For a long time now, I’ve been pounding the podium about how AOL sucks. While they’ve been pushing themselves as an easy way onto the Internet, what they actually delivered was an abysmal experience. This boiled down to four main points: Their “content” was usually just dumbed-down content from other sites. They always provided second-rate […]
It’s Friday. It’s almost the weekend (and for those of us who are self-employed, it’s difficult to shake off the inclination to slack off, because we know we’re going to be working on the weekend anyway). Therefore, for your pleasure, I’m going to post here some links to things that I enjoy, and therefore I […]
I have never been more frustrated by an application than I am by QuickBooks 5.0 for the Mac. This lumbering dinosaur of a program refuses to talk to any of my other applications, which is ridiculous. It’s like they bent over backwards to make absolutely sure that everything you do in this app is as […]
Submitted for your lunchtime reading pleasure, Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times has an excellent editorial today on how we should be “keeping score” on Operation Whack Saddam Iraqi Freedom. His main criteria: Have we occupied Baghdad without leveling it? Have we killed, captured or expelled Saddam? Have we been able to explain […]
So the guys from R.E.M. have just posted a new protest song to their website. “The Final Straw” is a surprisingly laid-back acoustic number for what it is, and the lyrics, while typically Stipean, get really pretty pointed at the end: Now I don’t believe and I never did That two wrongs make a right. […]
I’m not sure why, but I’m having difficulty importing my old entries from Blogger. Maybe the Movable Type importing system wasn’t designed to import three years’ worth of old entries, which total somewhere around 750+ K. That’s a lot of journal. On the physical side of journal keeping, yesterday I closed out another one of […]
Yeah, when Nick mentioned my new addiction, he wasn’t kidding. I’ve long been a sucker for a particular type of RPG, the vaguely-cartoony, kinda-funny-but-also-tragic, epic, innovative sort. Think Dragon Warrior. Think The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Think Final Fantasy I-IV and IX. And now, Dark Cloud 2 for the PlayStation. This […]
Well, this is my first entry using Movable Type. I’m trying it out first with my weblog, and then I hope to do everything in the magazine using it. I’m not sure how well this is going to work, however. If anybody out there has experience with this and would like to volunteer to help, […]
It’s funny how the work you do for you is so different from the work you do for work. I’ve been working on my personal portfolio site, and I realized that putting together my illustration and photography sections have been fun, while assembling the print, video and online sections just have me groaning every time […]
I’m sitting here at my desk, sorting out piles of papers that have been growing for the last six months. That means that I’m just now putting away the last artifacts of my relationship with Jenny. This afternoon I took the battered old dog-eared picture of her out of my wallet. It’s a pretty picture, […]
