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March 22, 2005

New home (soon), the joys of paper, my new block.

January 11, 2005

Podcasting. For the love of God (if you choose to believe in him), why?

December 16, 2004

Writing about software, evaluating projects after they're completed, and a bit of grumbling about some gaps in Mac OS X applications.

December 10, 2004

here are media awards of all kinds, but none so foul and smelly as these.

August 24, 2004

Sports games... Who knew?

August 16, 2004

Carlos Arroyo shows, again, that hard work trumps glamour in Basketball.

July 30, 2004

Never ever ever ever ever ever let yourself get sunburned on that skin over your achilles tendon. It's so...

June 15, 2004

With game 5 coming up tonight in Detroit, the Pistons have a very good chance to take the championship this year. I'd love to see it happen on home court.

April 20, 2004

Looking forward to the new book from The Atlantic's William Langewiesche, "The Outlaw Sea."

March 29, 2004

Yes, that's a can of Pabst sitting comfortably in my back pocket.

March 19, 2004

Tonight, 19 Mar 04, I'm hosting a small open house at my apartment/studio. The timing seems to be rather good for it.

March 18, 2004

Besides black spaghetti, another thing I never expected to have in my life is an electric pinecone. But I...

February 20, 2004

Crawling out of the deep nasty hole I fell into last weekend...

February 05, 2004

Silence abounds

February 04, 2004

Mark Pilgrim describes the differences between all versions of RSS.

February 03, 2004

An argument between Dave Winer and Mark Pilgrim reminds me more and more of why I dislike Winer's so-called specs.

February 01, 2004

Wired News tells the story of the "First Down Stripe"

January 26, 2004

Yeah, there's a lot of misinformation and just plain nonsense on the web, but a mass media that gives...

January 11, 2004

New apartment layout makes for optimal fog viewing.

January 05, 2004

I have to admit that, like for the holidays and many other events in recent months, my typical anticipation...

January 01, 2004

Ahhh, the new year. Welcomed in, as always, with style. This included: Getting a dollar for my, um, dancing....

December 31, 2003

It was quite strange when I woke up this morning. As I lay there in bed, I thought to...

December 24, 2003

Each year, I feel less and less of Christmastime. I walk through the crowds of suburbanites visiting the city...

December 14, 2003

Somewhere around Thursday, I got a nasty sore throat. I had hoped to avoid getting sick this year, and...

December 07, 2003

Oh man. A lot of us here in Utah have been waiting for the first game between the Jazz and...

December 05, 2003

The website for Harper's Magazine has been redesigned. Among other things, it now features RSS feeds. Besides its excellent...

December 04, 2003

Fresh Pabst. Life is good. Lots of dental work to be done, sans insurance. Life sucks Fresh Pabst. Life...

November 13, 2003

There's a fascinating Wired News story about iTunes and "Playlistism" on campuses, whereby a whole new (and not at...

November 06, 2003

A label that needs to get on the iTunes Music Store right quick is Tzadik, home to a great...

October 30, 2003

Alien Versus Predator teaser trailer, slated for release next august. My younger brother and I have been waiting a...

October 20, 2003

It's been said time and time again that CD's are too expensive. I stopped in at Border's the other...

October 16, 2003

Wondering how Panther will ship to arrive on the 24th and what iPod accessories might show up tomorrow. Also, the magazine situation seems to be settling. Now if I only had time to read them...

October 07, 2003

Seeing "Lost in Translation" only heightens the love of being in yet distant from a city. A meditative bath to the big noise sounds of Merzbow's "Dharma" cements the night.

October 05, 2003

New style sheet tricks have been applied to Industrie Toulouse. And there is a backlog of posts waiting to come out. Really!

September 28, 2003

In a comment, I was asked "what CMS would you recommend thats very simple, very quick and very dirty? Is...

September 02, 2003

While approving and publishing content for a public web site today, I came across a series of links that...

August 27, 2003

Back to school! Shiny TI 89 calculator!

August 24, 2003

Project management and communication continue to be a personal fascination, and one that I have covered many times in...

August 21, 2003

All done with people, not computers. Really cool to watch. I give you the link of the day (windows media...

June 16, 2003

See Get Your War On #25, another beauty. Any joke with the correct use of "orange" in it is...

June 05, 2003

So I now have a new 15GB iPod. So far, so good. iTunes is filling it up right now....
My iPod may not be dead, but the description can be revised to "1.6 Gig Model". That's about how...

