Archive for December, 2005

Happy Holidays

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

There’s no war against Christmas. It’s the most popular holiday in the history of holidays. And it doesn’t matter if you celebrate it for religious, secular, material, traditional, ironic, or other reasons. National holidays should be celebrations of inclusion rather than exclusion. So I like the fairly neutral slogan in the [...]

George, the NSA, and you…

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

You’ve heard the news by now about our fearless president admitting to the truth of the reports that he’s been using the NSA to spy on you and your fellow citizens without bothering to go though the legal procedures in place to protect our freedom. You can your solidarity against this sort of rule [...]

Best five of oh five

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

I nicked the idea from Tim, who nicked it from this guy–except I’m going to cheat and pick six:

Walk The Line (film review)
Things that do and don’t suck… (opinion/product review)
The last meme… (music meme)
Kottke gets it wrong (opinion/invective)
The meme (book meme)
Ten Years (milestone)

Pandora.com

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Sean turned me on to Pandora.com a few days ago and I’m totally hooked on it. It’s a music discovery tool. You create a station starting with an artist you like. Then you fine tune it by adding other artists and giving yes/no votes to the artists Pandora thinks you’ll like. [...]

Wheatblog, professionally hosted

Monday, December 12th, 2005

If you’ve read about the wheatblog (wB) software we develop but don’t want to muck with installing it yourself, Siteground.com now offers wheatblog on their web hosting accounts. It’s cheap, too ($5.00/month) and they include lots of space and features for your other content. Siteground supports a whole suite of great open source [...]

Spam Haiku #2

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Once again, it’s not a true Haiku. But this one, from today’s round of spam, is in the ballpark:
shiny is the way
birthday or xmas these
make the nicest gifts

Walk the Line

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Though I did mention Johnny Cash’s death in a blog post back in 2003, I didn’t mention how powerfully it affected me. My wife tells me that too many of my blog posts record the deaths of greats passing, but Johnny Cash’s death was more significant to me than most celebrity deaths. I [...]

Comments down for the moment…

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

…until we add some features from the CVS to deter the comment spammers. Stay tuned. If you have a burning need to comment on a post, send it via email and I’ll add it in on your behalf…

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