Don’t forget to be careful of what you write in your blogs, myspaces, etc Express your opinion and interests, but be careful not to give away enough information that criminals can use it against you. Don’t talk about vacations ahead of time or what time you get off work normally and other such things. It’s hard and I’m sure I’ve made a mistake or two, but keep it in the back of your mind and the your time on the Internet will be much more pleasant.

After months of neglect, I’ve completely redone my homepage. Check it out at http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com

I don’t know wtf is going on with Google, but according to my web stats, 66 of you came here looking for info on anime conventions (this month alone). I’ve never talked much about them except to put up a picture of someone from an anime convention. It was this one or two:

Apparently there aren’t too many other blogs/sites out there talking about it or I wouldn’t get so many people coming here looking for it. The above pictures are probably responsible for the 32 people coming here looking for cosplay. (The second top search term) Another one that brought about 20 people here is the Order of the Engineer, which I blogged about the day I got it. Since then I haven’t mentioned it until today.

War is Hell on Vimeo 2051 Views

Anime Hurricane on Vimeo 1397 Views

Unnecessary Tuffness on Vimeo 898 Views

Pao Bhangra 1 Disc 1 Part 1 on Vimeo 865 Views

Kung Fu Fighting (Super Smash Brothers Melee) on Vimeo 825 Views

This time, practicing getting jumps to work correctly. Also, it’s my first time getting camera cuts as well.

Back to Basics: Jump Animation Test on Vimeo

Next I want to try making him jump forward or in some other direction.

Go on over to http://ericmesaphotovideo.com/ to check it out!

While thinking about digital music recently, and how great it was the BMI decided to sell some of its music on iTunes without Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). However, these tracks will cost $2 while the DRM’d tracks will cost $1. First of all, this seems to be a scheme to prove that the public doesn’t really want non-DRM’d music when Jon Random User probably doesn’t even know the difference and won’t see why he should pay twice as much for the same song.

Here’s a great collection of Zen Writing Parody called The Rootless Root.

I will sample my favorite one here to give you an idea of the wisdom contained inside.

Master Foo and the Script Kiddie

A stranger from the land of Woot came to Master Foo as he was eating the morning meal with his students.

“I hear y00 are very l33t,” he said. “Pl33z teach m3 all y00 know.”

Master Foo’s students looked at each other, confused by the stranger’s barbarous language. Master Foo just smiled and replied: “You wish to learn the Way of Unix?”

The way the news keeps talking about the Virginia Tech killings, you’d think it was the only thing going on in the news. Did everyone forget about Darfur, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, missile defense in Poland, Russia, Chinese bootlegging, the failure of Windows Vista, etc? I mean, yes, it is extremely tragic that 32 people died who are, at most, only five years younger than me. They had their entire life ahead of them. If my kids died before me I’d be devastated. But put this into perspective!

As we know, there are many drugs which cause memory loss. They must be taking all of them up there because every time they end up in front of Congress, they spew a series of “I dont’ remember"s or “I don’t recalls"s. In a clip they showed this morning on CNN from Alberto Gonzalez’s testimony I counted about 10 “I dont’ remember/recall"s. It’s clearly a mockery of the system. If they can’t compell him to remember, what’s the point of the trials? To give the media something else to focus on?