Agile Tortoise

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Archive for January, 2001

      

Profoundly Disturbing

I’m personally incredibly disturbed by President Bush’s initiative to support faith-based programs with government funds. Not only is it unconstitutional, it’s just plain wrong — for the government, the faith-based organizations, the taxpayer, and most importantly the very people they seek to help.
I have some background in the non-profit sector, and know some of [...]

Tuesday, January 30th, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »>

Buy my truck!

OK, although I’ve mentioned it before, my 1985 LandCruiser is now officially for sale. If you know anyone who’s interested, let me know.

Thursday, January 25th, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Britney rocks! Bush Sucks!

Washington Post report Gene Weingarten went into an AOL Britney Spears chat room to discuss George Bush, this is the result. Very funny.

Thursday, January 25th, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Reading Update

Being sick this weekend gave me enough time to finally finish up the Harry Potter series. Book 4 was probably the best of the bunch…again, lacking any serious depth, but very entertaining.
Book 4 was a bit darker than the previously ones, and left you hanging a bit, but I guess that’s the nature of [...]

Monday, January 22nd, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>

Turtle Dice

I’ve had a shareware yatchzee game called Turtle Dice out for several years.
I had no particular plans to update it, but REALBasic — the IDE I wrote it in — has been steadily making improvements to their compiler, and on a whim I tried to compile the app for Windows with the most recent version, [...]

Saturday, January 20th, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Wow, great Conversant Press!

This BBC article discusses tools available for website management, including Manila, “Conversant”, and WikiWeb….and on Conversant says:

“There’s no doubt that Conversant is one of the most powerful systems available for managing a website”

Gotta like to hear that

Friday, January 19th, 2001. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Anybody want a Mac?

Anyone who might be interested in the Mac this site is currently served off, let me know — I’m thinking of selling. Stats are:
Power Mac 7500, upgraded to a 400 mHz G3
112 meg RAM, 4 meg VRAM
17″ Apple Monitor
4 gig and 18 gig internal UltraWide SCSI drives
6 gig external SCSI drive
100 meg External SCSI [...]

Wednesday, January 17th, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

O, Brother…

We went to see O Brother, Where Art Thou? Friday night at our new local stadium style seating theater.
Firstly, the theater was nice. Not as nice as the AMC Multiplex at Grapevine Mills mall, but much nicer than the existing, aging theaters in Denton…and only 10 minutes away, not 30. I think we’ll [...]

Monday, January 15th, 2001. Posted in Movies | No Comments »>

RSS Feeds

Here’s an RSS feed in Conversant:

This is fully template configurable, with lots of options. You can insert any RSS channel via a simple #rssBox Conversant macro. Cool, huh?
For those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about, take my word for it. It’s a way of syndicating content from other [...]

Tuesday, January 9th, 2001. Posted in Technology | 6 Comments »>

Fat Frank Updates

Posted some new stuff for my Uncle Robert over at his band’s website, Fat Frank & the Plank Spankers, including some MP3 files and a picture.

Sunday, January 7th, 2001. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Rocky Mountain High?

Well, law enforcement has presented another wonderful example of how successful the drug war can be at invading citizen’s privacy simply for the benefit of demoralization and revenue generation.
Clearly, these bluegrass loving freaks deserved what they got. I mean, they looked like they were having fun — that’s practically probable cause for a drug [...]

Friday, January 5th, 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »>