Entries from September 2005

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

what the hell happened to Orkut?

It has become the best Portuguese language social networking service on the internet. As someone who used to work on virtual worlds software, I’ve followed the internet communities sites with some interest. It has been interesting to see each new one emerge become the leader and then recede as another site takes it place. There [...]

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Old School DVD burning

Nothing like burning bad after bad disc when the discs are pricey Switching to burning DVD+R DLs for backup has brought me back to the old days when CD-Rs cost $8 and it could take a couple duds to get a good one. I’ve been using the Lacie Dual Layer DVD burner with Toast 6 [...]

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

MSNBC’s timeline of Katrina

It lays out all the administrations lies in a very powerful way Courtesy of Crooks And Liars blog

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Yay Frank Rich!

Frank Rich’s op-ed piece “Falluja Floods the Superdome” in yesterday’s New York Times is spot-on http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rich.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th Maureen Dowd’s Op-ed “United States Of Shame” in Friday’s New York Times had this little gem: Ron Fournier of The Associated Press reported that the Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in [...]

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Dear Bumbershoot…

I don’t like you anymore I haven’t been to a Bumbershoot in the last 6 years, mostly because we’re usually out of town on labor day weekend, but this year we were in town and so we decided to check it out. We had a couple things that we were interested in seeing and we [...]

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Marjorie

a disappointment for the price I can’t remember what the previous name of this restaurant was, but I do remember that the food and atmosphere were good. The atmosphere is still good, the charming outdoor patio, the dark interior. The service was mostly good, once the place got a little crowded, our waitress forgot we [...]