Copy Editing With BoBo

May 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Politics |

In which we find just one more exam­ple of how, when faced with the prob­lem that today’s mass-media news cov­er­age devotes more time to Brit­ney Spears’ head shav­ing than to the Iraq war, the solu­tion seems to be to stop talk­ing about Brit­ney Spears’ hair and start talk­ing about John Edwards’.

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New Laptop Diary No. 4

May 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Or, Sweat­ing The Details With Microsoft. Vista has a sweet new look com­pared to pre­vi­ous MS oper­at­ing sys­tems. Less car­toon­ish than XP, with nice touches of trans­parency and round­ness in the inter­face ele­ments. But behind that lick­ably smooth exte­rior lies the usual Microsoft heart of dark­ness. A few exam­ples… The secu­rity fea­tures have been compared […]

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For Memorial Day

May 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music, Politics |

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An anniversary of sorts

May 22nd, 2007 | 8 Comments | Uncategorized |

We’ve been online here at tom​-mcgee​.com for a year now. Thanks to all (six) of you for your sup­port! Later on I’ll try and put together a sta­tis­ti­cal run­down of what’s been hot and what’s been not. In brief, though, the biggest seller has been a piece I wrote last year on some of the […]

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I knew this looked familiar…

May 18th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Here’s an aban­doned mill in South Moun­tain Reser­va­tion:
South Mountain Dials
And another scene from a pop­u­lar game:
Myst Dials

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Brooklyn Symphony

May 18th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

If you’re in the NYC metro area this Sun­day and if you’re look­ing for some­thing to do, you could do worse than to come on down to Mon­tague Street in Brook­lyn Heights to hear the Brook­lyn Sym­phony. We’re doing Movie Music, includ­ing music from Fellini’s La Strada and the epic Alexan­der Nevsky by Prokofiev.

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New Laptop Diary No. 3

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

I’m finally fig­ur­ing out through trial and error the mys­ter­ies of the Toshiba track-pad. They doc­u­ment using the far-right and bot­tom mar­gins and scrollers. Move your fin­ger along and (usu­ally) it scrolls up-and-down or across the page. Some apps don’t seem to sup­port it. Also, there are hot cor­ners. At first I was a lit­tle mystified […]

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Friday Music Bonus

May 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Music |

I noticed a long-neglected DVD of one of Big Train’s “golden age” per­for­mances, from the Bat­tle of the Base­ment Bands 2005. Here’s two num­bers from our set, “Leave Your Hat On,” and “The Letter.”

Load­ing…

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Good point … what do YOU think, Sol?

May 10th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Science |

Thanks to Cos­mic Vari­ance for point­ing this out, one of the most air­tight argu­ments yet for cre­ation­ism over evo­lu­tion: “One of the most basic laws in the uni­verse is the Sec­ond Law of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an envi­ron­ment will increase. Evo­lu­tion argues dif­fer­ently against a law that is […]

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Significant Digits

May 9th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Science |

I recall in high school physics, Mr. Heckathorn used to ham­mer us with the con­cept of sig­nif­i­cant dig­its. What it boils down to is, say, you have two num­bers: 1.14 and 2.37. You get 2.7018. But just try and put that down in your lab home­work. The thing is, you can’t take inputs accu­rate to […]

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New Laptop Diary, Continued

May 3rd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

This after­noon I unin­stalled the trial ver­sion of Office that came with the lap­top, and tonight ran the migra­tion tool again. This time, Office tran­ferred over per­fectly. So I now hav­ing work­ing copies of Excel and Word, along with Pow­er­Point and Access (I know, I know). That’ll save me a bunch of money. Also, I reinstalled […]

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New Laptop Diary

May 2nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Dear Diary: I’ve been doing some dif­fi­cult stuff lately on my old lap­top, and it’s been just tooooo slow for words. Why just the other day at lunch I was work­ing on a project, and I swear I only got through about five screens the whole time! The old laptop’s had its day. I’m not sure […]

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