March 2004 - Posts

• My Media Muscle Machine Might Make Masculine Movies

  I didn't actually watch the whole super bowl. I watched some of the first half, and walked away as soon as the half time show started to make a phone call. The call lasted through the half time show, and pretty much through the second half, and I got Read More... Posted Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:24 PM by wadams | 1 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial

• I think I know why computers don't work, that is, epistemologically speaking of course

  As Jimmy Carter used to do, I consult my daughter Yasmin on many an issue of great and deep importance. The subject this weekend was why computers crash, have bugs, and all that sort of stuff. I made a bold statement because I wanted to see where we could Read More... Posted Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:08 PM by wadams | 5 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial

• A Sense of Security Certainly Saves Sleep

  I was wandering around the other day thinking to myself, how secure are things in my daily life. How do my expectations of security match the reality? I started with my house. How secure is my house? Well, there are 'locks' on all the doors and windows. Read More... Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:47 AM by wadams | 9 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial

• Mall Marching Marauders Make life Marvelous

  It's 9am. Do you know where your parents are? This morning I dropped Yasmin off at school. She needed to provide a white cotton t-shirt, and white cotton pants to tie-dye for a play that they are doing in the spring. We had the shirt already, but we didn't Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 9:31 PM by wadams | 9 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial

• Legacy Lags Listlessly Lurching towards the future

  What is “legacy data”? I thought about this because at work we talk about 'legacy data' all the time. As if the data being stored in the future will be current, and the data stored today is old crufty and undesirable. Having installed another Read More... Posted Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:13 PM by wadams | 1 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial

• Archived Media Makes Marvelous Movies

  I've archived a large number of DVDs to my hard disk. If you have non-copyrighted material, say weddings and whatnot, on DVD, you can use DVDDecrypter to store the content on your hard disk. It has this neat mode (ISO Read) that pretty much just copies Read More... Posted Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:18 PM by wadams | 9 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial

• The Prince - Presents Positively Passionate Political Platitudes

  Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince Penguin Classics - ISBN 0-14-044752-0 I've been reading this of late. It's interesting. This Machiavelli guy (1469-1527) is talking about statecraft, and makes many observations as to how things have come about in the Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:42 PM by wadams | 2 Comments Filed under: Daily Grind, Editorial

• Coax Capabilities Come to Computer

  So, This past weekend, I pushed further ahead with my home office rearrangement project. Having detreasured the downstairs, and having move my center of computing upstairs, there was just one more thing to move. I left one of the computers downstairs Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:30 PM by wadams | 9 Comments Filed under: On The Home Front, Editorial