Normally I find myself grumpy about the rampant over commercialization of the American Christmas season. I usually resent the constant bombardment of shopping catalogs (our recycle bin has been full every week for a month), the pervasive Christmas decorations in storefronts as early as September every year (WTF?), and the dependence the retail sector of […]
Wow, what an incredible difference a lot of memory makes! Yesterday, my employer finally delivered on a request for more memory my boss and I made in June for new (in June) PowerMac dual G5 desktop, that came with only 512MB of memory. Don’t get me wrong, I am still of the opinion that 512MB […]
I continue to enjoy reading Richard N. Goodwin’s excellent book “Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties” and had a sudden inspiration while reading about how America backed and stumbled into the Vietnam war. Conventional wisdom is that America became involved in Vietnam as a result of the continuation of a foreign policy practiced steadily […]
This long Thanksgiving weekend has held both Erci and I house bound with colds, so we have been very domestic, cleaning, watching movies and shows off the Dishplayer, and catching up on kitty-play time with Bailey the cat and ferret chasing time with Leonardo. Spanglish good clean fun. I have been wanting to catch this […]
This is a first post with Dan Schimpf’s MacJournal to see how it works as a blogging tool. In theory I can blog the same content to both bogger and livejournal from one source. Thanks to Dan Schimpf for writing this tool, and to Anthony Coco for pointing it out to me. One of the […]
Saady Khan has an informative post over at Spicing it up!!! 😀 – The Rain Machine that lists many ways you can update your own blog’s template and design. Thanks Saady! I added an Atom stream/feed to my blog, and submitted it to the LeftyBlogs web log index hoping to see a little more traffic. […]
Saw a link to this on John Evans’ blog, a web based map that generates a list of the places in the world, or in the country that you have been to so far… Create your own visited country map if you like, interesting and fun, but quite misleading because it colors the whole state […]
Folks, we have until April 14th, 2006 to file in the State of Virginia to be considered a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 2006 general election. So far, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, no one has filed (yet) to run against incumbent Republican Frank Wolf in the 10th district. Will someone please […]
I know I am engaging in post-mortem equine floggery, but Rob Pegoraro over at the Washington Post agrees with what techies have been telling the computer shopping public for several years now: choose a Mac over a PC as your home computer. The nice thing about Mr Pegoraro’s article, is that he’s a much better […]
Erci and I spent yesterday and last night at the Fall Showcase and Medalist Ball put on by the Arthur Murray studio we’ve gone to since May of 1996. As usual, the event was very well run and the dancing was more beautiful than usual. Erci and I piled on the Tango routines for this […]
