Category: General

Had a weird thing today, there was a rally downtown for Obama so we went by just out of curiosity but they would not let me in to the ball room until I had made a donation, quite odd since they were doing an auction at the time, might have wanted to bid on something.…

I am feeling a quite frustrated with Apple today. Over the weekend I thought I would update my ipod touch to the new 2.1 firmware so I went into itunes paid my 9.95 (had not paid for 2.0 yet) and then nothing. The only download that happens is a little 0.4 kb file which does…

Earlier this decade a lot of conservatives were saying that even though Saddam Hussein did not have WMD it was good thing we took him out because the Iraqi people were suffering under him. Well, what I want to know why in the world is Bush not sending hundreds of thousands of troops into Myanmar…

I was downtown a couple weeks and there was an anti-abortion group there with a large poster on the side of an RV. It was an interesting message they had, the caption on the sign was “He’s not heavy he’s my brother.” The picture was that of a fetus apparently in utero. I found this…

Will the demise of HD DVD push you to buy a Blu-ray hi-def player? I win! I bought Blu-ray already. Too late, I bought HD DVD and I’m stuck. No, I’m waiting for hi-def downloads. No, I don’t need a hi-def DVD player. What’s HD DVD? So this poll which appeared at Computerworld after Toshiba…

I was considering installing XP today on a new drive I picked up last week (a vast expanse of 500 gigabytes woohoo) when it occurred to me that the next service pack for XP is due out soon. Wanting to save some time since it can typically take an hour or so to install a…

When I logged into my linux box this morning the quote that come up was: “He is the best of men who dislikes power.” Interesting quote that and also interesting that this apparently came from Muhammad. I’ll leave the interpretation to the reader.

I got a copy of visual studio 2008 at work and was eager to give it a try after going to a demo at microsoft and heard about its capabilities. For the most part it worked well but it has given some problems that make non-starter for me. The big one is that I was…

So Apple announced that third part development will be allowed on the iPhone and iPod touch, very cool news and certainly took them long enough to realize the desire there. As I thought about this more I realized why Apple took the stance they did initially, they could see that this product was going to…

Went in to the Department of Licensing (DOL) to renew the tabs on the car today which went fairly smoothly.  One very interesting thing is that Washington citizens are now required to show a valid drivers license in order to renew their car tabs. Not sure what problem they are trying to solve here, if…

I had to pick up a new dvd writer since the Sony I had picked up a couple years ago stopped ejecting the disks and would scratch them. Disappointing. So I went up to Frys and found a Pioneer drive that came with Nero and got it.  My first attempt to install the Nero software…

The first page is a couple quotes about death and how even if friends die they are still with us. An ominous beginning, on to the first chapter, I promise not put up any spoilers here since I really don’t like to read them myself. Took a few days, I was doing other things around…

So the top story today in the Seattle Times was state employee pay. This article actually deserves a much longer reply than I will put up here tonight but I needed to get something started at least. I found it interesting that this was a lead story for the first section, it reads very much…

Found this fun little game today when reading this entry at coding horror. This really a fun addictive little game. Desktop Tower Defense

Kathleen saw this on Paul’s site, thought I would give it a shot too and the result is: Which Princess Bride Character are You? this quiz was made by mysti

So, a friend of mine posed the question recently, now that Blair is retiring who will Bush appoint to replace him?  Which caused me to wonder if whoever it is would get Congress’ approval and then it hit me, Condi!  What the perfect stepping stone for her.  Now if only Parliament does not mind.

I really need to make more time to put things in here, I have not been ignoring this for any good reason, either get too busy or just involved in something (civilization III has been my recent distraction). This was productive evening, along with finally getting something written up here I managed to fix the…

Big thanks to Ryan Carter who wrote up a nice method for moving ones wordpress weblog. My first was to upload the tables and copy all the data into the wp_ tables but that did not work.  My problem was that on my previous host I had the tables prefixed as tom_ and the default…

Heard this quote on the Writers Almanac today: There have never in history been so many opportunities to so many things that aren’t worth doing. William Gaddis And you know I don’t think he was talking about the world wide web either, I suppose he would have given up and gone off to live as…

Damn, I have been gone from here for a long time, perhaps I will be more  timely in putting things up here in the future.  Not like I don’t have ideas, it is mostly a matter of remembering them long enough to put them up.  Here is one interesting in thing I found on a…