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I finally got around to my backlog of genealogy changes that people have sent. Thanks for the info, always nice to hear from relatives no matter how distant. Over 1000 surnames now, and I'm closing in on 6000 entries in my little database. Is there anyone you know listed?
A new addition to my collection of cube guardians. Enter at your own peril!
Get your own Ammo!
An iTunes meme as mentioned by Emily Hambridge:
How many total songs?
1061 songs, equal to 3.7 days or 5.03 GB.
Sort by song title - first and last?
First: "...On The Radio (Remember The Days)" by Nelly Furtado
Last: "Zak And Sara" by Ben Folds
Sort by time - shortest and longest?
Shortest: "Losers" (0:09) by Moxy Früvous
Longest: "Do You Feel Like We Do" (13:54) by Peter Frampton
Sort by Album - first and last?
First: "8 Mile" by Eminem
Last: "You Will Go To The Moon" by Moxy Früvous
Sort by Artist - first and last?
First: 3 Doors Down
Last: Yes
Top five played songs?
"Protection" - Ben Folds
"Mad World" - Gary Jules
"Jesus On the Radio (Daddy On the Phone)" - Guster
"Hide and Seek" - Imogen Heap
"Have You Got It In You?" - Imogen Heap
Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 2
Death: 1
Love: 68
You: 149
Home: 5
Boy: 17
Girl: 11
I'm going to have to stop reading Katherine Koble's blog. I've made a point to try and curtail politically oriented posts because I can't see that it does any good. The people that agree will say "right on!" and those that don't will say "you're an idiot". And what was really accomplished? Oh well I'm posting this anyway. It all started as a comment I was going to make in response to this post...
I find the apathy towards the government spying on it's citizenry interesting. There are plenty of folks that don't seem to care, and the thinking is usually, hey I'm not doing anything wrong, nothing to hide, snoop around all you want. Seems reasonable. But then I wonder, what if our government tried different means, but achieving the same ends...
...let's says roving government officials were allowed by law to peer into your windows? Perhaps with an innocuous sounding name like, oh, The SS The Patriot Patrol... or PP for short. Would the same people still feel the same apathy? I'm sure some would.
Perhaps the PP might eventually be allowed to expand their activities in the name of patriotism. Maybe they could conduct random searches of you, your property, your past for any potential unpatriotic terrorist activity? There is already a precedent of sorts if you liken it to a tax audit. Doesn't seem such much of a stretch to me. They'd probably give this process a name like Patriot Audit. Not quite so innocuous, but the word Patriot is in there so it would be tough to beat.
Oh! You know what would be really good. Perhaps if we educated the nations youth to report any suspicious unpatriotic behavior to the nice PP. We can reward the kids with little Happy Meal like toys call 'em, I dunno, Patriot Prizes. Maybe a "My kid put a terrorist in Gitmo" bumper sticker for the grown ups? Mister PP, my daddy said the President is a derfwad! What's a derfwad mister? This program sounds great and I bet it would keep us all ever so safe. And who could oppose an idea with a catchy name like the Patriot Kids? It's patriotic and it's about kids?! No politician would dare oppose it!
Yeah so I'm taking this too extremes. Lord knows the government is loathe to expand or abuse it's authority. Me, I'm kinda partial to the Fourth Amendment, It's a shame the guys that came up with that didn't have the foresight to give it a catchy patriotic name so it would appeal to the masses.
Are you a fan of those old Infocom games such as Zork, Starcross, Planetfall, etc? You might enjoy this... unless you are also a fan of President and his handling of the war in Iraq.
Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
I've received blessing from work to set up a little closed beta for my latest project. It's actually more of a preview. Beta implies that the feature set is frozen, and I'm really only about 2/3 of the way along.
Here's the deal: I'm writing a little app that can monitor various events such as PowerMate and AirClick signals, hot keys, itunes, etc and execute a task in response to these events. The tasks include things like executing an AppleScript, simulating a key press, presenting an on screen message, writing to a file, and so forth. And I'm looking for a little feedback. So if you have a PowerMate or AirClick, or if you are a former ClipFiler user, or you're just naturally curious, then email me at casey@griffintechnology.com requesting access to the beta. Please let me know if you're using a PowerMate or AirClick, oh it might be helpful to know if you're in the Nashville area too.
This is a limited time offer! Act now! Supplies are limited! etc etc
Oh I forgot to mention, the software requires Mac OS X 10.4
This post from the Red Shed aka Jonathan Rentzsch aka Wolf proved an inescapable 15 minute diversion.
The idea is to Google your first name, prepending unfortunately.
First drunkenbatman considering the idea that Apple might someday incorporate a Growl-like notification system into Mac OS X and yet not living up to the expectations we all have for such beast.
And then, Todd Ditchendorf speculating that Dan Wood, creator of Watson and the as yet unreleased Sandvox, may be the Agrajag of Mac software developers.
Also, yesterday I noticed this article giving the odds of an official Bluetooth Apple remote debuting at MacWorld as 3-1. I'm guessing that wouldn't really help sales of the AirClick.
So anyway, we'll find out Tuesday who gets a reprieve and who doesn't. They say when one door closes another opens. Trouble is trying to get through the door before Apple notices.
Update: Dan Wood discusses his personal experiences dealing with Apple and the inspiration behind Karelia's new logo in this article.
This weather we are having lately confuses and frightens me. 70 degrees and it's January 4th. Looking at Ye Old Almanac, I see that today's temperature may very well be a record. Why we haven't seen temperatures like these since way back in... er... 1998 when it reached 69 degrees.
Now I really don't know the details of the whole global warming debate and today's data amounts to nothing more than a statistical blip. But thinking back about the odd weather over the past few years does tend to raise an eyebrow.
Still, it's hard to get too bent out of shape when it's gorgeous and sunny out when it should be cold, gray and miserable. I just hope it doesn't translate to 105-110 degree days come August.