Archive for May, 2007

Wakoopa

Published
by
Matt McInerney
on May 19, 2007
in Miscellaneous
. 4 Comments

Wakoopa

Guest Blogger: Matt McInerney of Pixelspread.com.

The idea of Wakoopa is this: you sign up for the site, you download a small program, and run it to keep track of the software you use. The end result is that the information is displayed on your profile page, as well as added to the Wakoopa database so that it can be displayed on the most popular applications, the most time used, and so on. Sounds like an interesting idea, right? However, after playing with it for a little while, I’ve come to this conclusion: it’s completely impractical.

The main use I see from this is the data collected, to be able to see the most popular programs used. The problem is that the result is pretty predictable. The most popular will be browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer, followed by Messanging clients, Office suites, and of course, World of Warcraft. The reason I would think anyone would be interested is to find apps they could maybe use, but if the list consists of apps you’re already using, who cares? Iusethis.com already exists and is far more useful.

Alright, so maybe you want to use it to actually track yourself. Find out what how much time you’re spending in programs. Again, the impracticality of running tracking software comes into play. Also, don’t you pretty much already know how much time you spend in your programs? If you’re a Twitter addict, yes, Twitterrific is going to get a lot of time tracked. Firefox definitely. Probably Photoshop if you’re a designer So far, it hasn’t surprised me.
Finally, this is the reason why your mother told you that white lies are okay. At the end of the day, you’re only going to discover that you’re less productive than you thought you were. I’d rather just lie to myself a little bit and tell myself that Mail.app was open a lot more than Twitterrific… even if that may not be the case.

Prom 2007

Published
by
Laurence Anderson
on May 12, 2007
in Family, Miscellaneous, Noteworthy, Personal, Photos and School
. 6 Comments


See all the photos on flickr.

On May 11th, 2007 (aka last night), Stephanie and I attended my schools prom, at Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, NY from 6:30PM - 11:30PM. The night started out by everybody meeting at a couple places, the group of us was Derek, Me, Stephanie, Cartman, Flora, Lucca we all pretty much just stuck together the whole night. When we got there, we entered, had the option of taking pictures, we passed, picked out a table, we chose the table in the far corner with different colored (red) chairs (versus the normal green), to you know be different. Then soon after that they started to serve dinner, I wasn’t too interested so I didn’t eat anything except maybe a dinner roll so dinner was kinda null, just joking and talking to each other for a couple hours, in fact we made friends with one of the staff members there, his name was Dave, nice guy.

Next came just time to socialize and relax before the “dancing” started, that mostly involved talking, making fun of one another, walking around, mingling with other friends. We ended up going outside for a while and just sitting absorbing the air, talking to a few teachers just social time. Then time came where the DJ started to play music, they had packed over 400 kids into I swear to God a “dance floor” that’s a little bigger than my room, so it was quite small, everybody was complaining, but the banquet hall and “dance floor” were connected so Stephanie and I stayed towards the outskirts of the floor but closer to the banquet room in case we wanted to sit down. Eventually, after a few songs and a slow dance, we spent the remainder of the time outside sitting on the balcony just relaxing with each other and some friends would come and go.

Overall, it was a good time, and next week I’m attending her prom at Creekside.