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My wife recently got a call from Nielsen Media Research. You know, the “Nielsen Family” people. That’s right, we’re now a Nielsen Family. For one week, we’ll be keeping “TV Diaries” of what we watched. With four adults and two kids covering three generations in our household, we should be able to give them a good spread of data. I’m sure we’ll be making the Disney Channel and Food Network people happy. Not to mention … Continue reading →

With Great Power

Nov132002

I guess the movie industry’s motto should be, “with great power comes no responsibility.” Comic book legend Stan Lee says that Marvel owes him big bucks due to a contract that grants Lee 10% of all profits from the comic book characters he created. Marvel claims that, ‘the company has seen no “profits” as defined by their contract.’ Ummm….. Yeah. Right. The Spider-Man movie grossed over $400 million domestically, over $700 million since the release … Continue reading →

Software Development

Nov122002

At work, I think I’m about to get excited about Eclipse, a sort of uber-IDE that can use plug-ins for handling all sorts of different programming languages, platforms, environments, etc. It’s an Open Source project with lots of Big Names behind it. Very cool, in a mega-geek kind of way. At home, I’ve gotten a little excited looking at some weblog software called b2. I had previously been looking at pMachine, which actually seems slightly … Continue reading →

BMG Rolls Out Protected CDs in Europe

Nov062002

Music giant BMG is apparently poised to implement copy protection in all of its European CDs. I bet that a lot of Europeans can expect to have problems with it, despite BMGs claims that the CDs are Red Book compliant. I’m not in Europe, but I already have a couple of CDs that give me trouble, despite the fact that (to my knowledge) they do not contain copy protection. The CDs in question are Barnaked … Continue reading →

Re-election Day

Nov062002

Here in Alabama, the race for the Governor’s office is running neck-and-neck. Democratic incumbant Don Siegelman claimed victory last night after an AP report showed him ahead by a few thousand votes, with 97% of the returns counted. Representatives for Republican rival Bob Riley called some of the districts to verify vote counts and found discrepancies that didn’t match up with the AP numbers. They said that Riley was ahead, and Riley claimed victory. For … Continue reading →

Voting Day!

Nov052002

I had sworn off the whole “which X are you quiz” fad. But this one was topical…. Which Founding Father Are You?

More validation than you can shake a stick at

Oct312002

I spent a few minutes digging through my HTML and my blogging software source, and this page now validates: It still looks like poo in Netscape 4, but if you’re using an 8 year old browser, you should probably expect most modern pages to look like poo. Upgrade, you freaks! For those of you who complain about the size of the download — about 11MB for the Windows version of Mozilla — there’s a version … Continue reading →

Pimp Daddy Costume

Oct292002

Okay. This is just wrong.

Back to Daylight Wasting Time

Oct252002

This weekend, we in the United States “fall back”, as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end. Personally, I agree with Rick & Bubba — we should just leave the clocks alone. Oh sure, you might argue that we “gain an hour”, and that it will feel like we’re getting an extra hour of sleep in the morning. But that’s a red-herring, and you know it. Tampering with time is dangerous. Just ask any Star … Continue reading →

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