Archive for June, 2005

house update

Monday, June 27th, 2005

another weekend... another trip up north. painting and trim is done... deck is in and it looks like the flooring is next since there's a big pile of Bruce boxes in the living room... the driveway is started and we need to get it built out since there's no ...

SS and Sununu

Friday, June 24th, 2005

My future senator - Sen. John Sununu - is one of 11 Republicans in the Senate to introduce a new social security plan. The plan creates personal retirement accounts in an alternative way than the Bush plan does... but this one has an interesting hook. Since all along ...

Homeland Insecurity

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

thoughts typed in my Axim around 4:55PM sitting on the train heading home... OMG this guy looks like that Mohammed Atta guy!! hmmm... I feel like Stan Smith from American Dad... these guys must be terrorists sitting behind me.

bud

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

bud... or coors light? hmmm... tough pick but picked bud. mental note - byob next time. Anyway, after the BBQ at the new house neighborhood we got a few more pictures inside the house - well, until the batteries died. So far most of the trim is up ...

rocking old farts

Friday, June 17th, 2005

I remember 20 years ago taping all of the Live Aid concerts... for some reason I wanted it all, however, it was never watched and was soon taped over. That was the highlight of Bob Geldof's career... back before he altered the state of Michael Hutchence's mind. Anyway... ...

more pictures of house

Monday, June 13th, 2005

A few more pictures... at some point today or tomorrow the gallery will be updated with the rest of them.

speed up firefox

Friday, June 10th, 2005

here's some great firefox info passed to me by Chris... Firefox supports a mechanism known as HTTP 1.1 pipelining which issues multiple GETs simultaneously over a single socket. This can result in dramatic reductions in rendering time for complex web pages. To enable HTTP pipelining, do the following: ...

people person…

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

you know you're not a people person when... you get on the train, see an empty car, realize it has no air conditioner and decide to go there rather than sit with anyone on an air conditioned car. no cell phones, no mindless conversations... just the mp3 player and the ...