Another damn blog on Vista?

• January 31, 2007

I followed and wrote on the release of the latest batch of browsers: IE7 and Firefox2. I’ve got a strong opinion on browsers: It’s best to be compliant with open standards and it’s best for the browser to simply be the gate to the internet. IE7 is much, much improved over IE6, however it is not as standards compliant and it doesn’t have nearly as much flexibility as Firefox. Flexibility matters when they mess up the interface as badly as Microsoft has. Read More

Am I just stupid or am I too dumb to figure it out?

• December 21, 2006

I try, oh, how I try.. It’s the end of the year. We’re coming up to Christmas concert season. I’ve been asking Rebekk what she’s been practicing for the concert and she’s answered, “I don’t know.“ Well, it’s gratifying to know that eight year olds today aren’t any more expressive than they were back when I was eight, right? Well, no biggie. I’ve known for a while that the concert at my kids’ school was scheduled for tonight. Read More

Beating Bug to the punchline is all that matters....

• December 15, 2006

Proving once more that I, too, can find strange and wonderful news on this “Interweb thingie”: Man runs down deer with seven legs. Bag me a moose on stilts, too, won’t ya? Honest. I’m working - I’m working…. I’m trying to find a link for the story from Canada AM on “As if drivers didn’t have enough to worry about when shopping for insurance, a new tongue-in-cheek study suggests predicting good or bad driving habits could be as simple as reading one’s horoscope. Read More

Sunday Night Special

• December 10, 2006

I don’t intend to post Sundays-only. It’s just working out that way right now. Life is too ratsofrassin’ hectic right now. It’s not the holidays - although they are certainly dumping on the pile. It’s more than kids and job and life - that’s a constant in this world. My lady-love has said a couple times in the past month that she’s ready for a solid vacation. After spending a little time looking up the meaning of the word “vacation” I’m becoming more and more inclined to agree. Read More

Advice for free software

• December 3, 2006

Brian fired me a link today for 30 essential programs - free or open source. It’s a nice list. I use a lot of them myself to various good effect. Some I use daily, others - well, I’ve never been involved with filesharing, so those are simply not relevant to me. My list is a lot shorter than 30. My list of programs that everyone should have. 1. Firefox. It’s a better browser. Read More

Ruth Brown - She was something special.

• December 3, 2006

I heard about Ruth Brown’s passing on As It Happens November 20 when they ran her obituary. There are some nice tribute pages to Ruth I’ve found out there. I’m so envious of this one it isn’t funny. You can find Ruth’s VH1 bio here. Rather than trying to wax on about her, let me reprint As It Happen’s bio here. (I’m sure I’m violating copyright, I want to repeat it because Ruth is someone who NEEDS to be known and absolutely no one has captured what I remember of Ruth better. Read More

How "Blue Collar" changed my life, and other love songs.

• December 3, 2006

This morning I mentioned to my Lady-love that most of the wierd-assed references I pull out of my poor demented brain are song references. This morning it was Jonathon Coulton’s “Re: Your brains” that spurred the whole thing. The very first song I heard that truly struck an emotional chord with me above and beyond the actual song’s content was Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s classic, “Blue Collar.“ (A sample from LastFM is here. Read More

Site status

• November 30, 2006

I just want to let everyone know, you’re doing GREAT. I’m pretty much certain that I account for 92.6% of my traffic. And 7.1% of my traffic are people lost on the information traffic jam. That leaves precisely 3 visits I can’t account for who haven’t been forced to be here or who haven’t been searching for “fuzzy orange fetish” or some such. And I know that at least one of them came from Trever. Read More

Woo-WHO!

• November 30, 2006

I’ve got about a thousand things worth mentioning. Let me start off by loudly cheering: I got my Who concert CD’s. This is a brilliant concept, one who’s time should have come 30 years ago, really. Put on a show, sell a copy of the show to the fans who want one. Packaging can be minimal, overhead can be very small, fans are happy and it’s the end of bootlegs when you can get a high quality copy straight from the sound board. Read More

New Babylon 5? Ooooh!

• November 14, 2006

Looks official to me. I’m so happy. Mr. Straczynski, please batter me about the head until I’m incoherent. MORE incoherent. Read More