A crazy week of work led up to the holidays, leaving me without enough attention to put anything up on here. Happy belated turkey day to you all. I’m spending this Saturday hoping that VT can beat up on UVA – the only american football game I watch each year. Here are two amusing anectdotes […]
Already I’ve had 3 coworkers talk to me about DC United’s new signing for next season – 14-year old Freddy Adu. It’s great that this kid is already generating so much buzz for the team and league. He’ll be joining Bobby Convey and Santino Quaranta who also signed with United while teenagers, 16 to be
El presidente is visiting Her Royal Majesty in England. Always the polite guest, these are some of the thing his Secret Service demanded to assure his security while in London: Immunity from prosecution for SS agents if they fire their weapons or kill protesters, London police were asked to make sure he doesn’t see any
It’s Friday, this looks like a better way to spend the day. That’s my sister’s dog napping at home.
Jason has discovered the goodness of APT for managing installed software on a Linux box. You gotta respect a tool that lets you upgrade pretty much your entire distribution with one command: apt-get dist-upgrade .
From GYRE: Some folks are thinking about reasons to go back to the moon: Harrison Schmitt testifies before a US Senate subcommittee that the best possibility for a sustained committment to lunar development and space expansion is a "business-investor approach, supported by the potential of lunar Helium-3 fusion power, and derivative technologies and resources."
The Australian eGovernment Resouce Center has posted Whole of Victorian Government Web Content Lifecycle and Content Management Roles." While its not a huge document, it does a good job of mapping the management process and hitting on the important roles within it.
Al Gore is calling on el presidente to rescind the Patriot Act: He said terrorism-fighting tools granted after Sept. 11, 2001, amount to a partisan power grab that has led to the erosion of the civil liberties of all Americans. The Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, said Monday that while he’s not
Staci and I were suffering through the DC United playoff fiasco this weekend. Luckily, we’d TIVO’d the game which let us fast forward through most of the game which made it somewhat bearable. So DC crashed out of the playoff without a goal to the best team in the league. Normally, I wouldn’t mind a
A new version of Sharpreader is out, grab it from sharpreader.net. It’s been my Windows RSS Aggregator of choice and uses the 3-paned outlook style UI to display feeds and items. Best sounding improvements: Systray popup notification and reduced memory usage.