I’m seriously considering moving the site over to Movable Type. A lot of it has to do with the fact that my current weblog, b2, seems to have been abandoned by the author. I’ve always felt it was hacked together anyway. The code’s a mess, features are incomplete, and that drives me nuts. I don’t have the time to clean it up, as I’m working on my inventory application right now. However, moving to Movable Type would most likely entail a redesign, which I’m of two minds about. I’ve been looking to move to a cleaner site design for a while, but at the same time I’ve always thought my site was rather personal looking.
Anyone care to comment. Anyone reading this besides me? … I didn’t think so.
I’m not getting any work done today. I can’t stop reading war news from around the web, plus I’m just not in a very productive mood. So, I thought I’d pass along a few good links…
By far, the best source for up to the minute war news has to be The Agonist (mirror 1, 2, & 3). This guy must spend his day scouring the web, reading e-mails, and making phone calls. He then updates his site with the news he finds, easily a hundred times a day.
Debkafile is also an interesting source. It’s based out of Israel, so I would imagine it has a slight bias in its reporting, but it’s good news none the less. They often report things that show up in mainstream press weeks later, usually as a minor item.
Finally, the al Jezeera site would be a good link, if they hadn’t been 0wn3d. Whoops.
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Tags: Life, Music.
All I can say is, wow. admittedly, I’m a big fan of Everything but the girl, but this album is beautiful. Song selection and placement is excellent. Loaded with extras, it’s a good buy even if you have most of their studio LPs. Buy it, like it.
I’m glad to know our paid, elected officials are keeping busy down in Washington. I first heard about this on Morning Edition. Now I see it with a little more detail on Yahoo!, and it’s still stupid.
My favorite line…
The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium.
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Tags: Life, Music.
I finally picked up The Crystal Method’s second CD (yeah, the one that came out in 2001), and I really like it. It’s a lot more upbeat, with heavier hitting base, than their freshman offering. It doesn’t vary a lot in basic song composition from their first CD, but if the formula works, why change it?
Plus, I finally figured out the song Nike used in their movie theater adds all summer. Name of the Game.
Aside: Now, how weird is this. I just went to the CDNow/Amazon website to grab some links for this post, and the opening page had “Your Recommendations” as being Vegas, The Crystal Method’s first album. I am listening to Tweekend on my computer right now, but I’m using a freeware CD player, not big brother. Coincidence? You decide.
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Tags: Geek.
Looks like it’s upgrade time again for my box! I’m dropping in an Abit NF7-S with 2 256MB DDR SDRAM modules, and an AMD Athlon 2400+ Thoroughbred. I’m trying to score an ATI Radeon 9500 PRO 128MB, but I could probably buy mithril easier. They’re sold out everywhere. So, I’ve got a bid on one over at eBay. We’ll see what happens.
This upgrade should give me a noticeably faster machine loaded with new technology. The Abit board has USB 2, Firewire, 6 channel audio, and serial ATA. Oh, yeah, and AGP 8X. All this provided by the Nvidia nForce2 chipset. By using 2 memory modules, I’ll be running dual memory buses, thereby using a 128bit memory bus. This is too cool.
The only downside is Linux. I’ve heard of compatibility issues with both the nForce2 chipset and the ATI 9500 Pro. However, I use Win XP Pro pretty much 99% of the time these days on my main workstation. Maybe by the time I’m ready to try Linux again as a desktop, the support will be there. In the meantime, my server is still running Debian Woody.
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Tags: Humor, Life.
Ah, gotta love The Onion. They always seem able to bring the harshest issues right to the front with damn fine humor.
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Someone decided to add 1.8TB of disk space to his server. The kick is, it’s a home server, and he did it with 17 IDE hard drives. Cool stuff.
Original link is currently slashdot’ed. For the time being, check out this mirror.