Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!pro1-169.barrie.connex.net!user From: developer@woodentulip.com (Sean Kennedy) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: *ping* Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 02:33:00 -0500 Organization: Wooden Tulip Ltd. Lines: 79 Message-ID: References: <70ait8$alr9@scea> NNTP-Posting-Host: pro1-169.barrie.connex.net In article <70ait8$alr9@scea>, "Ed Federmeyer" wrote: > This is *my* rant. > > Start small, and work your way up. Check out my member web > page to see a great progression. I would not have been able to > make "Haunted Maze" without making "ballpad" first! > > Sean, I just checked out your web page, and it's all very nice to > see all kinds of links to outside "rocketry" sites, and all that other > stuff you're interested in. Now, how about putting some YAROZE > related content up? Other than "Big news, Sean is back in the > Yaroze world!!! Check back often!!!" There are some other cases > of this also. Why do some people insist on mixing all your hobbies. > How about Yaroze related stuff on your YAROZE site, and maybe > a nice pointer to your other stuff for people who are really interested? > I humbly suggest my member page for an example. Hi Ed. Excellent points. I was fully anticipating that someone would look at the DECREPIT state of my member page. Heh, it goes to show that there ARE members who like to be involved. Yes, I am guilty of web-stasis too, I accept that I am guilty of that crime. And I make an attempt to at least once every two months to change my content. The rant even got me to link up the E3 picts that I had sitting at work. And yes, the "Other Hobby" pointers were Just the sentence used to describe the most other significant hobby I am involved with. As for the yaroze, for a time there last spring it looked like I had bought a CAN$1300 black playstation that I could play both Japanese versions of Final Fantasy and the North American version. So my code examples Speak For Themselves, I don't have any. I'm too embarrased to post the meager snippets I crafted to do starup splash bits and stuff. This is due mostly to fear on my part. And the fear is the lack of a good mentoring method on what the Net Yaroze project stands for. Kindof like being a little kid at the Swimming pool being helped by an adult with the 3 meter dive platform. Trouble is I'm seeing other kids that do not have the adult there to help, when they need it the most. {Like me?...} Yes Net Yarose IS member driven, but it IS a project that is Spearheaded by an innovative company. Why is there not a lot of SONY dialog in the web-content, and the news content. Having a SONY mentor could allow us to build a stronger bond with the technology we are programming on. That was the real point of my rant. > Again, WHO CARES what the web site LOOKS like, thats B.S. I don't > have a problem with the look or organazation of our SCEA web site > framework. The action is *supposed* to be on the member web pages. > As long as the "official" website framework directs you to the web > pages, thats all we really need. First, I Care. And it does not resemble any male bovine fecal matter either... I agree that a web-site should come up in an efficient manner. The SCEE web-site is { To My Web-Browser [Netscape & IE] } 2:1 times faster to load than SCEAs. But the real factor I illustrated, was that the Web-site on SCEA is inefficient for the first 2-3 pages. Added to this was that the content was not updated with information that shows SONY still cares about the Yarozers in North America. I got the sense from the SCEE web-site of involvement from both sides of the corporate fence. The SONY folks were keeping an eye out for the Yarozers, and the Yarozers showed thier appreciation by stimulating more activity in the web-site. I'd like to have a bit of that sense here. > Okay, your rattling got me to post the Chicago Net Yaroze get-together. :-) > EdF Cool! I hope I didn't wear out my tin cup... ;) -sean