Normalized Happiness Vox 2006-07-23T04:10:24Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00b8ea074bfd1bc0/tags/notcomet/ In between the click of the light, and the start of the dream... Comet's new name: actually a U2 reference? tag:vox.com,2006-05-31:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bf76cd5b8e58ce 2006-05-31T17:11:05Z 2006-07-23T04:10:24Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Bono before he grew his hair out and got all "rock-starry"

When U2 first started, the leader singer (whose real name was Paul Hewson) originally went by the name "Bono Vox." Later he shortened it to "Bono" and the rest, as they say, is history.

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]]> What's your favorite song of 2006? tag:vox.com,2006-05-25:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bf76c6d256954a 2006-05-25T22:07:06Z 2006-05-26T01:01:09Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A Blessing And A Curse Vicarious When You Wasn't Famous Unemployable The Funeral Goin' Against Your Mind Conventional Wisdom

Hmmm... a chance to show off the new audio features? Except you can't insert assets from the QotD field on the Comet home page, thus necessitating a cumbersome double edit. Here are some of mine: And yet more: It would be nice if Comet could...

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]]> How unbelievably epic is Comet tag:vox.com,2006-05-24:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bf76d0a0ab4383 2006-05-24T23:08:26Z 2006-05-24T23:09:30Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Unemployable The Funeral Goin' Against Your Mind

now that you can post mp3s. Renders all previously features comletely irrelevant. Some more recent songs of note. I wish my mp3 files had album covers embedded in them, but that's not something that iTunes seems to do.

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]]> First mp3! tag:vox.com,2006-05-24:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bf76cd50dc58ce 2006-05-24T22:48:49Z 2006-05-24T22:56:02Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Conventional Wisdom

Built To Spill: "Conventional Wisdom" So kickass.

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]]> Word 2007 Integrated Blogging? tag:vox.com,2006-05-13:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bf76c6c039954a 2006-05-13T03:57:45Z 2006-05-15T03:22:01Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Authoring_experience New_account

Ars Technica is reporting that Word 2007 is going to feature integrated blogging . Microsoft Word is legendary for producing for inefficient and ugly html, but it seems that maybe they've fixed that, according to the lead engineer (with the oddly ...

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]]> Google AdWords seems to be working tag:vox.com,2006-05-10:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000b8ea070a57dece 2006-05-10T18:43:59Z 2006-05-10T18:53:16Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I just visited a bunch of my posts and looked to see what Google ads would appear. They did seem to be displaying based on the content of my posts (like TV, or Veronica Mars, or music) so that's good. Now we just sit back and start collecting ch...

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]]> Massachusetts AG seeks changes in MySpace tag:vox.com,2006-05-05:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bd98e72480b1b4 2006-05-05T02:17:23Z 2006-05-05T02:17:23Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Something to keep an eye in regards to Comet-the government may soon mandate restrictions on social networking sites due to the problem of kids getting preyed on by unscrupulous employees from the Department of Homeland Security. In this CNN arti...

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]]> What does adding someone as just a contact mean tag:vox.com,2006-05-01:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bc07d15801de94 2006-05-01T19:56:28Z 2006-05-02T01:14:40Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom in Comet? Until recently I didn't realize that you could "connect" to someone in Comet, but not be their friend or family. I think this concept makes sense, but what does it actually do for me, the user? Making someone a friend or family means th...

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]]> My Comet home page is busted tag:vox.com,2006-04-26:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000bc07d14f19de94 2006-04-26T20:08:38Z 2006-04-26T22:41:01Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Has been since about 9:30pm last night. By "Comet home page" I mean the page you get when click on the Comet logo, or on the Comet link in the light blue navbar. This page: http://www.notcomet.com/home When I go there, I get the nav at the top, ...

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]]> New version? Yes, new version, featuring in-line editing... boo.yeah tag:vox.com,2006-04-25:asset-6a00b8ea074bfd1bc000b8ea079a891bc0 2006-04-25T23:37:55Z 2006-04-26T03:18:12Z djchall http://djchall.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Suddenly Comet was breaking right and left, an event unprecedented in my experience so far in the alpha-test. It seems, though, that it was a new version being rolled out. I see a new (giznankerosly Windows XP only) photo upload tool link, and a ...

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