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June 30, 2005 Who knew the FireWire name came out of a beer bottle? I love these kinds of back stories and lore. And the Web is full of them. No wonder I spend so much time on it.
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June 26, 2005 "The Bush administration is planning the government's first production of plutonium 238 since the cold war" No wonder the country is finally turning on the jackass.
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June 24, 2005 Selfish entry time. Don't want to lose this link on how to yank .swf files from Safari's cache and permanently save them locally. Been looking for this for ages.
11:45 AM
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Comment spam apparently has gotten to the folks over at Engadget too. At least I'm not the only one driven over the edge by texas hold'em and fly-by-night pharmacies. Will be interesting to see their solution. In general, I'm happy with my hacked-together auto shut down of comments after seven days. But if you've seen something better, by all means speak up. Within a week of course.
11:09 AM
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June 22, 2005 Um, why not combine electronic tech with cutesy collectibles? Surely the existence of Hello Kitty SD cards means that someone believes gadget geeks and junior high school girls share a lot of psychographic traits, right? While we're shopping, I'd like a GI Joe USB drive and Barbie Bluetooth headset, please.
02:48 PM
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June 20, 2005 Talk about capturing the moment. "Be A Good American. Don't Try To Think." Pretty much sums it all up.
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An onslaught of hidden ads. Right. As if all those blurbs for big buck designer duds and photo captions about the fragrance a model supposedly wears during the shoot because the editors behind the wall love the choices. Yeah, right.
05:25 PM
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June 16, 2005 I'm slowly stamping out the bugs in the RSS feeds. (Thanks cutie.) Even though I think it's finally bending to my will, I just can't warm up to the technology. I have this nagging feeling that RSS is too fragile, complicated and obscure to make a difference in the average surfer's life. Even with them right in Safari, I've gotten to where I only use RSS to see when my favorite sites have updated then I read their standard http form. Call me crazy but I think the design details my pals have sweated over actually improve the communication. I know, I'm a freak.
09:20 PM
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Yesterday's WSJ carries a story (site requires subscription so why link?) about Muvico a Florida-based company that’s running elaborate movies palaces complete with flamboyant architecture, assigned seats and full-service restaurants and bars. Surprise surprise its ticket sales are expanding while the hack chains, Loews, AMC, et al, continue to decline. Doesn’t take a genius to understand why. I have come to hate the typical moviegoing experience. The big chains charge premium prices, $10 a pop, then herd you into tacky surroundings that often reek of popcorn and sweat, bombard you with mindless ads and irritating pre-show “entertainment,” then torment you with sub-par projection that sends you running to the optometrist for a prescription update. Sure Muvico's execution suffers a bit of Vegas tacky but their success proves demand exists beyond Hollywood for an experience over and above what we now get at home.
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June 14, 2005 I'm convinced that Bush and his henchmen should be impeached and charged with war crimes. The question on my mind is why the mainstream media continue to ignore the story?
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June 13, 2005 I guess the SuperDrive in the Power Mac is failing. Reached this conclusion tonight when I attempted to play a DVD. The drive goes chunk chunk chunk chunk then spits out the disc. CDs mount without a problem though. Probably not coincidentally, I attempted to burn a DVD-R for the very first time with it last week (yeah, I know, it's only 2 years, 10 months old) only to have it stall right at the very end. Maybe that triggered lingering defect just waiting to rear its pretty head? Fortunately AppleCare remains in force until August. Running a backup of 27.4GB worth of users folders and preferences then Genius Bar here I come.
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Something to watch the next time you're high and alone.
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June 12, 2005 Is there a better way to fly than upstairs on a 747? If so I've never experienced it. Tonight, UA managed to ply me with a vodka tonic, three white wines, a light dinner, dessert and two coffee and Baileys. All in the span of a two-hour trip. Yes, I'm lit. Friendly skies indeed. P.S. I loved watching Y Tu Mama Tambienon the big screen PowerBook during the first leg out of Jesusland tonight. Alas no one behind me said anything about all the on screen simu-fucking and subtitled profanity so I didn't get to reprimand them about preferring gun totting vigilantes and other so-called patriots.
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June 09, 2005 Love note from NYC. My pal Matt relocated to Manhattan a few months ago. I'm enjoying the vicarious fun of his adjustment to the whacky existence that is NYC living.
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June 07, 2005 Ew. Ew. Ew. Reason enough not to move into an airport flight path.
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Took last week off work and had some serious me time. Didn't go on a big trip. Just a bit of discount shopping. Caught the required (yawn) summer flick. Then a better (sexier) one on DVD. Visitors from the east arrived. We trekked north for the wedding of friends Adrienne and Tony. Now I've got the first day back at work behind me and I'm wondering if the big shift is really going to be that big of a deal when all is said and done. |