after shedding innovation after innovation to try to make a 2006 ship date, the next generation of microsoft windows, named vista, has been delayed until january 2007.
at the earliest.
it’s kind of sad.
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Category: General
coincidence or message?
i haven’t blogged in over a week.
over that period of time, the hits to my site have skyrocketed and the number of people subscribing to my rss feed have nearly doubled.
i think there’s a message being sent.
a really catchy tune
here’s a fun link: worst web design of 2005. lots of links to sites with monumentally bad design.
and i thought my site had problems.
my favorite is this one: the association of international glaucoma societies. you can even download their “glaucoma hymn”, which has to be heard to be believed.
or don’t download it, because it’s one of those annoying sites that automatically plays music in the background when you go there, so you’ll hear it anyway if you click on the link.
the “glaucoma hymn” is definitely going onto my ipod.
screwed by gates?
bad, bad news on this front:
microsoft windows vista will not support efi booting (intel-based macs only support booting via efi)
the new intel macs use efi to boot, and expectations were that vista would support efi to facilitate dual-booting of windows and os x. microsoft has decided to stick to their old bios scheme with 32-bit versions of vista. they may support it on the 64-bit version of vista, though they haven’t confirmed it.
the way i read this, that means that users of the new intel macs (which have a 32-bit chip) won’t be able to easily boot vista any more than they are currently able to boot xp.
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bye bye bonds, and others as well
there are several people i want to say goodbye to. i don’t want them in my life anymore, and they are kind of unavoidable.
for the most part, anyway. i know i could stop watching certain shows, and whatnot, but i like those shows and i like that whatnot.
so i’m not going to change. they need to.
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my mortality
lovely subject, right?
but today’s front page has got me thinking. dana reeve dead at 44. kirby puckett dead at 45.
i’m 42, by the way. barely. 43 on march 19th, which is 12 days away.
wow. wow.
the envelope please
the oscars were, i thought, a pretty good show last night. well organized, relatively quickly paced, some good funny bits.
oscar-winning dancing hos and pimps. it wasn’t very hard out there for pimps last night, unless you count being bleeped by the abc censors.
something for everyone.
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american idol musings
it’s my guilty pleasure, i admit. i watch every week. 5 hours or so of my life down the drain. but i love it, so get out of here with your judgmental attitude.
besides, i’m guessing you watch too.
so who are my favorites so far?
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big day for the mac mini
it’s a heckuva(n) upgrade.
apple introduced a new mac mini yesterday.
a couple of questions, but for the most part, kudos to you, apple computer.
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ipod packaging parody
it’s a very busy day ’round here today.
have a look at this parody on youtube.com. it shows what would have happened had microsoft invented the ipod and designed the packaging.
brilliant.
weekend of catch-up
i’m behind on a number of things. and this is the weekend that i get caught up on them.
some things important, most things unimportant. but if i commit them publicly to the internets, perhaps they’ll actually get done.
so, in no particular order…
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back is back
my back is back.
warning: this is going to be a very whiny post.
i had back surgery a couple of years ago. and after some recuperation and physical therapy, i didn’t pay much attention to it.
i am now.
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enough with the twizzles
i love watching the winter olympics, and especially the ice skating. and especially especially the ice dancing.
but since the scoring scandals in the last winter olympics, the sport has instituted a new scoring system.
and i don’t like it.
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quick takes
things i found funny at gawker today: this craigslist posting, their obsession with johnny weir, and frank bruni blogs about hooters. gawker is a great site, if a bit new-york-insidey.
i completely agree with their assessment of johnny weir, though. if i were gorgeous, famous, rich, single, and twenty years younger, i might just give him a call.
my main occupation today–looking forward to the long weekend. you have a good one now. and be careful out there.
needless viral hysteria
much has been made of the fact that there are no viruses for the mac, in contrast with windows which has approximately 108*2 to the power of 5 viruses.
but all over the mac internets today is the story of the first mac “virus”.
relax. the virus score is still windows three million, mac 0. or, depending on your definition of what constitutes a virus, windows three million, mac 1.
but it’s an eye opening experience, reading about this. and i’ve learned a lot.
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not ready for aarp
i got the invitation in the mail the other day.
would i like to join aarp? lots of benefits. it’s not expensive. you really should.
they must be kidding. i’m only 42.
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going gluten-free
kirk is. i’m not going gluten-free, except that i kind of am, just by virtue of inhabiting space with him.
turns out that, ironically enough for someone who bakes constantly, he is allergic, or whatever, to gluten. the stuff that’s in wheat and oats and i don’t know what all else that holds it all together.
he hasn’t had any gluten for two weeks, and feels much better for it.
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news in brief
from an article on saddam hussein’s forced attendance at his trial:
“degradation and shame upon you, raouf,” saddam yelled. later, he called the investigating judges “homosexuals.”
saddam, you wacky gay-basher/closeted homosexual you.
from an article on show dogs braving the new york blizzard conditions:
…the 1969 blizzard created even more havoc. that was the year the esteemed walter goodman was seen carrying his prize skye terrier from [madison square] garden while his mother trudged behind.
when someone chided goodman about paying more attention to his dog than his mom, he supposedly said: “i’m not showing my mother.”
proving once again that you should never piss off a queen holding a small dog.
grey gardens
kirk and i saw the new musical version of the famous documentary “grey gardens” at playwrights horizons last night.
the perfect way to spend the evening after the end of the biggest snowstorm in new york history.
and i can’t get it out of my mind. i think the show is fantastic.
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my cat pd
i recently added the “cast of characters” to the sidebar of the site–it’s basically a bunch of my cell phone pictures linked to various pages and blogs on my site.
i put up a picture of my cat pd–she’s the lovely black and white cat.
but with no story about pd to link it to, i linked the picture to a story about another cat.
my dead cat jeff. i know. tacky. so kirk has been after me to write a story about pd, so that her picture will not be linked to a weepy story about my dead cat.
here it is.
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