Gmail is so cute. When you have Web Clips turned on, and click on your spam folder, it shows you recipes for Spam. HA!

Today I got my first AT&T Wireless bill with my iphone. What a joke. Mine was 37 pages detailing every KB of data transfer. Page after page with a grand total of 111,421 KB at $0.00. They had to send it to me in a special big envelop because all those pages would not fold up in a normal bill. They probably had to pay extra postage also. I need to surf more often and see how many pages I can get them to send me.

AT&T is just totally clueless and idiotic.

Here's an iphone bill opening video.

Coding Horror: The Large Display Paradox

Coding Horror: The Large Display Paradox

ha, but on the mac, this is not a problem as windows maximize to the size of the contents, not the size of the screen.

Citibank's response:

"Customer Service Wrote:

We apologize for your experience with our Service Professional. Our goal is to provide superior service to each of our customers. Your feedback is appreciated and helps us improve the service we provide.

Thank you for taking time to send us your suggestions. Your comments are valuable and will help guide us as we continue to enhance our service. We have forwarded this information to the proper department for further consideration.

The Dividend Opt Out conversion offer were mailed on 04/30/07 to customers to advise them that their account will automatically be upgraded to new WorldCard products. The respond by date to opt out from this conversion was 06/22/07.

Thank you for using our website."

Seems canned. I wonder if others are having this problems. There was an opt out letter sent but it said if I opted out, my account would be closed. Seems like that's not much help.

It's also disappointing that they are going to punish some Service Professional when the problem lies with the higher ups who made the marketing decision to switch me to a new card. Too bad they will punish the person who answered my phone call.

Citibank stinks. Here's why.

They decided to send me new credit cards and cancel my existing account. This is a huge pain and is going to cause me lots of grief. I got so fed up with them I canceled my account and urge anyone else facing the same problem to also cancel their accounts.

My note to them:

"I'm very unhappy with your latest scam where you canceled my old account and sent me new cards with new numbers. I have automatic payments to several organizations including my newspaper, tivo, public radio, and others. Switching numbers caused me a huge problem and gave me zero benefits. I read the literature and I could see no benefit for me in switching numbers. You then wasted 20 minutes of my time just now on the phone and I decided to close those accounts.

I will now spent the next month with late payments and questions about why my automatic transactions no longer work and I have to clean this all up. Please pass on to whomever made the decision to force an account change that you have lost me as a customer. I will also make sure to recommend to others to avoid Citibank for this kind of practice.

Someone loves me

Another reason to use Tivo!

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/08/1654258

Massimo Vignelli explains his 1972 NYC Subway Map..

Got a new computer today. Bough it on http://www.woot.com It's another Compaq piece of junk, but it's faster than my 8 year old compaq piece of junk. :-)

Gotta stop spending money.

Bought socks, a replacement for our broken receiver, a replacement for my 8 year old computer and finally a new grill. We lit up the grill on Wednesday and after a few minutes flames started shooting out of the dials and they melted and dripped to the ground.

Gotta buy a lock and chain for the nice new grill. I did buy a cover to try to make this one last a long time. And it's blue!

Will Apple ever stop going up. Oops, probably should not have written that. My stock I bought a few years ago is up 780%. I've had to sell half of it twice in that time and probably need to sell another half to keep my portfolio from being weighted to heavy in Apple stock. I guess it's a good problem to have.

I'm green, but I'm not crazy. Time to go back to the old bulbs.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=aa7796aa-e4a5-4c06-be84-b62dee548fda

Very very interesting.

http://www.dasher.org.uk/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416&q=user%3A%22Google+engEDU%22&pr=goog-sl&hl=en

My conducting debut.

Password Generator

http://archive.famousfamily.com/password.html

Hostess Cakes
You think they have my recipe for chocolate dipped twinkies?

My 110 shares of Cisco are finally in the black today. It's been a long wait...

UBS 4Q Net Profit Soars to $4.96 Billion: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

On the Archive: An iteresting aspect of moving to a dynamic site was how to support old links. There are links out there to pages like

http://famousfamily2.dnsalias.org/JenMark/MarksFolders/133_3394.html

That page is now defined as

http://famousfamily2.dnsalias.org/famousfamily/archive?ID=46732

I wanted to be able to achieve backwards support for the old links.

To achieve this, I defined a Redirecting servlet and deployed it as all of the top level folders. So there's a Redirecting servlet deployed as JenMark. When a url like the example above comes in, the Redirecting servlet forwards the request to

http://famousfamily2.dnsalias.org/famousfamily/archive?htmlpath=JenMark/MarksFolders/133_3394.html

The path parameter is the old location.

