Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11

Monday, August 11th, 2008

@mcottmeyer You missed a good time digging post holes at my house! Maybe next time. #
@brianb You’ll go blind playing with that thing. #
@HamWithCam Their balance bar routine was stunning – better than the Chinese scores. We’ll see if it helps their floor scores. #
67°F this morning. That makes for a chilly bike ride [...]

Hide and Seek

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Sometimes a new song is played and you instantly fall in love with it.  It could be that it’s a great emotional swelling in your body, or just something so groovy that you can’t keep still while you listen.  Other times, it might be a contextual reference that gives the song a special relativity.
Imogen Heap [...]

Status Upgrade: “Celebrity”

Monday, October 29th, 2007

An associate from work recently pointed out to me that the likelihood of the names, “Fox, Olaf, and Balthazar” from Gainesville being someone other than my family is a losing bet. A bit like solving the geometric theorem that three points make the line, I presume.
It turns out that a picture of my wife [...]

Tips for Blogging, Puddin’ Brain

Friday, August 24th, 2007

There’s something to be said for focus. Hitting the hot spots on the web for news is well and good, but it’s probably more productive to focus on those places that can offer you something to comment on, rather than simply steal your attention away from what you came there to do.

Equifax Customer Service is Just Lip Service

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

In an attempt to make some mid-year resolutions, I am trying to be more diligent about managing finances and monitoring things like my credit report. I wasn’t the victim of an identity theft crime, but then again, how would I know? I just decided that I should take an active interest in things [...]

Konfabulator – Yahoo! Widgets

Monday, July 25th, 2005

The Konfabulator tool was recommended to me by a coworker recently. He noticed that I used the Desktop Sidebar, a Longhorn-looking (Windows Vista) desktop component. To be honest, I was speculative of the Konfabulator’s ability to replace the Desktop Sidebar, both by its name and the source of information (he’s not a Windows [...]

MS-DOS 7.10

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Now this is a good time! In case FreeDOS wasn’t cool enough for you, now you can get back to the original. I’m digging the 9MB bootable CD w/extra enhancements and a full installer.