November 2004 Entries
so let’s return the favor. Rory of Neopoleon.com, one of the “good ones” who happens to be consistently hilarious is now working for MS and apparently his boss’s bosses don’t think blogs can have “much of an impact”. So do what he says:If you want to help, then click on this link. I don't care what happens after you "get there." If you just want to close the page or hit the Back button without reading anything, that's fine. This is all about showing some numbers - not about inundating you with propaganda.So, help a brother out, eh?Corey: I promise nothing bad...
Since my last post on celebrity blogs was my second most popular post ever I figured this couldn’t hurt traffic either. Zach Braff, you know the guy from Scrubs and impressively wrote, directed and starred in Garden State has a blog. I had always wanted to see Garden State, but not enough apparently since I missed it, but now I even looked up to see when the DVD is going to be released (Dec 28) and was reminded that Natalie Portman is in it. Side note: old Natalie has developed quite an underground following among us men. We’ve been talking...
You know when you click on a PDF or MS Word, Excel file and it opens in the IE window? Yeah, I don’t like that. Seems so 1996 - “Let’s pretend like it is all part of the intarweb.”Here’s how to disable that behavior. Open Adobe Acrobat Reader; Choose Edit, Preferences Select the Internet tab, click off Display PDF in browser. Close Acrobat ReaderFor Office apps: Open up any explorer window like My Computer. Go to Tools, Folder Options, click on File TypesBrowse to .Doc, .XLS, and .PPT, for each one select Advanced and click off Browse in same window.
Those of us who self-host blogs and email for ourselves and others are obliged to take on the role of administrator and operations staff. Since cable modems and home routers aren’t really designed with the same level of reliability as enterprise equipment, frequent outages are not uncommon. My regular old Linksys router has a habit of freezing and requiring an unfolded paperclip poke once every ten days or so. This was usually ok because I could get home during my lunch hour, hit the button and get back before any real damage occurred. The real problem is when I was traveling...
How funny is Natalie Dee? So funny. I liked this one from a while back.
I’ve added my email address on the left navigation. Note, I used a little fancy javascript obscuficator obfuscator from here so the spam bots won’t find me (hopefully).
I was inspired by Scoble. He proudly posts his cell phone number on his blog!
Something struck me while listening to the latest Streets(,The) album A Grand Don’t Come For Free. I’d be willing to put money down that this album contains the most references to cell phones ever. Eight of the eleven songs talk about phones, texting or cell reception; many are central to the plot of the song. Here’s my complete extracted phone specific lyrics page: http://www.coreyh.com/blog/articles/1062.aspxI’ve been really surprised at how fast text messaging is coming on. Friends who are not exactly techno-pros are quick with the texting lingo and behaviors. I’ve heard a woman remark that post-date texts are crucial to her...
Friday night was my ten-year high school reunion. Everybody is doing well. Of course, we only had about 25 of 70 show up: this was a self-selecting group. The folks who came were happy, healthy, thin and energetic. Those kids which time was no so kind to probably chose not to come. One funny tee-hee was the couple who dated for most of high school who are now married to stunt-double quality lookalikes of their respective ex-partners. As for me, I got a few “Boy, you look great.” Obviously the first couple times it was flattering, but after the tenth one...
My former co-worker and friend Shin-Pei points to Mobissimo on her new blog Bird to the North. You thought Orbitz was a step up from Travelocity? (Priceline is too ghetto to be in the running.) Let Mobissimo blow you away. It is the best travel search site yet. Simple and clean, it serves up results fast. Good timing since I am trying to buy a ticket to India my longest-yet flight on my own dime. My search did yield some good prices and lots of choices quickly with a minimum of clutter.
First off, this is good. I've been needing this for a while now.
ClipPath
...ClipPath adds a small addition to the context menu when you right click in Windows Explorer. At whatever depth you are in the folder structure if you right click a file it puts the entire path to that file or folder on your clipboard (with either / or \ or straight to an Outlook email). So the next time your getting down in the framework directory and you need to pull out a long path you can use this tool to do that. [via Early Adopter]
Now, I...
This Saturday we took our visitors from Hong Kong to Atlantic City.
First stop was the new Borgata.
Let's just say "Thank you Fleet Bank for a daily ATM limit of $400." By the time midnight came around and I had another day's worth of withdrawal limit everyone was pretty exhausted and I didn't have the opportunity to win my money back.
At the blackjack table on the seat next to me I found this strategy card (click for full size). The dealer instructed me that I wasn't allowed to have the card *on* the table. I don't think he appreciated...
Did you know you can lookup what the empire state building colors mean? Calendar located at this official site link. Today's was the UNICEF snowflake/brighten the world for children blue scheme. Investigating further reveals two facts. 1) There are some real obscure ones. Two separate German reunification day schemes, colon cancer awareness, world cup archery championship, lunar new year, and don't forget Qatar's independence. 2) The procedure for getting a new special color day added seems simple. So naturally, I will now take it on as a quest to get a new day put on the calendar. Suggestions?
Can you spot the arrow in the FedEx logo. Click for the answer. And an interview with the designer. I've never noticed it and even when I was searching I didn't see it. Sneaky. [via Waxy]
Rest in peace O.D.B., aka Old Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt, Osirus, Cyrus, Dirt Dogg, Big Baby Jesus, Unique Ason, Joe or Russell Tyrone Jones. He was 35 years old. I like to picture Tom Brokaw reading that line.
