Do I need professional help after admitting that I’m really, really looking forward to Tomb Raider?
(that was a rhetorical question.)
Month: June 2001 (Page 4 of 6)
I can’t ensure that your going to like Common Errors in English, but if not, I could care less.
Interesting historical note from the site: Eisenhower started the common practice or pronouncing it “nuk-yuh-lar,” so I guess GW has another President to blame – at least for this.
Is the United States really a better place now that Tim McVeigh has been executed?
Pop culture test: Do you know where my new ‘words mean things’ tagline (“…there is no try.”) comes from?
I am sitting in the computer lab at St. Norbert College in DePere, helping Business World high school students access their e-mail. (“Brittany does like me? Kewl!”) Judging from the past 24 hours, I probably won’t have a lot of time to post until I get back home Thursday night. My main comment from the first day and a half is, network administration is a bitch. (Wayne, you know what I’m talking about. Ack!) I was so tired when I got back to my room last night I didn’t even fire up the laptop theater for a DVD showing, which shows how tired I really was.
Why don’t computers just work?
Blogger doesn’t seem to want to publish my changes. Well, here goes……….
When I started freelancing, I bought an IBM Thinkpad i series laptop with the DVD drive. Beautiful machine, even if it does run Windows. I didn’t think I would have much use for the DVD capability, since I don’t travel a lot, and I already have a decent setup to watch DVDs the normal way. But I’m going to be gone most of next week to a business camp for high school kids, staying in an empty apartment without so much as a TV. So I connected the laptop to some small computer speakers I had and fired up “Toy Story 2” just to test the old boy out.
I can’t tell you how cool it is to watch the Toy Story 2 outtakes on a laptop screen. I’m looking forward to this week.
Now that Anil has apologized to Walt, and Deborah Branscum and Dave Winer have weighed in on the subject, the implications of Microsoft’s latest stab at world domination have started to sink in for me. I don’t know about my fellow webloggers, but I decide what my pages say. I decide what words are linked and where they go – no one else. If not, what’s the point of self-publishing? I actually cheered for Internet Explorer to blot out Netscape, so web design would get easier. Now we begin to see the real effects of a monopoly.
What if Microsoft decides to replace text on your web page with ads? What if content filters built into IE9 block your site from view because it has ‘objectionable’ content? This stuff gets scary.
“The power of the printing press belongs solely to those who own the presses.”
-A.J. Leibling
I’m proud to say that I’ve convinced my friend Amanda to begin a weblog, using Blogger and BlogSpot. (Whether we will be friends for long remains to be seen, considering the recent lack of reliability of these two amazing, free, infuriating services.) There’s only one post there now, but watch out for her once she gets going.
And my friend Kevin has (temporarily?) renamed his weblog, based on a conversation we had last night about ice cream. I’ll let you fill in the details yourself.