July 15, 2008
New Toys
I now have to find a blogging tool that supports an iPod Touch. Entering html tags manually is way too painful. I like it so far but I also need to find an easy way to put PDF files on it and view them.
May 21, 2008
That Beeping Sound
I'll open webpages and leave them laying around in tabs with the intent of reading them later. As things to be done later tend to do they pile up so I'll have 20 webpages stacked on top of each other at times. One of the webpages apparently features an ad with a cricket chirping. Every 5 seconds, non-stop. I left it running overnight. It's been going for hours now. The Japanese believe crickets are good luck. Or it could be the Chinese, I can't remember. Maybe both. Um, but anyway.... The beeping sound is making me lose my concentration.
Still chirping. Chirping, chirping, chirping...
May 14, 2008
Memories of Bob Dole
When I was at Netscape the company invited the Republican Presidential nominee, Bob Dole, to come speak at the company during his campaign. We were all reminded that it wasn't an ideological thing, it was just they had a slightly more accommodating stance on the company's pet issue which was the export of products that used cryptography. Unfortunately Bob Dole was busy so he sent the VP candidate, Jack Kemp, in his place. I don't remember much about Mr. Kemp aside from his hair and recall absolutely nothing of his speech.
What I do remember is the other politician that spoke that day: Pete Wilson. I remember it was awful and confusing. Just random sentences strung together and uttered without any sort of structure. There was the "tough on crime sentence" followed by the "tax cuts for everyone!" sentence followed by the next. Then I realized he wasn't speaking to us. The news that night would show some 5 or 10 second sound bite so he was just slapping them all together in a big pile and calling it a speech. We were just a prop.
I was reminded of this today when I read a story about Hillary Clinton's campaign stop in West Virginia:
I guess this saves everyone a lot of time so it really makes sense in a sad sort of way.
April 22, 2008
April 20, 2008
Fuck The NHL
I really love watching Hockey and I love watching the Sharks most of all. Sure they tend to get up by 2 or 3 games in the playoffs and then slack off because they only need to win 1 or 2 more games and then proceed to lose the series, but still I love them. Of course, because I don't live in San Jose anymore I hardly ever get to see them unless it's the play-offs. So I checked the NHL website and it tells me their game is on a 5pm on a cable channel I actually get. Woo! So I tune in at 5 and what do I see? Fucking cowboys on fucking bulls. The schedule on the cable box say I am watching the pre-game show for the Ducks game. So I check the newspaper and it says the game is on at 7pm on another station I think I get. Ten minutes of searching through 1000 channels only to discover the game is on yetanother channel that I don't get. Or I could pay the NHL $90 or whatever so I could watch it on their overpriced pay-per-view whatever network.
Now, theoretically, the NHL is run by very smart people. Here's a tip: The solution to lower ratings isn't to make it impossible for people who WANT to watch the game to actually watch the game.
