This year’s Christmas present haul proved most interesting. Amongst the fun stuff: Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition box set a Cuisinart Pro Classic 7-cup food processor (something I’ve wanted for quite a while) Blazing Saddles on DVD (“Howard Johnson is right!”) two new books on The Beatles a copy of Harri Potter …
Some happy randomness for today: It’s the season of end-of-year lists, and Typographica has chimed in with their favorite fonts of 2005. Some really cool stuff, and I even have one of ‘em (Adobe Garamond Premier Pro). There’s a lot of buzz about “web 2.0″ – so much that it’s tough to really tell whether …
For the third year in a row, the iPod was one of the hottest gifts for the holiday season. And this year was the first year that the music player was available for sale at Wal-Mart (after a long negotiation period where Apple actually got the evil Walton empire to bend). However, not everybody who …
I’ve been listening to “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” on WAMU. The first hour of today’s show featured a trio of guests discussing modern-day propaganda. Amongst the guests was Lt. Col. Charles Krohn, retired Army Public Affairs Officer. A caller brought up the litany of propaganda used to sell the idea of the war in Iraq …
The upgrade happened with minimal fuss. I did forget to disable a plugin, but it didn’t affect the upgrade at all. So here we are, in WordPress 2.0!
After a long and (hopefully) productive development cycle, WordPress has released version 2.0 of their content management system. This blog currently runs version 1.5.2 of WordPress. So I’m taking the plunge and upgrading my blog – the procedure for upgrading is involved, but shouldn’t be too bad. I’m hoping that my theme and plugins work …
I’ve posted the furst run-through of my Tops of 2005 list. It’ll get more populous as the new year approaches, but it’s a start. Enjoy!
War isn’t over yet – people just aren’t taking John Lennon to heart. But it’s Christmas. Mom is visiting us at sprite’s folks’ place in Connecticut, and it’s stressful. I’m pleased as can be that she came out, but it’s not been a visit without some bumps. Such is the reality of family life, I …
Activity: alpine skiing Location: Bromley, VT Start time: 1000 hrs. End time: 1400 hrs. Weather: overcast and windy, 37 degrees Max HR (bursts): 165 (beats in 10 seconds x 6) Type: anaerobic A nice day of skiing on a warm December day. The place was really empty, owing to the pre-Christmas travel day. A $25 …
Whew! I’ve been working on a rather involved, if not physically large, project to give as a holiday present. And, as of 8:54 pm tonight, it’s done! Now all I need to do is assemble it – but the worst part is over. Only problem: missed the 9:00 pm bus. So I wait for the …
