There are still some oddities encountered working with blogging client ecto. But I’m getting used to it. The nag screen comes up every time I start the thing, but I’ve seen nags that are much more obnoxious. Okay, 3,2,1 let’s jam. iTunes: Cowboy Bebop: Tank! (Opening Theme): Cowboy Bebop OST [3:30] First of all, I’m still not clear as to whether I’m saving a draft, or publishing to blog, or saving a whole new duplicate post. I’ve had a couple of dupe so far. It’s probably a force-of-habit thing that I’ll get over. I do like the “auto-save every X…
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I ran across a couple of mentions that there were “extra,” extra-offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him, if that is the proper phrase). The sources were a little too tinfoil for me to quote and link verbatim, so I went looking around. Wikipedia led me in the direction of the Danish newspaper that originally published a set of 12 cartoons – the originals are reproduced (in a very tiny format) on the Wiki page. If you really want to see them, you may… especially for comparison purposes. The Danish paper has an English-language section on the…
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“most annoying hold music” – Google Search I’ll add to this Google search on the “most annoying hold music” by saying that Continental Airlines’ agency desk (where travel agents call and request help with pricing and ticking issues) is teh brain-sucking evil. Its print equivalent would be saying “doot!” several thousand times, to a mindlessly peppy and very short tune. Thus, you hear the same short musical phrase dozens of times while waiting to find out from the agent if they can help you or not. Sometimes, it’s a dog’s life being a travel agent. That is all.
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Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune noted “Twenty great songs from 2005 that the Grammys missed” in this order: 1. “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People,” the Legendary K.O. 2. “When God Made Me,” Neil Young 3. “When the President Talks to God,” Bright Eyes 4. “Come Save Us,” Warlocks 5. “Devil in My Car,” New Black 6. “The Good Ones,” the Kills 7. “Here Comes a City,” Go-Betweens 8. “Bucky Done Gone,” M.I.A. 9. “Career Finders,” Perceptionists 10. “It’s for You,” Out Hud 11. “Everyday I Love You Less and Less,” Kaiser Chiefs 12. “Not About Love,” Fiona…
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Well, she’s gone. I never read “The Feminine Mystique” for some reason; maybe it was considered “old hat” or something when I was taking Women’s Studies classes. I had a personal encounter with her several years after college: I was drunk, silly, and sitting next to her in First Class on a flight home from a SABRE training class in Dallas. Ms. Friedan asked the flight attendant to move me far away from her, and be quiet. Heh. Well, I guess that was the real reason I never read her book, even though I respected her as a pioneer. But…
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“Ow! Ow! YEEEOW! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYOWTCH!!” Yes, I did indeed vocalise in this very vulgar manner tonight. I was quite overcome with pain. My furry human was busying himself with doing something about the monkey chow they eat at night, and I was in my usual position right at his feet. Well, I was only offering to take care of any little fishy tidbits that happened to find their way to the floor. And then he stepped back and put his big monkey food down HARD, RIGHT on my little paw, and it HURT. I screamed loudly and ran away. My monkeywoman…
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Right, enough incessant style-twitching and markup-tweaking for a while. Now for a few things that I’ve been turning over in my mind lately, kind of like when you’re out back digging in the garden in early spring, and you turn over a forkful of earth and find a lot of worms and goo. Thursday night, I stopped off at a nearby mega-supermarket to pick up a few items for dinner. I’m always on the lookout for odd experiences there ever since the Screaming Child incident, and generally I am rewarded with minor annoyances; they have far more “scan your own…
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David, on Day One of our last trip to Maui. Really, this is more of a test post, I’m checking out ecto, and the iTunes plugin associated with it. I’ve managed to get it working and it appears to be mostly harmless. There’s a support forum, Time for the acid test. I may be cracking open a beer in a second, but will there be much joy? or no joy? Ledward Kaapana:Whee Ha Swing:Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters[2:37] Technorati Tags: iTunes, plugins, Maui
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Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Bush told Blair we’re going to war, memo reveals Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was “solidly” behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today. A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 – nearly two months before the invasion – reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade…
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IMproPRieTies: reax Of all the tedious media coverage of reaction to the SOTU I saw, I most respected Renee Montagne’s visit to three New Orleansians in a FEMA trailer in the darkened eastern sector of the city. These people watching the Bone tossed from the House, sailing through the deluxe mediascape, landing with an thud in that dark abandoned wreck of the town. Hearing the President ignore not just the city, but his federal administration’s obscene failure to address the city, and now the failure to address that obscene failure, which is apparently the only way Mr. Bush knows how…