Month: June 2005
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The musical baton
Ernie passes the baton to me, and asks: what is my total volume of music what is the last CD I bought what song is playing right now what five songs do I listen to a lot because they are special to me five people I’m passing the musical baton to Like Ernie, music is…
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17 Senators Who Didn’t Support Lynching Apology
The list of US Senators who chose not to co-sponsor the lynching apology adopted at the U.S. Senate yesterday: Alexander, Lamar (R – TN) Bennett, Robert (R – UT) Cochran, Thad (R – MS) Cornyn, John (R – TX) Crapo, Michael (R – ID) Enzi, Michael (R – WY) Grassley, Chuck (R – IA) Gregg,…
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Obama Commencement Address: MP3
Knox College has the audio up in Windows Media format, but I figured that might be a bit tricky for any non-PC users out there. (And they’ve buried the audio file in a pop-up window that makes it hard to actually find and download the file.) So I grabbed the WMA file and converted it…
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Spammers, how do I hate thee?
Just had my domain shut down by my webhost for about 15 minutes. I checked it out, turns out it was due to “CPU Abuse”. Translated, that means that the deluge of hits to my mt-tb.cgi and mt-comments.cgi files (the two scripts that Movable Type uses to handle trackbacks and comments) were getting hammered so…
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Jim Keane – RIP
I learned of Jim Keane’s passing from Monica Bay’s blog last week, and today received an e-mail from Andy Adkins which included a link to the guestbook provided by the funeral home where Jim’s funeral will be. For those that didn’t know Jim, he was an early evangelist for the transforming role technology would play…
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Convert a Windows Media file to MP3?
I have a Windows Media audio file (.wma) that I’d like to convert to MP3. Anyone have a simple way to do it? Once I have the conversion done, I’ll share the audio — it’s of a recent event that I think people will want to hear.
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Fish & Richardson advertising on Captivate Network
Saw this in our elevator the other day, and was intrigued: Fish & Richardson is advertising on the Captivate Network. Wonder if any other law firms are doing this? Certainly seems like a great idea: quick ads, captive audience, and almost guaranteed repeat viewings by your audience. (I’ve seen it at least a dozen times…
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First T-ball game
Last week we had our first t-ball practice: That’s Ricky looking at me instead of the batter… Yesterday was the first game (I’m an assistant coach), and the kids did really well. Of course, I nearly screamed myself hoarse as I implored the kids to “THROW IT TO FIRST!” which works fairly well, until you…
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Most analysts
In response to a quote that begins, “Most analysts believe…”, Will Cox responds, “Most analysts are idiots.” Heh.
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Adieu, FeedBurner
No, I’m not leaving FeedBurner… just some exciting news from the FeedBurner lair: now publishers can take their feeds with them. What does this mean? It means that if you publish a feed through FeedBurner and decide that we’re not the nice, fun-loving bunch you thought we were, we will not only let you go,…