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Monday, November 11, 2002

MacStumbler is meant purely for educational or auditing purposes. It shows you all the wireless networks in your area.

It's also known as wardriving.

Sunday, November 10, 2002

Roxanne and Allison Will Be Rocking the Casbah.
The Police, The Clash and Elvis Costello and the Attractions will join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year.
iBlog is a standalone blogging tool for Mac OS X.

Saturday, November 09, 2002

Friday, November 08, 2002

autumn moonmilk.
WeeklyDV.com started out on JasonZada.com.
You have a DV camera. You have a computer. You have a spare few hours to spend. What are you going to do?
You're going to make a movie!

It only took me one day, if that, to see why TiVo is soo cool.

Since I taped
The Bachelor, TiVo thinks I'd want to see the HBO special DOWNLOAD SEX: Nerve Magazine.

Ha Ha.

TiVo is smart!

But I've already seen it, so TiVo isn't that smart!
Aerosmith's Calendar shows that they have the night off.

Thursday, November 07, 2002

Presidential Pet Museum.
Rutherford Hayes owned pedigreed Jersey cows, the first Siamese Kitten to reach America, Hector and Nellie, Shepherd dogs, one goat, four canaries, two hunting pups, and one English Mastiff named Duke. Also four kittens, one Mockingbird, and several Carriage horses.
Woof!

Wednesday, November 06, 2002

Monday, November 04, 2002


Franklin Brass Safety First 24" Safety Grab Bar
I'm a little late in posting today since I had to go out and buy a grab bar and install it at my mother-in-law's apartment downstairs.

The installation seemed straight forward. All you needed to do was to drill six 1/4" holes in the wall, insert plastic anchors in the holes and then screw in the Grab Bar with the provided screws.

After drilling the holes, I saw that I only had five anchors! That's not right.

I found an extra one, down in the basement, and the bar is now securely fastened to the wall.

I called the company and told them that my package was missing an anchor. They said they'd inform shipping.

I did my part to help improve the safety of people who buy these safety bars.

When I took a close look at the package to find the phone number, I read:
IMPORTANT-CAUTION: Grab bars are safety supports only when installed properly and securely. Toggle bolts are recommended for plaster or dry wall installation
Hmm. Don't you think they could have put those IMPORTANT instructions ABOVE the installation instructions?

And why don't they just supply toggle bolts to start with.

Oops. Gotta go, just heard a big crash downstairs!

Just kidding.

Sunday, November 03, 2002

 VS. 
War vs. Peace.
Cold vs. Warm.
Us vs. Them.
Politics vs. Sports.
Life vs. Death.

Go Pats!

Saturday, November 02, 2002

TV Barn - Brady Bunch In The White House.
"In an entirely new installment of the cult feature franchise, the blissfully ignorant Bradys are propelled into the national spotlight as America's First Family. ... When Bobby finds a lost lottery ticket worth $67 million, Mike decides that the only Brady thing to do is try and return it to its rightful owner. Mike's honesty is rewarded by an unscrupulous President of the United States who needs to add an ethical Vice President candidate" ... blah blah blah ..."Mike suddenly finds himself taking the Oath of Office and moving himself and his family from their split-level ranch house to 1600 Pennsylvania" ... blah blah blah ... "Greg falls for an attractive intern, Jan is haunted by the disembodied voice of Abraham Lincoln" (why does that sound like an old "SNL" sketch?) "and Cindy learns that she shouldn't tattle on her family to reporters."

That airs on November 29th on Fox. Tellingly, that's two days AFTER sweeps.


My Gentleman Jim Corbett eBay auction ends on Sunday.

Nice of eBay to advertise it for me.

Friday, November 01, 2002

Jenny McTagerty Girl Pirate Weblogger is Elmont.

The Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-R looks and feels like a 45-r.p.m. record.

Hmm. I never made a habit of feeling my 45's. I always handled them by the edge and kept them dust free in sleeves. Same for my albums.

Henry Fountain wrote about this in yesterday's NY Times.

EvoCam was so easy to use.

I set up my webcam in minutes.

Here's how I did it.
sVideo Monitor.
New Mac software to let you videoconference.




The video test worked!

More or less.

Thank you.