Archive for February, 2007
CompUSA closing half its stores, Louisville stays open for now
CompUSA just announced they’re closing over half their stores. Though apparently the one in Louisville is spared for now.
I bet it’s the Internet–the very tech geeks they cater to are the ones most likely to be getting their tech fixes from e-commerce sites. I know I’ve bought more this past year from Woot.com than from CompUSA.
It’s […]
I know where I’ll be Christmas Day 2008
Apparently Paramount has confirmed a Christmas 2008 release for the next Star Trek movie. J.J. Abrams, who directed MI:III, is at the helm. Which is why I’m excited and plan on being in line opening day.
MI:III was far and away the best of the Mission Impossible movies. Hopefully Abrams can bring some of that magic […]
F-22 fighter jet felled by International Date Line
Scary and funny at the same time–the $125-million F-22 Raptor apparently has a glitch in its software that causes everything to crash when the plane crosses over the International Date Line. Apparently somewhere deep down in the code they forgot to account for the IDL.
Back many years ago, I briefly worked for Simmonds Precision Aerospace, […]
Eddie Murphy was robbed
At last night’s Academy Awards, Eddie Murphy got robbed. He should have won Best Supporting Actor for Dreamgirls, instead Alan Arkin won. Murphy probably has nobody to blame but himself though for the loss.
See the problem is Murphy released his dismal Norbit movie a few short weeks prior to the Oscars. Meaning anybody who was […]
The Internet has made film geeks even geekier
Now I admit I’m one of those people who sometimes gets bothered by continuity problems in a movie. That’s where something is inconsistent in a movie scene, enough that it irritates the viewer and breaks the suspension of disbelief.
One that always stood out to me was in Get Shorty, where John Travolta’s character drives […]
Whole Foods swallows up Wild Oats
The big get bigger–natural foods retailer Whole Foods has bought up one of their major competitors, Wild Oats. Which is a bummer because they’ll probably close the Wild Oats here in Louisville.
The Wild Oats is less than a half-mile from a Whole Foods, and the Whole Foods store has the better location of the two. It’s […]
Why can’t Italians hold on to a government?
What the heck is wrong with the Italians? Yet another government has collapsed over there. If I’m reading the State Department brief correctly, this was the 61st government in the 62-year period since World War II ended. They’ve basically changed governments every damned year.
I thought it was the Spanish who were supposed to be so temperamental […]
LDAP is a nightmare, even from a single vendor
So we have this Oracle Portal, secured by Oracle Single-Sign-On, which interfaces with Oracle Internet Directory, which is an LDAP-compliant directory service. So the entire software stack, except for the operating system (Windows), is a single vendor’s products. And yet, two of us have just spent the better part of a week figuring out how […]
Americans prefer homosexuals over atheists
With all the ugly noise the right-wing has stirred up around gay marriage and gays in the military, you might think gay people were the most reviled group in America. Apparently not, a recent Gallup poll found that about 55% of Americans claimed they might vote for a homosexual as president, but only 45% […]
The Wiimote batteries didn’t last very long
I’ve had my Nintendo Wii for about three weeks now, and last night I got an on-screen warning that the batteries in the Wiimote are dangerously low. If you figure I am playing perhaps 30 minutes a night, over about 22 days, that means 11 hours of usage.
That doesn’t seem like a lot. […]