Archive for May, 2006
The $2 tie
I usually go to the gym in the morning before work, so I don’t bother putting on a tie. I just bring it with me and put it on when I’m dressing up after the workout. But today, for the first time since I started this job, I forgot to bring a tie.
I […]
Pence says he is off the 2007 ticket for Lt. Governor
Our sitting Lt. Governor, Steve Pence, announced today that he’s not going to stand for re-election in 2007. The Governor has indicated repeatedly his intention to run in 2007, which means he now has to find a new running mate for that election.
Political junkies will have a field day with this. There’s so […]
EOnline hasn’t turned off dynamic StoryServer pages
E!Online has not turned off the feature in their Web publishing system that dynamically generates pages. In other words, it appears that somebody from a public url can force the EOnline system to dynamically generate a page instead of pulling the cached version of the page. That means it’s sucking up cycles from […]
When are the Beatles going to put their music online?
The last two years there’s been a Beatles fan festival held here in Louisville called Abbey Road on the River. I went both last year and this year, and I’m definitely planning to come back next year as well. It’s a great chance to get outside, listen to some bands playing familiar […]
‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ is okay but not great
Went to the midnight showing last night, or rather early this morning, for X-Men: The Last Stand. And while I was definitely entertained, it wasn’t quite up to the high standards set by the first two films.
I think the biggest problem for me was that there were simply too many mutants introduced in the film. […]
Open source to be a serious rival for Oracle?
Oracle continues to dominate the database market, but two research firms think open source alternatives are poised to be a major challenge to the market leader. The analysts are from IDC and Gartner, so anything they say has to be taken with a major grain of salt. Still I don’t think Oracle can […]
CNET executive joins Yahoo
Wow this has to be a big blow to CNET–Vince Broady is leaving to join Yahoo. Broady is the guy who co-founded Gamespot.com, and helped it become one of the big growth engines for CNET.
It’s becoming something of a pattern, Yahoo stealing away senior management talent from CNET. Dan Rosensweig, their COO, came […]
Voyager II about to exit the solar system
The Voyager II space probe is about to hit the outer limit of the sun’s heliosphere. When it crosses it will be bombarded by interstellar gas instead of the solar gases and particles it encounters inside the heliosphere.
I’m old enough to remember watching on TV when the Voyager I and II probes would transmit […]
Hope there’s nothing to this stock option issue at CNET
I saw that CNET has launched an internal probe into some past stock options grants. Apparently CNET was one of the companies identified as having some stock option grants that were suspiciously timed in terms of having strike prices at or near 40-day lows. The notion being that there may have been some […]
The Chevy Trailblazer has some weirdly-designed controls and amenities
I rented a Chevy Trailblazer this past weekend for a little road-trip. Over the course of 24 hours I drove it about 7 hours, mostly highway with some city and stop-and-go traffic thrown into the mix. While I thought the roominess and power were pretty good, I found some of the controls a […]