18 Dec, 2006
South Park Season 10 Season Pass
When season 10 of South Park started, I purchased the Season Pass from the iTunes Store. Then when Comedy Central resumed South Park from its mid season break, the Season Pass didn't resume. Then when I looked at the entry in the iTunes Music Store, it listed a new 10B season South Park. I didn't feel like paying for this new season, especially since I thought I originally payed for the whole season.
Last week, I got this email from Apple. It seems that a lot of people were upset, so they gave the 10B season to anyone who purchased 10A. I think that this is a great for public relations.
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9 Dec, 2006
Charlie Brown Christmas performed by the cast of Scrubs
This is a pretty funny performance of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special performed by the cast of Scrubs.
[via TV Squad]
Technorati tags: Charlie Brown, Christmas Special, Scrubs
30 Nov, 2006
Top Ten Reasons To Be Thankful For Your Spouse!
This post has 10 reasons to be thank for your spouse. I am so grateful for my wife. Thank you sweetheart, for everything that you do. I love you.
Technorati tags: spouse, top ten
28 Nov, 2006
Goombah
I saw this post that mentioned Goombah. This is application is a "social networking" application for your music. This app will you let you network with people with similar tates in music.
Goombah looks at the contents of your iTunes library, and generates a list of similar music, and a list of other people who use Goombah with similar tastes. From these lists, you have the ability do purchase the tracks from iTunes.
Goobah also displays "Goobah's Free Music". This this is a collection of free music. Goombah uses bittorrent for the downloads, so they should be pretty fast.
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14 Nov, 2006
Google Groups suggestion
just moved a mailing list that I was running on mailman over to
Google Groups. There is one feature that I would love to see:
I would love the ability to import the archives of the mailman
mailing list, so that the members of the group only has to search in
one location to find an old post.
Technorati tags: Google Groups, mailman
12 Nov, 2006
Cool iSight trick
This page has a pretty cool iSight hack. It displays a little window with video from your iSight camera (essentially video of you.)
This is not really a security hole, as the video is local, and doesn't leave your computer.
[via digg]
Technorati tags: iSight, video
12 Nov, 2006
Code Monkey Video
A while ago, I wrote about the song Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton. A performance of this has been posted on YouTube. The next time he comes to the bay area, I hope we can go.
[via Jonathan Coulton's Blog]
Technorati tags: Code Monkey, Jonathan Coulton
8 Nov, 2006
Hacking Democracy
Last night, I watched Hacking Democracy. This movie documents, in several ways, how Diebold voting machines can be "hacked" in order to change the results of an election.
I think the US government should require a open and transparent audit of all electronic voting machines. Ideally, the software running on these machines would be required to be open source, so there would be complete transperancy to the code, but that is unlikely to happen
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7 Nov, 2006
Privacy taken too far
My company uses Blue Shield as our health insurance provider. I have been pretty unimpressed with them so far, especially compared to Great West, which we used at TiVo. The latest annoyance occurred this week.
You can access both processed and pending claims on the Blue Shield web site. I noticed that only a small subset of our claims were appearing. I sent them an email, and this was in their response:
We must be in compliance with privacy laws therefore you are only able to view your claims status on-line.
Each member of your family will need to register separately with a different username, password and their birthday in order to view their claim status.
So they want us to create an account for every one in the family, for privacy purpaces. The funny thing is that when they send the paper confirmations for each claim, they are all addressed to me, and not to each individual.
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7 Nov, 2006
Zero gravity water experiments
Boing Boing has a post that links to a video of an interesting experiments run by Don Pettit, on Expedition 6 to the International Space Station.
Technorati tags: Don Pettit, experiments, Expedition 6, Zero gravity
29 Oct, 2006
Daylight Saving Time
Last night I went around the house setting the time on the clocks, that don't automatically adjust, back an hour. I remember that every clock had to be adjusted manually. Then in college, I bought an VCR that automatically adjusted itself. At that time, Mac OS didn't automatically adjust for Daylight Saving Time. So, I wrote the Set Daylight appe to adjust the time. This was pretty easy to do, since the rules for the dates that the time adjustment occurred, were static. This was added to Mac OS 8, so it wasn't necessary anymore.
But now most electronics include support to automatically adjust for Daylight Saving Time. For example, TiVos, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux PCs, and PDAs will automatically adjust. Now that the days that Daylight Saving Time is changing, all of these devices have to be update in order for the time to be correct.
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30 Sep, 2006
Wait 'Till Next Year
I just watched the documentuary, "Wait 'Till Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs" on HBO. It brought back so many memories of my childhood.
- Watching or listening to the game on WGN channel 9 or WGN radio.
- Listening to Harry Carry announce the games and lead the 7th inning strech. (No one can sing Take Me Out To The Ball Game like Harry Carry.)
- Seeing the ivy at Wrigley Field on warm summer days
I really want to be able to take our kids to Wrigley Field to see a game.
Technorati tags: Chicago Cubs, Harry Carry, HBO, WGN, Wrigley Field
11 Sep, 2006
Chicago Skyline
1 Sep, 2006
Amazing optical illusion
This is an amazing optical illusion. It is very interesting how the brain sees images.
[via digg]
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