Entries from January 2004

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

Reporting vs. Publicity

Courtesy of : ” Remember, journalism is what somebody doesn't want you to print. Everything else is publicity. “ -Jim Hall, Beginning Reporting

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Better than beef fat…

[From my lavalife profile] My parents like to grill. Breakfast sausages. Pork chops. Hamburgers. Steaks. Hearty meats, fit for the hearty Mormon couple they are. In fact, they have a grill built into their counter. Underneath the grill, a mason jar collects fat drippings. When I went home for Christmas, I wanted to help out [...]

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Mark your calendars…

Courtesy of : 7:55p Spring 2004 Booksale The Wake County Public Libraries' annual fall booksale has been rescheduled for the Spring. Over 300,000 books will be available at this popular annual event. Location: Raleigh Office Supply Company 712 Tucker Street Raleigh, NC 27603 (near St. Mary's College) Hours: Thursday, March 25 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 [...]

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Nostalgia

Sigh. Sometimes I wax nostalgic for the fiscal conservatism of the Clinton presidency.. “President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts…Administration officials, including White House budget experts, said that the president would propose an increase of $15 million to $20 million for the coming fiscal year, [...]

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

More free audiobooks

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Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Free AudioBooks

I haven't tried any of these yet, but Audio Books For Free has, well, free audiobooks.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Bruce Horn interviewed by TidBITS

Bruce Horn, one of the co-founders of Marketocracy (the company I work for), was interviewed by Adam Engst, editor of TidBITS. The Mac at 20: An Interview with Bruce Horn ——————————————- by Adam C. Engst Twenty years of Macintosh. At this year's Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs played a version of the famous “1984″ ad that [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

A Visit From the FBI

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=215 [If its good enough for the FBI Computer Crime Squad, its good enough for you! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000U9H40/c4iorg -WK] By Scott Granneman Jan 21 2004 Well, it finally happened. Right before Christmas, I had a little visit from the FBI. That's right: an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation came to see me. He had [...]

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Ripping Audible.com's audiobooks to non-DRM MP3?

I lost my cell phone on the plane over the Christmas holidays. So I decided to buy a Treo 600, primarily because I wanted to listen to books-on-tape (purchased from Audible.com), without having to buy and carry yet another device in my pocket. Unfortunately, although Audible.com content plays on Mac OS X, and plays on [...]

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

Speaking of lesbians…

…my ex-girlfriend Robin accused me of being a lesbian. – I like Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge. – I wanted to buy a Honda Rebel motorcycle. – My “type” are tomboys. I like women with small breasts, short hair, muscles, traditionally “masculine” clothes such as jeans, workboots, leather jackets. (“Maggie”, the character played by Janine Turner [...]