Saturday, May 24, 2008

Even more miscellaneous... The old Buffy/Willow fan fiction archive Ikoly died. The site owner seems to have disappeared into the teeming masses. At the same time the BuffyWantsWIllow and BuffyLovesWillow groups over in Yahoo Groups were hacked and trashed by the hacker so people can't subscribe (or resubscribe if they got "lucky" and the hacker unsubscribed them.). They are still alive but on life support. There's one moderator left (but not the group "owner") and Yahoo seems to have washed its hands of the mess. There's an explanation over at WiffyForums (A new web forum set up by Howard Russell, a longtime Wiffy supporter, when BwW died.) Fortunately, Howard has also rescued the stories from Ikoly and with help from several others has put them on a new server. Go to Ikoly 2 to check them out. If you had an account on the old iKoly you'll have to check with him about getting a new password. 6:34:18 PM    Notes [] More Miscellaneous... I signed up for Apple's iPhone Developer program -- the one that lets you sell iPhone/Touch software through Apple as an individual developer. It's $100/yr (+tax in TN of course) (Does the NDA I signed even allow me to say that?) But I haven't had any time to spend learning Objective C so I can actually do anything with it. I bought a refurbed 8Gb iPod Touch so I can test the software I haven't written yet :-> on something other than my main iPod. But that's as far as it has gotten... The hardest part is coming up with ideas for something worth using on something like an iPhone. Sure, it's a miniature computer. But the phone/pda form factor is an issue. I have several ideas for software that I think would work... - two that would be considered work related - which means if I actually wrote them the company I work for would end up owning them. (One of the perils of being in software development for a software company is that grey area of who owns any original idea that you come up with. We don't all work for Google with its apparently generous IP rules.) - A couple fan fiction related. Sort of fic writer tools. We'll see what happens. 6:18:43 PM    Notes []

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