split my site into blog.greggman.com and games.greggman.com. I kind of see it as, games, is my game development oriented site. A place for me to discuss and bring up game and career related things. The blog site is more personal. Of course feel free to read either, both or neither but it seemed to me that I needed to separate the two. I'd prefer if I'm discussing game development that and someone wants to look me up they can concentrate on game dev related stuff and skip the "looking for a girlfriend" stuff. I hope it works out. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-02-14.htm news 2006-02-14T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-01-05.htm This seems like something out of a Scifi movie. It's a gadget you hold up to your eye, look for a star in the sky and it will tell you about that star supposedly including all kinds of info, even audio. You can also request a star and it will guide you to it. Its memory is upgradable and its got an SD slot for even more data.To bad they don't have video of how it actually looks inside while using it. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-01-05.htm news 2006-01-05T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-01-04.htm Slashdot had a link today to an article entitled "What's your most dangerous idea?" posed to 100 scientists. Here's a few I found interesting. How about you? http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2006-01-04.htm news 2006-01-04T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2005-12-02.htm Ray Ozzie, a guy that works at Microsoft, posted about a new standard he and his group are proposing for sharing data like contact lists, task lists, calendars etc called. Really Simple SharingI only glanced at the spec for a few seconds but as far as I can tell it's really missing the point. Maybe there is time to fix it I hope. http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2005-12-02.htm news 2005-12-02T19:00:00+09:00 http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2005-11-13.htm I guess the current topic of discusion is Pandora. It's site that you type in a musical artists's name or a song name and it will play music that's supposed to be similar. I think really the only thing that makes it interesting is it's free. I tried it and it failed pretty miserably to provide similar music.First I tried Pizzicato Five. It gave me Bizzare, Inc. (house music), Taylor Dayne (gospel house?), Brazillian Girls (mellow house). All WRONG! I tried Moocheba it gave me a bunch of groups that sounded like acoustical alternative , t.A.T.u (WTF?), Amy Grant (Super WTF!?). My first choice would have been like Sneaker Pimps http://blog.greggman.com/edit/editheadlines/2005-11-13.htm news 2005-11-13T19:00:00+09:00