The archive servlet reads the path and maps that back to the ID in that place.

Eventually this remapping should be removed since links to the static folder path are not immutable anyway. Someone could move the element in their file system, sync up, and then the path is no longer valid.

That is way it is always a good practice to link by ID.

Old links use to also be made to the showelementpage servlet as in the following example.

http://famousfamily2.dnsalias.org/famousfamily/showelementpage?ID=58370

The new servlet takes those links and remaps them to the new format.

http://famousfamily2.dnsalias.org/famousfamily/archive?ID=58370

It was sort of a pain to do all this backwards link mapping, but it's necessary since so many family blogs link into the archive for photos.

I thought I might blog a little bit about my archive project.

Some background. The archive is an automatically generated web site from pictures in the family. I think most geeks have built the same thing. I build and maintain this to work on my Java/Sevlet/Tomcat skills and because it's fun. The unique points about mine are:

• Reads the photo information and uses the photo date to map to a calendar. (This has now been picked up by other projects, but I was doing this a couple years ago.) You can see all photos taken on a particular date.
• Each family member maintains their section on their computer. There is a sync operation they run to upload (or remove) any changes to sync up with the archive. They are in control of their section. This sync operation also acts as a backup for the archive. We even use it in the same house. The sync operation also publishes a follow up email with links to the new photos.
  
• Has useful functionality like Blog This which sets up a blogger posting with a link and a thumbnail on the image.
• Maintains a recent changes section to see newly added elements.

In version 6 and before, the archive was made by running a 20 minutes process on the photo collection. The process generated a 998 MB static site on the 30,000+ elements consisting of about 100,000 html pages. This was due to the fact that there were index pages for every folder, date, and recent changes set and at least 3 version of every page due to the fact that pages had previous / next / up links.

When new photos were addeed, a process went through and scanned the archive folder structure and generated a static web site to match. This was fine at the beginnning, and I made some major performance gains in the generation, but with 30,000 photos we were still looking at about a 20 minute publish time at best.

Each element has an associated XML file with additional attributes - attributes set from reading the photo information, added from the process or modified by user edits. I like this design instead of a database because the storage is all file based and organization is all file based. Everything matches what it synced. All XML processing is done using castor.

Tod came along and suggested we add tagging support. I'm still working on that at this moment and have some new ideas not seen on other projects. But regardless, I realized that if we were going to add tags, I could not keep generating the site in a static manner. It would be a lot more pages to generate to index and display elements under all of the tags. It would also be nearly impossible to regenerate specific pages appropriatly when the user added a tag.

So I decided to switch to a totally dynamic generation design.

Around version 5, I added the concept of an ID to the elements. I did this so links from other blogs or sites would work, even if the photos was moved. Any photo could be accessed by it's unique ID. Whenever the system published the static site, it publised an additionl master list of IDs and locations in an xml file.

This meant that when the server started up, it read the ID map and was able to resolve requests for a photo by ID by remapping to the location of the element.

In version 7, two major changes were made. All links were replaced by links based on IDs. In addition, all pages were generated dynamically based on their ID. The ID mapping information now contains some additional information about the element including its children (for folders in the file system hierarchy view), its date (for the calendar) and its title amoung other things. The primary source of the mapping informaiton is still the individual xml files associated with the element. There's a 1-2 minute process that can rescan the file system and rebuild the cache.

With the cache can handle, the servlet can dynamically render all pages in the archive without having to read in the element's xml attributes except when the element is viewed on it's own page (in any section). All of the related previous, next, up characteristics can be determined from the cache. The entire calendar map is pulled from the cache.

At this point, I'm ready to work on the next phase which is being able to tell the cache that either a new element has been added, or an element has been modified. This will support the ability to add a tag and see the changes immediately. This will also have a nice benefit in that when the sync is happening, as soon as the element is uploaded, it can be added to the cache and immediately visible on the site (pending thumbnail generation).

Finally, in version 7.1, I have moved the syncing process which used to be a independent application into the website. The entire archive is run as a single war file under tomcat. This will avoid having to do any inter-process communication when updating the cache.

I'll chat more as things progress. I think the Archive system is very interesting. There are dozens of ways to do a lot of these things, but it's fun to play around with the design and still be pragmatic about how things are done.

