So the OQO has been out for over a month now, and it still costs $1900.  I was hoping by now the price would have dropped to $150 or so.  Oh well.

I have two new photo-sets that I want to post, one from NYC and another from a hike last weekend, but I want to finish some updates to my photo-webpage scripts before I post any more photos.  And the updates are taking some time.  (OK, by "updates" I mean writing from scratch a script to manage the creation/editing of captions, keywords, title/date/descriptions, etc, through the web-browser.)

In the meantime though, I put up a new header image for this fallsy theme.  The photo is from McConnells Mill about six weeks ago.  I had wanted to take some more fall photos this season, but it looks like it’ll be winter-photo season soon.

It’s a moot point now, but I just saw this today:

If John Kerry is the answer,
it must be a stupid question.

Cheap shot, I know, but that’s funny.  Also saw this the other day:

Unlike taxes, death doesn’t get worse every year.

Am I the only one who as NO idea what to get Dad and Jeannie for Christmas???  Has anyone heard what the wish list is this year???  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!

In an article titled Debt-cut gift for Iraq, about how the world is going to forgive 80% of Iraq’s debt, guess what the first sentence is?

Baghdad exploded in violence today, even as German finance minister Mr Hans Eichel said in Berlin that he agreed with US Treasury secretary Mr John Snow on a proposal for the world’s key creditor nations to write off as much as 80 per cent of Iraq’s debt, capping a months-long US push for debt forgiveness in Iraq’s case.

No matter what happens in Iraq, no matter what newsworthy event has taken place, just remember: you have to say that Iraq "exploded into violence."  Sure, the nations of the world agreed to forgive nearly $40 billion worth of debt, but that isn’t news... violence in a nation that has just had its dictator removed, that’s news.

A junior at New Mexico State University died Friday after his 21st birthday celebration led to alcohol poisoning, according to the university. ... NMSU has begun an investigation...

Investigation into what?  When you consume absurd quantities of alcohol, you die.  This kid was a fool, and his "friends" who took him out are fools.

Instead of wasting taxpayer money on this "investigation," how about an investigation into why the majority of kids in this country are obsessed with alcohol?  At least he didn’t kill anyone else by his foolish actions -- drunk drivers kill 20,000 people per year in the US.  How about whenever a drunk driver kills someone, if the drunkard lives, we execute him on the spot?

I came across Andromeda tonight.  This is just a PHP script that displays your music collection as a webpage, allowing you to click on songs to stream them from your webserver using the M3U format.

I wrote a Perl script to do that; I’ve been streaming my music library from my server to work/home for the past 2 years or so.  It’s essentially the exact same thing as Andromeda: MP3 streamer + login system (though logins are currently not enforced for the sake of this post, so that ya’ll can check it out... it might be slow though, since my net connection is slow).  I obviously didn’t bother to make mine look pretty, as he did, but other than that and a trivial search-box, they are the same.

The same, except that he is selling his for $500 to the Air Force, the Salvation Army, various universities, etc.

The Serious:

We are not the owners of our money and possessions; we are merely managers of those things for the length of our stay on Earth.  (From church.)

The Funny:

medical essay: don’t ignore your mother.  (From a spam email that I just received.)

I just posted three new photo sets from the past couple weeks, and there are lots of good ones.  Go see!