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Star Wars: An A Capella Tribute to John Williams
Turn your speakers up and kick back for four minutes of grand a capella entertainment courtesy of Moosebutter.
Bye Bye Windows 3.x
The headline The end of an era – Windows 3.x startled me this morning. My first thought was to look at the dateline; it had to be in the distant past and I wanted to see how distant. I will save you the tension and anticipation; the dateline is November 1, 2008, just four days […]
Go Out and Vote!
It’s election day. Go out and vote! I am super special and deserve and sixteen gazillion votes, unlike regular people who only deserve a single vote. Unfortunately, no one else recognize my special-ness so I am depending on you to go vote. I trust that you’ll do the right thing since I have limited power […]
How to Spot a Child Predator
I know what I am going to dress up as tonight. A Halloween costume so scary that my wife will be upset that I am wearing it in public. I am going to wear a disguise so socially unacceptable that three entire school districts will close for a day to assure they their students do […]
Cross Browser Testing
Cross browser testing is always a pain to coordinate but at least it just got a lot less expensive. Amazon Web Services just released AMIs running Windows which means that you can now get Windows virtual machines for as little as $0.125 per hour. These beasties make great platforms for doing cross browser testing. The […]
Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957
My life is certainly richer for having seen this BBC video I don’t know how I went all these years without bumping into it. Perhaps my brain really is slowing down.
Meet The Distant Cousins
Genealogy research has led me to connections with distant cousins that I never knew existed. Yes, I know that many purists consider genealogy to be the study of (primarily dead) ancestors but I rapidly hit dead-ends in that realm since I am of Jewish, eastern European and Russian descent. Between the pogroms and the Nazis, […]
Boom or Bust for Open Source Software?
You might have noticed a bit of “uncertainty” in the economy these days. I was fascinated to see these two articles show up within 24 hours of each other: Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping by Andrew Keen <snip> So how will today’s brutal economic climate change the Web 2.0 “free” economy? It will […]
Why McCain and the Republican Party Scare Me
I am down on most career politicians (are there any other kinds?) but the Republican party has become particularly scary during the Bush administration. The Grand Old Party has shifted farther and farther right. McCain and the current party leaders are grandly continuing this new tradition. It looks like McCain’s platform, like Bush’s, boils down […]
Airport Security: What a Waste
I love the inconvenience of airport security. The fact that I am paying for the privilege of being inconvenienced, in lieu of having my security enhanced, makes the whole experience all the more charming. Recently, Jeffrey Goldberg took all of these goodies through airport security at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Read Goldberg’s entire article on […]
Steal This Comic or Song
I buy a lot of music on-line and it breaks down like this: 1,268 completely unlocked MP3 files, easily playable on any computer or device, all purchased from eMusic.com. (Here’s a link to get 25 FREE iPod® compatible downloads from eMusic! Choose from over 2.8 Million songs! ) 0 DRM-locked files from iTunes, Audible.com, etc.
Anthem Insurance Customer Disservice
I hate paying money to be abused. Here is this morning’s tale of woe regarding customer “service” at the Anthem insurance company. A few weeks ago, I received a letter telling me that the co-pay on my Zetia would increase dramatically and that I should switch to a statin instead. That is patently ridiculous advice, […]
Laptop Battery Myth
Infoworld published 10 power-saving myths debunked. I admit that I assumed this myth was true. Myth No. 7: Notebook batteries just wear out. There’s not much you can do to make them last longer. Fact: Many laptops with nickel-cadmium batteries come with a battery-reconditioning utility that drains the battery fully, then brings it back to […]
Netflix Quietly Begins Live TV Broadcasting
Internet TV—broadcasting live television over the internet instead of using radio broadcasts or the cable television infrastruction. Almost everybody has heard of it. Some people talk about it as the Next Big Thing in television. Many people figure that it will not happen for a long time for a wide range of business and technical […]
Connecting with the Past and the Present
A lot of my genealogy research amounts to little more than adding names and dates to a computer database. It can be hard to understand why I bother. Every so often, though, I have one of those woo hoo! moments which keep me going. Last Saturday brought not one, but two, woo hoo’s. First, I […]
Why the American Economy is in Trouble
With all the hoopla these days, it is very difficult to determine why our economy is tanking. Almost every news article, and certainly every political candidate, points the blame and tries to oversimplify the situation. FactCheck.org, a wonderful web site which debunks the spin in presidential candidate statements and advertisements, has a great summary in […]
+1 for Open Source Genealogy Software
GRAMPS (my genealogy software) version 3.0.2 just came out and I upgraded. It has lots of bug fixes and tweaks, including to several things which had annoyed me about 3.0.1. Unfortunately, they did not fix one of the things which bothered me: the pages of living individuals still do not include the persons’ pictures. Those […]
Genealogy Blogging
Genealogy has been a large part of my life for better than ten years yet I have never blogged about it. I have always assumed that you would not be interested because my genealogy is only about my family and not about yours. On the other hand, I have made several exciting discoveries lately which […]
Ring “Tones”
Sometimes I feel like such a Luddite but then something like this XKCD cartoon comes along and I feel completely validated 🙂
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