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Archive for November, 2004

Finally got around to finishing Doom 3 over the weekend. I wanted to follow up on my earlier comments just to say that the game got much better as it near the end. The actual combat was still not all that interesting, but the visuals kept kicking it up a notch, getting much [...]

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004. Posted in Games | No Comments »>

I hate big fat stupid words

Kt did a good job of drawing my attention to certain negative words that we generally don’t want to say use around the boys. We don’t have any trouble avoiding them in speech (generally) — but it’s really amazing how much we have to work around them, particularly in children’s books. Particularly the [...]

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends | 2 Comments »>

The Beatles I never knew

DW has determined that Lennon gave McCartney a sh*tty deal in the Beatles. Huh? It obvious to me that — discounting Pete Best — it’s George that really got the raw deal. According to Dave,

I thought John Lennon’s style developed over the years, but it turns out he always sang [...]

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Squidly Diddly

I’ve configured the new server to use Squid as a front end and accelerator for all the services I run on the machine. I wanted to stick to only using one IP address on the machine — but also wanted the multiple web services I run to all appear on port 80.

I compiled my [...]

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

New server up and running

This site (and my other sites) are now running on the new server. It’s snappy.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Help is on the way

I’ve got an assistant at work again! Starting fulltime on Monday. Yea. Someone else to handle the printer jams.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

New concepts in architecture

I’m sitting here watching This Old House, and their insert segment is about a team of Yale architecture students that design and build a house for a low income family. Every single one of the students, graduate level architecture students, has zero building experience. They are saying things like “I’ve never even driven [...]

Saturday, November 20th, 2004. Posted in TV | 4 Comments »>

From the Vault, vol. 5

Another edition of “From the Vault” coming your way. These two entries from a session a did with long time friends Tim Blankenbaker (drums) and Steve Winter (bass) in 1991. Another of our high school buddies, Mike Leach, was working the sound board at The Bayou, a club in the Georgetown section of [...]

Saturday, November 20th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

aolsystemmsg Commands

I logged on to IM this morning, and must have left it running at work yesterday. I got an IM from “aolsystemmsg” like usual indicated this…but this time it also offerred me the opportunity to IM back “1″ to disconnect the other session. That’s the first time I’ve received an IM that allowed [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

TiVo Ads

TiVo’s new advertising strategy seems to be upsetting some people.

Must admit, it doesn’t bother me. Maybe I’m substantially googlized to the point that I think it’s pretty normal to find advertising banners everywhere I look, don’t know. Notice both of those people complaining about it have google banner ads on their websites.

I think [...]

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

ADB/IO for USB?

There used to be a great Mac peripheral called ADB I/O. It was a simple programmable interface controller to interact with “real world” devices. I need something like this for USB. I know it exists, but am not sure where to look for it. Any ideas?

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>

And the Ambulance Will Rock

David Lee Roth training to be an EMT. In other news, jealous Sammy Hagar enters John’s Hopkins Medical School.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004. Posted in Humor, Music | No Comments »>

Wal-mart == evil

My buddy Jamie pointed out tonight’s Frontline, Is Wal-Mart good for america?. Looks interesting. We like Target better anyway.
If labor unions would stop wasting their time organizing for the Democrats and boycott Wal-mart, they might actually make some progress on keeping undesireable, meneal manufacturing jobs in the US.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Offensive Ad of the Month

We got this card in the mail from the local “alternative” radio station yesterday. Not only is Santa drinking whiskey and about to get a lap dance on the cover, there’s a Santa mug shot on the inside of the card. What incredibly bad taste.

Monday, November 15th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »>

New personal server

I’ve thought about upgrading the server this site runs on a number of times lately, mostly because there’s some additional services I want to run on it for dev. work. Well, Dell finally made an offer I couldn’t refuse this weekend, and I ordered I machine that I’m going to be at pains to [...]

Monday, November 15th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 4 Comments »> « Previous Entries