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Halloween Mask Sales

Sep

2004

I guess we can cancel the election — Mahalanobis – Bush is the winner. From Olivier

Per LarryO, a lot of people are running XP in non-admin mode at MSFT. Some great pointers in his article — Aaron’s blog and his post on RunAs. I’ve had problems making non-admin work on the machine in our family room — mostly when I am at the machine and I want to do something ...

Andy Sack Blogs

Sep

2004

Andy starts a blog — A Sack of Seattle — and a company — Judy’s Book (I’m on the board).

Intel invests in digital home

Sep

2004

Zdnet article on intel’s latest investments including Pure Networks (I’m on the board).

The origin of Ohio-Michigan rivalry

Sep

2004

Good article on the historical origins of Ohio-Michigan rivalry — thanks Mike. (The link on the second page to the alternative lyrics to “Hail to the Victors” is busted, but you can find the words here (along with a huge number of other pejorative versions of fight songs))

College Football Roundup

Sep

2004

From Fanblogs this week so far: Conventional Wisdom — who’s up, who’s down. Just 46 teams left in the single elimination college football championship tournament. Go Bucks! Minnesota and Purdue are playing out of their minds… The FanBlog XIV — the most considered poll in the nation. Big 10 early grades…Kudos to Purdue, Shame on ...

Utilities I'm Trying

Sep

2004

Candy Labs – AppRocket – Download — wow, very fast. Acrobat Speedup — awesome!!! speeds up reader loading by a huge amount. Karen’s Power Tools — a whole bunch of useful toys Outlook Attachment Options — finer grained control over outlook’s attachment blocking Broken URL fixer — easy fixup of those busted urls you get ...

Ludwig II of Bavaria, the Swan King

Sep

2004

Just finished this bio of Ludwig II. Probably mostly of interest to folks with my name and heritage (tho my ancestors left Germany long before the events of Ludwig II’s life), but it was pretty fascinating. His patronage of Wagner, of architecture, his erratic behaviour, the plot against him, his mysterious death — a lot ...

Links for PC Geeks

Sep

2004

Tong Family Blog: Gigantic Fan — rich finds a nice quiet fan Industrial PCs — specs for hardened pcs Raymond explains mice protocols — more than you wanted to know. Via gadgetopia, Windows Process Library — another helpful directory of all the mystery processes running on a windows box.

The NFL

Sep

2004

Good article about Computers in the NFL | Gadgetopia — there is a lot of science involved in the game. Also a great pullout section in yesterday’s WSJ on the state of the NFL — why it has been successful to date (versus the other pro leagues) and the upcoming economic stresses on the league. ...

Looking for an architect for Lopez Island work

Sep

2004

A couple recommendations are greene partners | architecture and design and Cutler-Anderson. Update: A little googling also brought me to Tranfo , Island Architecture, Suyama Peterson Deguchi, David Coleman

Wildseed phone makes Engadget!

Sep

2004

Making time at the Holiday Spectacular! tech media event – Engadget – www.engadget.com

Things I've noticed recently

Sep

2004

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Amazon Gives A9 Users a Discount – clever way to motivate use. Firefox gets to 1 million downloads – are we really going to see browser competition again? Wikipedia surpasses 1M article – fantastic, I’m embarrassed I haven’t contributed to any yet. VMWare Ace – I’d use this at home for all ...

Nugent for Heisman

Sep

2004

From SI.com – Writers – Stewart Mandel: A clear winner in the SEC-ACC debate – Sunday September 19, 2004 9:14PM: 2. Considering the seemingly unprecedented rash of missed extra points and other seismic choke-jobs by kickers, there may not be a more valuable player in the country than Ohio State’s Mike Nugent. A week after ...

Football Fans for Truth

Sep

2004

From InTheBullpen.com, a link to Football Fans for Truth. Kerry seems downright unamerican.

Thumbs Up to Moen

Sep

2004

One of our faucets is busted, and Moen handles this so well — they walk you through a process to identify your faucet and then they send you the parts you need, free of charge. Great experience.

Thumbs down to streetkeys

Sep

2004

I previously blogged that i was going to try Streetkeys.com to get a replacement key. well don’t bother, they don’t really seem to be able to offer the service they promise. without ever explaining why, they refunded our money and told us “we can’t help you”. We have to get a key the hard way ...

Testdrive CMS

Sep

2004

Life of a one-man IT department

Kevin is the man!

Sep

2004

Dude, you must not be married. From NCAA College Football – Fanblogs.com: TV schedule for 09/18, here is Kevin’s TV plan for the weekend: bq.. Well, with four Tivo’s running on 8 sat inputs, it looks like this: Fri: UConn/BC Sat: Nebraska/Pitt (T1) Maryland/WVU (T2) Duke/Va Tech (T3) TCU/Texas Tech (T4) Marshall/UGA (T5) Ohio State/NC ...

Multiblog plugin

Sep

2004

OK based on this reco — Movalog: Merging your blogs — i installed multiblog last nite. actually went on kind of a plugin install rampage. the install of multiblog and getxml were so easy i decided to try out some more from the mt3 tested library. i’ve slowed down tho, as the install of typemover ...