Daily Archives: December 9, 2005

Just for me?

December 9, 2005 – 4:51 pm

I took a trip to the iTunes store today. I still buy a fair amount of music from there; typically to backfill collections that I just can’t find online, or in stores.
Anyhow, I noticed that today they’ve got a new (to me, anyway) item, “Just for You (beta)”, which suggests music you might like, [...]

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Tastes Great

December 9, 2005 – 3:54 pm

And del.icio.us is now part of Yahoo!. Maybe the Yahooligans can do something about the cutesy name, which is difficult to type, and parsable only if you are a DNS client, and are just moving bits. A domain called “icio.us”, with a host “del”. Sheesh.
Having been at home with XM radio, the [...]

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Monitor your congress people

December 9, 2005 – 3:40 pm

The Washington Post offers an RSS feed of the congressional and senatorial voting databases, by representative. Very cool, and enough to monitor what they’re doing, without getting mired in day-to-day details.
I’ve often thought that the House and Senate should be more responsive to their constituents; perhaps if they were, the Presidency would be of [...]

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Gotta buy me a Harley

December 9, 2005 – 1:06 pm

According to this place, my outlaw biker name is:
Ol’ Moose and I’m riding with the Satan’s Barbers MC.
Sturgis, here I come!
-k-

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Frosted Ice and Glazed Snow

December 9, 2005 – 6:12 am

Both of these phenomena can be experienced in a half-hour’s drive around here today.
Frosted ice = snow which has fallen on top of an ice/sleet bed.
Glazed snow = freezing rain which has fallen on top of a snow bed.
Yep, I made the terms up, but that’s what’s transpiring, and it means this old guy is [...]

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