December 13, 2005 – 12:06 am ·
Seems my web provider failed me for the first time in over a year. I try checking email at work and I get de-NIED. Then I check my eBay auction and all my pics and cool styling are gone. So I check here. Gone. But now we’re all back. According to my stats, I had […]
December 11, 2005 – 9:26 am ·
It’s that time of month again. Music guru, tunesmith and keyboard tapper, Michael Keefe, has whipped up a new collection of music reviews for your edification. Among them are some tasty reviews of new albums from ex-Libertine Pete Doherty and Kate Bush, as well as a steel-edged carving up of the new dance thing from […]
December 10, 2005 – 2:23 pm ·
Man he was good. I’m going to miss him.
December 9, 2005 – 2:33 pm ·
It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s throwing together year-end lists; Best DVDs of the Year, Best Albums of the Year, Best Screenplays That Will Never Get Made of the Year… So it’s time for me to put together my Music Of The Year compilation. This year, more than any other, I’ve got my work […]
December 9, 2005 – 1:42 pm ·
Today is my Sunday. I’ve been taking it very easy today. There’s a possibility I may be going to see Morcheeba tonight. But then maybe not. It depends on whether Morin got tickets for the show, and then on whether she calls me or not. In the mean time, I’m chilling, writing, drinking a little […]
December 7, 2005 – 10:46 am ·
I’m walking from Argentum to Amoeba, switching jobs mid-day (Eleanor Ave to Vine to Sunset to Ivar.) Since I’m rarely without my camera, and today is so beautiful, I decide to snap photos of whatever I deceree photo-worthy along the way. There’s a gate on the West side of the street. It’s usually closed. Today […]
December 6, 2005 – 12:21 am ·
Sara and I sit on the front stoop of Amoeba. She smokes a cigarette. I’m keeping her company. Why? I dunno, in case she needs help, I guess. I don’t smoke. To be more accurate, I don’t smoke my own cigarettes. I’m content with the second-hand stuff. Unless someone gives me one, but even then […]
December 3, 2005 – 11:44 am ·
I dig through the Internet, scour Google, comb through lists of phobias, but I can’t find anything on the fear of squirrels. But if the term hasn’t been invented, it will be soon.
November 30, 2005 – 1:48 pm ·
Just for fun, take the Phishing Test over at MailFrontier. Phishing scams are getting pretty sophisticated and this test demonstrates just how easy it is to whittle cash from the general populace. As Lifehacker reports: According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent […]
November 30, 2005 – 1:44 pm ·
So this is what an Amoeba Holiday party looks like. I’ve finally got thirty-odd pics organized, annoted and punched up using my magic mouse. They’re available for viewing at my new Flickr joint. And yes, it’s another picture-heavy post. I’ll get back to plain ol’ English after today, which wraps up a week spent working […]
November 29, 2005 – 12:58 pm ·
Got my camera back. I knew I would.
November 28, 2005 – 1:41 am ·
It’s late. It’s Sunday night (Monday morning.) Amoeba Music just had its annual Holiday party. I got some pretty spectacular pictures. But I’m home now and I realize that my camera is sitting atop a pinball machine in the warehouse where the party was thrown. Let’s all pray for its return.
November 22, 2005 – 10:32 am ·
SFX: Ether Sings (mp3) Way back in July, Craig over at Songs: Illinois posts a thing about Laura Veirs. I had heard the name before but never got around to checking out her music. Since then Ms. Veirs has rocketed to the upper stratosphere of my musical planet. So much so, that a couple months […]
November 18, 2005 – 11:31 am ·
Lifehacker has an amusing and helpful article about the Annual Family Computer Fixing event – that tradition wherein we go home, eat turkey, sip wine and re-combobulate the parents’ hard drive. Among the suggestions: Switch the default browser to Firefox (which I actually just talked my Mom through,) do a spyware/adware sweep, defrag the hard […]
November 17, 2005 – 1:37 am ·
Seems to me that the most successful con artists would be the articulate ones. Smooth talkers get better results. As the saying goes, you attract more flies with honey. So why is so much spam so poorly written? That’s what I’m wondering when I glance at the following email: So lovely pictures !! God bless […]
