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Posted 10:17pm pst, Sunday, January 16, 2005 Blogs, and the bloggers that love them
It's odd how blogs have taken over as a way of getting information. Thanks to Jason Zada's blog, I may have found an universal remote that will finally work for my sustem. I've got four remotes now, controlling a plasma TV, TIVO/DirecTV tuner, receiver, DVD player and VCR. My wife has got the hang of it, but try to explain it to a guest and we're in for a twenty minute discussion. In a post last week, Jason raved about his new universal remote, a LogiTech Harmony 688. It sounded like he had the same set-up I do, so I looked into it. I asked him a couple of questions through his comments link and he confirmed the features I was looking for. Unfortunately, my wife didn't like the price, $250. I had previously spent $200 on a Sony remote that I ended up returning because it wouldn't work on half my equipment. Even the Good Guys technician who came to install my TV couldn't program it, so back to the store it went. But then, thanks to the comments area, Jason pointed me to the same remote for a hundred bucks less at Amazon. My wife still wasn't happier with the new price, but at least we'll get rid of the remote morass on our coffee table. I love the blogosphere. Speaking of Jason Zada's blog, it's odd how I came upon it in the first place. I had posted my portfolio online a couple of years ago. One day, I get an e-mail from an art director in Italy who wrote to tell me how much he liked my work. Visiting his links led me to Liz Warren Zada's ColorblindTV blog. She also was an art director in San Francisco. I think this may have been the first "blog" I ever visited. It felt very voyeuristic, almost like reading her diary. It's odd, because I had essentially been publishing a blog without knowing it since 1996 at the Laughing Drunk site. Her site led me to her husband Jason's blog. After Liz had got pregnant, her updates became infrequent and I began reading Jason's site more. I linked to his site. After leaving a comment on one of his posts, a few months later, I discovered he was linking to my blog. On one of his photo posts, he put up some pictures from a Giants game he went to the night before. I recognized one of the people. Apparently we had friends in common. A casual acquaintence also happens to be his partner at his agency EVB. Not only that, but a writer I worked with briefly works there as well. Small world. Jason keeps a list of blogs he visits on his site. I have been on the front page of links for a year now, but since he added a slew of new links, I have migrated lower in the list. I suspect my link will soon find its way onto the second page... a slight blow to my linkage ego. I also throw huge props to all the political bloggers up there in the left hand column. They've provided me with an invaluable resource during the election year and I continue to visit them on a daily basis to see how Bush is fucking up the country every day. Fight the Right! By the way, the picture at the top of this post has nothing to do with this blog update. Just an attempt to keep this page (and the Photologue) fresh with new photography. Added a bunch of new blogger links in the left hand column this update, most of them belonging to animators.
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