Podcast No.1!
Oh god. Bandwagon. Jumped. On.
It’s time for yongfook.com to change. It’s been 3 YEARS of text blogging. YEARS. That’s just wrong in so many ways. So firstly, the layout has changed - it’s now much more Web2.0 (for those who don’t know, “Web2.0″ just means everything is bigger and more patronising*****), much cleaner and much more in tune with the kind of things I am doing at work. So that’s nice. Ooh and play with the text-size widget in the top-right. Sexy, eh? But ultimately pointless. Hurrah!
Anyway the other big change - I’m going to focus on podcasts now. BUT WAIT - I’m still going to be writing - there is still a “blog” section in the bottom half of this website, so those who refuse to listen to podcasts as you sit infront of your steam-powered computers and habitually curse the “younger generation” and their “gosh darned popular music” fear not; I will still be writing. I just want to branch out a bit. I feel I’m writing too much nowadays, what with the other blogs that I write content for, so I want something a little different for my own site.
Hence, podcasts.
Enjoy.
*for the benefit of those with whom I’ve argued over email about this: it was meant to be a joke.
As a professional web geek, I’m quite aware of what web2.0 actually is. My point was more that with this general paradigm shift that we are seeing with web2.0, to make more user-oriented, community-nurturing web applications etc, we are also seeing a noticeable shift in design trends with relation to the importance of obvious visual hierarchies, large, clear typography and somewhat pronounced colours etc etc. Whether that is because of web2.0 (i.e. people making web applications have to make sure people can use them easily, so we have to baby people through new user experiences by using these clearer design elements at the expense of “coolness”) or whether this is just one of those style trends that web design sees every few years (pixel fonts, drop shadows) is a question I cannot answer.
However my point was that since that is now the world I live and breathe pretty much, the layout of my site now reflects those design trends. Because that’s what I like. That is all.
Hi Yongfook, I found your website while surfing around for a place that might distribute authentic Japanese food snacks to my stomach. Well, maybe first to my door and then to my stomach. I love your site and your style and was thinking to myself, wouldn’t it be great if he would do a podcast? And you did! You are unknowingly under my power now. Obey me. Right, anyway, now that I have established myself as a) crazy and b) a stalker I’ll go back reading your blog in the dark. Naked.
V
P.S. Have you thought about converting your old videos into some videopodcasts?
P.P.S. I liked to your site from my own blog, I hope that’s okay. I wasn’t sure of your policy on that.
I’m confused. I heard zero whales having sex.
I love that bass bit in the background.
Guig, do a podcast with me you fuck.
Ok, but can you make me a little bassy thing that i can hit a button to play whenever there’s dead air? I’m ready now…GO!
deal.
Actually that’s just me playing the bass. I just pluck harder when I have fuck all to say.
Hahaha, I’m listening to this shit and there actually ARE whales having sex! Best podcast ever. I’ve got this bottle of shouchu and a headset which makes me ready for podcasting.
Ooh, very exciting. Where do you find the time for all this? You MUST do stuff on your own website at work when nobody’s looking… I’ve been trying to paint, record music, maintain a blog and do some photography and to use a phrase from the porno industry… I don’t think I can ‘maintain’.
Maybe the days will be longer when I get to Kyoto.
BTW have you heard “Medieval Song” by Gackt? It’s very short but I think you’d like it (and no that’s not what I say to all the ladies).
Never have I been so turned on by an English accent until now
dude, your site is great but you need a favicon… the little picture next to the web address… here’s a link that tells you how to do it: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml
I DO dig the new layout, but man… podcasting. weep
Next on list: Video PodCast :o
I’m not here to insult your penis or question your heterosexuality, only to say that your music is fucking amazing. It’s very emotional and very moving. I love the six new ones, Walking Dream is nice too, reminds me of Massive Attack.
There should be a disclaimer on this podcast… “Do not listen to this at work, especially with the sound turned up”. I am so lucky my boss is out of the office.
Those six aren’t new, they’ve been up for months. Oh dear God I’m a fanboy…
I meant five “new” ones… I had the other two (sakura, walking dream) already. And yes you’re a fanboy. We’re all pathetic here so it’s okay.
The irish are the ones who are an island of drunks, stop plagiurizing my culture!!!
Podcast was ok, but maybe having a guest will liven it.
The seals…. the seals…..
Please have me as a guest. We can make a grand study about penis size in mammals.
ipod thingy gets in the way, bad yongfook, you should keep doing what you usually do
or videos, but none of that gay stuff
I’ve been “doing what I usually do” for 3 years now. I need to shuffle things up a bit. Not expecting everyone to like it, but hopefully the people who decide to stay will be the hot ones.
podcast - great idea! Big fonts - A lot of bloody scrolling!
Wait, you’re telling me you DON’T have yongfook.com set up permanently displaying on a special PC in the corner - a “shrine”, if you will - with a 20″ monitor?
Pink is pretty merry and gay! Yeay!
nice blog concept. i first saw something similiar to this here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040125111157/http://deanloh.org/
loved it!
what i mean is layout. bleh.
i likes it.
Okey Dokey. Not sure if I will like this, but will check out this new-fangled ‘cast’ tonight. Have you upgraded to 2.0 of Wordpress, or are you still using 1.5.2? I am not sure if it is really worth it to upgrade. Templates are basically still the same and all. Well, good luck. If you are as witty in your ‘casts’ as you are textually then you should do well!
I’ve upgraded. Really, the only significant difference for me is the addition of proper spam control out-of-the-box. But actually, that is more than a good enough reason to upgrade.
Other obvious changes are some aesthetic ones to the admin panel, but I hear most of the big changes are under the hood.
