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- As in any household, ours was filled with both happiness and sorrow this past year. No matter how the year past unfolded, we very much enjoy closing it out with any family that we can. Eating good food, drinking fine drink and playing Simpsons Clue. |
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- I don't know which thing to tell first: My capsule reviews of some of the numerous movies I have seen... |
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- You should check out a new Salon blog, Intern's Diary. |
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- ... extremely ... etc.) ... speed up ... This won't work as well. |
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- On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:57:07 -0000, Bill Kearney wrote ... You can still constr |
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- Ask and ye shall receive. Nice pix by the way! -Bill Kearney ----- Original Mes |
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- Can someone with Editor authority re-flag feed 39732 back to awaiting approval |
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- 2004 - Happy New Year! /** * You may use this code for free on any web page provided that * these comment lines and the following credit remain in the code. * Cross Browser Fireworks from http://www.javascript-fx. |
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- This new year's day XOOPS is two years old! I wanted to do something a bit special for the ocasion, so here it is. What is it? It's a XOOPS Timeline depicting (sort of) the main dates in the development of this amazing product. If you want to see it, just click on the adjacent piece of graphic. |
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- With 50 votes in, my Future of People survey has "People will be more intelligent" at 34%, "People will be less intelligent" at 48%, and "People's intelligence is irrelevant" at 18%. Interesting and about what I expected. Please vote if you haven't already... |
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- I like the way life looks from a bicycle Another "cloudy, chance of sun breaks" weblog? Who knew?... |
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- The offices of Actional and Stratify. They apparently share a building. I don't know why I a sign saying "Actional" and "Stratify" amusing. They probably don't see it that way. |
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- Reflective Surface notes that - for the most part - all blogs look the same. Then again, so do books. Here's my against the grain take on this - the layout is irrelevant unless it's unreadable. It's the content people are looking at. Make it easy to read; |
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- This year saw a series of highs and lows just like everyone else. Some of the lows were real downers, and some of the highs were joyous occasions. A major low: The first four months meant recovering from glaucoma and cataract surgery. I walked around the house for three months bumping into corners, doors and anything that got in my way. |
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- The ball will start to fall in Times Square two nights from now, and as has been true for countless years, people are making New Year's resolutions they may never keep. Such resolutions often are made under the fuzzy cloud influence of two or three alcoholic drinks, and many are never remembered by dawn's early light on New Year's Day. I'm taking a different approach. I'm making my resolutions two days ahead of time with a clear mind. I haven't touched alcohol in 21 years, and so I... |
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- A slow but steady outcry against dams, those monstrous concrete and steel obstructions that block rivers, has been heard for many years. Many sportsmen are condemning and damning those dams. And probably for very good reasons. Few hydroelectric dams generate enough electricity now to do much good. Some dams are unstable, and others are downright dangerous. |
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- Anglers are chomping at the bit to go ice fishing. The big question is where? There are only a handful of lakes in the northern Lower Peninsula that offer safe ice after Saturday and today's rain and warm temperatures. Many lakes are unsafe, and anglers are strongly advised to practice ice safety regardless of how many people may be fishing. Lakes Cadillac and Mitchell at Cadillac have safe ice although both could get dicey if the weather stays warm for another day or two. |
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- It's official. Two snowmobilers have lost their lives so far this winter. Discussions of safety while riding on or driving a snowmobile have been discussed many times, and only repeated reminders have any chance of sinking in the skulls of some hard-headed snowmobilers. Those who pay attention may live to see the spring; those who do not may not make it through February. |
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- A decent amount of snow fell during the night in northern Michigan, and shortly after daybreak I was shoveling around the garage and near the newspaper tube. It was Christmas morning, and all was well in my world. I chatted briefly with a neighbor out for an early morning walk in the snow with his two dogs, and we discussed the deer situation. He feels me and my neighbor have all the bucks and he only has does. I remind him that during the rut a good place to find bucks is where all the... |
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- Christmas wish lists change once we progress from childhood to the adult stage of our lives. The old saying that the difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toy is very true. However, my wishes are priceless and have nothing to do with fishing or hunting toys. They have everything to do with our personal ethics, stewardship of our natural resources, and how we treat each other. Far too many people are takers and too few are givers. |