An additional note, now that the application is setup in Tomcat as a single war, I have a ant task in Eclipse that deploys new versions with a single click. Nothing like making a code change and putting it in production with a single click! Luckily with the more recent changes, this deployment can be made and the web site be back up in about 20 seconds.

I was listening to the Bernstein Mass tonight. I also found this:

Timeline: School of Music: Indiana University

Under 1988 it mentions "Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at Tanglewood, as part of Boston Symphon's celebration of his seventieth birthday". I was in that performance. We performed the pieces several times in Bloomington, then went on the road to Tanglewood. My parents and other family members all attended the concert. I met Bernstein after the concert while he was sitting there with a drink and a cigarette. Mom got him to sign a program. It's in my scrapbook.

Under 1989 is also mentions "Philharmonic Orchestra participates in opening festivities of the Bastille Opera House" I was also in that performance and I made my orchestral debut as a celesta player. I convinced them they could save air-fare for one person to just let me play the part. The instrument in Paris waamazingng. traveleded to Paris for this concert. I have a photo album with lots of pictures.

Finally is mentions "Thomas Mathiesen, the nation'’s foremost authority on ancient Greek and Medieval Latin music theory texts, appointed" who taught me music history one semester.

Wow. Lots of memories.

More than I can handle.

Today I played organ and directed the choir for the 8:00 AM and 10:15 AM services at St. John's Episcopal Church, Stamford, CT. It went pretty well. It was one of the most complex services I've played in a while and I had to do some improvisation. I also lead the choir rehearsal after the services. It was the first service I've played since we moved to CT and joined St. John's. I've directed a few anthems, but had not played and directed the whole service. I had some "I didn't know you could play" comments.

I must say one of the most enjoyable things is directing the rehearsal. We're working on some parts of the Handel Messiah and I was pleased to use some of the rehearsal techniques I've learned from Garmon Ashby and Bill Roberts when we rehearsed the same music at St. Philip's, Tucson, AZ. I'm really pleased with my experiences there. I think it give me a better idea of what to do with most pieces and I was exposed to such a large library of music.

Emma took a picture of Dadda.

Emma and I were practicing our Cirque du Soleil act.

Tetris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a very important piece of information.
(PS. My project codename at work is Tetris. We need a new name for a new version. Ideas?)

Sub-Zero PRO 48 Refrigerator/Freezer - A Monument to Food Preservation
I WANT THIS!

GasPriceWatch
I think it's getting to be time to start using this.

Google Maps - Delaware
I'm planning on trying to figure out how to avoid some of the steep tolls on our trips to MD. First stop - eliminate the Delaware Turnpike toll. Hmmm.... need to look at the map and try a few ideas.

This is a chair Daddy was "making" for Morgan. Note the UPC symbol. Suspicious?

--- actually he says that's from the dowl rod wood he used to build the chair, but it seems strange he would not remove that prior to varnishing? HA HA

Feed me better
We need to get something like this going in the America. With all the school budget cuts, I'm sure food intake is low on the priority. It's a real tragedy. Jamie Oliver is right on in his campaign.

Retalix Store and Retalix HQ Applications Now Available from StoreNext; Former TCI Products Provide New Opportunities for StoreNext Dealers: "StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC announces the immediate availability of key enterprise-level applications that were previously developed and marketed by TCI Solutions, Inc. [The apps have been] ... renamed Retalix Store and Retalix Headquarters."

Ha. Ha. I wrote a lot of that stuff. I remember when we had to change the name from HQPM2 (the 2 should be superscript) to TCI HQ. We also changed SSM to SM2 (same 2 in superscript) to TCI Store. I recall doing a bit of work to make the name changing easier for next time. I hope the Retalix folks gain the benefits of easier name changing.

Please note that making the 2 superscript in the dos file name was requested but never happened. Thank goodness for Windows Links.

Last nap before

Last nap before Emma's road.

Miso soup girl

Miso soup girl

Quechee covered

Quechee covered bridge

July 4.

July 4.

Emma in a

Emma in a bubble.

Butterflies.

Butterflies.

Solan was here.

Solan was here.

The Harvard

The Harvard Town Band in Ayer, MA. Fireworks next...

CPB - It gets worse

It gets worse.

http://www.npr.org/documents/2005/jun/cpb_pdfs/rehm.summary.pdf

6/7 Diane Rehm

Col D. McGregor and James Fallows are labeled "liberal". (Not liberal is not a bad term when used towards someone who is a liberal like me but) --- Why, you ask?

