No, I don’t really care for April Fool’s Day on the Web. I find it amusing for exactly 90 seconds when the occasional, well-done, online April Fool’s prank shows up, but when sites like Slashdot and others have every other item an April Fool’s joke, it gets really old really fast.
Month: March 2004
Governator No More
Sadly, it appears that The Governator Ale is to be no more. Lawyers for Schwarzenegger basically issued a cease-and-desist. I mean, really. Where’s the harm? Arnold should’ve snatched up a bottle and gotten into the fun: like saying, “Hasta la vista, baby” and then drinking it, or, “I’ll be back… for more Governator Ale!”
Some nights I just hate computers…
God damn the computers are pissing me off tonight. All evening our broadband cable connection has just been running slower than molasses, so it takes forever to accomplish anything online. And then I’m trying to get my wife’s computer fixed up, it’s been running really slow lately and locking up a lot. So I rolled… Continue reading Some nights I just hate computers…
Deadwood
Only two episodes in and I’m already liking HBO‘s new series, “Deadwood,” quite a lot. It’s quite a bit different from any other Western series I’ve seen on TV; they’re certainly pulling no punches.
Frontier Doctor
I was browsing at Barnes and Nobles this evening and found a book that looks very interesting (so I bought it): Frontier Doctor: Observations on Central Oregon and the Changing West. It’s the autobiographical account of a doctor during the formative years of Bend. Urling Coe came to the new town of Bend, Oregon, in… Continue reading Frontier Doctor
Bend.com Needs RSS
Okay, Bend.com seriously needs an RSS feed. I’m seriously considering writing a script to scrape their archive page for headlines and producing one myself.
Conspiracies in Web Tracking
Despite my headline, I’m not really going to go all Mulder on you and start ranting about Big Brother and privacy issues and all that. Instead it’s just some thoughts I’ve been entertaining lately on technology and tracking people and habits on the Web. Some people may choose to see the things I’m writing about… Continue reading Conspiracies in Web Tracking
South Sister Quakes
Sweeping the local news this evening is the South Sister earthquakes: more than 100 shook the area three miles west of the South Sister today, with a magnitude of up to 1.5 on the Richter scale. Bend.com has the best writeup on the story I’ve seen online. The quakes were occurring in the northeast part… Continue reading South Sister Quakes
Oregon Weblogs
Just wanted to give a few plugs and props to one of the better weblog-related sites out there, Oregon Blogs. I thought about trying to describe what it does, but the best I could come up with is that it’s equal parts RSS aggregator, group blog, and weblog directory rolled into one; really, the way… Continue reading Oregon Weblogs
Button Trendsetter
After I last posted about the buttons (see “Button Sites” from March 14) on Web sites, and the button maker, I’ve noticed that others are taking notice, and it’s popping up elsewhere: Wil Wheaton: stay all day if you want to (March 23) Jeremy Zawodny: Politically Incorrect Blog Buttons (March 22) Boing Boing: Fun Web… Continue reading Button Trendsetter