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"Macs are the shit," Jordan Ledy, a Columbia University freshamn,
said. "They're the easiest to use and Apple's interface is just so slick.
[By comparison] XP looks like Fisher-Price."
From a column in the
href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/22/4151217a51d97">Columbia
Daily Spectator
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Well, the new software is here. It's just a really ugly layout. It will be
fixed in time.
The web cam is still here,
you just can't see the preview right now.
Since MoveableType has switched to a paid model, and does not seem to have
improved on the way it handles commenting spam, I'm switching to a new
software to run this site. It should be online later tonight.
Webcam seems to be having its weekly problems today as well...
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I just deleted 103 spam comment posting from this site. All posted since
Saturday. Time to find new software for this thing.
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NBC should put that wuss Joe Rogan on the bench; or maybe send him down to
the minor leagues on some tame TV game show like "Weakest Link." (Is that
still on?) Fear Factor has a new primetime host.
Obviously, the new king of fear and fright is Vice President Dick
Cheney...
The VeeP made it sound loud and clear, earlier this week that we should be
afraid, especially if Americans pull the wrong lever (or dimple the wrong
chad) in November.
We're now at that point where we're making that kind of decision for
the next 30 or 40 years, and it's absolutely essential that eight weeks
from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice. Because if we make
the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again. That we'll
be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United
States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will,
that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that
we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for
us. (
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5037-2004Sep8?language=printer">WashingtonPost.com,
Sept. 8, 2004, apparently transcribed by the
href="http://www.fdch.com/">Federal Document Clearing House.)
While we're on the topic, Kathleen Parker, columnist for the Orlando
Sentinel, seems to be smoking something pretty good these days:
href="http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/opinion/9636509.htm">Media
overstates Cheney comments. Yeah, sure, overstated. A columnist who
ends a column with "what ain't broke is often best left unfixed" is one
about as unoriginal and uncompelling as I have ever read.
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Putting your thoughts down on paper, in the form of a diary, could be bad
for your health. Or, so some Brits say:
href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996374">Dear diary,
you make me sick.
I wonder what blogging does to your health, beside contribute to
repetitive-stress injury. And cause a diharea of obnoxious ads in comment
postings...
My car passed 30,000 miles a little over a week ago, and had its
respective checkup today (which cost too much -- though I did take it to a
nicer dealer service shop this time).
30,000 miles in 1,155 days (June 30, 2001 to Aug. 28, 2004) is an average
of 25.97 miles per day, which is a bit below the national average of
10,000 to 12,000 miles per year. I wonder how much time I've
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2537-2004Sep7.html">sat
in traffic in the car...
I know, I know -- I'm out of touch. But I just read about
href="http://www.mypetgoat.com/">mypetgoat.com and how the
href="http://www.ledgeofliberty.com/2004/06/mystery_of_the_.html">Mystery
of "The Pet Goat" [was] Revealed. The "Mystery Revealed" is what makes
blogs so great, we can all be journalists in our own little (or big) way.
At least not here on this site...