Monthly Archives: October 2003

Dumbo Has Never Been Cuter Comments Off

How can you argue with that? Although Mommy says Aiden isn’t to thrilled with the whole suit. Maybe he just doesn’t like big ears?

October 31, 2003

The Great Pumpkin 2

(Autumn’s on the left, Mommy’s Autumn’s also on the right)
We’ve been craving pumpkins for the last week as the ones we craved earlier this week rotted already probably because it’s been damn hot until now. Heck, the biggest one we picked up from “Cardoza’s”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2003/10/19/21.36.10/ rotted before we could even crave it (tip: don’t [...]

October 31, 2003

LeBron Is Not MJ Comments Off

I admit it, “I talked about LeBron”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/10/30/fool250.DTL. Being a long time basketball fan how couldn’t I. I did happen to watch his debut game last night, mainly due to the fact that it was against my Sacramento Kings.
He looked good, sometimes trying to not act like a rookie 18 year old, while other [...]

October 30, 2003

BofA Offshores Customer Data Comments Off

Do you bank at Bank of America? Maybe you should read the “latest article”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/29/BUGL42L7N91.DTL from David Lazarus.
bq. “Now comes word that BofA will establish a 1,000-employee subsidiary in India to significantly expand its presence in the country. The bank has yet to say where the facility will be located or what specific functions it [...]

October 29, 2003

Sacked By The Borg Comments Off

Microshaft has “sacked a temp employee”:http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/of_blogging_and.html over a “blog post”:http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/even_microsoft_.html that frankly doesn’t say much other than:
bq. Three palettes of Dual 2.0Ghz G5’s on their way in to somewhere deep in the bowels of Redmond.
Hmm. Is Microsoft trying to hide the fact that they actually use Macs? We all know that they do, [...]

October 29, 2003

Memo: Cry Babies Aren’t Fun 2

One of the more useful features that I use daily while working under the Windows stranglehold is the alt-tab application switching. I freaking love it. Normally I have like 20+ applications/windows open at once and alt-tab is the fastest way to get to the window I just used previously or haven’t used since [...]

October 28, 2003

The Upgrade Blues Comments Off

I can’t bring myself to upgrade to Panther on my G3 iBook. I keep reading “horror stories”:http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@64.NWxwaXrUjsp.12@.599b4a59 about “unsuccessful upgrades”:http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?13@64.NWxwaXrUjsp.32@.599b4c8b/8, so I’m a little hesitate to upgrade my primary machine. Sure, I’ve backup everything to a Firewire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, but I’m still not so sure I want to proceed down [...]

October 28, 2003

New Version Of MT-Blacklist Comments Off

“Jay Allen”:http://www.jayallen.org/ has released the latest version of his comment spam blacklist plugin for Moveable Type, “MT-Blacklist (MT-Blacklist – Moveable Type Plugin)”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_version_15_released.
New features include faster spam filtering when posting comments, en-masse search and de-spam functionality, activity logging of blocked comments, and various other nifty enhancements.
Since I’ve implemented Jay’s plugin I’ve only received two [...]

October 28, 2003

Cya Bum 2

The “49ers”:http://www.49ers.com “tossed aside”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/27/SPGH92JTUD1.DTL their starting kicker today, not soon after “hiring him”:http://www.nfl.com/teams/story/SF/6646414 to replace Jeff Chandler who started the season. What could a lowly kicker do to be fired? How about miss 8 of 15 field goals and cost the 49ers at minimum two games they could have won.
Cya [...]

October 27, 2003

Mario’s Pipe Grows Windows Comments Off

The “Warp Pipe Project”:http://www.warppipe.com/ has recently “released their alpha Windows”:http://www.warppipe.com/archives/000020.html client for use with Kirby’s Air Ride and the soon to be released Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Speeds are reported to be a little slow and require a good upload speed of at least 256kbps.
They expect to have a beta Mac OS X client [...]

October 27, 2003