Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Yahoo! just upgraded their "my.Yahoo" portion to a new beta version. It adds syndication feed modules to your my.Yahoo page. I like it.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
8:07:00 PM
Sunday, September 26, 2004
I just signed up for
DSL from Earthlink. Is this a good idea or not? I noticed that I was still signed up for dial-up. They also say on their FAQ that I will keep my email addresses from the dial-up. Is that true? Anyone know?
Labels: computing, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
1:24:00 AM
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Another Friday night at the movies this time to see Julianne Moore in The Forgotten. A very strange choice of a role for the always great acting Ms. Moore. I never knew her to choose doing a science fiction flick, but then a quarter of the way into the movie that is what it became. It was billed as a thriller, but don't buy that line. It is straight out of a Twilight Zone episode being investigated by Mulder and Scully from the X-Files. Ms. Moore does an excellent job at being perplexed, but her acting reminded me of the coked out scene in Boogie Nights: hysterical, paranoid, and slightly crazy. The ending was predictable by the time you knew that she wasn't crazy. It is THEM we must be afraid of, and THEY are here. Cue Twilight Zone theme. Cue the X-Files theme.
3 of 5 stars.
Labels: movies, NewsRadio quote, review
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
3:19:00 PM
The NFL season is only a couple of weeks old and it looks like a long season for my favored team,
Tampa Bay Bucs. Their offense stinks. The defense still formidable, but getting slower and slower each year. And the front office seems to be a mess with the ousting of one of the principle architects of Tampa's revival, GM Rich McKay.
I don't know what to think. I loved them as the lovable losers in the late eighties and early nineties. Cheered them on when Coach Dungy turned the sinking ship around in the mid and late nineties. He made them a contender almost every year. Was ecstatic when they won the Super Bowl in 2003. But lately, I am puzzled on their direction. They released John Lynch and Warren Sapp, stalwarts of the defense even if they were aging and on the decline. Their offense even under Dungy sucked, and it still sucks. Why can't Coach Gruden get this thing to work correctly?
Perhaps, I have had it good for so long with this team that when the going gets rough I want to get off their bandwagon. Not me. Not for this lovable team. Go Bucs!
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
3:01:00 PM
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
I am posting the first of
my homework assignments here on my blog, because I don't want to lose it in email.
The Process Patterns Resource Page offers the student and practitoners of software engineering a central repository of online links to sites that focus on process patterns. It is maintained by Scott Ambler a major proponent and developer of process patterns. At the site, one is informed of Scott Ambler's two books that deal with process patterns, Process Patterns, Building Large-scale systems using object technology and More Process Patters, Delivering Large-scale systems using object technology. Along with links, Ambler includes a brief overview of process patterns via an abbreviated FAQ, frequently asked questions. The FAQ answers, "What are process patterns," "what is the history of process patterns," and "what types of process patterns exist?" He also instructs users on how to document a process pattern in the similar manner as documenting design patterns. Overall, the Process Patterns Resource Page, is a good starting point for researching process patterns.
Since the main focus of The Process Patterns Resource Page is to aggregate links to other sites about process patterns, the sites that it links to are of special interest to software engineers and students when they visit this site. As communication is the primary facet of a process framework, then what can be more important than communication amongst peers? In fact, each link gives access to more information about process patterns. For example, Ambler includes a
link to a
white paper (PDF) on process patterns which he wrote. This gives a more in depth introduction to process patterns. Another example is a
link to online library which categorizes all types of patterns including process patterns. Lastly, an important link in the pattern ecology is the
Portland Pattern Repository. Another library of patterns, but this time in the form of a wiki, a self-organizing online discussion board. It is a good place for software engineers to interact in a continuous dialogue with peers. There are many links which can be explored in order to learn more about patterns.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:07:00 PM
The Amazing Race is over. What is there to watch? Anyone have any suggestions? Especially with the new season. Maybe
these guys can help.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:11:00 PM
The Amazing Race ended tonight on their two hour race finale. Hopefully, this post is set for the future and you won't read it until it has aired in your time zone. SPOILER ALERT!!
Congratulations to
Chip & Kim! They proved the old adage that slow and steady wins the race, the turtle beats the hare. They got some luck in finding that the teams ahead of them were on a delayed flight. Took advantage of that good bit of fortune and won it all in Texas. Sorry to
Colin & Christie. You guys were unstoppable, but lucked out in the end.
