Another Day, Another Article
I was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News. If you don’t have a login, use cypherpunk/cypherpunk. That’s what I do with them
I guess the article is OK. I’m a bad judge of such things. I’m a little bugged by the fact that I had a 30 minute conversation with Dawn the reporter, talking about [...]
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Dunn Been Said
Mike Dunn got the drop on me by pointing out some of the problems with the most recent Gillmor Gang. I wasn’t actually going to say anything about this because the problems I had with this are the same ones I’ve already mentioned before, particularly with Mike Vizard. Brother Dunn actually flatters me greatly when [...]
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Screwed by Audacity
This morning I recorded my long promised audio essay and because of an Audacity problem it is all gone. Audacity said it saved, but there were no files there. This is the last time I will ever use it for recording initial audio. I’m not sure if I’ll be moving to Wiretap or Audio Hijack, [...]
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Busy Times
Much working, a little eating and drinking, and occasionally some sleeping. Luckily, there isn’t as much shivering and thawing as I was expecting. I’m still looking forward to getting back to SC, even though I’m getting out to fun parts of Chicago I’ve never been in.
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EGC Stuff Update
Just a quick update on additions to the package at the EGC store. By popular demand, white shirts have been added. I would hate to let my fellow bretheren from Kansas sweat their asses off because of me. Also, you now have the option to order XXL or XXXL shirts. Those cost $2 and $3 [...]
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I Am The Ugly Lover
Lately I’m getting bugged by the ugliness of this blog as a website. I need to start over from the ground up, I think. It would be pretty easy to pull off technically by just writing a new blosxom flavor since the test ones can happily coexist with the current one. I want to get [...]
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Flying
I’m on a United flight from Charlotte to Chicago and I have achieved my holy grail - an entire row to myself! As it got late in boarding and no one was yet here, I tried to avoid getting too worked up. The last few times I thought I had a HG situation some latecomer [...]
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EGC Clambake Episode for Jan 25, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 25, 2005.
In this episode, I talk about the Harlan Ellison vs AOL case and an old post that has gotten a lot of traffic lately; I talk about John Perry Barlow and his statement “There’s a lot more emotional [...]
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Comment Spam meets More Karma
The karma wheel rotates a little more. I more or less insinuated that the comment spam onslaught was happening from zombified Windows boxes. Turns out they are going through open relays of many OSes (Linux amongst them) as told to me in a comment here by Ann Elisabeth. I wasn’t previously familiar with her work, [...]
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Karma
My karma has caught up with me. I talked about unseasonably warm weather and last night it was 10 degrees Fahrenheit. I talked about resisting comment spam and then this weekend I got hit pretty hard. I should have it noted here and now how I really would prefer to never win the lottery and [...]
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Comment Spam
Since Sunday morning, this blog has had just shy of 3000 comment spam attempts. Thanks to the defenses I put up, exactly 0 of these went through. I hope this onslaught doesn’t cause people to start pulling the comments sections from their weblogs. It does really suck. I hope that whoever is behind this gets [...]
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Birding
Author Poppy Z. Brite is about the same age as me and seems to be tracking well with my progression through life. On her weblog she sometimes talks about her conversion to a birdwatcher. She’s waaaay more into it than I am, as she’s willing to traipse around marshes with binoculars. I’m much more passive, [...]
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EGC Clambake Episode for Jan 20, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 20, 2005.
In this episode, I talk about David Berlind and play a clip from his transparency experiment; I talk about Tom Dowd and Dogtown and play an audio clip from the former; I play a song by [...]
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New and Reproved
Sometime recently they have changed the local forecast page at the Weather Channel’s Weather.com. Whatever visionary was in charge of the project managed to convert it from simple and useful to nearly unusable in one swell foop. Now when I search on my zipcode, I am presented with a page on which the important information [...]
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EGC Clambake Episode for Jan 18, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 18, 2005.
In this episode, I talk about getting permission to play music from Camper van Beethoven (!!) and then get right on it; I talk about sad songs and losing touch with your friends; I talk about Jon [...]
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Hardy Time
Today Mark Evanier commemorates the 113th anniversary of the birth of Oliver Hardy. Over the XMas holiday, my mom loaded us in the car and drove us to Harlem GA to visit the Laurel and Hardy museum. It was definitely worth the trip, even if it wasn’t quite the facility or had quite the exhibits [...]
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With Your Permission
I got permission from another biggish band to play their music in the clambake. I’m going to keep it a secret until I do, but I’m highly highly excited about it. It might not be the biggest band in terms of “units shifted”, but this is a group that means a lot to me. I [...]
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Earwig
Since playing it on the podcast I recorded Sunday morning, I’ve had that Rocket City Riot song “Hypodermic” running through my head. I can’t get it out. 48 hours and counting. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. I’m playing it now.
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Confluence
Here’s a cool confluence of events that work out to a good eventuality:
I found the external USB CD burner that was packed in a weird box for the last year and a half so that I can hook it up to my linux box which doesn’t have an internal burner
I ran across the linux tools [...]
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iPod Shuffle Part 2
A few further thoughts on the iPod Shuffle. As I was leafing through the sale flyers in the Sunday paper I noticed that the standard retail prices for 512 Mb USB thumb drives is around $60 or $65, judging by the ones that were on sale with rebates. I don’t already have a thumb drive [...]
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