Archive for May, 2005

Landscaping!

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

They’ve finally started to landscape! So far we have some trees & bushes. I would imagine grass is next. It’s starting to look nice!

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Avoid Bankrupt US Airways

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

I learned a lesson yesterday… Avoid bankrupt airlines.
I flew from Detroit to Charlottesville with a stop at Charlotte. The plane we were supposed to take was 20 minutes late arriving at Detroit. The flight was okay, but we didn’t arrive in North Carolina until 8:45 (actually we arrived much earlier, […]

A look into the past

Friday, May 27th, 2005

It’s amazing how much we take for granted how cheap computers are these days. Check out this 1989 ad for a Tandy 5000 “Micro Computer” Professional System. The free MP3 player I got for signing up with Comcast has more RAM than that $8,500 computer!
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Compare that to the $69 […]

Wall Street Journal Still In the Dark About Blogs: “Measuring Blog Impact”

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Vaspers the Grate: Wall Street Journal Still In the Dark About Blogs: “Measuring Blog Impact”
Steven Streight provides a nice rebuttal to a Wall Street Journal article which downplays the importance of blogs. Interesting read.
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Bug Bash - A new comic aimed at geeks!

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Looks good, and comes complete with an RSS feed!
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Gates Takes On Google

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

“Google is still perfect, the bubble is floating and they can do everything,” Mr. Gates told the moderator sarcastically “You should buy their stock at any price.” He then added, “We had a 10-year period just like that.”
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Yahoo forces RIAA staff cutbacks…

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

One of the RIAA’s most profitable businesses (suing people for downloading music) isn’t as profitable anymore. How much is unlimited music downloads worth? The RIAA would have you believe the market value of unlimited downloads is thousands of dollars. According to Yahoo, it’s $5/month. Mark Cuban writes:
The RIAA can no longer […]

AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

From Slashdot:
Javascript may have been with us since the beginning of the browser, but it’s going through a renaissance as companies like Google create Javascript-enabled tools like Google Maps . There’s even a nice, newly coined acronym , AJAX for “Asynchronous Javascript and XML”. A nice survey article from […]

The Future of Television

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Newsweek has a great article about TV’s future. View anything you want to see, any time, on any device.
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Dodge Magnum SRT8 pricing announced

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Recently announced:
With a 425-horsepower, 6.1-liter HEMI® engine and 71.6 cu. ft. of cargo space, Dodge’s new Magnum SRT8 speed wagon hauls in more ways than one. Adding a new level of utility to the Street and Racing Technology (SRT) formula of benchmark performance at an astounding value, the 2006 Dodge Magnum SRT8 is available […]