"Col. McGregor's viewpoint was that troop tour of duty extensions in Iraq is hurting morale. Col. McGregor stated that U.S. troups are trined [sic] for linear combat not to be policemen in post-war Iraq. According to McGregor, the U.S. soldiers have killed innocent civilians which has bred bitterness and hatred among Iraqis."

"Mr. Fallows viewpoint was the same as Col. McGregor; open-ended, repeat tours of duty damage morale."

HOW IS THIS LIBERAL? THESE ARE FACTS.

So if you don't agree that everything is peachy in Iraq and/or even report on the factual morale problems with troops in Iraq you are biased?

This makes me SOOOOO mad.

NPR : CPB Memos Indicate Level of Monitoring

NPR : CPB Memos Indicate Level of Monitoring
This stuff is really getting me angry. I regretfully wrote emails to both of my PBS stations telling them I can't give them money because of this sort of stuff. I also told them I am very unhappy that my money might end up in the hands of the Wall Street Journal, Fotune or other corporate entities. I'm not happy about the integration of commercial media into the titles of shows on PBS let alone any sort of big media "product placement" in PBS shows. They have enough influence.

At least she wiggled her toes.

Persecution of Christians

I was watching John Stewart the other night and they had more commentary about the members of congress complaining about the persecution of Christians in America. I got to thinking about that. They are correct - but the persecution is by the conservative Christian right. I am really getting tired of them defining my Christian values as being about 10 commandments in the courthouse, keeping alive brain dead people by artificial means and actions to force Christianity on the unbelievers. People are not going to become believers by those means. Their persecution continues by ignoring my Christian beliefs in feeding the hunger, caring for the sick, the friendless and the needy, and working to make society less stressful on the people at the bottom. If there is any voice not being heard, it is the Christians trying to follow in Christ's footsteps. I'm tired of them getting center stage and defining Christianity under their terms.

Look Out World

Signing up for my mobile blog. I can take now take photos with my camera and they appear in the blog. Look out world!

The Old New Thing : A simple story in pictures
Funny

Active RFID - What about the environment?

My response to InfoWorld's The case for active RFID - Ephraim Schwartz

I hope any issues with the disposal of RFID tags - passive, active or otherwise - is not going to be an afterthought. I can only assume that passive tags are harmless, but your opinion piece on active tags makes me scared for all of the batteries being thrown in the garbage or scattered all over the earth. Maybe the added expense of active tags will encourage reuse, but that will won't stop eventual or accidental disposal.

What is the environmental impact of all of these tags in our disposable packaging? I hope we don't find out too late as we've done with the millions of old PCs and and monitors. My fear on RFID is that as they take off, disposal of billions or trillions (keep going....) of tags will be a problem.

Google Earth

Google Earth
This is just about the most amaizing thing I've seen in a long time. Wow. Very impressive.

Instant Library

Amazon.com: Books: The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection
Just what I need once I build my new addition with a library.

Tonight I found a new bug. Each archive page has a footer that shows 5 random photos from elsewhere in the archive. On a page showing 5 random photos from the 25000+ photos in the archive, this picture appeared twice. Maybe I'm going to win the lottery? Maybe I should just fix the bug.

Old Photos

We need to get more older scanned stuff in the archive. Isn't this precious!

I copied a version of the Password Generator on Eric's Password Generator to Famous Family - http://www.famousfamily.com/password.html. This is a handy way to generate multiple passwords for site based on a single master password. I put a copy on FamousFamily so we will always have access to the generator. I also suggest going to the original sight and adding the bookmark. Luckily we use FireFox and Safari - so the fact it doesn't work on IE doesn't matter.

The hard part will be converting all those passwords over time.

Good news on the financial front. I bought some Cisco on Dec 30 2004 and it had lost money ever since. I bought it to keep an eye on my brother Tod's company. Today for the first time I've gained $2.30 on my 110 shares. Oh boy. Keep up the good work Tod.

Feed me better
We really need to get something like this started in the US. I really like his TV show, but I was meeting with some British coworkers last week and they mentioned this campaign. The point is to raise the issue of what our kids are being fed in the schools. I really like this.

moyers.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Good listening. I had to write an email to WNET & CPTV explaining why I can't continue to be a public television member until something is changed regarding Bill Moyer's speech. He is right on the money.

Emma seemed to pick up the idea of twirling her fork in pasta. I'm not sure where she figured this out, but she does. We went out to dinner with Auntie Heather after watching Zack play a ball game. Emma got her pasta and just started twirling. It was cute.

