Holy_Bins :: The Blog

There’s a great article over at Ars about the history (and future) of file systems. I was going to skim through it, assuming it would be pretty dry, but it’s actually quite interesting and even funny at times.

The section about NTFS seems to have the best quotes:

Even the file date attributes were stretched to ridiculous limits: Renaissance time-travelers can happily set their file dates as early as 1601 AD, and dates as late as 60056 AD are supported as well, although if humanity is still using NTFS by that time, it will indicate something is seriously wrong with our civilization.

and then the stone cold truth as well:

Additional features were added to NTFS in later versions of Windows NT. Version 3.0, released with Windows 2000, added the aforementioned indexed metadata searching, along with encryption and disk quotas so that students could no longer fill up the file server with pirated MP3s.

So be sure to check it out!

So despite all that drama that was going on with gamespot staff over the past few months, the dust is finally starting to settle.

First it was Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis working on the Arrow Pointing Down Podcast, but now it looks like that was just a warmup to officially start their real site, Giant Bomb.

While it’s basically just a wordpress blog (hey, no problem with that!) at the moment, they are promising a pretty exciting site by the summer.

Can’t wait to see what these guys turn this into, as we all know there is a roaming fan base that has left gamespot, but we all aren’t sure where to go from here…

Giant Bomb may be the answer - go check it out…right now they have 2 video episodes up where they are being very transparent and inclusive on the site being built, including their office space. Pretty cool stuff!

Seriously…look at the title screen. Now look at the characters. Now laugh. Now try to comprehend the narration…and laugh harder.

I hope this is not real…

So on the topic of Garfield, ran across this one the other day in one of my 3-in-1 compilations:

A bee hive…out of nowhere!

So strange and random - no idea why I like this kind of humor…

Saw this on digg.com - A page showing Garfield comic strips…without Garfield!.

I love Garfield, so I thought it was kind of interesting. Who has time to do this stuff!?

So this blog - according to the subtitle there - is supposed to be about primarily…programming?

In my life lately, I haven’t had a lot of time to think about that passion of mine - outside of work I’m tending to detach from the “serious” side of technology for a bit to focus on more gaming aspects. Granted, I still read and watch much more than actually play games, but it’s fun nonetheless.

So soon I may get into talking about ruby, python, frameworks, and programming theory (not that I know much) again - but for now I’m kind of detouring a bit.

So just a few interesting things in this post-gamespot-defecting era…

Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis have a podcast now! The first experimental episode is pretty hilarious - check it out at Ryan Davis’ blog arrow pointing down, or find it on iTunes under the podcast name of Arrow Pointing Down.

Alex Navarro is apparently still writing reviews - this time for Gametap.

Listening to the Arrow Pointing Down podcast revealed (at least to me) that Greg Kasavin - another ex-gamespotter - is helping with the development of C&C: Red Alert III. Good for him!

I’m glad these guys are moving on, they are too important to the industry and the ‘net community in general to disappear.

So I always seem to know about all the “trendy” web 2.0 stuff out there, but I never really use it - and when I do I realize what I’ve been missing out on.

Granted, there are some that don’t really hit the mark - like twitter. It is hyped a LOT and I still hear/read lots of people talking about it, but it really seems a little too simple for me. I don’t need to know what people are up to 24/7. It’s like a whole idea based around facebook status messages.

I’ve just discovered a great web 2.0 site, though, that I’ve read about for a long, long time. I never actually went to the site, though, until I heard they are offering lots of full tracks to listen to whenever you want - no more 30 second previews!

Granted, it’s not for every song on the site, but I’ve found a lot that are full tracks. But that isn’t the reason I’m even mentioning it - I just realized they have a great app (at least on OS X, not sure how good it is on windows and linux) that is basically like Pandora on steroids. For me, I really just never liked the Pandora interface.

So anyway, last.fm will also track your music stats, hook you up with “friends”, and basically anything else a social networking site does.

Basically, it just has a great interface, a great little app that goes along with the site - and it just works (cue apple fanboy flames!).

I digress - you can just go check it out for yourself!

Happy listening…

Sam Kennedy, a 1UP editor, wrote a pretty good blog entry summarizing the drama with Gamespot firing Jeff Gerstmann at the end of 2007. It’s an interesting read and had some stuff in it I didn’t even know was going on (mostly with some of the backlash by the community).

Let’s hope the rumors of Gerstmann starting a new site are true. Maybe Alex Navarro will join him…

Why do I keep coming across these things?

So cute!…again!