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I do most of my work purchasing through CDW, for a number of reasons mostly surrounding their quality of service and smooth integration of their web-presence and my real-live account rep. They’ve always had the best webstore for a corporate buyer, with lots of bells and whistles and still a relatively clean and user-friendly [...]
Wednesday, March 31st, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Online bill pay
After thinking about it for quite a while, I finally got a $60 rebate offer from my bank for online bill pay which gave me the final push I needed to signup and start using it. I actually get it free with my accounts, so there’s no compelling reason not to use it.
So far, [...]
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology | No Comments »>
Spring — a mixed blessing
Man, I love the Spring weather.
Man, my allergies are acting up.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
Don’t mess with my President!
I lifted this picture from CNN.com. It kinda freaked me out. Condi looks like a bodyguard or something. She’s at least about to burn a whole in something with that stare.
Friday, March 26th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>
Xserve G5 now shipping!
I’ve got one on order, looking forward to getting setup and running.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Dave re: NPR
Dave Winer complains about NPR:
And I wish they’d come up with a new way to distribute the content so I can download MP3s into my portable player and skip the pledge drive.
Well, they have. You can get most NPR content at Audible.com, iPod compatible, on a subscription-basis — and they mention this regularly on [...]
Monday, March 22nd, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
Admit God’s symbolic, or I’ll stab you!
How odd.
Friday, March 19th, 2004. Posted in Movies | No Comments »>
NCAA Game Stats
The scores and live game stats for the NCAA tournament at CBS Sportline are an incredible piece of work. Go to that link, and click on “Live Game Stats” for a game that’s in progress. You get a nice scoreboard, the last ten plays in a play-by-play format, as well as current box [...]
Thursday, March 18th, 2004. Posted in Sports, Technology | 2 Comments »>
Live TV is dead
I’d like to personally thank Janet, Justin and our “quick-to-act-on-meaningless-issues” federal government for killing live TV. By all means, we should protect the public from seeing anything that might happen live, so that they can enjoy it more when it’s run over-and-over-and-over on later newcasts and the Internet.
Monday, March 15th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>
Go TERPS!!!!
My boys had quite a weekend in the ACC tournament. After a rough season of ups and downs, they looked incredibly strong beating three top 20 teams in three days — including mounting the biggest comeback in ACC tourney history, coming back from 21 down against NC State on Saturday. They played their [...]
Monday, March 15th, 2004. Posted in Sports | No Comments »>
You are naked in this document!
Such was the tagline of a one of the current viruses I’ve been blocking at my mail server…boy, nothing’s going to entice me to open a virus quicker than the thought of seeing myself naked.
Thursday, March 11th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>
Unreal Tournament 2004
I’ve been really enjoying the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo. Excellent multi-player action. Onslaught mode is a lot of fun and more purposeful than most multi-player shooters I’ve played. Graphics are stunning…though I turned a lot of the detail off. I’ve got a brand new 1.7 Pentium M laptop with ATI 9600/128 [...]
Wednesday, March 10th, 2004. Posted in Games | No Comments »>
RE: Filemaker 7 - Migration
From the Migration tech brief at Filemaker.com:
There may be a fair amount of effort and diligence required to convert an existing solution, and it may be more productive in the long run, and, frankly, more enjoyable, to build from scratch.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Echostar vs. Viacom
Interesting intrigue in the TV world. I hope Echostar wins. This will make a big difference moving into the future, and might pave the way to a la carte channel choices. I fear, however, they’ll lose, and we’ll be locked in by the media conglomerates moving forward. Glad I’m not a [...]
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004. Posted in TV | No Comments »>
Filemaker 7
Filemaker 7 has been officially announced. Looks like they are on the right track on a lot of things. Looks like I’ll still hate it, and it will be a nightmare to migrate the existing solutions I’m stuck with…maybe it will finally be an excuse to redo them in something else. Maybe [...]
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »> « Previous Entries
