Sunday, February 15, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Getting serious about Sirius XM
Link above goes to: BusinessWeek
Quote from the source:
It bugs me that I predicted an end to this company, when it was two, some while ago because it seems to me so preventable. (Oh yeah, I know they do have some ads.)
Maybe if they had followed a business plan more to my liking it would not have worked, but I like to think that what I said makes sense, so it makes me happy to believe that there is still time.
They need commercials.
Bad commercials are bad. But good commercials are good. People need a break from all that intensity and it gives them revenue.
I think we need satellite radio so I hope the best whatever answers they find.
Quote from the source:
Sirius XM: What Price Bankruptcy?
Under Chapter 11, the satellite radio outfit could possibly revamp costly contracts. But it could also lose its top star and lots of listeners
By Olga Kharif
A bankruptcy filing by Sirius XM would have widespread implications not just for holders of the satellite radio company's debt and shares, but also for millions of listeners and for the celebrities like Howard Stern whose fat paychecks have made it harder for the company to pay its other bills....
It bugs me that I predicted an end to this company, when it was two, some while ago because it seems to me so preventable. (Oh yeah, I know they do have some ads.)
Maybe if they had followed a business plan more to my liking it would not have worked, but I like to think that what I said makes sense, so it makes me happy to believe that there is still time.
They need commercials.
Bad commercials are bad. But good commercials are good. People need a break from all that intensity and it gives them revenue.
I think we need satellite radio so I hope the best whatever answers they find.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
History of the Internet
Cool video. I really like the narration. So weird to think how far we have come.
Makes you wonder about, how far we have to go.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Wanting to meet Kara Thrace
Link above goes to: Hulu.com, Battlestar Galactica season 4, episode 13 with commentary by Ronald Moore
For the first time after watching an episode I found myself watching the commentary on that episode as it was such a dark and powerful one, but the post isn't really about the episode as while listening to the commentary by Moore, I found my self drifting at times and I pondered about something I've often wondered about, which is wanting to meet Kara Thrace.
That might sound like I want to meet Katee Sackhoff, who is the actor who plays Kara Thrace, but there you have it of course, the actors are not their characters, so in a sense it's a philosophical issue about the impossibility (or is it impossible?) of meeting a fictional character--and why the desire anyway?
I've wondered how bothered actors get by people meeting them thinking they are their fictional persona, but then again, why would anyone think they are? Or, why would anyone think they are not? I like the dueling questions.
The tone of this post is different than a lot of others as I myself rarely do commentary but have done it, in a sense, and it has occurred to me that part of the role of commentary is to give people some idea of the person behind some particular product that is out there, where otherwise you're just looking at the polished (or hopefully polished) output, but there is someone or some group of people, who have put that out there, and how do you get a feel for them?
So for my own cryptic reasons I think it might help to point out that I often think about meeting Kara Thrace, and ponder that I can't, so why do I frustrate myself, and then of course wonder, how bad though really would it be to just meet Katee Sackhoff, and while acknowledging (even maybe saying it out loud to try and sell it) that I know she's not Kara, secretly pretend that she is anyway?
For the first time after watching an episode I found myself watching the commentary on that episode as it was such a dark and powerful one, but the post isn't really about the episode as while listening to the commentary by Moore, I found my self drifting at times and I pondered about something I've often wondered about, which is wanting to meet Kara Thrace.
That might sound like I want to meet Katee Sackhoff, who is the actor who plays Kara Thrace, but there you have it of course, the actors are not their characters, so in a sense it's a philosophical issue about the impossibility (or is it impossible?) of meeting a fictional character--and why the desire anyway?
I've wondered how bothered actors get by people meeting them thinking they are their fictional persona, but then again, why would anyone think they are? Or, why would anyone think they are not? I like the dueling questions.
The tone of this post is different than a lot of others as I myself rarely do commentary but have done it, in a sense, and it has occurred to me that part of the role of commentary is to give people some idea of the person behind some particular product that is out there, where otherwise you're just looking at the polished (or hopefully polished) output, but there is someone or some group of people, who have put that out there, and how do you get a feel for them?
So for my own cryptic reasons I think it might help to point out that I often think about meeting Kara Thrace, and ponder that I can't, so why do I frustrate myself, and then of course wonder, how bad though really would it be to just meet Katee Sackhoff, and while acknowledging (even maybe saying it out loud to try and sell it) that I know she's not Kara, secretly pretend that she is anyway?
Monday, January 12, 2009
Class Viewer Project 2008 statistics
Here are key statistics for all of 2008 for my Class Viewer project from SourceForge.net:
Total downloads for 2008: 3132
Pages served from Class Viewer project page: 13442
Pages served from Class Viewer homepage: 6380
Statistics for this blog page from Google Analytics:
2534 visits, 3102 page views, 1440 unique visitors, from 930 cities in 87 countries/territories, with the top city being San Francisco, with 240 visits.
Total downloads for 2008: 3132
Pages served from Class Viewer project page: 13442
Pages served from Class Viewer homepage: 6380
Statistics for this blog page from Google Analytics:
2534 visits, 3102 page views, 1440 unique visitors, from 930 cities in 87 countries/territories, with the top city being San Francisco, with 240 visits.
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