How to Celebrate Black History Month, For Those Who Aren’t Black
This just barely sneaks in under the wire, but I just ran across this from Baratunde of the Front Porch Podcast. He did a series of seven short (like a minute or three apiece) podcasts called “How to Celebrate Black History Month, For Those Who Aren’t Black.” Like most of his comedy, this is acerbic [...]
AmigoFish Updates
Over on my AmigoFish project blog, I’ve posted about some new features. You can now see and search across individual episodes! Additionally, when you look at any series it will include information about all the episodes the system knows about. All that data was already in the database, so it made sense to make it [...]
Goodbye Celebrities
Watching the Oscars proves to me that one thing Hollywood is always willing to do is give itself a big giant reach around. I saw exactly one movie nominated for much of anything, Little Miss Sunshine, and basically the whole show was about as boring as could be. I used to really care about this [...]
(Network) Safety Begins at Home
If you use a standard SOHO router in your home network, be sure and change the default password. If not you are susceptible to this attack. I previously had not done that, so I did it today. Bad me, I’m better now.
Peking Acrobats
Tonight we went out to campus and saw the Peking Acrobats. It was pretty amazing that the same people were able to do these amazing gymnastics, tumbling, juggling and balance acts. There were a few moments that I was sure I was 3 seconds from watching a tragedy unfold, but maybe that was part of [...]
Clevenger Reads Dermaphoria
Craig Clevenger, somewhat inadvertent friend of the blog, has done a reading from his novel Dermaphoria. This was for an episode of KQED’s Writers’ Block. I will read it, as I absolutely loved his novel The Contortionist’s Handbook. The only downside I could tell about Dermaphoria is that it maybe is too thematicallly similar to [...]
Tags: craigclevenger, kqedGrey Spam Solution
I can’t believe that I didn’t think of this before. I finally figured out how to deal with the comments that seem kind of relevant but have sketchy links in in the URL field. I had several of them in the last few days, where the text of the comment matched the post but the [...]
EGC Clambake for February 20, 2007
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for February 20, 2007.
I play a song from Detroit Crunkstar; I talk about black history month, a few movies I’ve seen and what it was like being a white kid from Kansas who ended up in a black high school in Georgia; [...]
Odeo For Sale
So I see that Odeo is for sale basically because they are now focusing on Twitter. In one of these posts, they note that this analyst thinks “Odeo is the only vertical podcasting site that has emerged from the pack.”
Evan references “schadenfreude” in one of his posts. I wouldn’t say that I feel that [...]
Leopard Early?
Here’s a rumor I hope is true: Apple’s upgrade to OS X codenamed Leopard (10.5) may be early. It’s promised for spring, and coming in early next month would be fine with me. I’m waiting for it with bated breath because I never upgraded from 10.3 to 10.4 but I will do this one. At [...]
Lundi Gras
When I lived in Lafayette, Lundi Gras was really the most fun day of Carnival season. It’s the most full day of fun that still has more left. Mardis Gras day itself is bittersweet because once it is over, that’s it. Lundi Gras is full of revelry but still contains the promise of revelry to [...]
GTDGMail
The Rev. Dan Tripp sent me mail about this Mozilla plugin that will turn GMail into an engine for GTD. It’s called, appropriately enough, GTDGMail. It looks pretty cool, although I don’t think it will work for me. I made the decision that I wanted an offline solution but for those of you who are [...]
Tags: gtd, gtdgmailHide Your Clutter
Here’s a cool idea that I’m thinking about doing myself. It appeals to the 10 year old kid in me, with the idea that by making my clutter not obviously visible my bedroom was clean. Via Makezine comes this link to a hiding your desk clutter underneath it.
One thing I love about the Maker stuff [...]
Charleston BookCrossing Convention
I signed up for BookCrossing years ago. You’d think as both a bibliophile and a Where’s Georger, I’d love BookCrossing. The problem is that I’ve read a few books and released them into the wild with the BC markings and then never ever heard from them again in the years that they’ve been out there. [...]
Tags: bookcrossingMore Atlanta Club Memories
My friend Jon blogs more of his Atlanta rock and roll memories. I don’t remember the Bistro, it must have closed before I moved there in 1985. I did, however, get fabulously drunk as an underaged foolio at Margaritaville more than once, usually while local band The Isotopes were playing. It was right there at [...]
How to Deal with Bandwidth Thieves
I’ve had rude assholes take images I had posted and use them as their avatars on message boards and such. I dealt with it by replacing it with an image that impugns most aspects of the person at the other end. MoveOn chose to deal with it in a more satisfying way, and as I [...]
Goodbye Infoworld
I am at the point with my free Infoworld subscription where they send me increasingly frantic email about renewing. I decided that without Jon Udell’s contributions, I just don’t care enough about the magazine to get it for free. It’s not worth the trouble of filling out their survey form, which is always a huge [...]
Happy Birthday, Overlord
Holy crap, I’m older than Warren Ellis? That just doesn’t seem right. I’m must not be living wrong enough.
Gruber on Amoroso on Jobs on DRM
Daring Fireball deconstructs the response Fred Amoroso made to the Steve Jobs DRM letter. Funny stuff.
Grey Spam
The other day I linked to this Akismet criticism. If you follow the comment thread, it seems to me the original case of the poster gets weaker and weaker as the argument continues. I know of three cases of false positives in my 37,000+ comments that Akismet has flagged. That’s better than I do by [...]
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