Earthlink costs about $22 per month. For that, I get several e‑mail addresses that I actually use, pretty effective spam blocking that I actually use, and nationwide local access dial-up numbers that I almost never use. Problem is, I get those same services “free” with other stuff now. My domain hostingcompany gives me e‑mail, and […]
Tonight, George W. Bush gave a speech that, in a rare show of good taste, the networks did not deign to cover. However, NPR did cover it, and we listened to a little of the thing. Our President spent much of the time associating Iraq, both past and present, with terrorism. What I don’t get, […]
Well, Creighton has called me back for a third (!) interview. The first time i met with the director of the group I would be working within. The second time, I met with my potential co-workers, the VP in charge of Academic Computing, and a management consultant working with the CIO regarding new hires. This […]
This is a test install of Movable Type’s new version 3 blogging software. I plan to use it for all my blogs, but this one gets first crack. You all be sure to let me know what you think of it. Update: Ghaaaa! I just looked at this thing in a web browser, and it […]
It took us two nights, we were so sleepy, but we did manage to watch Calendar Girls this weekend. It was pretty cute, though I have a soft spot for British film (or American film with British accents, I guess). There’s a lot of amateur T’ai Chi in it, and I kept thinking that our […]
Walking into the grocery store today, holding Aidan in one arm, I was intercepted by a pickup truck with some youths inside. The driver leaned out and said, “Hey buddy, you want some speakers?” My response was, “Been there, done that. Thanks anyway.” It has to have been ten or eleven years ago now, living […]
This was the perfect movie for the mood we’ve been in lately. Too much drama on TV, too many shows about bad things happening to little children, not enough lighthearted feel-good stuff. There are no good sitcoms anymore. Anyway, love actually was delightfully British, touching, and signals the further rehabilitation of Hugh Grant in my […]
Arr. My son, whose name is AIDAN, was named such because we thought it was a kind of cool, uniqueish name. We only really knew of one other Aidan, that being Aidan Quinn, actor. We were a little leery of people thinking we’d named our son after him, because we didn’t. We just like the […]