Monthly Archives: April 2005

Apple

Tiger Day

In case you’ve forgotten… today is the official release of Tiger… available at an Apple Store, or Apple Reseller near you starting at 6:00pm. All the Apple stores are running release parties.. various giveaways.. including the chance to win a Powerbook

Look for a review of Tiger tomorrow or Sunday..

(and no… I’m not going to talk about the stupid lawsuit by the company suing Apple for using Tiger in their marketing materials, which has resulted in them getting dropped out of the spot they think they deserve in google search results.. talk about a lawsuit designed strictly for publicity)

Current Events

Maybe Yardwork doesn’t pay

On second thought…it appears as though doing yardwork can be bad for you. The two guys I talked about yesterday, are still in the news (which is only surprising, since the general news media seems to think Americans have the attention spans of fruit flies…) Only…today…they’re probably not so happy about being in the news. Turns out… they’ve now been arrested, and the cops are saying their ‘buried treasure’ was stolen…

Oops! Note to self.. If I ever do find a buried treasure… I’m gonna sell it one piece at a time, and not tell the news about it!

Current Events

Yardwork incentive

If things like this happened to me.. I’d be much more inclined to work in the yard all the time. Of course, if it happened to me.. I’d now be digging up the entire yard (front and back) to see if there was anything else buried.

And speaking of money… the Feds are making another attempt at a dollar coin.. according to CNN, it looks like this time it might work. They’re taking a page from the centennial Quarter book..and making a series of them.. hoping that even if no one spends them, at least some people will buy them and collect them. Personally? I think we should get rid of paper dollar bills (just the ones)..and switch to coins.. since very little actually costs less then a buck now anyway…

Current Events

Stupid Male Politicians

Jodi is talking about a bill proposed by Wisconsin state Representative Daniel LaMahieu.. he is trying to make it illegal for any College campus health care facilities to even talk about birth control to female students…

Jodi sums it up nicely… the guy is a fucking idiot.

I’ve noticed that the most vocal opponents to birth control/abortion/letting a woman decide what is right for her… all seem to be male. Sure, there are women who are vocal about it.. but, any time you hear some big speech or protest about it, or some stupid ass proposed law… there always seems to be a male behind it.

Wonder if that would change if male rapists were the ones that had to deal with the pregnancy… or if these idiots who suggest these things, would still agree.. if they personally had to pay for the lifetime expenses of just 2 or 3 of the children born out of rape….

Just Stuff, Tech

Vibro-phone?

Ok..so it should probably be marketed as the orgasmo-phone… but here’s an article on a new phone Samsung is supposed to release soon.

And you thought it was bad when people were just talking on their phone! How do you handle complaining to a person that their orgasming too loudly with their phone???

Site Stuff

Wow!

I installed Spamlookup 3 days ago…and its already stopped like 75 trackback spam attempts… completely stopped the trakback spam Janice had been getting buried under… way cool… everyone go and install it if you run MT…

Also just updated to the newest version of Ecto. WAY COOL! it’s new UI is based on the appearance of Mail.app in Tiger (10.4)… it added a button to link to Amazon stuff ( which can be configured with your affiliate information). Definitely an impressive upgrade. This is one app I am thrilled I paid the shareware fee for!

Site Stuff

Tiger Test

This is just a quick test, to see if Ecto requires an update to work under Tiger… so far, it doesn’t appear to need anything. And the few minutes I’ve spent playing with Tiger, I’m impressed…the last build I had installed and running, was the original Developer Preview…. Now that its gone GM, and since I’m going to buy it on Friday, I don’t feel to bad about playing with a more recent build that I got from a friend… very impressive… everyone go buy it now!

Site Stuff

MT Upgrade

Just finished upgrading to MovableType 3.16, so let me know if you see anything funky, or not working right. Also switched from MT-Blacklist for comment/trackback spam to spamlookup and mt-moderate. Hey.. if the author of MT-Blacklist thinks Spamlookup is better..its gotta be worth a try right? and the last 24 hours or so, Janice’s blog has been getting hammered by trackback spam..so maybe this will help.

Kael's Adventures

Viva Las Vegas!

We got back in from our Vegas trip on Weds..just now getting a chance to post about it. I had considered posting daily updates while we were there…but the hotel doesn’t provide free internet access….it was $9.99 a day for WebTV access and $10.99 for “real” access…

so.. instead.. you get one big post with all the vegas stuff in it…

Continue reading Viva Las Vegas! →

Apple

The cat’s out of the bag

Sort of….

Apple announced today, that Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) will be in stores on April 29th, starting at 6:00pm. So..go line up now, get a good place in line..and prepare to enjoy the next major revision of the Mac OS.. featuring Safari, with built in RSS reader, Dashboard, Spotlight, and probably about a bazillion other new, or improved, features.

Pick me up a copy or 5 while your there would you?