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Draft Wesley Crusher for President
Ensign Crusher is the perfect candidate for 2004. Serving for years with his mother on the U.S.S. Enterprise, this Starfleet cadet has what it takes to defeat Bush. If he ran, Crusher would be the only candidate to have intergalactic combat experience. Crusher can get people and aliens of all colors and races together, even those who have never voted before. [via wil wheaton dot net]
I just killed one of my oldest public email addresses, mike3k@onepost.net, because it was receiving so much spam. For a few months I had it forwarded to an alternate mailbox and added a lot of my own filters to pobox.com’s standard spam protection. I now use spamgourmet.com for most of my public email and have a few semi-permanent aliases I use to protect my real email.
From Metafilter:
Phelps to erect anti-Matthew Shepard monument. Anti-gay crusader Fred Phelps‘ planned monument (PDF, from Phelps’ site), to be installed in City Park in downtown Casper, Wyo. (Shepard’s home town), would contain the inscription, “Matthew Shepard, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, in Defiance of God’s Warning: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as womankind; it is an abomination.’ Leviticus 18:22.” (More inside…)
Fred Phelps is a sick, disgusting, hateful man who makes Hitler seem reasonable.
This is the first post at the new host. Right now you can only see this at mcdevzone.com, but as soon as the DNS changes take effect, mc-development.com will also point to this host.
I made it a popup image since it’s vertical and would take up too much screen space.
I keep my dock on the right edge of the screen. The only folder I keep there is Favorites, which includes aliases to both /Applications and ~/Applications to use as my launcher, plus the projects I’m working on now.
The icons are, from top to bottom: Finder, Mail, Safari, Mozilla, iChat, Fire, Addressbook, iTunes, iCal, Sherlock, System Preferences, Terminal, NetNewsWire, URL Manager Pro, Dragthing, Stickybrain, BBEdit, X11, and CodeWarrior (this is one rare occasion that I don’t have ProjectBuilder open), and Favorites.
My 40G iPod arrived today. I traded in my old one for $150 at PowerMax.
The new model is a lot nicer. I really like the on-the-go playlist, which lets you choose songs and create a playlist on the iPod itself. It also now lets you customize the main menu by choosing which commands should be shown. You can now have artists, albums, etc. right in the main menu.
I haven’t had much time to post for the last few days. My G4 upgrades arrived yesterday. I won’t bother writing about it here – I posted an article about it on MacMegasite yesterday. It’s very nice – my G4 feels (and sounds) like a new machine. With the SuperDrive I’m able to burn an 80 minute CD in 4 minutes.
The move of WorldBeatPlanet to PEHosting went smoothly & painlessly. Their server is very fast, it costs less than BounceWeb, and I really like their Aqua-like version of CPanel. I plan to move this site to PEHosting as well, although I’m keeping MacMegasite at Geek-Hosting since it requires more bandwidth.
I got Dave Matthews’ solo CD, “Some Devil” a few days ago and I’ve been listening to it continuously. Great music.
Lots of network problems at work this week. The exchange server went down last week & the entire mail database had to be rebuilt. Email still isn’t working reliably.
I made some changes to Computrace to make it less visible and also made it able to survive archive installs of 10.3 over 10.2.x.
The database for WorldBeatPlanet just disappeared. As soon as I can get it restored, I’m moving to a different hosting company even though it’s paid until April.
Tech-ed: Kids and Collective Phonecamblogs in School, in Paris
“Jean-Luc, a BoingBoing ami from Paris, shares news of a fun educational experiment with young students in France: [The Shifted Librarian]
Interesting… the Nokia 3650 is one of the models I’m considering getting to replace my Sony-Ericssson T68i since it’s one of the only two Bluetooth models AT&T Wireless sells. The other is the Sony-Ericsson T616, but since I have so much trouble with the reception & sound quality of the T68i, I’m reluctant to buy another Sony-Ericsson.
I just redesigned the main page of mc-development.com. I hated the frames, so I’m now using a bit of PHP code (stolen from PHP-Nuke) to show the last 10 weblog entries by reading the feed.
UPDATE: I just made another change, using the RSS reader code to display the last 10 articles at MacMegasite. I’m now a news aggreggator!