I actually have a post in my post queue about my favorite ODB verse. I should have posted it earlier cause now you won't believe me, but here it is anyway:
From the song Nowhere To Run by DMX featuring Ozzy Osborne and O.D.B.
"ahhh yi yi yi yi What, mother fucker? Don't try to psychology my shit, mother fucker 'cause you'll never psychology...
Slate's Halo 2 writeup:
"When the game begins, you're playing the same "good" guy from the original Halo, a super-enhanced human charged with laying a world of pain on an alien army called the Covenant." ... "While Halo 2 often plays like a bigger, badder version of its predecessor, there is an unexpected new twist about two hours into the game. Look down and—whoa!—you've got an alien claw instead of a hand. By your side are the lizardlike dudes you were just shelling. For the rest of the game, you flip back and forth between playing as a human and...
I told myself I wasn't going to read as much political coverage, but I can't help it. My RSS reader just fills up with the stuff. This again comes from Slate's Why Americans Hate Democrats Dialog series: Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is author of Racial Culture: A Critique. ... The emergent conventional wisdom is that moral values cost the Democrats the election. This proves what many have suspected for some time: Democrats can't connect with the heartland because they don't attend church regularly. If they did, they would...
I've been posting at a one-a-day average rate since I started. Is this a good amount? Should I edit myself more or less? I've got a backlog of almost 150 items in my post queue.
Absolutely loving Konfabulator. Now available for Windows.[note the site is really slow now for me, loads of traffic I guess]
If you had been following my previous advice for multi-monitors and MaxiVista you should have room for this eye-candy.
PS. I apologize to those readers with 250 feeds for which this will be another one of those me too posts.
From Low Culture: Getting the Most From Their Advertising Dollar: It's common to place ads in articles or TV shows to reach a target demographic, but this in-line advertisement which is embedded in a story in the Washington Times about a Georgia man who killed himself at the site of the World Trade Center might be a little too targeted:The President is probably assured of a filibuster-proof Senate after the next mid-term elections if all the Democrats kill themselves, move to Canada, or secede.
As Rajul Mahajan says “This is a time to wallow in the defeat. Let’s not shrug it off too quickly. Let’s acknowledge what it means in a world that is in the process of being torn apart by a new crusade. When we move on to try to find hope, let’s start with a rational core, not one built out of wishful thinking, fantasies about how the world works, and self-congratulation.” I am enjoying this phase of the political experience far more than I did the run up to the election. Before the election the commentary was tactical, all about how...
Remember gentlemen, November is International Beard Month.
Actually it isn't official yet, but there was (is?) a November Beard Club which:
"firmly believed that because men have the natural ability to grow beards, they should. At least for a month. And the chosen month is November, due to it's chilly climate and the fact men seem to have a natural inclination to grow facial hair around this time every year."
So no shaving until December 1st.
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via Uncle Tweed [link]
[01:55:34 PM] Vinod: http://www.saunalahti.fi/jwikholm/apache.mpg[01:56:16 PM] Corey: awesome[01:58:13 PM] Corey: I think the drummer is my fav[01:58:24 PM] Vinod: the teepee is brilliant[02:16:26 PM] Vinod: i'm in tears[02:16:36 PM] Corey: apache?[02:16:46 PM] Vinod: yes[02:18:33 PM] * Vinod is now Busy[03:06:36 PM] Vinod: i'm in tears again[03:06:38 PM] Vinod: so funny[04:16:23 PM] Vinod: seriously, this clip is amazingNote the time span.
A photogallery, worth roughly 20,000 words of warning.We're convinced.20 reasons [SFW][via Screenhead]My favorite is the last one.
Sen. John Kerry calls President Bush to concede presidential election, CNN has learned. Details soon.
Four more years?
How can we make sure this doesn't happen again?
What do we do now?
I've done a lot of music reorganization over the last week or so. And now I can't find anything. Fortunately I have full text indexed searches in Winamp and Copernic Desktop Search. Here are some great songs with the word Diamond in them: Sonic Youth - The Diamond SeaPaul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her ShoesPink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy DiamondThe Transplants - Diamonds and Guns (It's a Twisted World We Live In)Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation ShowLudacris - Diamond In the Back
I have been using this application for a long long time now. It is called Beyond Compare. It does directory and file comparisons. I won't delve into all the features, but do check it out if you are in the market for such a tool. There are plugins to support all sorts of file types like MP3 (id3 tag info), images, etc.
Via Stever from way back in my ZEFER days.
Update: Forgot URL: http://www.scootersoftware.com/
The term liquid crack came up in conversation today. To me, that refers to Colt 45 Double Malt 40 oz with the big mouth top. Some choice quotes from online beer review sites: "So is the double malt supposed to make it taste better or something? Nope, that's not it.""Alcoholic content: Well, after throwing up, Eric said it was pretty strong""also, it resulted in chest pains and an ache in my jaw" "Seriously, how could you possibly go wrong with double the malt?"Most quotes are from http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com Funny thing too, I tried to find a picture of a full one...