Monday, November 29, 2004
Well the Giftmas season is officially underway. Having participated in “Buy nothing day” was particularly rewarding. On the other hand, I did walk into Best Buy (it was on the way home) to look AT things to purchase, so I don’t know how well I acted in the spirit of the protest. [...]
Monday, November 15, 2004
I’ve referenced the vast wasteland of my filing and storage “system” before. For those of you that don’t know what that is, here’s a precis:
Once a preset-yet-undetermined number of objects has been reached, I purchase a bankers box, then proceed to put things in it. At that point, I may or may not [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Oops.
I got an email from the Delicious Monster folks. They accidentally left some beta expiration code in Delicious Library, disabling both licensed and unlicensed users. Download it again, and that issue is resolved. While they were at it, they also added the other Amazon DBs.
Yuriko reports a greater accuracy rate [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
I’ve been hot for the Delicious Library application for a while. I had the chance to play with it over the last two days, and I am grateful to find that my lust was not unwarranted. (Although perhaps, unrequited.)
Truth be told, I have a lot of media. I’ve needed a library like [...]
Tonight, there are midnight releases for a little Xbox game called “HALO 2,” some of you may have heard of it.
The original HALO was meant for the Mac platform. It followed the Marathon series of games and had many features in common with those earlier games. Both games feature a strong [...]
Thursday, November 4, 2004
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”– Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Just came back from voting.
Took 20 minutes, in total. Good thing I had the day off, and due to my last name, I was a pretty short line.
Of note:
The campaigners are so interested in you on the way in. Every time I run the gauntlet towards the polls. [...]