Entries from January 2008

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

good article about the parade of failed Seattle clubs

I don’t get out as much as I used to, but it is kind of scary the turnover in Seattle clubs and how many of them I’ve played at or been to: Seattle Times: R.I.P.: Dead nightclubs of Seattle

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I’ve got a flickr page

I avoided it for years, but I finally created one. However, given my past of having my photos stolen off my website, I’m not too keen on having the photos public. So, all but 1 are only visible to friends & family. If either of those describes you, contact me through flickr.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

IPod and disconnectedness

Music: IPod Backlash (Seattle Weekly) This social isolation is another likely outcome of iPod use, according to Areni, a professor at the University of Sydney who studies environmental psychology, music, and cognition. “Have you ever tried saying ‘hello’ to somebody listening to an iPod? If I see the white or black wires sticking out of [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

White House conveniently forgets to save some of their e-mail

From the Seattle Times Apparent gaps in White House e-mail archives coincide with dates in late 2003 and early 2004 when the administration was struggling to deal with the CIA leak investigation and the possibility of a congressional probe into Iraq intelligence failures. The gaps — 473 days over 20 months — are cited in [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

netflix offers unlimited streaming

whoop-de-doo! Hopefully, they’ll offer a mac client someday so I can actually take advantage of it…

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

MacWorld Keynote… feh

The coolest recent Apple announcement is the upgrade to the MacPros, in my book. The Air is cute, but for a little extra heft, the MacBook is still a better computer in every way. And the MacBook is still underpowered for my taste. Who really cares about thin? Once you are hitting that sub 14″ [...]

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Moxy’s Pirate TV show…

YahooTV beta has my one and only screen credit! Of course, I’m listed as animator instead of R&D, but it’s nice that somewhere somehow my name is in a database as having worked on that show.

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

An interesting point about the high-level departures from Microsoft

Both Mini-MSFT and Joe Wilcox pointed this out. Microsoft isn’t replacing their high-level executives with internals. Bill Gates leaves, Ray Ozzie is hired to replace him. Jeff Raikes leaves, Stephen Elop replaces him. I’m not sure about some of the other executive departures yet, their replacements haven’t been announced as far as I can tell. [...]

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Network Solutions is evil

I’ve been a network solutions customer for many many years now. Partially, because when I first registered my domains, they were the only registrar. Later, I would occasionally register a new domain with them if it was important. I never trusted GoDaddy or some of the other discount registrars, NetSol seemed to be more professional [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008

fun with my new camera

I just got a new Digital Rebel. Here’s one of the first photos. I’m so enjoying the workflow in LightRoom with real RAW data…