Archive for October, 2005
Sunday, October 9th, 2005
USATODAY.com - Astros edge Braves in longest playoff game in history
I watched most of this game today (short of the 45 minute nap during the fifth inning!). Call me a goofy optimist, but I think this helps the Cardinals. Both the Astros and the Braves just looked wiped by the ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
It's been very interesting to look back at some of the previous entries here in the past few days. I've taken to looking back at any entries in the archives for the current day. So much of what has been written and pointed to here still rings very true even ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
The Cardinals seem to be right on track to win the NLDS series with the Padres. The relative lack of offense is a bit troubling, but they managed to manufacture runs in last night's win, and to capitalize on the mistakes of the Padres. It almost seemed that mentally, Mark ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
St. Louis Cardinals : News : St. Louis Cardinals News
This day in Cardinals postseason history: Oct. 5, 1926, brought the first World Series played in St. Louis. Jesse Haines went the distance for the Cardinals in a 4-0 win over the Yankees in Game 3 of the Fall Classic. Haines ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
Aside from watching the playoffs this evening, I'm writing an article for my dad's site, GeekTime Linux. This is a very small, very quick and very useful project I pulled together this week: using Linux and GMail to spam-filter your email. It uses procmail and fetchmail to forward email from ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
I'm sure you've noticed the calendar in the right sidebar of CodeMode. What you probably didn't notice is that it's a great little AJAX-based plugin for WordPress, the LiveCalendar plugin. AJAX makes it possible to reload the calendar without reloading the entire page. It also picked up all the entries ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
I've read several analyses of the joint announcement by Google and Sun yesterday that they would "promote and distribute jointly each other’s products." [Times Online]. No one really seems to know how to interpret the annoucement, and the analyses are all over the map. There's this, for instance:
Google and ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
If you're a Linux Journal subscriber, you already know two things. 1) I've been a reasonably frequent contributor to LJ over the past several years, though the output has slowed considerably and, 2) this is the last edition under the direction of Don Marti. Don's leaving the magazine to re-enter ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
This, from CNN, strikes me as typical of the Bush White House:
Miers, 60, who has never been a judge, was the first woman to serve as president of the State Bar of Texas and Dallas Bar Association. She also was a member of the Dallas City Council.
More recently, Miers ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Since I've been working in an office again for about the past year, this strikes me as very funny. I've actually heard several of these phrases in the office.
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Beepilepsy ...
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