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Archive for April, 2004
Chocolate Ice Cream and Onions
I think I’m going to go to Microsoft’s Security Sumit on Friday. To paraphrase one of Simon Cowell’s funnier comments from American Idol last night, Microsoft and Security go together like chocolate ice cream and onions. Yummy!
Wednesday, April 28th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>
Camping pictures
Kt posted a photo album from last weekend’s camping trip.
Friday, April 23rd, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
Flaming Lips online Jukebox
This is cool. Listen to the whole record. Neat graphics. More record labels should be doing this. (Oh yea, it’s a really good record, too.)
Friday, April 23rd, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
Gov. Rick Perry uses Plone
Texas Govenor Rick Perry’s website uses Plone. Now, if he’d just propose using Open Source software to reduce education costs, instead of stupid things like funding education by expanding gambling.
Friday, April 23rd, 2004. Posted in Politics, Technology | No Comments »>
The Bottom Line + CBGB
Well, I just followed up, and the effort to save the Bottom Line Cabaret was unsuccessful. Too bad. My old alma-mater, NYU, ate it up. Doesn’t really surprise me, it’s location already seemed hopelessly overwhelmed by the university when I was there in the 80s.
Made me pang for my NY days a [...]
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
X-CD-Roast
I haven’t updated Toast since OS 9. I rarely need more that what I do in the Finder/Retrospect/iTunes as far as burning goes, but it is nice to have a utility around to do a straight duplicate in one step — since I have two CD drives hooked up. Can’t justify the cost [...]
Thursday, April 22nd, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Lawn mowing
I mowed the lawn at our new house for the first time last night. Actually, I had mowed the front yard once already, but this was the first time I’d done the whole thing. The experience differed somewhat from the mowing experience at our old house, in that there was grass involved — [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
RE: American Schmaltz
Ok, I gotta give Barry props. Yes, his songs were still schmaltz, but they updated arrangements for the American Idol finalists and it wasn’t that bad. Mostly. "Mandy" still was painful.
Wednesday, April 21st, 2004. Posted in Music, TV | No Comments »>
American Schmaltz
It’s Barry Manilow night on American Idol. I thought Neil Sedaka was a bit of a stretch last year, but Barry Manilow? I wonder who’s going to get stuck slogging through “I Can’t Smile Without You”.
Tuesday, April 20th, 2004. Posted in Music, TV | 1 Comment »>
Camping
Had a great weekend camping out at Possum Kingdom. Gotta get that outdoor life in before it gets too hot down here!
Monday, April 19th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
Oh, boy
I just listened to Bush’s press conference from last night. Now I know why he doesn’t do more press conferences. That was bad, he mostly stumbled…and sometimes sounded just plain odd.
It’s no secret that I’m not a Bush fan, but jeez — this guy is our President?
Wednesday, April 14th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>
Movie: School of Rock
Kt and I watched School of Rock last night. It was a lot of fun. Formulaic, predictable, etc….yes. But a lot of fun, none the less. I was impressed that they cast kids that all actually played the instruments…and rocked!
Wednesday, April 14th, 2004. Posted in Movies | No Comments »>
NPR Search Engine Series
If you don’t know much about search engines beyond simply knowing you should use Google, I recommend you listen to the Search Engine Series of reports NPR’s Morning Edition is airing this week. It’s pretty basic stuff, but good to know and understand a little about the history of search engines and the business [...]
Wednesday, April 14th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Python on Windows without prompt window
This seems like it should be a no brainer, but I can’t seem to figure out how to execute a python script on Windows without a command prompt window getting opened. It exits as soon as the script is done, but I don’t really want it to show at all. Anyone know how [...]
Monday, April 12th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>
Darn that Seth Dillingham
Seth more or less challenged me to take a 80’s music trivia-like test yesterday. Well, I took it this morning. I did even worse than him, 38.5 — which isn’t really fair because if I resubmitted my answers claiming I was born after Woodstock (which he was) I tied him. But that [...]
Wednesday, April 7th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »> « Previous Entries
