Archive for January, 2004

Annie Sings!!!

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

OK people you HAVE to hear this, it’s just the cutest thing in the whole wide world!!! Sung by the future diva Miss Andrea Pearl at age 2 years and 7 months!
Annie sings “Itsy-Bitsy Spider”

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Harmful Rewrites

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

Rewrites Considered Harmful? - by Neil Gunton
Heh, would you believe this, I didn’t find this through slashdot… noticed it was on slashdot in the second paragraph. Anyway, got some interesting opinions.
He missed the disasterous Winamp 3 rewrite.

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Shorter State of the Union

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

Shorter State of the Union (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
I’m including the whole thing below

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The Hacker Diet

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

The Hacker’s Diet
Here is what you’ve been waiting for “How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition”

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Tattoos are boring, get a 3d implant instead!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

NewYorkish: Tattoos Are, Like, Totally Boring
Frightening stuff, getting “decorative” steel implants… talk about short sighted, although they are reversable, still makes you wonder if people don’t have anything better to do, or spend money on!

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Mia Blogs

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Here is Mia’s first blog entry ever! At age 14 months. I should have gotten her blogging earlier but I’m a bit old fashioned Note the italics at the end!!!
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Movable Type to Dada Mail Script

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

This afternoon, I whipped up a script to archive and mail out blog entries every evening using Dada mail.
Jake from Utterly Boring, set me in the right direction, and I used this article as a starting point.
Right now my script sends multipart (text and html) messages, and archives either the html or the text, […]

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Daily - Weekly Mailing List for WTS

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

OK, I’m getting that mailing list that I promised ever so long ago, together. Just a few more tweaks and it will be ready for prime time! You’ll never have to come to my blog again, just sign up and the news will be shipped right to your door.
Not only will I give you free […]

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PHP Coding Guidelines

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

PHP coding guidelines : evolt.org, Backend
I’m posting this, because I’m working on a mailing list and need something to work with… however it is an interesting article and worth taking a look.
Not that I agree with much of it… lets see, Tabs vs. Spaces, I say spaces. Variable names I say $currentUser. Looping, oooh, […]

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Windows Media Player Classic

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

Neil’s World - Media Player Classic
This is pretty cool, what looks like a rewrite of the good old “before we got all pretty” Windows Media Player. I say “what looks like” because I can’t find any information as to what exactly it is…
Anyway, it’s a media player, and it looks cool. What more do […]

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Isreali Ambasador Trashes Art Exhibit

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

BBC NEWS | Europe | Israeli envoy wrecks art exhibit
Isreali born artists creates an exhibit in the international anti-genocide conference depicting a suicide bomber’s picture on a ship floating in a tub of ‘blood’… Isreali ambasador “could not remain indifferent to such an obscene misrepresentation of reality” and hurls a spotlight into it.

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Hole in the Sky!

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘Hole in sky’ amazes scientists
Crikey!

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Schneider Lens on Ebay

Friday, January 16th, 2004

eBay item 2978743451 (Ends 16-Jan-04 17:46:32 GMT ) - SCHNEIDER VARIOGON f1.8 12.5-75mm ZOOM LENS
After my last great exploit on eBay, I decided to push my luck a bit harder.
The above lens sure looks like this and this one, so I put a bid on it, thinking that for sure the other guy would up […]

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Call Me! FWD: 238807

Friday, January 16th, 2004

So someone pointed me to the Free World Dialup project, so I downloaded some cool software, signed up here and now I’m all plugged in, and ready to rock and roll.
You can sign up without any additional hardware, of course if you had a VoIP phone that’s cool, but if not just download the software […]

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That’s what I’m Tolkien about!

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

So, the Lord of the Rings trilogy ends! I enjoyed Return of the Kings best of all the movies. Great job.

The only obvious bad ‘cut’ I saw was when Sam was going to rescue Frodo after he’d been taken to the tower by the orcs. We see a little scuffle in the tower […]

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