New Year, New Addiction
Published 14 January 2008
Hi! You've stumbled upon a blog post by a guy named Ryan. I'm not that guy anymore, but I've left his posts around because cool URIs don't change and to remind me how much I've learned and grown over time.
Ryan was a well-meaning but naïve and priviledged person. His views don't necessarily represent the views of anyone.
It's been a while since I've posted, but the New Year has gotten off to a rocket start. Not that there's anything important going on at work. We're building a lot of very cool stuff we're building. But there's more to me than work.
In other news, my WordPress install was hacked, which proved to be a lovely thing to deal with over the holiday. Other than some flurried password-changing and support-ticket-issuing the only other negative response (which may not be related) is that my blog reactions have gone positively nutty. Of course this might be a general problem with their system if technorati's entire support network is backed up. I think I'm ready to submit Rule 35: "If you build it, they will spam".1
With Travian in its final throes—go WG—I've been dragged into another online addiction to sate me when this one ends. EVE Online is like a septuagenarian in Webernet terms, and I'm no fan of
MMO games. One cool thing though is that the game as an in-game browser and decent data API. I've written a very quick [EVE In-Game Browser Emulator][eigbe] that should help me and possibly others develop in-game tools.I am increasingly fascinated by all the places you find a browser, and the very cool stuff that Web Standards are allowing these days (more on that later).
- Dammit. I thought I was the first to think of that. Oh well, [I'm close][close].[↩](#ref-1)