Published on Thursday 15th September 2005 .
I did a final check of My Yahoo! before heading up to bed, and in my News Photos section, I saw this pic:
And the caption reads:
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
That’s right, the President’s note that was caught by a photographer’s camera said, "I think I may need a bathroom break."
Published on Thursday 15th September 2005 in Uncategorized
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I was checking out del.icio.us/popular and I came across LibraryThing. I only got a quick look at it tonight, but it looks like a really neat idea. And a $10 lifetime subscription to the service during the "beta" stage is pretty cool, too. I’ll have to give it more of a look later, "when I have time."
Published on Tuesday 13th September 2005 .
Partly because I haven’t posted in a while, and partly because I don’t want to forget, here is a little tip on using Remote Desktop on a Windows Server 2003 box. To connect to the server using the console session, use the mstsc command with the /console switch. This will get you a Remote Desktop session that uses the console session, keeping the two remote user sessions available.
That is your tech tip for today.
Published on Wednesday 7th September 2005 .
I finally got around to installing Konfabulator on my desktop again. Perusing through the widget gallery, I came across this great widget called SuDoKu Little Helper. Download the widget from the linked site, not the gallery, and you’ve got yourself a great tool for solving those addicting SuDoKu puzzles you download and print at work every day.
There is only one downside to the widget: it makes it too damned easy to solve the puzzles. Beware of that caveat, and only use the widget when you are truly stuck. I solved today’s puzzle (pdf) in under five minutes:
I have to step away from the widget for a while and get back to using a pencil to fill in my squares.
Admittedly, I only uploaded the pic so I could show off my Quagmire and Stewie widgets.
Published on Wednesday 7th September 2005 .
Props to Herschell for the link to the iPod nano. That’s right, the iPod mini is no more. Apple released a tinier iPod that is thinner than a standard lead pencil and only 3.5" tall! It comes in a 2GB and 4GB model for $199 and $249, respectively.
I haven’t had time to hit the tech sites as much as I would have liked recently, so I don’t know what’s happened to the talk about the iPod video. I’ll try to remember to check that out later.
Update: Ars has a post with more details of the announcements, including the iPhone and iTunes 5.
Update 2: Please see Apple’s iPod support site for documentation about using your iPod. I have closed the comments for this post. You may post comments at this post instead.
Published on Wednesday 7th September 2005 in Uncategorized
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I just ran across an opinion piece by Paul Krugman of the New York Times that I thought was an interesting read. While there, I also found Maureen Dowd’s piece, another interesting read. Admittedly, these pieces are biased against the current administration, but that’s all I have so far. Perhaps I’ll find more tonight. We’ll see.
Published on Wednesday 7th September 2005 .
I have purposely not posted about Katrina, New Orleans, the government response and Kanye West. Why should I? There are loads of commentary, news reports and other interesting clips and borig articles about the events during and since Katrina hit the coast.
About the only thing I can contribute to the discussion at this point is that the finger pointing should probably subside for the time being until a solid solution is put in place to solve the numerous problems that have surfaced since Katrina came barging in on our country. So, if you would like to help, do so, but carefully.
No need to donate to that strange voice that called during dinner soliciting donations for the Red Cross. He doesn’t work for them, and the Red Cross doesn’t do things that way. You can donate at various official donation sites online.
Don’t drive down to Louisina thinking you can just jump right in and help. Your being there may just cause more trouble if you don’t know what you’re doing or don’t know how to help. Volunteer at a local chapter of the Red Cross. They need help, too. There is a lot of confusion right now, and a few heads may need some clearing in order to better organize the efforts to more efficiently help those in need.
And a few things to keep in mind: while Katrina is the "disaster of the moment," don’t forget that other disasters have happened, future disasters will happen, and there will always be people in need. If you donate money to an organization, don’t get so upset if some money that has been donated since Katrina goes to other relief efforts. Call me naive, but legitimate relief organizations aren’t out there to rip you off when you donate. They take your donation and put it to work helping those in need, whether it is Katrina survivors, tsunami survivors, or the homeless on lower Wacker. How do you draw the line on who is worthy of help and who isn’t?
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