Afternoon bike Commute: outrunning the storm. Fatigue sets in early this morning. The US scores in the 83rd minute and I’ve been up for 84. Of course, the first six minutes was hard to take. I only had a handful of Crunchberries in my gullet and no coffee when Poland stuffed two in the nets. …
Monthly Archives: June 2002
Helluva nice article on Salon about file sharing and the real potential of mp3 swapping and CD burning and its ability to bring down the record industry. Stan Liebowitz, argues that it’s possible that people will continue to buy CD’s just because it’s the most honest thing to do and people are generally pretty honest. …
Morning Bike Commute: Hula hoop vandalism! Well it’s about time, and also far too late, but Earth First Activist Judi Bari finally got what’s due yesterday when it was ruled that the FBI must pay 4.4 Million for their actions perpetrated against Bari and her husband Darryl Cherney. It’s a great reminder of what savage …
The word of the day is sobriquet, a word I discovered while playing the game Cranium yesterday. A word which I swear I had never seen used before or heard pronounced by anyone. As luck would have it, I started Jim Thompson’s autobiography Bad Boy last night and ran into the word within the first …
I’m having a great time with the new Mozilla browser. Simple. Powerful. Love the search capabilities. I can’t wait to update my power book to OSX and get my Mozilla creeping all over it. I found the documentary on Road-Side Shines tantamount to discovering a perfect diamond in the mines of doc-cinema. Thanks to the …
Hell Yes!! You can’t keep a good man down. I am happy to be blogging again and rocking the Powerbook proudly. I don’t know how it happened but when I put it all back together with the new power/sound card, and pushed the power button, the damn thing actually started. Score one for the people. …
Afrojet is experiencing technical difficulties. Yup that’s afrojet there; a work in progress. It’s on life support awaiting a new DC power input/sound card. And until she’s back up and running at full power my reports from the front lines will be less frequent. If all goes well the transplant piece will arrive in the …