I never knew

In music they have it, many artist’s second album isn’t as popular. Many athletes slow down on their second year. I don’t know if it happens on the second year specifically but most bloggers slow down or stop for a while at least once in their “career”. That’s what’s been happening to me for the last few weeks, a lot less posts than I was used to making, mostly because there just doesn’t seem to be all that many things I’m interested in posting but also because I’ve been busier in that period than I had been in the preceding months. As a consequence, my hits are roughly a third what they were at the beginning of the month. No big problem, I don’t think I’ve lost all that many readers, they probably just drop by every 3-4 days instead of every day or two.

Anyway, I didn’t mean to talk about having nothing to talk about but Michael seems to be going through something similar and I thought he was saying some interesting stuff that applies to me too. Subjects dropped, subjects overused, etc. So, a little “state of the blog”, mostly for myself, maybe I’ll think of something while writing this and get out of the slump.

• Book reviews. I originally thought it would be the main part of the site but I rarely do them, mostly because I don’t really analyse books as I read them, I appreciate or not, I laugh or think. They sometimes remind me of others, I talk about them with friends but somehow I don’t write about them. Huh. I’ll try to write more.
• Blogging. I still post about the “medium” once in a while but I’ve mostly given it up. I love the whole thing more than ever and I still read a lot about what’s going on but there’s so much talk already going on I usually stop mid post and hit cancel, feeling there’s no reason to add more to the chatter.
• Movies. I post a lot of links about the movies but not many reviews. I don’t think that will change, especially since I’m seeing fewer movies than ever.
• Webtech, standards, webdesign. See blogging.
• Design. I post quite a few design links, almost started a blog about the subject. I don’t have a whole lot of knowledge about it but I have a decent eye I think so it was going to be a “learning about design” thing. I’ll try to incorporate that in this blog instead.
• I thought I’d post about technology and gadgets a lot but it ended up being a secondary subject. Will probably stay the same.
• Personal stuff. Nope. Didn’t think I’d write them and I haven’t, except for a few exceptions. Sorry N. ;-p
• Funny, quirky things to discuss. They usually get the most comments which is fun but the volume of those will stay the same I think.

  Well, didn’t work, I haven’t realized anything writing this. No revelation (big surprise!). If there’s a type of post you’ve especially liked or something you’d like me to talk about more, don’t hesitate to comment or talk to me at yulblog. Which is next wednesday by the way so come one come all.

The Razor’s Edge

Copié d’Alex, lui même inspiré d’un meme sur les livejournals: Les 20 dernières “tounes” au hasard sur iTounes.

1. Ici – Arianne Moffat, Aquanaute

































































2. Chaconne for violin and orchestra – Bande originale The Red Violin

































































3. I’m your man – Leonard Cohen

































































4. Tomorrow – SR71

































































5. Crawling in the tank – Hoobastank

































































6. Du Hast – Rammstein, bande originale The Matrix (Drôle de hasard, ca doit faire 2 ans que je ne l’avais pas entendue)

































































7. Girl you have no fait in medicine – The White Stripes, Elephant

































































8. Politik – Coldplay, A Rush Of Blood To The Head

































































9. Cleaning apartment – Bande originale Requiem For a Dream

































































10. Turn my way – New order, Get Ready

































































11. In the cold cold night – The White Stripes, Elephant

































































12. Get free – The Vines, Highly Evolved

































































13. Los Olivos – Alberto Iglesias, bande originale Hable Con Hella

































































14. Knock knock – The Hives, Veni Vidi Vicious

































































15. Meet me in the bathroom – The Strokes, Room on fire

































































16. Brother down – Sam Roberts, We Were Born In a Flame

































































17. Green Disease – Pearl Jam, Riot Act

































































18. Habitacion de Alicia – Alberto Iglesias, bande originale Hable Con Hella

































































19. Chopsticks – Liz Phair, Whip Smart

1. Amenacer agitato – Alberto Iglesias, bande originale Hable Con Hella (Faut croire que le iBook blanc est dans le mood pour le violon rouge)

Here’s a nice little interview with Douglas Bowman, css master. Nothing new but good to hear and gives us a chance to match a face and voice to the talent.

There’s also one with Paul Ford, semantic web master, which I haven’t read yet but the man is usually very interesting and Gothamist is pretty funny.

That’s what I did when reading this news that Robert Rodriquez, he of Desperado and Dusk Till Dawn fame, will be doing the movie version of Sin City. I think it’s a great fit. Then I continued reading and saw that it will star Josh Hartnett! Horrible, horrible choice! There’s nothing yet about any of this on imdb so it might not be true. Hope hope.

Amazon has a great new feature, you can now order your wishlist choices in order of preference. Very useful and I wish they had implemented it before. Still not available on amazon.ca though which is where my actual list is now.

Two great trailers from Japan. First one is Casshern, a simply gorgeous movie, part Blade Runner, part manga looking, with some Matrix thrown in. Can’t wait to see it. I’m not sure why the guy has a face mask but no helmet on though.

The second is the follow up to Ghost In The Shell. Appleseed also looks fantastic, especially the shading everywhere.

I liked Blade, I didn’t like Blade II all that much but it was pretty cool visually. The Sci Fi wire has a little piece concerning Blade: Trinity, the follow up coming out this year. I very sceptical although of course I’ll go and see it, even though… Parker Posey has a vampire gang leader? Alongside HHH???

On the same site, another tidbit, Return Of The King (which I saw for the second time this sunday) just passed the billion dollars in ticket sales, doing it a bit quicker than Titanic. Although, I don’t have the numbers but I’m guessing translated to today’s dollar it probably means that LoTR is a bit slower but I have high hopes for them to detrone the sinkin’ boat. I didn’t dislike, contraty to a lot of people, but Return is way better.

Coasters that look like petrie dishes. Cool. Well actually, even though that item is fun, I wouldn’t have linked to it but I’m doing it anyway because I want to point you to the whole site. Lots and lots of fun designy stuff every day. A daily visit of mine for the last couple of months.

I’m not sure how long this will last but it’s a blog for which each post is a syndicated comic strip (Garfield, Calvin, Doonsbury, Peanuts, etc.). Even better, for users of RSS feed readers it offers a feed for all posts together or by strip. I used to have feeds for Calvin and Doonsbury but they got a cease and desist letter, this one doesn’t seem any more official but for now I’ll be enjoying a direct line.