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- I had wanted to have everything updated by tonight, but unfortunately I came down with one of those nasty migraines.... |
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- Steven Berlin Johnson in the current issue of Discover writes Internet-Era Democracy When Trent Lott made ostensibly prosegregationist remarks a year ago that eventually led to his downfall as Senate Majority Leader, an attack ad quickly appeared on the Internet... |
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- MESHUGGAH---Transfixion Now Playing: MESHUGGAH---Transfixion |
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- I was just reading through some aspects of the CAN-SPAM law which goes into effect January 1, 2004, and realized that it is broadly applicable to normal email lists that have no ostensible commercial purpose. (Oddly, the bill was indexed incorrectly, so the key section -- number five -- is available only by scrolling down in Section 3.) That is, if you're running a regular email list that has links to a Web site that is commercial in nature (shows ads, sells a product, you make money in some fashion from it), you might need to comply with the requirements of the law. Note that I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. |
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- The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, Bishop of Washington and Dean of the National Cathedral, considered the meaning of the Christmas miracle in his Christmas Sermon. And what was God thinking... when the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to... |
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- This seems, at first blush, like small, local news:In a... |
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- Statistics for TWiki Web Month: Topic Views: Topic Saves: Attachment Uploads: Most Popular Topic Views: |
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- Sitting here listening to my son (Whiny the Elder for those of you playing along at home) while he's doing... |
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- Sitting here listening to my son (Whiny the Elder for those of you playing along at home) while he's doing... |
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- Laut Google Zeitgeist 2003 war in Deutschland yu-gi-oh das meistgesuchte Wort 2003. Im Namen von Abakus wünsche ich Euch allen ein erfolgreiches neues Jahr! |
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Snow (Dec 31 2003 23:53 GMT) - Its snowing! So I've take some rather poor photos. I tried.... |
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- So yeah. It's almost 2004 and what did you do? I think my biggest accomplishment was to finally get my... |
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- It's comforting to know that many planes flying around the coasts tonight will be shadowed by F-15's just in case there is an incident and a CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT MUST BE BLOWN FROM THE SKY. I find if funny how they try to make people believe that the skies are somehow SAFER with the Air Force patrolling them, when in fact, if you are in a plane, you are actually in more danger. Happy New Year!  |
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- It's comforting to know that many planes flying around the coasts tonight will be shadowed by F-15's just in case there is an incident and a CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT MUST BE BLOWN FROM THE SKY. I find if funny how they try to make people believe that the skies are somehow SAFER with the Air Force patrolling them, when in fact, if you are in a plane, you are actually in more danger. Happy New Year!  |
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- New: Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. O'Reilly & Associates released Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther, which provides a tour of Mac OS X's Unix base for the uninitiated, including customizing the shell, managing files and directories, editing with vi, and more. [MacInTouch] |
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- New: Booxter 1.0. Booxter manages book collections, with support for multiple libraries and book lists, book information from online sources, and handheld barcode scanners. [MacInTouch] |
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- Korn first couple of albums werent that bad, until they got kinda rappish it died there.....imo. |
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- Well, what better way to close out the year than a post about spam? AOL has released their list of "top" spam messages from 2003 which represent the subject lines of the spam they found most often in 2003. At the top of the list, of course, is any subject pitching Viagra. Next up are spam for low mortgage rates, and coming in third is the ever popular porn spam. AOL claims they blocked 500 billion spam messages - an average of about 40 per day per user. |
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- Some say frustrated customers are getting ready to throw the iBook at Apple Computer--in the form of a noisy Macworld demonstration. |
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- A very Happy New Year to all of my readers (both of you)! Looking forward to a lot of new things, both at home at work. I'm looking to ramp up my contracting (let me know if you know of anyone looking for a solid, experienced ASP.NET developer/architect), while keeping my hand in writing and conferences. I should have more articles coming out on the MSDN ASP. |
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