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Archive for January, 2004
Craze
Thursday, January 29th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Last week I finished Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. A moderately interesting history of the gin mania in Britain in the 18th century. A ... Read more..Krakatoa
Thursday, January 29th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Whipped thru Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 over last weekend. A very good read. Some background on Dutch colonial history in the area ... Read more..Jupiter by Ben Bova
Thursday, January 29th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Read Jupiter : A Novel at the airport the other day. Quick read. OK hard science fiction. Pretty familiar theme — humanity in near future discovers alien ... Read more..Golden Peaches of Samarkand
Thursday, January 29th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Way behind on book reviews. Picked up The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’Ang Exotics more for its title than any other reason, for some reason Samarkand ... Read more..Outlook 2003 Research feature and Google
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I wanted to add Google as an information source for the Research feature in Outlook (Office) 2003 but geez look at these directions — Google Sample (Microsoft Office 2003 Research ... Read more..Synthesized singers
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Freaky, now you can create synthesized singers from correctly annotated lyrics and scores — Slashdot | Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software. I wonder what range of vocal performances this ... Read more..MSFT History
Monday, January 26th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Download details: Key Events in Microsoft History — they missed my hire date, but they have this surreal item that I was involved with — “4/18/1994 Microsoft Windows for ... Read more..What to do while waiting for WinFS
Monday, January 26th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Jam all your documents into your exchange drive — MS Exchange Blog : Universal Mail Drive Outlook add-in. Or do as Scott suggests amd slam everything into a sql ... Read more..Musicbrainz, etc
Monday, January 26th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Welcome to MusicBrainz! — note to self: install. Oh — also some of these from Fred Langa Read more..Bose Companion 3
Monday, January 26th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Bose? Home Entertainment - Companion? 3 multimedia speaker system — I tried these out recently and was really impressed. Great sound and the little desktop controller for volume/muting is ... Read more..iTunes hackery
Saturday, January 24th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Tong Family Blog: What is MyTues, QTFairUse and Audio Hijack? — Rich has a good summary of all the iTunes hackery that is going on. Kind of humorous to ... Read more..Blinking Skull
Friday, January 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Great plans here — Build your own Blinking, Talking Skull! and here — Animated Skull — and details on creating moving eyes from a ventriloquist, Al Stevens Read more..Basic, PERL on phones
Friday, January 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
From Mobilewhack, news that Basic and PERL are coming to phones. I’d love to replace my stupid default phone screen with a little script that succinctly displayed the weather ... Read more..Command Prompt Explorer Bar
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
The Code Project - Command Prompt Explorer Bar - C# Programming — note to self to install. Read more..Grocery Slotting Fees
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Oligopoly Watch — interesting insight on grocery slotting fees. And interesting that Wal-Mart doesn’t take them. There is no Wal-Mart conveniently nearby, if there was I would give ... Read more..Sensible locations of usb, card ports
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
michaelw.net I want a keyboard with a built-in flash card reader — what michael says. I don’t want these crammed into my PC. I want them on the ... Read more..Ultimate Boot CD
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Nice pointer from rich — Tong Family Blog: Ultimate Boot CD — every tool you need here to whack on a system as you build/debug it. Read more..Trying out Blogjet
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Blog | 1 Comment »
Trying out blogjet on Marc’s reco — Marc’s Outlook on Productivity: More on Blogjet — it is nice. But it doesn’t really work for me because it assumes you ... Read more..Ambicom CF GPS card
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Used this card — Ambicom CF gps — with my toshiba pocketpc on a recent road trip from Seattle to LA. Pros: hardware install flawless, acquired GPS signals right ... Read more..Best Non-Fiction of the 20th Century
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Marginal Revolution: Best non-fiction books of the twentieth century — lists with political bents. Probably wisest to pick a few from each list, to avoid being brainwashed. Read more..Where I’ve Been
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Blog | 1 Comment »
John Battelle’s Searchblog: I Know I Saw It Somewhere… … hmm, don’t I just want to use my blog as my history of interesting and relevant sites? At least ... Read more..Blackberry and Outlook2003
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Struggling with a blackberry problem right now — won’t sync correctly with Outlook 2003 — a search on error #4198 at the BlackBerry support forums reveals that I am not ... Read more..The Believer
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
My 4th magazine of the year is The Believer. Literary and arts criticism, waaaaay outside of my comfort zone — I’ve never read a magazine from this genre before so ... Read more..UK theatre this summer
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Looking for some shows to see in London in June — I hear that this is awesome — National Theatre : Production Seasons : His Dark Materials — not clear ... Read more..Boating Magazine
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
My 3rd magazine of 52 this year. Boating is the largest circulation boating mag in the US — nearly 250,000 paid copies a month, predominantly male, median age 46, ... Read more..