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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
-- Colette
Posted on August 27, 2006 at 08:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Moneydance for Mac? 2006
Hey, anyone have an opinion on Moneydance? I'm finding that even after all this time my Quicken-soaked brain has never adapted to Budget and I need to go back to something a little more like how Quicken used to be back when it wasn't a buggy piece of crap.
Seems like since I don't go to the beach that often, the apparent increased risk of zombie attacks isn't enough to scare me off giving Moneydance a try.
Posted on August 20, 2006 at 07:33 PM in tools | Permalink | Comments (2)
LaLa? Is that really you? 2006
Something looks wrong about this message on LaLa saying my credit card is out of date.
I don't trust it. That card isn't expired and I know it's good.
I'll wait a day and see if it turns out to be a hack. Anyone else seeing that message?
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Turns out it was an error, but it was their error. The bad design which gave the whole experience a phishy quality was, alas, also their error.
Posted on August 9, 2006 at 07:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
More linky goodness from Uncle Larry & unearthed doing research for an upcoming first trip to Japan (!):
Nasrallah and the three Lebanons
Many in the Arab world are blaming the Lebanese for being so disunited and for not rallying en masse behind Hezbollah and its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah. These divisions are strange for those who do not know Lebanon: there are in essence three Lebanons, each with its own history, objectives, alliances and leaders.
Moresukine, a weekly web comic blog from Tokyo from the first half of 2006.
Posted on August 5, 2006 at 01:52 PM in Current Affairs, travel | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday laziness 2006
The problem with wearing a pedometer is you can tell just exactly how little exercise you're getting. I've had a very relaxing morning and did take care of a couple little things - tidying up a bit, replacing the broken faceplate on a switch - but mostly I sat on the couch and wandered the web.
Which brings me to 1pm: 486 steps.
And Alaina ran 8 miles.
*sigh* My habits must change.
Posted on August 5, 2006 at 01:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
OK Go go go, baby! 2006
Thanks to Charles and Jay for turning me on to OK Go. Hey! This is cool!
Posted on August 5, 2006 at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)
Wow, this software really does sophisticated analysis 2006
Found in my LaLa "To Ship" reminders:
P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture & Other Musical Ass
That's about the size of it, all right.
Posted on August 3, 2006 at 05:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
By and large, the news is pretty cruddy.
The state of Florida proves itself irrational with a piece of legislation to require that history be taught as pure fact and not as something with nuances of interpretation. As part of an education bill signed into law by Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida has declared that "American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed." How interesting that Jackson County, Florida, tried to ban the book 1984 in the year 1981. They said their reasons were that it was "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter" but really - given the weakness of that claim - one has to wonder if some of the challengers of the book are still around looking to open their own Ministry of Truth... "nytimes 17.3.07 bush speech malreported iraq rectify", eh? "All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."
In "The Destabilization Game" about U.S. & Russian relations and the larger strategies of the Bush administrations, along with a grim and well-referenced summation of the intential tipping the boat being done by these gamblers, we encounter this quote ‘I am convinced that dialogue and not isolation of one or another state is what leads to resolution of crises' and it's depressing to note that it's Putin giving an opposing view to that of our President.
O, Israel and Lebanon, what have you done to yourselves? "...three dozen of the dead were children..." I hear on the radio and my heart cracks. Self-defense? Or collective punishment? Whatever it is, it sucks and I wish it would stop.
*sigh*
At least there's a good article about Wikipedia in the New Yorker.
Posted on August 2, 2006 at 10:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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