Halloween
Estimating how much candy to buy is one of the arts I’ve never mastered. I always have way too much or way too little, but never close to what I need. Add to that, I never know if I’m giving out too much or too little. It would be nice if you could get pre-orders [...]
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Andrew Welch on Open Source Software
Here’s an article from Andrew Welch of Ambrosia Software about the the economics of Open Source Software.
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Tribe.net
I’ve been playing with Tribe.net for almost 3 weeks now, and I really like it. I’ve slowly been inviting friends to it, creating and joining tribes and getting used to it. It conceivably could be a substitute for those mass mailings or personal mailing lists. We once had one with 60 people on it, and [...]
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It’s a Beautiful Day
Today, the weather in Evanston is gorgeous. I’d have loved to bike into downtown for lunch, hang out at Borders with laptop and generally kill some time working away from the house for a while. Unfortunately, I’m stuck at home waiting on a furniture truck. If they get here soon, I might still do that [...]
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Radiolover
I do believe I’m impulse buying a program for my Mac. It is called RadioLover. This is a pretty good looking MP3 stream recorder. It supposedly has the ability to break up by songs, but I’m looking for it as a scheduled recorder for shows I like. Used that way, it can be almost TiVo-esque [...]
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Hal Clement, RIP
I looked at Kathryn Cramer’s blog only to find the sad news that science fiction writer Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs was his real name) has passed away. He was probably the SF writer who I most wanted to meet one day, and now he is gone. As a kid, I loved his books. I still [...]
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iTunes Now_Playing
I have two different copies of WinAmp set up to ping this weblog with my current plays - home and work (which was more of a distinction when they weren’t both in my house.) Now I’ve added the iTunes on the home Mac to the party, by adding the iTunes Trackback script to my [...]
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Continental Drifters
Band of the Day! This time it is a band we used to see frequently in Louisiana, the Continental Drifters. They don’t have any songs easily downloadable, but they do have every track off every album available to stream in reasonable sounding RealAudio so I’ll give them a pass on that. I’ve been listening to [...]
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Psyche
In one of those unpleasant moments, I woke up today and did all my morning rituals. I fed the dog, let her out, checked my email. For a little bit I was trying to decide whether to stay up or go back to bed and then I realized - it’s not Saturday, it’s Tuesday! Holy [...]
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Home Again
The ordeal that was this trip is now over and I’m back in Evanston. I feel less guilty about not talking to Atlanta friends, because there just wasn’t a whole lot of slack in there. I barely had time to do what I needed to, much less also being social and having fun. I had [...]
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The Fish Float to the Top
I can’t say I take a whole lot of joy in the Marlin victory last night, but as they are The Team That Isn’t the Yankees, I’ll take what I can get. I saw the end of a game sitting in an Applebees in Smyrna GA and paused just long enough to see my favorite [...]
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Atlanta Pt 3
I’ve met with the realtor, I’ve cleaned out the crawlspace and thrown away everything that really needs it. I’ve gathered up all the stuff to take back to Evanston and now I just need to figure out how to transport it. I might see if I can box it up and check it, or possibly [...]
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Atlanta Pt 2
I need to leave for the airport in 30 minutes, and yet I’m still foot dragging. Man, do I not want to make this trip. Everything about it just feels like a superdrag. I just want to crawl back in bed.
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Atlanta
I’m flying back to Atlanta tomorrow for a hit and run trip, mainly to check on the house and to grab a couple of things I had to leave behind because they didn’t fit in the car during the great exodus. I’m kind of depressed and slack about it. You’d think that a weekend back [...]
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Sara Paretsky on the Patriot Act
Mystery author Sara Paretsky has on her webpage the text of a speech she gave on the Patriot Act. An excerpt:
We have today a government that mixes silence with lies.
We have a government that has by fiat sealed presidential papers from public view. We have a government that will not reveal the names of [...]
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More on Elliott Smith
Paul Melancon, whose Camera Obscura was one of my top two albums of last year, posts a touching recollection of Elliott Smith from someone who didn’t know him, never talked to him but ran in the same circles and was influenced by him and misses him.
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Wacky Packages Icons
For you Mac OS X using Gen X-ers such as myself, here’s a treat. This brilliant bastard has created bunch of icons from the Wacky Packages stickers. I still own furniture that has these things stuck to it from when I was eight years old. What is there to say but “right on!” I can [...]
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Waypath
Every so often, I’ll have a window open tailing my apache logs for this weblogs’ server and notice something going nuts. This morning, I saw umpty hundreds hits from the “Waypath Scout v2 (beta)” user agent, all from the same IP address. It was making so many requests in a short period of time that [...]
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Happy Mole Day
Today is National Mole Day, celebrated from 6:02 AM to 6:02 PM on 10/23. Avogadro’s number, you know. This day was created to foster interest in chemistry, and as a former chemist myself, I pass it along to you. The website also includes some silly pleges to the mole such as:
I pledge allegiance to the [...]
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Studs Terkel in the Onion
There is an interview in the Onion with the great Studs Terkel. I remember reading bits of Working in my grandmother’s house as a kid and being amazed at how fascinating ordinary people’s stories could be. Later on, I watched in fascination as those interviews were turned into dramatic monologues for PBS. In my entire [...]
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