tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37880241018391355492007-08-18T17:21:38.292-06:00Crazy DiamondBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-51380485459787867352007-02-02T23:21:00.000-06:002007-02-02T23:25:07.116-06:00<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://stat.radioblogclub.com/radio.blog/skins/mini/player.swf" allowScriptAccess="always" width="180" height="23" bgcolor="#ECECEC" id="radioblog_player_0" FlashVars="id=0&filepath=http://www.thodin.org/radio.blog/sounds/stranger.rbs&colors=body:#ECECEC;border:#BBBBBB;button:#999999;player_text:#999999;playlist_text:#999999;"></embed>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-41682510503041675332007-02-02T23:16:00.000-06:002007-02-02T23:17:14.986-06:00<iframe src="radio.blog/index.php" name="radio" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="220" height="320"></iframe>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-36757041804299199302007-01-20T21:35:00.000-06:002007-01-20T21:36:55.252-06:00. . . at David Gilmour's tour.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K499HpGF46E"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K499HpGF46E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-20499266170942214732007-01-19T22:15:00.000-06:002007-01-19T22:16:59.344-06:00<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SPE8vL5hlFA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SPE8vL5hlFA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-80028062694770167372007-01-18T00:40:00.000-06:002007-01-18T00:45:35.360-06:00The new movie starring Clive Owens, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Children of Men</span>, apparently pays homage to Pink Floyd's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_%28album%29">Animals album cover</a>, floating pig and all. This is the futuristic movie where everyone's infertile and the whole human race is getting older. Definitely a movie I want to see.<br /><br />Brain Damage has a <a href="http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/movies/children-of-men-film-review.html">film review</a> (with images from the movie with the Pink Floyd allusions).Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-37655908432049270872007-01-18T00:29:00.001-06:002007-01-18T00:29:58.644-06:00Here's a video that showcases some of Windows Vista's new features...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3nvr1y5AD6A"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3nvr1y5AD6A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-80102234151168703212007-01-16T20:03:00.000-06:002007-01-16T20:05:22.257-06:00This is really cool... a slide show of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/show/">transparent screen wallpaper</a>.Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-23459438211276166062007-01-15T22:33:00.000-06:002007-01-15T22:36:54.926-06:00There's a lot of people anxiously awaiting the release of Windows Vista (and the hardware upgrades it will surely require!). Found this blog of Vista's developers at Microsoft, a little late perhaps. Their blog looks nice.<br /><br /><a href="http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/">Windows Vista Team Blog</a>.Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-25503782874041567662007-01-14T21:23:00.000-06:002007-01-14T21:24:03.272-06:00<a href="http://www.thodin.org/uploaded_images/nasa_training-743232.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left" alt="" src="http://www.thodin.org/uploaded_images/nasa_training-742785.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Another photo posting experiment. Here is the NASA astronaut training facility in Houston that I visited last year.<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-83279486166369198822007-01-14T21:18:00.000-06:002007-01-14T21:19:00.457-06:00Posting a picture with Picasa software (from Google).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thodin.org/uploaded_images/divisionbell-740375.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left" alt="" src="http://www.thodin.org/uploaded_images/divisionbell-736318.jpg" border="0" /></a><div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-17473362493141368032007-01-10T20:42:00.000-06:002007-01-10T21:01:16.336-06:00So here are a few things I like about Blogger better than Yahoo 360. The interface is less cluttered and more concise, it doesn't use unnecessary real estate on the screen. It seems to lead 360 on features. The permissions in 360 seem to complicated and sometimes inconsistent (sometimes things that are supposed to be viewable by "friends" don't show up). Blogger is free of banner adds and other Yahoo plugs. I can configure which elements I want to appear on my page, whereas 360's page elements are permanent. Templates in Blogger can vary greatly in appearance (through CSS stylesheets) whereas in 360 they just change colors and background images.<br /><br />They both have their advantages. 360 obviously is more community-oriented (with it letting "friends" keep in tune what the others are doing) but I like Blogger's interface much better.Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-51926204338350096262007-01-06T21:56:00.000-06:002007-01-06T21:59:45.002-06:00The title of this blog (and my username) are excerpts from one of Pink Floyd's great songs, <span style="font-style: italic;">Shine on You Crazy Diamond</span>. It's a lengthy song with various "parts" of different styles, with synthesizer, guitar riff, and saxophone instrumentals, bookended with some imaginative lyrics about their influential former band member Syd Barrett. The album this song was released on, <span style="font-style: italic;">Wish You Were Here</span>, is one of my favorites by Pink Floyd.Crazy Diamondtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788024101839135549.post-78619519499986389232007-01-06T19:58:00.000-06:002007-01-06T20:05:23.335-06:00I decided to scrap my old homepage and go with something a little easier to update... Now that Blogger.com can publish directly to my website with FTP, I decided to use it to publish my website updates.<br /><br />I also have a blog at <a href="http://360.yahoo.com/altailji">Yahoo</a>.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://360.yahoo.com/profile-To.b2i8wd7JlOiKvY9VnTw--?cq=1"></a>Crazy Diamond