Archive for January, 2007
Ugh, Enough of Kravitz
Friday, January 26th, 2007Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Original Release Date: December 29, 1998
All: radio stations, satellite radio, grocery stores, elevator music selectors… DIE!
I am sooo tired of hearing this song, its been almost 10 years, I swear this song gets played WAY too often.. I hear it everywhere, 5+ times a week.. it makes me vomitous.. seriously. [...]
Roadrunner Premium
Thursday, January 25th, 2007So I signed up for a six month trial of RoadRunner Premium service. It’s on special right now for $50.00 a month for the first six months. It goes up to $69.99/mo after that. I’m sure I’ll cancel it when it goes up. It’s supposed to be 8 Mbps down 512 Kbps up. I’m only [...]
Ham Radio, Will I pick it up again?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Looks like theres no morse requirement anymore starting next month for upgraded licenses. In the past learning Morse was lazily keeping me from upgrading my license. Now that I don’t have to worry about it, maybe ill upgrade and pick the hobby back up.
ARRLWeb: It’s Official! Morse Code Requirement Ends Friday, February 23
NEWINGTON, CT, Jan [...]
You Sank my Cargo Ship!
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007The MSC Napoli, which was holed in storms on Thursday, was run aground following “serious structural failure”. This happened in the English Channel, near Devon. The ship was carrying some freight for a customer of ours that we were shipping. It’s kinda neat being somewhat related to a vessel sinking over 4800 miles away.
Some News [...]
Apple?
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007So I spend about 95% of my time on the computer in Linux, mostly Gentoo, some Slackware, some Archlinux.
I’ve recently been looking at Macs. I wonder if maybe they’d be the perfect medium for me, mainly I’d love to use Aperture for the managing of my library of photos (12440 photos, 27gigs). About 1/4th [...]
Burrrr
Tuesday, January 16th, 200732.0 °F / 0.0 °C — Light Freezing Rain
[Spring, TX at 5:30 PM CST]
Talk about some cold weather for this part of the country. I don’t think we’ve had weather like this in a few years.
World of Warcraft — Burning Crusade came out today… I didn’t buy it. My account cancels on Jan 29th. [...]