Archive for September, 2006
As I’ve mentioned, I spent the first 6 months of 2006 traveling the Pacific and the Middle East. I’ve been remiss in talking about what went on. And I think, this far removed from the action, I can discuss where I was and what I did. So, much in the vein of the last [ READ MORE ]
Apparently this YouTube vid caused Al Yankovic to cancel the world premeire of his video on AOL. It’s still awesome. I know people who refer to themselves as closet Weird Al fans… I’m a bit more overt, though I don’t acutally own any of his CDs. I used to have “In 3-D” and “Dare [ READ MORE ]
Link and Run: The Famicom controller clock wakes you up in (geeky) style — Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System) controller as alarm clock. I want one. [ READ MORE ]
Nintendo’s new console, Wii, has officially announced a ship date and a price. November 19th (just in time for Black Friday), $249.99. That price gets you one game (Wii Sports — Tennis, Boxing, Bowling, Golf, and Baseball), and one controller with the “Nunchuck” attachment. Mild disappointments: Personally, I’m not crazy about the bundled [ READ MORE ]
Announced by Christine, my webhostess. She’s sold Blogomania to Hosting Matters Inc. I find that a little disconcerting, as she was a Hosting Matters reseller in the first place… but I digress. She’s been living real life to the fullest lately, as she’s returned to college as a full-time student at 35, [ READ MORE ]
Marie let me knw (thanks!) that comments weren’t working. It was actually an archive problem, coming from my .htaccess file magically emptying-out. Gonna see if we can’t nip that in the bud. Commenting should work now. LMK if you still bomb out. [ READ MORE ]
From Wired: The ultimate blog post. A few sample headlines: Boing Boing: Crocheted replica of subway map cracks DRM on collection of old video games. Daily Kos: Bush caught in three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Little Green Footballs: Bush enjoys triumphant three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Slashdot: AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, [ READ MORE ]
My grandmother, Evelyn “Prill” Yarbrough Services for Evelyn ‘Prill’ Yarbrough, 88, of Toone, will be held at 11 A.M. Monday, September 4, 2006 at Toone Baptist Church with burial in Rainey Cemetery near Toone. Shackelford Funeral Directors of Bolivar were in charge of arrangements. She died Thursday, August 31 at Vanderbilt Medical Research Center in Nashville. The widow [ READ MORE ]