It's out. Version 6.0 of the archive. I reworked the XML translation to use castor. That's NICE. Should make things easier to manage and allow for more features in the future. Also fixed some bugs.

I'm saddened. Another thing I was thinking about earlier this week was the reality of the relationship after someone in the relationship dies. Mom and dad knew each other for 36 years. They had an intimate relationship. They loved each other. Now mom has died. When someone in a relationship like theirs dies, each day the other person continues to live, it seems that the intimacy of their relationship diminishes. It must diminish over time because someone that you loved is no longer here with you. It's like the longer you live, the more distant your relationship with the other becomes. Regardless of whether you meet after this world, one can ponder only ponder the pain of this separation. I got to thinking about it and it made me pretty unhappy. I can't imagine how my dad is thinking and I wonder how I would cope with that situation. It must be difficult.

I'm saddened: On March 22, 2005 my mom died. I've been sad through the whole thing. There's more to read about the details at Judith Lloyd Famous.
In order to help myself with some of my sadness, I may write about it from time to time, beginning with I'm saddened.
Tonight we went to a symphony concert. The music during the first half was rather uninteresting, so I got to thinking. That's not good. I'm finding that I prefer to do activities where I can't just sit there and think.
My thoughts tonight were maybe I should have spent less time answering the phone and worrying about the details and spent more time just sitting with mom. I don't recall doing a lot of sitting with her when she was sick, but not near the end. The last day I sat with her a lot of the day but it wasn't the same. I do remember the first weekend she was in the hospital when we drove down. I remember going in early one morning to the Bel Air hospital. I got to sit with her in the morning all be myself. We talked about a few things. It was nice. After she went home for the first time, I spent a lot of time downstairs herding people and answering the phone. I don't know.

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. This is way cool.

The next Famous. Kinda scary, staring at you, eh?

Yea. They just sold out. Retalix acquires TCI Solutions. Good bye TCI. Good luck to the people I enjoyed working with who don't have jobs anymore. I would say the acquisition is basically for TCI's customers and some POS drivers, but that's just my opinion. I have some stock. We'll see how my 36 shares of TCI do.

On the last day I worked at TCI, we were at lunch. I had been talking with my buddies about what to do about my stock options. I thought I might buy one just for the paperwork hassle. I had options to buy shares at twenty five cents a share. I took my drink cup from lunch (purchased for $1.50) and went around the table collecting pocket change. I then went back to the office and collected more pocket change. The CEO even gave me 55 cents. I boxed up the change and sent it to Irvine. They did not appreciate the money in Irvine (although I guess they no longer have job either, so there is no hard feelings on my part. I hope they do OK). When I later found out about this I asked them to give the change to Jim S. (he owe's me nine dollars) and sent them a check for nine dollars. They sent my this.

Note that Dave Auerbach has his signature on the document as the COO, but they fired him several years before I left. Kinda funny. Steve DeSantis also signed it. Ha. I'll post again when I see how much I get for it - if they even remember I have it.

Ah, the good times in Tucson. I think about that often. Nice pic.

Yesterday we had a 50th birthday party for my aunt Heather at our house. Lots of people came. Mom bought a bunch of over the hill and 50 year old birthday party favors.

This morning we were packing up and taking down decorations. I asked Mom & Dad if they wanted the decorations. Well.... "who would have the next 50 year old party?"

It's me. I will be first person in the immediate family to hit 50 in 14 years. Emma will be 16. AAAAAAAA!!!

Until 2019 then.

The driver side window in my car broke. Actually the mechanism that makes the window go up and down broke - the window is fine. I took apart the whole door and found the problem - a pastic slider that is used in the mechanism was broken. It is amaizing how complicated the mechanisms to lower and raise the window are. I found the part online, but then called up my my local BMW dealer and they had it. I drove over there and the guy just gave me the part. Back home and an hour later, things are back together and the window works. I'm very proud of this project and I think we probably saved a couple hundred dollars.

I fixed the slow drain in the shower today. It was really gross cleaning out the drain with a piece of wire. I disassembled the trap in the tub and tried to get things cleaned out. When I put it all back together, it did not leak. Now when you take a shower you do not end up standing in water. Yea. Mission accomplished.

But I saved $75.00 by not having to take it to the dealer!

Working on updating famousfamily.com. Lots to do. I updated the directions page. Also got the Archive working at out new address. I also have some coding to do on the archive, but that will have to wait.

