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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Link Wednesday

29-Apr-09

Rather than a deluge of inane articles, I picked a few that I’ve read more than once and found compelling. Enjoy. Confessions of a TARP wife For the last several months, I’ve been wondering about the day to day lives of the ultra-rich who lost it all in a matter of hours. I’m still conflicted [...]

Software

28-Apr-09

First things first: I purchased, and now can’t live without EssentialPIM. It’s not perfect, but it does sync with my devices and google calendar. Surprisingly, I spend more time in that program than in google calendar or on my PPC. It allows nesting to-dos (doesn’t show up that way on the PPC, but there’s nothing [...]

A Matter of Perspective

27-Apr-09

When was this little creature… …replaced by this one? Every so often she says or does something that just completely wows me. Last night, she said something fairly innocuous but shocked me all the same, her understanding of the world just amazes me. The innocuous thing, by the way was ‘turn it this way’. She [...]

A query before bed

25-Apr-09

How do you meet random people on the internet anymore? It seems social networking sites are mainly to connect to people you already know or have already met. But what if you just want to speak to some random person? Is this an odd sort of thing? Before AIM became popular, there was ICQ. And [...]

The More You Know

23-Apr-09

Usually when I find something interesting on the internet, I usually discuss it with Lisa in the evening. She suggested I write up these things here, too. Granted, she said I should do that several years ago. Anyway. – Georgia Guidestones The Georgia Guidestones are also referred to as the American Stonehenge given its size, [...]

Presents

21-Apr-09

Did you see Dancing with the Stars last night? DwtS is a guilty pleasure of the wife and I; there isn’t much ‘reality’ in this reality tv series, it’s just dance practice and then actual dancing. The dramatic sorts of people tend to get kicked off early – this year’s drama queen was Denise Richards, [...]

Encryption

16-Apr-09

There isn’t any practical policy aimed at DMEs for ensuring data encryption. We’re bound to hipaa but all electronic dealings really fall on the external service provider, since we don’t have multiple locations or a major network without outside access. That being said, it doesn’t hurt to be safe. I moved our billing software onto [...]

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro

15-Apr-09

Compaņeros, by Peter McConnell from the Grim Fandango soundtrack. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Grim Fandango won several awards, but never achieved commercial success. This in turn signaled the death knell for the adventure gaming genre. Thanks to the Nintendo DS and the Wii, games like Professor Layton, Hotel Dusk, and StrongBad:CG4AP have [...]

Brief Review / Also

12-Apr-09

Back in early 2000s, Nintendo produced their offering of Mario Sunshine in the platforming arena; Sony offered not one but three: Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper: The Thievius Raccoonus. I had the esteemed luck to finally play and finish Sly Cooper. Unlike J&D, and R&C, Sly Cooper is a cel shaded [...]

Briefly: Scion iQ

10-Apr-09

This isn’t the model you’d get the dealership. This is the full customized model with 18″ wheels, body kit and interior mods. The iQ will start at $12K and will fall under the scion line. It’s expected to get up to 54 MPG. It’s not a hybrid, it’s just a really, really small car. It’s [...]