Month: April 2005

  • Trib: Blogger Friendly Now!

    Larry over at ArchPundit remarks that the Trib’s new design is bloggerific: Really, the new design is quickly taking what used to be (before the recent versions) one of the worst web sites to explore to one of the easiest and friendly for bloggers. [ArchPundit] I agree – the new design is nice. Incremental changes,…

  • Friday Rumsfeld Blogging

    It’s been a long while since I’ve done my last Friday Rumsfeld Blogging entry, but this may be the all-time greatest photo of Rumsfeld. Ever. With great power comes great responsibility: Donald Rumsfeld flexes with Spider-Man and Captain America. (By Jason Reed — Reuters) Can’t wait to see your captions. And remember — no wagering.

  • Reed Smith offering a free session with Mark Chandler

    Denise Howell says her firm is doing a program in a few weeks where Mark Chandler is speaking: If you’ll be in Northern California on May 16, you might be interested in a free program to be hosted by Reed Smith from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in Menlo Park. It’s called Success Strategies for Today’s…

  • Google’s ATOM feed doesn’t validate

    Hmm… Update: Of course, my feed doesn’t validate either. Two of the three problems are simple fixes, the third will take a little massaging to get right. I’ve corresponded privately with a few folks whose feeds break in my aggregator (I use NewsGator) — and this is a huge problem. Surprisingly, many of the commercial…

  • Shaun Jackson Back Office

    I placed my order for a Shaun Jackson Back Office laptop backpack last night, it should be here sometime next week. I’ve grown very tired of schlepping my briefcase — and a backpack seemed a good answer. Buzz recommended the Eddie Bauer backpack, but finding one was going to require a bit of hunting. And…

  • OnlyMyEmail spam service

    Saw a very positive review of OnlyMyEmail, a web-based service that filters your email and grabs all viruses, spam and other nefarious email before you ever see it. Since I’m now using my Treo to check email when I’m away from the computer, handling all of the spam was really getting annoying. I’m using OME…

  • RSS, site changes

    Mostly for those of you reading in an aggregator, I’m making some changes to the blog this week. In no particular order: back to one RSS feed. I used to make two feeds available, one with excerpts and one with the full feed. Thanks to FeedBurner’s stats, I know that the full feed was more…

  • Musical regrets

    Saw Dennis’s post about Ernie, and this snippet caught my attention: In fact, on the list of my great musical regrets is never getting to chance to see Professor Longhair do a show in New Orleans. I might write about some of the other regrets one of these days. It’s interesting how my Professor Longhair…

  • The Onion: TiVo Wishlist Roulette

    This sounds like a great idea… The always amusing Onion‘s own AV club has an interesting new way to goof around with a TiVo: set a random keyword wishlist and automatically record to see what you capture in 24 hours, dubbed TiVo Wishlist Roulette. They set it to “War” and let it go to town,…

  • Who’s the most recent president from Illinois?

    Why, none other than the current president. “As near as I can tell, it’s OK.” If ever there was a motto for the Bush administration, that is it. Just about sums it up, actually.