Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 11:26
Read this article.
Take a look at the location of the article; that is, where the Iraqi expatriates are voting in the first actions of the new elections.
I’m all for the elections, and I’m thrilled that this turnaround is actually happening, but this is just plain creepy.
Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 10:21
Guess what?
It turns out that those MGM DVDs aren’t improperly formatted at all.
Seems that someone is suing for false advertising that the “widescreen” presentation of those movies had more visual information than the full-screen. The problem is that these are all “matte” aspect movies, where the movie is filmed 1.33:1, and then matted on [...]
Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 10:15
Well, it appears (via Slashdot) that MGM has a few things to make up for, and I know for a fact that I have a few of the movies mentioned in the article:
Apparently all of MGM’s ‘theatrical wide screen’ DVD releases for the last few years have been the pan-scanned versions with the top and [...]
Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 09:49
I’m sitting in class right now, and there’s not a whole lot to think about other than other things - I am able to take the notes I need while I multitask other thoughts and typing in other windows, and so I wanted to drop something in here so I could give people an idea [...]
Wednesday, 26 January, 2005 – 12:45
Well, this is a quarterly ritual around here, and it catches up with me every now and again, so I suppose now is the time. This is about the time where my wife would very much like to escape as much as possible, because I end up burrowing up and preparing myself for the [...]
Saturday, 22 January, 2005 – 07:14
Ken will get a kick out of this one, since he helped me out with the original setup.
Since I live in an apartment that faces pretty much the wrong way to receive DirecTV signals, we had to install our dish on top of about a seven-foot-tall piece of conduit, which is anchored in a mixing [...]
Friday, 21 January, 2005 – 13:19
I’ve recently installed a good comment spam filter plugin for WordPress, so if you are a friend and your comments aren’t showing on the main page, then I would ask you to please e-mail me and I’ll try to figure why your comments aren’t making it through.
But the filter seems to be catching just about [...]
Friday, 21 January, 2005 – 12:00
So last night, Ken and I decided that we were going to hit up a book signing by who is probably our own personal culinary hero between the two of us: Alton Brown.
Actually, I can’t claim that as much as Ken can, since when I first got my DirecTV set up and was throwing down [...]
Friday, 21 January, 2005 – 11:22
If you don’t like the new look or layout, don’t worry; it’s temporary (which is, of course, what I said about the last one).
This is the new default theme for WordPress 1.5, which I’ve decided to go back to CVS testing, since I am missing a lot of the functionality that came in when they [...]
Thursday, 20 January, 2005 – 13:48
Everywhere I look around campus, there are people who are in shirts-and-ties, and they’re doing so for a very specific reason, and it’s something that has started to nag at me and reach me in my winter doldrums.
They’re dressing up for their interviews.
Everyone that I identify with is receiving their assignment in May, except for [...]
Wednesday, 12 January, 2005 – 10:37
I just took a look at the MWSF video, and Jobs actually handled the goofy bug pretty well. One of the images he was looking at with Spotlight ended up going to slideshow and hanging the machine.
He simply switched a KVM behind the desk, and said, “This is why we have backups.”
Nice.
Tuesday, 11 January, 2005 – 14:07
Well, I’m dropping in on live coverage of the Macworld keynote this morning, as I’m in class, but they’re not broadcasting it over the web until this afternoon, anyway. I’m listening in on #macmerc on irc.slashnet.org while Leo Laporte and some of the MacMerc guys sit on on the keynote and broadcast some of [...]