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Archive for April, 2005

      

RE: Impacted

Oy, it’s promise keepers for MBAs. It’s intermission and I’m playing with the Treo. I narrowly avoided falling asleep for awhile after lunch.

Friday, April 29th, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

RSS advertising

More Dave Winer weirdness. Content providers will add advertising to any new medium that comes out. Just like they added it to newspapers, radio, tv and websites, they will add it to RSS. Of course, DW thinks it’s a good idea for people to write RSS reader software that strips out the [...]

Thursday, April 28th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Tiger in the tank

My copy of Tiger shipped for delivery Friday afternoon. Whohoo! Bring on the Spotlight.

Thursday, April 28th, 2005. Posted in Mac OS X | 1 Comment »>

Impacted

The office is sending all of us “managers” to a pep rally on Friday. I don’t want to be a nay-sayer, but I fear boredom. I think a good dose of inspirational speaking is ok now and again, but I’m not sure how I’ll tolerate a full day of it! I’ll try [...]

Monday, April 25th, 2005. Posted in Work | 2 Comments »>

Home again, Home again

Back from a week of vacation visiting my folks in Maryland. We had a real good time. Quoth the boys, “We’re going to stay here for-EVER!” I believe Nana Sue and Pops enjoyed having us around for a while and though overwhelming for them, the National Zoo and Smithsonian were fun for [...]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Developing with Core Data

Developing with Core Data. Looks nice. This is the first I’ve heard of this, but I must admit I haven’t been following OS X development news much.

Friday, April 8th, 2005. Posted in Apple, Mac OS X | No Comments »>

RE: Backlight woes

Much better. My laptop screen has now been replaced. At least I didn’t have to send it off and be without it for a week or two.

Thursday, April 7th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Pan-Mass Challenge

Seth is again raising fund as part of his participation in the Pan-Mass Challenge. This event raises a tremendous amount for cancer research, and Seth is dedicated to doing his part — not just for the ride, but because he’s sick of cancer. As a cancer survivor, I encourage anyone who can to [...]

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Health | No Comments »>

What a scumbag

Tom Delay has to be one of the biggest scumbags in politics today. I’m really tired of hearing about rule changes on his behalf, and the whole Texas redistricting snafu which was the biggest waste of state resources in recent memory. His leading the charge for Terry Schiavo into a venue where it [...]

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Downtime

Around lunchtime today, both the T1 lines at work went down. Voice and Data. Way down. Not even any warning lights on the termination cards. That usually means a physical connection problem. I was joking with the Qwest rep when I called and said, “Guess someone got a little overzealous [...]

Monday, April 4th, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Backlight woes

It seems the backlight on my Dell laptop fritzed out on Friday. I’d been using the machine all day with no problems, but came back a couple hours later, and no picture. Well, almost no picture. There was video there, but it was way to dim to read. Works fine with [...]

Monday, April 4th, 2005. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

Pope

I had no idea the Pope dying was such a big deal. It seems pretty blown out of proportion to me, but I’m not Catholic, so I guess I just don’t get it.

Monday, April 4th, 2005. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>