Archive for December, 2004

“Gonna kick tomorrow…”

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

One of the most consistent things about me has been my life-long addiction to caffeine, usually in the form of Dr. Pepper. I’ve kicked the habit several times in the past, only to take it back up again. I don’t believe that caffeine is bad for you. I’m not kicking it due to any physical [...]

More friends online…

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

Our friend Sean (with whom we rocked in Nancy along with our friend Kat) has a new blog (well, new to us) for your reading pleasure. We’re blogging it here so we can surf it over the weekend. And we’re going to stop using the “royal we” now.

Full feeds…

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

Per sjarvis’s request, the RSS feed now contains the whole post, not just a substring.

Too much metal for one hand…

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

Since I’m a musician, I like it when people send me interesting (or at least funny) ads for music-related gear. I got two today. I pass them on to you: skeletar and the jambass.

showlister .04b has left the building…

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Don’t say I never gave you nothin’. Showlister-04b.zip is out there. Visit the homepage if you don’t know what I’m talking about. No big changes this time around–just a few niceties added to make it a little bit better than before.

Putting talent to good use…

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

It always makes me happy when I stumble upon a site like Ian Johnston’s johnstonia. Johnston, a retired university instructor, has put tons of his own teaching and research materials online as well as many original tranlations of classics including Descartes Discourse on Method, The Oresteia, and the first four books of The Odyssey. And [...]

Kickin it Old Skool

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Here’s a screen shot of MacOS 7.5.3 running on my WinXP laptop via the wonderment that is Basilisk. If you’d like to do the same, you’ll also need a copy of HFVExplorer, which lets you create virtual mac hard drives under windows and move files back and forth between the platforms. And you can score [...]

Some CSS info for my next revamp…

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

A List Apart has a great article on a new method of style sheet switching. I can’t wait to try it out.

“640K ought to be enough for anybody”

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

The title of today’s post derives from a famously bad prediction made by Bill Gates. I’ve been feeling the sting of Windows XP’s seemingly insatiable hunger for RAM recently. My wife and I both have Dell laptops. Her’s has 384MB of RAM and runs just fine. Mine shipped with 256MB, which was plenty for my [...]

They don’t call them “homophobes” for nothing…

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

Evidently, banning gay marriages isn’t enough in Alabama. Now Representative Gerald Allen wants to ban gay characters in novels or any other work that that’s part of the “homosexual agenda” (at least in public and university libraries). Shouldn’t legislators be required to have read the constitution? Or, at least, the bill of rights. That first [...]

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