I can't wait til season 6.
Labels: Amazing Race, boobtube, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
2:05:00 AM
Monday, September 20, 2004
Caught an early evening showing of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow last friday.
Jason Kottke sums up my feelings on it. Technically good, but the story and the emotions were not here, and it left me somewhat cold. Also, it put my mom and my brother to sleep.
3 of 5 stars.
Labels: movies, NewsRadio quote, review
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:59:00 AM
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Yarrgh! Avast me mateys! Today's the day when we
talk like a pirate. Yarrrgh. If ye don't want to visit Davey Jones' locker, ye best start talking like a pirate.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
8:54:00 AM
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
The
previous post had a link to NY Times web site. The Times has policy where after 2 weeks theire online articles go down the memory hole into a paid archive repository. Suppesedly, this
nifty site provides a way for you access to the articles for forever. Check back in a couple of weeks to see if
this post can still access the
article.
Labels: geeked, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:33:00 PM
An article from NYTimes (reg req'd) about
30 minute meals. No not Racheal Ray, but the need for those who do the cooking to provide something other than leftovers at each meal. I need to learn how to cook. I would love to cook my own dinners. Maybe help me get a girlfriend.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:29:00 PM
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
I have told you of my
fondness for CBS's reality series, The Amazing Race. I have it TiVo'd, but still watch it live. Well, they are concluding this season next week with a two hour finally.
Today's episode had them visiting the
motherland. They rode in
jeepneys and pushed around caribous. There are only four teams left, and today was the final non-elimination leg of the race. Next week we find out who wins. I am rooting for Chip and Kim, but actually think the Bowling Moms may squeek by. That Colin dude needs some anger management courses or he may eventually beat up his girlfriend and teammate, Christie. As for the Lord's team, they look like they may finish in the middle of the pack. Not bad, but not millionaires in the end.
I hope you watch the season finale.
Labels: Amazing Race, boobtube, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:51:00 PM
A
blog from a NY escort. Is she for real? Don't know, but I am sure that this will titillate someone. Enjoy.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
8:41:00 PM
A superb
write up about the many new features found in BBEdit 8. What are you waiting for? The cost got you down. Check out the hint at the end of the article to get it for what seems like a song.
Labels: apps, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
4:11:00 PM
Monday, September 13, 2004
I just started
graduate school last week. I am concentrating on Software Engineering. Hopefully, I will post more often about software engineering topics. I can talk for days on end about it, but I find it hard to write about out. I usually converse with coworkers about software engineering principles, and I am sure they are as tired of my myriad observations, so that going to school should help in giving me another outlet for my rants.
Labels: NewsRadio quote, school, software development
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:02:00 PM
This excerpt from
'Cane Mutiny has me wanting to go down to the local
Barnes and Noble and grab me a copy. Go 'Canes!"
Labels: football, NewsRadio quote, sports, the U
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
8:52:00 PM
Sunday, September 12, 2004
The 2004 NFL season started this week how' my team,
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, do? Playing at Washington, they turned in a pathetic offensive performance and lost
16-10. This team is now fully Coach Gruden's team, and as a "offensive genius," his teams have been lacking on offensive production. That has been excluding the Super Bowl run of 2002.
The hometeam,
Baltimore Ravens, turned in an even worst offensive performance and an even more surprising terrible defensive performance by losing to the Clevelend Browns,
20-3. Brian Billick is another "offensive genius" and his teams have always been known for there stout defense.
Notice a pattern? When the coach has been labeled an "offensive genius," then they don't produce in that phase of the game. It reminds me of Wile E. Coyote labeling himself as a "super genius." What a misnomer!
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
5:12:00 PM
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Jason Kottke has some interesting
scuttlebutt on Ken Jennings, the unstoppable Jepoardy champ. Check it out if you want to find out if he's lost yet. I can't vouch for the rumor, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:17:00 PM
Sad news to report for this
month, but News Radio is gone from the Biography Channel. Shame on them. Now my Tivo has nothing to record. I am depressed.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:00:00 PM
Monday, September 06, 2004
If you love watching movies in theatres and you have an
AMC Theatre near you, then you should think about joining their
Movie Watcher club. You get rewarded for watching movies with popcorn, soda, and eventually a free night at the movies (free tix and snacks). I already have 10 points, but that does not include points earned for the few movies I had watched before I had received my card.