This might be useful for an obscure interview question.
Java and .Net interoperability using CORBA

Interview Question:
The Code Project - Mapping Text to Enum entries - C# Programming

Obfuscation
Obfuscate It: Thwart Reverse Engineering of Your Visual Basic .NET or C# Code -- MSDN Magazine, November 2003
Why You Need Obfuscation

21 Rules of Thumb - How Microsoft develops its Software
Interesting talk. Has a lot of real world relevance to my experiences.

Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost the API War: "Every user of your product is using the same version so you never have to support a mix of old versions. "

This is a great point. Supporting multiple customer version is a killer for a software publishing company. The only other problem is that many software publishing customers want the software in their control - not an application service provider arrangement. But from a development productivity issue killing the need to support multiple maintenance releases is great.

The Old New Thing
Interesting notes from a developer on the Windows team at at MS.

I had a busy day today. I installed our new dishwasher. We bought it to replace the old one. We're trying to update the house. I also installed hardwood floors in the upstairs bathroom to replace the cracking and unstable tile. It looks nice. I didn't complete the entire room. I need to do the floor in the little toilet closet, but that will have to wait.

The Art of Computer Game Design
Something I'd like to read mentioned in Dr. Dobbs. Recording the link.

Home - The home of Spybot-S&D!
Installed this. My IE is throwing up ad pages in the background for various sites. I don't believe it is the sites. Hopefully this will help me seek and destry the spyware.

Futurama pk - Mathematics in the Year 3000
One of my favorite shows. Frickn Fox. I guess I'm too unedumacated to catch most of these references.

Reason
This is so cool and what a clever idea. I wish I had thought of that.

NPR : Tricks the Brain Plays
This was a cool story about the brain's processing of images. I was happy that the trick worked on me even though I'm partially color blind.

Macintosh Troubleshooting Book (PDF) for Mac OS X & Mac OS 9
Don't need this now, but may need it some day...

JavaServer Pages Technology - Technical Resources
Quick reference card for JavaServer Pages

So I get a lot of spam. I got some spam this morning with an attachment -

"details05_markfamous.doc                      .pif"

Now, my version of Outlook blocked this.

Note that the ".pif" is all the way over there at the end. If you took a quick glance at this, you might think it is a normal document. Most word documents are safe to open and Word normally prompts you if the document is trying to run a macro that might do something to your computer. But this document is not a .DOC document. It is a .PIF.

.PIF's are definitions of command line executions. They represent old dos programs. So if I clicked on this to launch it it would run a program.

They continue to get more sneaky.

Best rule - if you aren't sure - forward it and let a "techie" check it out for you.

Google Blog
Cool. This is the official blog of Google.

Greg's Gas: "I'm testing Greg's Trackback. Not much to say on this except - year right! "

We found a dead rattle snake tangled in the netting over the peach tree when we returned from vacation. I can't really begin to tell you how bad a dead rotting snake smells. I feel sorry for the snake. It probably did not have a good death being tangled and stuck in that plastic netting. I had to take the netting off the tree and use gloves to get the snake out. I had to rip pieces of the dead snake apart. After I was done I still smelled like dead snake. Yuck.

Wanderings
Vlad's Blog

The Scuttlebutt
Craig's Blog

Greg's Blog

Greg's blog.

Introduction
From my bike riding friends.

Yo, yo, yo - Blogging Smoke Break TV, SmokeBreak TV and SmokeBreakTV so Google hits the right pages.
SmokeBreakTV.com

Two days ago Jen put a Howard Dean sign in the front yard. We both support him at the moment. Yesterday, our neighbors across the street put up a sign that says, "Howard is a joke." Cute. I guess that are entitled to their own opinion. I wonder what they will say when their job is sent overseas?

D-Link DWL-2000AP High Speed 2.4GHz (802.11g) Wireless 108Mbps Access Point
This was on sale at CompUSA this week. I might be able to use this in point-to-multi-point wireless bridge mode. Don't know. It's a problem because I'm using mostly Link-Sys at the moment. Maybe I can give it a try?

Hawking Technologies
I'm thinking about buying on of these and using it with the PCI wireless card in the ff archive server to allow my to put the box back in the garage. We'll see. I think they have it at CompUSA.

Bush in 30 Seconds Nice content...

Apple - Final Cut Express So Apply releates Final Cut Express 2 two weeks after I bought Final Cut Express "1". UGH. I started a support ticket with them #21029794 at 800-275-2273 to tell them that I wanted a cheap upgrade to the new version since I just bought the old version. We'll see what happens.

Dictionary.com/Inerrancy Word of the day for me.