Jul 24 2005
Tomorrow, Brady and I start out on a roadtrip to Omaha, Nebraska, where we will crash at our uncle’s place and engage in 6 days of manly-man activity, like laughing at an assortment of crude humour, treating his cat to the sights, sounds, and odors of three large males in a…
Jul 22 2005
Night of the Avenging Blowfish, by John Welter. What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
The subtitle for Night of the Avenging Blowfish is “A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat.” This should immediately tell you something about the nature of the book; not quite slapstick, but populated with enough…
Jul 22 2005
Charlie Demerjian of the The Inquirer talks about Intel’s Q1 2006 Media Center offering and, well…. why it makes the Baby Jesus cry.
So, that is what it is, how does it sell you up the river? The first part is DRM. Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of…
Jul 22 2005
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Jul 22 2005
And this is it.
Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight™, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned…
Jul 21 2005
On the failure of one small community in achieving its own ill-defined dreams and/or goals… and we were an army of dead women and men, shuffling pointless across and thru this glorious new century w/ all its interactive toys, internet prattle, electrified restraining harnesses, billion-dollar death rays and refined, irrational,…
Jul 20 2005
1.0.6 versions follow close on the heels of the 1.0.5 updates, but chances are, if you haven’t experienced any problems yet with 1.0.5, you’re in no rush to upgrade. The sole purpose of these new releases is to
Restore API compatibility for extensions and web applications that did not work in…
Jul 19 2005
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig. What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance carries with it 25 years of critical acclaim, and no small amount of criticism. My brother enjoyed it (in fact, it was his copy that I borrowed),…
Jul 19 2005
Tonight, Heliologue.com is finally residing on its new Dreamhost servers. After getting the nameservers switched (though having to remain with my old registrar), a quick ipconfig /flushdns immediately had heliologue.com pointing to its new IP address. After ironing out wrinkles with some of the blogs, I have have email to figure…