Category: Personal
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WordPress Ate My Posting Date
This post is really a test, but I’ll share the full problem and solution (assuming the test works), so it might help someone else out there as well. 🙂 The other day, for the first time ever, I noticed that a post of mine hit my RSS reader (Thunderbird) with a date of 11/29/1999. I…
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Firefox 3.0 is Awesome
Yesterday, I took a (cheap) shot at the Firefox launch fiasco. I didn’t need to do it, but I don’t really regret it either. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t want to hype the hell out of the launch, and then be unprepared for it. Anyway, even though the official launch was delayed…
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Firefox 3.0 Download Day
Well, it’s finally here. I was all set to do my part with helping them attain the nonsensical world record download numbers. Both Lois and I use Firefox as our primary browsers, and I have an ancient laptop that I occasionally use in a hotel room that I was going to upgrade, and one other…
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Lost Season 4 on TV/DVR
Lois and I watched the first three seasons on DVD over a relatively short period of time. On balance, we both really like the show a lot (me more than she, I believe). There were frustrations at times, but it’s a very creative story, with lots of twists and turns to hold your interest. One…
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Acoustic Alchemy at Towne Crier Cafe
Last night we saw Acoustic Alchemy at Towne Crier Cafe, the same place that we saw Cherish The Ladies at back in April. I’ve only seen Acoustic Alchemy live once before, in 2006 at the Blue Note in NYC, but they’ve been my favorite Jazz group for a very long time. I owned 14 of…
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Girlyman Discovery
OK, so it’s been way too long since I’ve even mentioned Girlyman in this space, let alone actually written something specific about them. 🙂 I was intending to walk (my long exercise walk) on Wednesday, in NYC. Instead, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, I had lunch with an…
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at WaMu
Longtime readers know that both Lois and I are Alison Krauss fanatics (just look at the title of my post when we saw her at the Beacon Theater). I’m also a long-time big fan of Led Zeppelin, and therefore, by extension, a big fan of Robert Plant. When we heard that they were pairing to…
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Getting Very Tired of AlertThingy
I’ve been using AlertThingy for a while now. I like the concept a lot. It started out as an Adobe Air front-end to FriendFeed. Let’s begin (briefly, at least brief by my normal standards) 😉 with FriendFeed itself. At a minimum, FriendFeed is a social media aggregator. You can have it create a feed for…
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NginX Reporting for Duty
Last week, my friend Jamie Thingelstad tweeted from the Rails Conference that he was considering switching to NginX (I’ll probably drop the caps starting now) after sitting in on a session about it. Prior to that mention, I had only heard of it once, when an internal tech email at Zope Corporation mentioned that one…
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Chuck Mangione at Tarrytown Music Hall
The minute this concert was announced, many months ago, I bought two tickets. Tarrytown Music Hall is a great place to see concerts (as I’ve reported a number of times before), it’s only four miles from our house, and I have loved Chuck Mangione’s music for decades. This was the third time that I saw…