I’m tired of posting about serious stuff.

by Pete on April 29, 2006

It’s Saturday, the sky is blue, and the sun is shining. The birds are chirping, and the squirrels are… well… doing whatever it is that squirrels do. Even though Thursday’s “I got new music” post doesn’t exactly qualify as serious (…)

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A bunch of new music

by Pete on April 27, 2006

As usual, having gone a month or two without any new music, I have been on something of a bender the last couple of days. Here’s a quick rundown of the new stuff: Wolfmother – Wolfmother Blackalicious – The Craft (…)

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Network Neutrality

by Pete on April 27, 2006

(Thanks to Matt, whose post yesterday brought this topic back to mind…) There has been a sudden burst of activity on the web in the last day or two regarding a vote yesterday in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (…)

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Another sure-fire solution from the “Getting Things Done” Dept.

by Pete on April 26, 2006

While driving to work this morning, I noticed that the local gas station had raised the price on their cheapest gas to $3.09 per gallon. Fortunately, President Bush has a plan to address this issue, as described in this Reuters (…)

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Fox in the White House

by Pete on April 26, 2006

My initial reaction to Fox News commentator Tony Snow being named as the new White House Press Secretary was, “And that’s different from being a Fox News commentator how?” However, the good people at ThinkProgress.org have been hard at work (…)

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Yes, more pop-ups, please

by Pete on April 25, 2006

Bruce Schneier has a post up on his site linking to a pretty interesting and entertaining article about some of the new security features in Vista. For any of you who do not know, Vista is Microsoft’s replacement for Windows (…)

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The Gays are coming! The Gays are coming!

by Pete on April 24, 2006

Let’s see… Congressional elections coming up… what sorts of issues are facing the country? Well, among others, we have: Escalating chaos in Iraq with no end in sight Spiraling budget deficits Vast segments of the population with no meaningful access (…)

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Sunday geekery

by Pete on April 23, 2006

Tired of dealing with my own site after several days’ worth of fiddling with it, I spent the better part of today playing around with Hula. It’s a mail/calendar server project based on Novell’s NetMail code, which they open-sourced a (…)

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I still don’t like the banner image.

by Pete on April 22, 2006

I like it better than the old one, mind you, but only because I changed the layout. That being said, the sun shining through the clouds over the Catskills looks way too much like some relgious/inspirational/god thing, which is absolutely (…)

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Still more site odds and ends

by Pete on April 22, 2006

Still haven’t fixed the comment scrollbar problem, but thanks to generally rainy, crappy day, I managed to get the banner image switched in spite of my general ineptitude when it comes to image manipulation. I also changed the post formatting (…)

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