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Thursday, November 28, 2002
A few weeks ago, my laptop went on the blink. It stopped booting to Windows 98. Sometimes you could boot it to 'safe mode,' sometimes you could boot it to DOS. I was too busy with the rest of my life to mess with it, so I let it sit. Last night I finally got around to messing with it and discovered that the problem had zero to do with my hard drive (nice little IBM Travelstar) and 100% to do with what a crappy OS Windows 98 happens to be. I've thought about going with Linux on that laptop, but I'm fairly happy with my Windows 2000 install at work, so I decided to go with that at home too.
So I installed Win2k w/o deleting any of my Win98 stuff, the idea being that now I can back all the Win98 stuff off to CD and then do a clean install of Win2k. So that's where I am now, in the middle of the CD archiving process. And I have to say that I'm already enjoying Win2k more than Win98. For one thing, it hasn't crashed on me yet (imagine that, a whole evening w/o a crash). And I was really happy at how quickly it picked up my PCMCIA USB2 hub and my external USB2 CD-R/W (which was always sketchy with Win98).
I've probably mentioned it before, but EnZip is a great freeware zip utility for Windows. Nice contextual menus make it easy to right-click-and-zip any file. Fast and clean. Worth a look.
Educators would do well to remember that kids have first amendment rights, too.
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A few weeks ago, my laptop went on the blink. It stopped booting to Windows 98. Sometimes you could boot it to 'safe mode,' sometimes you could boot it to DOS. I was too busy with the rest of my life to mess with it, so I let it sit. Last night I finally got around to messing with it and discovered that the problem had zero to do with my hard drive (nice little IBM Travelstar) and 100% to do with what a crappy OS Windows 98 happens to be. I've thought about going with Linux on that laptop, but I'm fairly happy with my Windows 2000 install at work, so I decided to go with that at home too.
So I installed Win2k w/o deleting any of my Win98 stuff, the idea being that now I can back all the Win98 stuff off to CD and then do a clean install of Win2k. So that's where I am now, in the middle of the CD archiving process. And I have to say that I'm already enjoying Win2k more than Win98. For one thing, it hasn't crashed on me yet (imagine that, a whole evening w/o a crash). And I was really happy at how quickly it picked up my PCMCIA USB2 hub and my external USB2 CD-R/W (which was always sketchy with Win98).
I've probably mentioned it before, but EnZip is a great freeware zip utility for Windows. Nice contextual menus make it easy to right-click-and-zip any file. Fast and clean. Worth a look.
Educators would do well to remember that kids have first amendment rights, too.
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Monday, November 25, 2002
I finally saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone this past week. So now I can fully thumb my nose at the philistines who've branded it a 'dangerous' movie (or here) that we should keep our kids away from. It's a nice, imaginative fantasy movie. The special effects are pretty good. The kids are charming. Good triumphs over evil. Virtue is rewarded. And, even though it truly is a kiddie movie, it's fairly entertaining for adults.
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I finally saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone this past week. So now I can fully thumb my nose at the philistines who've branded it a 'dangerous' movie (or here) that we should keep our kids away from. It's a nice, imaginative fantasy movie. The special effects are pretty good. The kids are charming. Good triumphs over evil. Virtue is rewarded. And, even though it truly is a kiddie movie, it's fairly entertaining for adults.
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Friday, November 15, 2002
jimformation redesigns again (looking great).
Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the abacus
Years ago, I discovered Danny Yee's book reviews and I recently stumbled across them again.
SmartWebby, despite the stupid name, has some great development resources and SearchEngineWatch has everything you need to know about, well, search engines.
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jimformation redesigns again (looking great).
Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the abacus
Years ago, I discovered Danny Yee's book reviews and I recently stumbled across them again.
SmartWebby, despite the stupid name, has some great development resources and SearchEngineWatch has everything you need to know about, well, search engines.
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Monday, November 11, 2002
Since is was Steve who turned me on to this whole blogging thing (and, for that matter, turned me on to this whole web design thing), it's not without some sadness that I say so long his blog, sjarvis.com. On the other hand, I'm happy that Steve has now launched kudzudesign.com to maintain his design portfolio and advertise his consulting work.
I am in Little Rock, Arkansas right now at a conference for the Southwest Association of Student Sponsored Programs (SWASAP). I've been here since Friday doing a lot of videography and tech support work, so I've been offline more than usual (right now I'm at the a public library, killing a little time before heading out to grab some pizza with Benny a great friend and great graphic designer who lives here).
I was too busy packing last Thursday to send a shout out to my father, who turned 85 years old on November 7 (he was born in 1917, on the day of the Bolshevik Revolution). Most people my age (32) have parents in their 50s, but my father was in his 50s when he adopted me as an infant. I always feel the need to explain this, as most people assume my father is my grandfather (and, things being what they are, that's a very logical assumption). Anyway, though pop gave up on media innovations about the time of the VCR, I'd still like to note his birthday here. It's fitting as well that today is Veteran's Day (though, to my Dad, it's still Armistice Day).
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Since is was Steve who turned me on to this whole blogging thing (and, for that matter, turned me on to this whole web design thing), it's not without some sadness that I say so long his blog, sjarvis.com. On the other hand, I'm happy that Steve has now launched kudzudesign.com to maintain his design portfolio and advertise his consulting work.
I am in Little Rock, Arkansas right now at a conference for the Southwest Association of Student Sponsored Programs (SWASAP). I've been here since Friday doing a lot of videography and tech support work, so I've been offline more than usual (right now I'm at the a public library, killing a little time before heading out to grab some pizza with Benny a great friend and great graphic designer who lives here).
I was too busy packing last Thursday to send a shout out to my father, who turned 85 years old on November 7 (he was born in 1917, on the day of the Bolshevik Revolution). Most people my age (32) have parents in their 50s, but my father was in his 50s when he adopted me as an infant. I always feel the need to explain this, as most people assume my father is my grandfather (and, things being what they are, that's a very logical assumption). Anyway, though pop gave up on media innovations about the time of the VCR, I'd still like to note his birthday here. It's fitting as well that today is Veteran's Day (though, to my Dad, it's still Armistice Day).
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Sunday, November 03, 2002
Caught Insomnia, Christopher Nolan's followup to Memento. Good stuff. Also recently saw (for the first time) Cool Hand Luke.
Looks like the Boy Scouts, in addition to not tolerating gay people in their ranks, are putting their foot down on atheists as well. It's been pointed out that the BSA are a private club, so they can exclude whomever they like. But I think the rest of us should call them on it the same way we'd call our presidents for joining exclusively white country clubs. There's nothing illegal about it, but it's morally reprehensible. Scouting was important to me as a kid. I'm sad to see what it's turning into (or, perhaps, what it always was).
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Caught Insomnia, Christopher Nolan's followup to Memento. Good stuff. Also recently saw (for the first time) Cool Hand Luke.
Looks like the Boy Scouts, in addition to not tolerating gay people in their ranks, are putting their foot down on atheists as well. It's been pointed out that the BSA are a private club, so they can exclude whomever they like. But I think the rest of us should call them on it the same way we'd call our presidents for joining exclusively white country clubs. There's nothing illegal about it, but it's morally reprehensible. Scouting was important to me as a kid. I'm sad to see what it's turning into (or, perhaps, what it always was).
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