Archive for January, 2004

Athletes and Guns

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

An interesting article on FOXNews.com - Views - Athletes and Guns discusses professional athletes. I never thought about it much before, but obviously they are far more apt to be a target for a crime.

Surfer Girl

Monday, January 26th, 2004

I figured FoxNews would have to run this story as well… frorm the the Associated Press — FOXNews.com - Top Stories - Shark-Bitten Surfer Girl Gets Prosthetic Arm. Ever since I had heard that she would return to surfing (and now has) I have been amazed. What a terrible thing to go through [...]

DVDRhelp

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

Thanks to recommendations from DVDRhelp.com, I used DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink and one other tool that I can’t remember right now (used to create an .iso image), I was able to make a copy of a DVD last night using my new DVD drive and an inexpensive 4x DVD R disc (25 for $25 [...]

DVD Format Guide

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

In researching getting some discs for my new computer DVD burner, I came across A Easy DVD Format Guide - DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD R, DVD RW & more! which essentially breaks down the different formats used in writing discs. My drive is supposedly a DVD R and DVD RW drive and as it turns [...]

Emissions Testing and My Truck

Monday, January 19th, 2004

The other day, my truck had to be tested for emissions for the first time. Needless to say, I was shocked that it had failed. Right before having the truck tested, Becky had gotten gas and I suspect that some excess vapors trying to escape from the full tank caused their fuel sniffer [...]

David Pollack and His Faith

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

ajc.comThis article about David Pollack of Georgia returning for his Senior year does not clearly articulate the sound bites I heard this morning that came out of his press conference. He was very passionate about happiness coming from God rather than money. The DJ’s on the station that played the clip then made [...]

Skip Caray Gets a Pace Maker

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

I found this article about the Braves’ Skip Caray feeling better after getting pacemaker. What I thought was going to be just about his health ended up talking about the situation with the TV broadcasting. I especially enjoyed the part that alluded to the Turner Executives who made the temporary switch to put [...]

Kudos to Kasper

Friday, January 9th, 2004

While looking for a content management system for my company’s team web-site, I stumbled across an open source product called Typo3. I doubt we’ll be using it as it looks to be a little more complex than what we need (requiring MySQL and other things on which to run). What interested me was [...]

SpamBayes Written in Python

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

About 6 months ago, I got my coworker, Lynn, hooked on a product called SpamBayes. I’ll bet he never realized that he was using another Python-based application.

Earthquakes in Georgia

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

This morning, I had a coworker say that he didn’t believe there had ever been an earthquake in Georgia. I recounted my story of the earthquake and mentioned that it was this past year. I found this Event teak Map which clearly indicates that it took place on April 29, 2003. It [...]