Archive for November, 2006

Romomentum

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

My Cowboys won again today, with another impressive performance from Tony Romo. Somewhere in the tryptophan fog, I managed to watch all but the last few minutes of the game. I kept thinking about how vindicated Bill Parcells must feel, given that Jerry Jones was less than enthusiastic about replacing ...

Mobile CodeMode

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

If, like me, you follow blogs on a mobile device, you'll like one of the many changes to CodeMode. I've installed the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin by Alex King. It displays perfectly on the BlackBerry, though I've not checked it with other devices. No special URL needed - just visit ...

Alice’s Restaurant

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

It's hard to believe that after all these years on the planet, I've missed a significant Thanksgiving tradition - the non-stop play on radio of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. Sirius's The Vault channel is playing it all day long, both the original and a newer version. After two hours, it's ...

Live Blues

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

The Roadhouse will go live, sometime in mid-December on TPSRadio.net. This has actually been in the works for a few months or more, but I've had some difficulty configuring the Linux box to stream. In any event, the issues have pretty much been worked out, and I'll be producing a ...

Crime Wave in Iowa City

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Quite the crime-ridden city I live in. According to police reports, Matthew Paul Weldon, 20, of Oak Brook, Ill., took a Hostess snack cake into a restroom just before 12:30 a.m. at the HandiMart at 204 N. Dubuque St. and ate it. When asked to pay the 79 cents cost of ...

… Couldn’t Shoot Straight

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

According to the New York Times, the Bush administration has made documents public that may serve as a roadmap for building nuclear weapons. The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what ...

Because

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006