Monthly Archive for November, 2003
A new site called News-Images.com is trying to help those of us who read a crapload of internet news by posting images from articles on popular internet news sites instead of headlines. I thought this would be great for me. However, upon investigating the site’s content myself, I wasn’t really impressed. Even the Science-Technology section seemed disinteresting to me. Add the disinteresting images that don’t make me want to click on them to find out about the article to the fact that the images themselves are tiny little thumbnails with a very grainy quality, and the site seems to be a whole lot of crap to me. With me being the "make you your own damn mind" kind of person, I’ll leave the links above to let you peruse the site and decide if it’s worth the pixels on which it’s displayed.
So, it took a good portion of my afternoon, but we got it working. Herschell finally has an MT blog up at specialdark.tk. His setup differs from mine a little in that his host only offers MySQL support for an additional fee to the monthly charge. As such, we were forced to use Berkeley DB instead. So, head on over to Hersch’s blog and take a quick peak. It’s still in its infancy stages, as the pages definitely stink of the MT defaults, but sooner or later his lazy ass might actually make some changes like I did.
There’s this site called Madge, Mothers Against Genetic Engineering, and Rich IMed me one of their billboards. That is just one strange billboard.
I am personally not opposed to genetically engineered foods, medicines, and the like. Hell, I used Accutane, which apparently changes the DNA structure of cells to fight acne. They’ve got a cartoon on their site that is pretty funny, tho. It could be so true, but then again, so could Harry Potter. The probability of either happening is slim to none.
So, today is the day when, three years ago, my dad passed away from liver cancer. Needless to say, Novembers tend to suck for me, and probably for my sisters, too. Depending on whether or not Mel and I can find Michelle, the three of us will be going out to dinner. My mom’s out in Mexico for a reunion, and Chris is working on the play, so it’ll just be the three of us, if we can find Michelle. Not that I really believe in an afterlife, but, Dad, if you’re out there, we miss you.
Again, thanks to slashdot, I was pointed to The Memory Hole. It details how an article titled "Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam," written by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft for the 2 March 1998 issue of Time, was conspicuously removed from the Time website. The article details why the first Bush Administration did not forcefully remove Saddam from Iraq, and why the US did not occupy Iraq after the First Gulf War. Interesting read, given the past two years’ events. The important thing, however, is what does the disappearance of this article on the internet mean for the integrity of the internet?
OK, so I missed the premiere of NBC’s Average Joe last week. I wasn’t about to let that happen this week. So, after watching the somewhat interesting E! True Hollywood Story of Jenna Jameson, I flipped over to NBC. Not even ten minutes into the show, I was sick of watching the whining little babies.
Continue reading ‘I can’t stand these guys’
Well, this looks good for the future of DVD-R for me. I am testing a DVD-/+RW burner from Sony. It’s the DRX-510UL, and external DVD burner with both USB2.0 and FireWire connectors. I initially brought it home to backup my growing music collection, since I can’t pull the music from the iPod if my HD crashes. I then decided to test it’s ability to make a DVD that my Panasonic DVD TV would play.
After almost nine hours of converting 100 minutes of MPEG video to DVD format and burning it to a DVD-R, I was able to successfully play it on my TV. This is significant for me because the owner’s manual gave me the impression that it would not play any consumer-burned media whatsoever. This has so far been true of CD-R and CD-RW discs, so I assumed it would extend to DVD-R and DVD+R. I am so glad that it at least plays DVD-R. This leaves the possibility of getting a DVD burner in the future open, allowing me to archive all sorts of video to DVD and watch it on a non-computer player.
If you couldn’t tell, I’m very excited about this. Now I don’t have to figure out how to make a proper VCD, as I can now make DVDs instead.
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