njr 3.0

Jamie Zawinski holds a debate with himself on the merits of webcasting live shows at the DNA Lounge. It's a very different proposition from Internet radio in general. The argument with the green background convinced me that he should stop doing it, if it's costing $20k/year to serve 20 simultaneous listeners. They're certainly not paying him $1000 each, nor should they do so. jwz didn't include a breakdown of the licensing versus bandwidth costs, but my gut feeling is that it's mostly bandwidth. The technical solution is improved (cheaper) distribution mechanisms for the live and archived shows. If licensing costs came to dominate—as they would have if CARP had been approved—there'd be little motivation to work on the efficiency and cost of distribution.

4:30 PM | Radio
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Eric Albert, who I first encountered through his frequent and helpful posts on Apple's java-dev mailing list, has a weblog now. (Sorry for not responding to your email earlier!)

10:19 PM | Radio
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It seems Flash Player has started to suck. While watching this fine Flash animation (courtesy Jim), Mozilla crashed halfway through. So I loaded it in OmniWeb, which crashed about 3/4 of the way through. Finally I opened it in QuickTime Player, which actually let me skip past the part I had already seen. Imagine that, Macromedia, not wanting to re-watch a multi-minute presentation from the beginning!

The plugin version I'm using is 5.0r58. I see Flash Player 6 is out, I guess I'll try that, but I'm not very hopeful. Programs tend not to return from a state of extreme bugginess in subsequent versions. This dictates that the Jaguar Finder will suck at least as much as the 10.1 one does, but I still hold out hope.

5:53 PM | Radio
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How to reconstitute a 'locked' NIB file so Interface Builder can open it.

5:06 PM | Radio
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Lunch today was great. My mother made an interesting interpretation of crab cakes, and my favorite use of onion-as-vegetable. I'm certainly not going to be getting food like this any more after they leave, unless I learn to cook it…

3:49 PM | Radio
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