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
7:08:00 PM
The new season of
Jeopardy started today. Let's see how much farther Ken Jennings can continue his winning streak. As of today, he stands at 38 straight wins and $1.38 million in winnings.
Update: Another season and again he rules. When will he be kicked out?
Labels: NewsRadio quote, who's this guy?, winners
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
7:01:00 PM
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Napolean Dynamite. This has been playing for weeks at the local theatre. I had to see it before it is gone. Napolean Dynamite is another
indy movie living small this time about high school students in Idaho. The main character looks funny always with his eyes closed and sporting a white man's 'fro. This is another slice of life about weird people. I did not find it very funny, but the cute girls behind us were laughing, which caused me to laugh too. Indy film could've been better.
2 of 5 stars.
Labels: movies, NewsRadio quote, review
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:14:00 PM
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Will Saletan in
Slate gives you one more reason not to vote for Bush in 04,
he hasn't done anything constructive. If he is re-elected, Bush promises to do the things he had promised to do four years ago. Again,
what exactly do you do here?
(I am running out of News Radio quotes. If you know of a good site, leave the URL in the comments.)
Labels: NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
1:55:00 AM
Friday, September 03, 2004
Tonight, continuing with my quixotic quest to see as many movies this summer, I caught
Wicker Park. Whoever did the marketing of this movie should never be entrusted again with that job in Hollywood. I had seen the trailers and the commercials expecting another psycho, obsessed woman movie. Yet, it wasn't like that at all. Yes, there seemed to be a pyschotic, love obsessed woman, but was she really. The marketing had it all wrong, and I haven't been pleasantly surprised by a movie this year until now.
This movie begins with the cliched "love at first sight," moves to blissful love, then evolves towards obsession. Josh Hartnett's character follows that trajectory. But does he? Is his obsession to find the girl that was the one an example of a maniacal mind? Why is he so obsessed with finding her? Then the "crazy" girl is introduced, and we find out that she too follows the same trajectory. But does she? Is her obsession for Hartnett's character an example of a craze, obsessed woman? Why is she obsessed with him? The movie answers these questions in an interesting way. Twisting the story this way. Flashing back to tell the story with a dash of
Roshomon-like tale. It is hard to pin point, but was amusing to watch unravel on the screen.
By the end of the movie, we see that both character's followed the same path, but one's obsession was real and was pay back with a deserving end, and the other's was hopeless and heartbreaking. Do you believe in love at first sight?
4 of 5 stars.
Labels: movies, NewsRadio quote, review
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
11:54:00 PM
So. I made it through the President's speech without getting angry or upset. What struck me the most about it is that he is not the greatest of public speakers. Alright that has probably been said before. What also struck me is that he
smirks a lot. Should the president of the greatest nation display how immature he is on national TV? Let me echo
Brad DeLong in asking, "When will the grownup Republicans stand up and take control of their party?"
Labels: NewsRadio quote, wankers
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
1:45:00 AM
Thursday, September 02, 2004
The Republican National Convention wraps up tonight with the President's speech. I don't know about you, but it is very hard to keep from vomiting when listening to this guy speak. Yet, I must in order to know what to formulate counter arguments against fools that believe him to be the best thing since slice bread.
Labels: NewsRadio quote, wankers
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
9:56:00 PM
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Welcome to the first post of September or as I like to call it,
News Radio quote month here at
BrowserMetrics. Like I said before, I want to use this schtick to highlight the great mid-nineties show News Radio, and to help my writing/blogging.
What should the first post be? I'll make it about News Radio. If you don't know about it check out the entry
here on IMDB. Or read a fascinating article of the characters' inter-relationship
here (PDF) found at this site,
NewsRadioArt.com. Hopefully that will get you started on your quest to learn all about this great sitcom. And if you really want to see it, you can catch it on the
Bio Channel at 11:00 PM EST or check your local TV Guide for details.
(No this will not become a site dedicated to this show. Just want to throw a little appreciation its way.)
Labels: meta, NewsRadio quote
Posted by: SoNSo1 |
10:01:00 PM
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