Updated Blog Roll

Long overdue.

Love / Hate Relationship

I write software for a living and enjoy it. I also like to tinker, but I've gotten to the point that I want to add software and hardware to my home machine without having to worry about spending hours and days trying to fix all the unexpected things that get broken whenever I add something.

Right now I'm listening to Peggy O, but it sounds like the hesitation blues. Snap, Crackle, and Pop used to be Kellogg's characters on a cereal box, but now are little demons living in my windows media player.

Sure, in the last two months I've added a second hard-drive; installed GnuChess, Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster for my daughter, GuitarPort, Together Enterprise Architect, and Norton Ghost; downloaded countless (legal) MP3s; mucked with the Registry and gone back to restore points two or three times; not to mention the countless "security" updates that Micro$oft has sent my way. But, hey, XP is supposed to plug-and-play.

I'm pretty sure the problem is a conflict between GuitarPort and windows media player 10. Oh, didn't I mention that everything worked fine before upgrading from media player 9 to 10? And there doesn't seem to be a way to go back to media player 9.

I'm not un-installing GuitarPort. No way. This is the most electric guitar I've played since having kids. I don't have to warm up my Peavey 60 watt tube amp to get a nice warm sound nor disturb the neighbors, much less wake (hopefully) sleeping kids. Besides getting a great sound at a low volume, GuitarPort lets me mix and match all kinds of amplifiers and effects at the click of a mouse.

Opus Dei Conspiracy: Spy Teams-Hit Squads in USA

The Opus Dei, a shadowy and sinister Roman Catholic group, is running "an espionage and political assassination team in the United States," writes former NSA analyst Wayne Madsen, who quotes "knowledgable sources" in Washington.

Hey, I know some "knowledgable sources" in DC. They tell me that NASA never really landed on the moon -- it was all faked on a sound stage in the Arizona desert. They also happen to live on park benches...

Someone should start a betting pool to see how many of these stories appear in the run up to the release of the Da Vinci Code movie. Sort of like guessing how many jelly beans are in a five gallon bottle.

Update:This post did not show up via Blogger the first time I published it. Now, that's a conspiracy.

Intelligent Design?

Maybe there is something to this evolution business after all.

Found: Original Film of Lord of the Rings

Yo! This is pathetic

He was thought to be down for the count, but Rocky Balboa is ready to rise from the mat one more time for a big-screen comeback.

Sylvester Stallone, who created and starred as the street-smart brawler with the eye of the tiger, confirmed reports yesterday that he's raring to get back in the ring.

The sixth installment in the boxing saga will be simply titled "Rocky Balboa" and Stallone will play the aging pugilist yearning to recapture his glory days.

And I thought that Stallone had already made a Rocky XVI.