Well, I already had Akismet anit-spam as a plugin, as I was drowning in spam long before 2.0 and was desperate for a solution, and I also have a nice admin plugin that makes it look all teh sexah web 2.0. [I HATE that term. It is nothing but marketting crap. It is not like anything has really changed. XMLHttpRequest was implemented back in IE 5.5 and ECMAscript standard was written in ‘99… Okay… breath… make the red go away….] I do like your simplified style. [Single column for content, and two column underneath for everything else! noice!
yeah but web2.0 isn’t just about XMLHttpRequest, I’m sure you know that. More than anything it’s about how people’s attitude towards making stuff for, and using stuff on the web is changing. If you look at where the web is now compared to say 2 years ago, it’s a completely different place. I don’t think it’s marketing doublespeak - at least not on purpose - it’s just an attempt to label a significant archetypal shift in the way things are moving on t3h int@rw3b.
oh and since you have Askimet already then it’s probably not worth upgrading just yet.
Listening allowed me to do other things, so a plus from me.
Your accent is quite magnetic, as well.
‘make the red go away…’, that one’s a classic!
Liz, are you my liz?
YF, i can’t wait to go home and check out the ‘cast. I think i might ‘mess’…steady…steady…
Yo dude,
To be Web 2.0, you must:
Anyhow, I subscribed. Am podcast freak….. need to drive to work everyday, and need new content on my pod everyday. So, there you go. Gluck ;)
Podcast is great! like the change.. =P
do you just say whatever you want, or there is a script? coz you sound so close to my chemistry lecture, like the acscent. he is cute.
I actually saw whales have sex. Clearly you don’t watch enough Animal Planet/Discovery Channel.
I like what you have done to the site, keep it up :)
fan of yongfook.com
My new years resolution is to exercise more and to pick up a new martial art in the prospect of becoming disciplined. Once I have disciplined myself I will have the courage to ask out my crush in my biology class.
You must see Woody Allen’s new pic Match Point - the male lead Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ character, Chris, sadly, reminds me of you. Check it out and let me know what you think.
do you just say whatever you want, or there is a script?
I was hoping it would be clear from the shambling display of incoherent and uninteresting mouth-sounds that my podcast represented, that none of it was scripted. Perhaps I’ll prepare a bit more for the next one. And get less drunk. Or get more drunk.
The new layout isn’t friendly to the dial-up internuts I am stuck with away from university. :(
Also…what happened to the January 2002 archives? They are missing…
I didn’t really design the site with dial-up in mind. Where do you live? Papua New Guinea? In all seriousness though, the new layout actually has less graphics on each page than the previous version, so if anything it should load quicker. Maybe just the fact that the page is longer is giving the illusion of loading slower?
And January 2002 archives? The site wasn’t around then. It started in August 2002.
Sorry! January 2003! My mistake. In any case it had a nice article on your interview process that I read earlier this week and was surprised to find missing.
p.s. I live on a plantation in the southern state of Virginia, located in the proud Confederacy. I mean…United States. Damn those Union bastards and their high speed connections.
January 2003 is still there too? It’s in the list…
If you really can’t see it, here’s the link anyway: http://www.yongfook.com/2003/01/
“I didn’t really design the site with dial-up in mind. Where do you live? Papua New Guinea?”
I spit wine. It wasn’t pretty. And I know you were just kidding. Going to go drink more wine now.
The Papua people…maybe people aren’t going there. It doesn’t sound like the best place…I can’t imagine it having a tourist board, or anything, right?
Good move with the podcast thing. I’ve been reading on and off for a bit, actually a potential JET and occassional visitor to BD, and was cued into your site by a fellow potential JET and occasional visitor to BD. It’s cool that you’re trying something new like this. Cheers!
BTW - Belated congratulations for the success of that photo essay about web page design a few weeks back.
Just listened to the ‘cast’ and I have to say …
Hilarious
Keep it up.
But drink more wine!
I’m at home…drinking…by myself…on a saturday night. So I’m going to have to ask you to update more frequently. You see my life…my life is slipping into a very sad state. And the only thing that can take my mind off it is digital stimulation and whale sex. God, that’s not even true. What the hell is wrong with me?
Ditto Guig. I’ll go numb my emptiness with LOTS of alcohol and then distribute naked pictures to strangers kthxbai.
funny, and great recording by the way. where was this done? studio? there was hardly any ambient sound. mind sharing your recording set-up?
somehow i can’t shake off the feeling that you used a pop-filter.
i think i’m going to add that song to my list of ’songs to play when making love’.
right on top.
damn you. i think i’m infatuated.
i can hear the heartbeat.
i can feel it.
whoever who said you’re not good enough to make movie soundtracks are probably just afraid you’ll have tremendous success and overshadow them.
no, I’M sexier than a sexbot on maximum sex. D:
hey jon, its Mark form the Ean forum.. you have a nice layout here. BTW, I like the old design.
why don’t you a video podcast?
Can you imagine the fallout if he did that? He’s only got to review a candy bar and people react like he shit in their favourite handbag…
pls.give brief answer: did you marry for 1.Love? 2.Visa? 3.she’s a right to lifer?
You should do a video podcast - I know you have an iSight lying around there.
It’s an inevitability. Stay tuned.
Less whales, more goats!
Sounds vaguely reminiscent of the “Twin Peaks” American tv show soundtrack. Anyway, not bad. You used your electric violin on this?
Well, with 67 replies I find it hard to believe that no one has bothered to reply and let you know when roman times actually was. Allow me: Roughly (!) between 5th century BC and 6th century CE. (If i’m way off, please correct me.)
And I must remark that I quite enjoy your solitary ramblings, please continue.
What happened to the exerpt where Yuki was supposed to comment?
???
The podcast pretty much ended with the whale music.