Molly Ivins

January 31st, 2007 | 0 Comments | Politics |

The great colum­nist and author died of breast can­cer today at the far-too-young age of 62 today. She was smart, fiery, and loaded with com­mon sense. Go out and pick up one of her books if you don’t have some already, or check out some of her columns from the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. She kept […]

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When I See The 5:00 News…

January 27th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

I don’t wanna grow up. Thanx and a tip ‘o the hat to Drift­glass for this.

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Eat Pretzels

January 23rd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Food, Tech Stuff |

Wher­ever you are in our view­ing audi­ence, if you need a qual­ity salty snack check out Martin’s Pret­zels. And I’m not just say­ing that because I just fin­ished re-doing their web site. They make a ter­rific prod­uct, really hard, crunchy and salty.
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50 Worst People

January 20th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Comedy, Entertainment, Politics |

Buf­falobeast has pub­lished his annual “50 Most Loath­some Peo­ple” list for 2006, and as usual it’s hilar­i­ously snarky smack­down of crooks and hyp­ocrites that made the year what it was. Unlike sim­ple­ton rants like Bernie Goldberg’s “100 Peo­ple Who Are Screw­ing Up Amer­ica,” which right­fully should be reti­tled “The 100 Most Promi­nent Lib­er­als in Amer­ica, in More-Or-Less Ran­dom Order,” the Beast nails can­di­dates on all sides of the polit­i­cal spectrum.

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Spring Comes Early These Days

January 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Home |

I saw this yes­ter­day, bloom­ing along the walk­way to a St. George’s church on Ridge­wood here in Maple­wood. Jan­u­ary 15. No sign that it was a trans­plant, in fact other daf­fodils in the front yard were near bloom­ing as well. I have a cou­ple hun­dred of these early-blooming ones in my yard, and they’ve never bloomed ear­lier than mid-March. January 15 -- a blooming daffodil

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Firefox 2

January 14th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Ver­sion 2 of the Fire­fox web browser was released last month, and has some nice new fea­tures. I’ve been using FF for a cou­ple of years now, and only use IE if I absolutely have to. It’s best fea­ture in my opin­ion is the enhanced con­trol and secu­rity you get. No popup hells, for example. […]

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Further Thoughts on CubeCart

January 13th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

OK, so it doesn’t suck so much. At least it didn’t after I ponied up $29.95 for cus­tom instal­la­tion and a month’s tech­ni­cal sup­port. There’s noth­ing worse than hav­ing the ISP point their fin­ger at the soft­ware ven­dor, and the soft­ware ven­dor point­ing there’s right back at the ISP. What’s a web­mas­ter to do? I […]

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At Least I Ain’t Chicken!

January 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Politics |

I’ve got no idea what game this is, nor do I want to; but as Kung Fu Mon­key puts it, this “video sum­ma­rizes in two min­utes what’s it felt like watch­ing Bush for the last six years.” I’m not geek enough to under­stand it, but I get it.

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Checkbox Widget

January 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Here’s a javascript gizmo that makes check­boxes behave like radio but­tons. At least, in IE. It’s late, I’ll make it work in Fire­fox tomorrow…G’night.

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72°

January 6th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Home |

That’s the read­ing right now in beau­ti­ful Maple­wood, NJ. Accord­ing to weather​.com, it’s only 68° in Los Ange­les. So what did I see today? Con­vert­ibles with the top down. But­ter­flies. A fam­ily with small chil­dren fish­ing at Echo Lake, wear­ing shorts. A long row of cherry trees on my street, in bloom. The park packed […]

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Auld Lang Syne

January 1st, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

Our good friends at the Lit­er­ary Cafe treat us to a touch­ing ren­di­tion of a hol­i­day favorite.

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Happy 2007!

January 1st, 2007 | 0 Comments | Uncategorizable |

Here’s hop­ing for a big improve­ment over 2006…

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