June 03, 2003

My iPod (one of the originals - those very first 5 gig models) appears to be quite sick. It's...
I'm back, again, after a long weekend. This time I stayed in the valley, but spent a lot of...

May 31, 2003

It's been a relatively stressful few weeks. My trip to Portland last weekend, while enjoyable, was not relaxing. There...

May 27, 2003

The Daily Show had an interview tonight with Diane Ravitch about her book, The Language Police. A fascinating, mind-boggling,...

May 22, 2003

Looking forward to a weekend trip and getting away from violent "peace", ever larger national debt, and more - even if it's only for a couple of days.

May 13, 2003

kuro5hin.org has a post on How to quit smoking cigarettes. Last time I almost quit, I lasted about five...

May 12, 2003

I finally have my film supply restocked. Even got a bonus roll of 400 that my neglected SuperSampler will...
Little bits and pieces about the state of the world remind me of why I find myself retreating back into the good old (and new) sounds of Ministry.

May 08, 2003

I haven't even taken the time to read it yet, but I'm watching this weblog (I hate the term...

May 01, 2003

From Mac Central, today: Some early users of the iTunes Music Store have been disappointed that the 200,000 songs...

April 29, 2003

The initial selection of the the Apple Music Store is not yet close to what I'm really looking for,...

April 25, 2003

Playoff basketball has made it a late night. Great games - New Jersey overtook Milwaukee (dammit), and Minnesota overtook...

April 24, 2003

I think that among the better things about the new Apple, and evidence that Apple fandom is like a...

April 23, 2003

After an all-too-late bedtime (it's not my fault I live in a bastard time zone where The Daily Show...

April 18, 2003

According to the Detroit Free Press, the hottest rumor is that Saddam made a deal with the U.S. months...

April 16, 2003

Stupid city - A Mighty Wind, the new Christopher Guest movie, opens in "select cities" today. Apparently, we're not...

April 15, 2003

Inspired by Chris Petrilli (and also by looking at the URL's of some other Movable Type weblogs), I've applied...

March 31, 2003

Some strange (and stupid) news out of Chicago: the mayor has shut down Meigs Field, a really cool small...
Military kicks Geraldo out of Iraq....

March 27, 2003

Google News reported a CNN headline as Rumsfeld, Ridge lobby Congress for money for Iraqi war, terrorism, which may...

March 25, 2003

From Pitchfork Media, "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Questioned as Suspected Terrorists, Continue World Tour": Renowned Canadian nontet Godspeed You! Black...

March 20, 2003

We have no beer in the office. Even worse: our local beer-buying-place is not exactly open any more. Sigh....
Now this is just brilliant. I really have no response to it. The menu at the Coffee Garden at 900...

March 19, 2003

I'm sure this is already spreading like wildfire, but Al Gore has joined Apple's Board of Directors. Feel free...
Was there any game cooler than Archon?...
From Salon: "People looking for the answer to the big question -- Why on earth did she stay? -- may...
It was bound to happen sometime: "A conservative alternative to Ben and Jerry's". Featuring "I hate the French vanilla", "Nutty...

March 18, 2003

I don't know if this is a long-term change, or just an effect of the network going into war-mode,...

March 14, 2003

Stopping by AVSIM today I came across the following news. It's sad to lose a developer and enthusiast like Richard,...

March 10, 2003

The following is one of my favorite passages from World of Ends Perhaps companies that think they can force...

March 08, 2003

If GAP uses the Pizzicato Five rendition of the 59th Bridge Song, they'll have my membership and loyalty for.. well,...

February 20, 2003

Hallellujah, I'm ready to go.

February 16, 2003

For the second time in the past year, I've gone out of the house with mismatched shoes, and didn't notice...
Max
Tonight I saw the movie Max (Reviews). Noah Taylor is downright terrifying at times as the young Hitler, fresh...

January 26, 2003

A great note/quote from Brent Simmons. I agree wholeheartedly with everything that he says here, with my own usual catchphrase...

January 17, 2003

The Sundance film festival is upon us. Do you have enough all-black outfits to survive it?...

January 16, 2003

This is half a test post out the latest NetNewsWire Pro Beta from Brent Simmons/Ranchero. It has a weblog editor...
I've updated the new Toulouse RSS Feed to include full content alongside the traditional description tag, using the content module....

December 19, 2002

This month is just dogging me down. And that's about all I have to say about that. I'm starting to...