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Archive for October, 2004
Blood of the Ram
Whohoo! New Gourds record next week!
Friday, October 15th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
Lightning Protection
Got the guys from work out installing lightning protection on our house today, along with surge arrestors on the electrical service. For those not familiar, the lightning protection system itself is a good old lightning rod setup that protects against a fire and structural damage from a direct lightning strike. Lightning is the [...]
Friday, October 15th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, Work | No Comments »>
Fun TiVo stuff
I’ll have to play with some of this stuff sometime.
Thursday, October 14th, 2004. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>
From the Vault, vol. 4
Here’s another one from the vault. I’ll call this one Movie Music, not that is was. Just that it sounds like it could have been. Sounds like this one was all sequenced, no live instrument tracks.
This was circa 1990. My setup was Voyetra DOS-based MIDI software, on an original model IBM [...]
Thursday, October 14th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
The “trust microsoft” setting
I finally have thrown in the towel and given up on trying to maintain security patches on the Windows machines on my work network in any controlled or tested way. There’s just too many to keep up with…so I’ve turned on the dreaded “trust microsoft” setting — ie, download and install all windows updates [...]
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>
Back from Vacation
I’m back from a fun camping vacation. Took Thursday-Monday off. We went out to Lake Whitney State Park. The boys got to do their first fishing and generally had a blast sleeping in the tent and throwing rocks in the lake. Asher woke up this morning all upset, “Want to go [...]
Tuesday, October 12th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
Rock and Roll Timeline
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has a cool flash timeline. Didn’t really learn much from it, but it was fun to click around on.
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
Plone Intranet
After noodling with the setup for the past couple of months in my “spare time”, I’ve finally gone live on a new company Intranet at work, based on Plone. I have high hopes for it becoming more participatory than our previous site, which was Conversant-based.
This has been a difficult process for me as I [...]
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>
Kool-Aid Beer
Anheuser-Busch is putting out a caffienated sweet “beer”. Seems silly to me. I think the market they are going for really just wants a shot of grain alcohol in some kool-aid.
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004. Posted in Beer | No Comments »>
RSS feeds for topics
I added RSS feeds for each topic on this site. If you are one of the few using an RSS reader, you can now subscribe to any topic individually and get any comments that have been added. It’s sort of a silly feature, as few comments as I get, but I saw it [...]
Monday, October 4th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>
Give me levers, or give me death!
I don’t trust electronic voting. I want a good old 10 ton hunk of metal with a curtain and lots of levers, or, better yet, a paper ballot. All methods are susceptible to fraud and tampering, but I really don’t want my vote lost due to a hard drive failure and I really [...]
Monday, October 4th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>
Debate
The debate was ok, I guess. Kerry presented himself better than I expected. Bush was as painful to listen to as I expected, repeated himself a lot and really didn’t sound like he cared much. I’ll be interested to see how the town hall format next week alters their presentation.
Friday, October 1st, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »> Next Entries »
