Monthly Archive for October, 2004

Schilling is Shilling for Bush?

It already seems like a dream — the Red Sox reversed the 86-year curse, by sweep­ing the World Series on Wednes­day night, and I haven’t posted yet. I gotta say, it’s been a great thing for this town, and for its decades of great teams that just couldn’t win it all.

Schilling, Pedro, DLowe, Ortiz, Manny, Foulke… all heroes. Can’t wait to great them at the parade tomorrow.

But what is up with Schilling, shilling for Bush ? Some­one needs to tell him that there are two Evil Empires — the Yan­kees, and the Bushies.

This is Kerry coun­try, Curt. We love the way you pitch, and we put up with all your “I love Jesus” talk, but nobody cares if you’re for low­er­ing your own taxes, and not every­body else’s. Keep that to yourself.

Appar­ently, his “doctors” instructed him to cancel the appear­ances with Bush in New Hamp­shire, today.

Wickid Smaaaht…

October 29, 2004 » Tags: , , , . » Closed

On to the World Series

I’m on a cloud right now… I never thought that I’d see this.

October 21, 2004 » Tags: . » Closed

On to Game Seven

I can’t believe how well Schilling pitched last night, with a bloody sock and all… I had my doubts, but from the first pitch, I knew he had good stuff.

That said, I don’t think the Yan­kees will choke tonight… we need only remem­ber Game 7 last year. But, I’d love to see A-Rod crying into Jeter’s arms more than anything…

D-Lowe is capa­ble of a good outing – let’s just hope he can keep his head clear, and get that sinker turn­ing over.

On to Game 7 – Keep the Faith!

October 20, 2004 » Tags: . » 1 Comment

On to Game Six

My heart felt as if it would explode tonight, as the Red Sox & Yan­kees again took it to extra innings, in Game 5.

David Ortiz came through huge (again) tonight for the Sox, and we’d prob­a­bly be talk­ing about an MVP award at this point, except for the fact that the Sox lost the first 3 games in the series.

But, we’re through to Game 6, and I’m encour­aged by the pitch­ing (start­ing and bullpen) in the past two games. The big ques­tion is, can Curt Schilling pitch well tomor­row, with the tendon injury and the high-​top cleat? I sure hope so.

October 18, 2004 » Tags: . » 1 Comment

October Scare – 2000 Redux

What hap­pens when you’re a new publicly-​traded com­pany, and you announce that you’re not going to meet the quar­terly projections?

Stock free-​fall.

  • Bad news? Lay-​offs and ter­mi­na­tion. 10 people at our site, about 10%.
  • Good news? They fired some really use­less people. Also, the only team men­tioned in the meet­ing as doing well, was my team and my project.

Whew.

Still, it is scary – like it’s the year 2000 all over again. Strangely, I wore my defunct dot com fleece jacket to work today. What a bad omen.

October 13, 2004 » Tags: . » 1 Comment

VP Debate: Edwards won, Cheney lied

UPDATE: Another funny note, if you go to the URL pro­vided by Cheney in the debate last night, factcheck.com, it for­wards to George Soros’ anti-​Bush site. The Soros site claims not to be behind the re-​direct, so some domain-​squatter has a sense of humor.

As usual, kos, atrios and the other Lib­eral weblog­gers are fact-​checking where the major media out­lets will not. Here are some of Cheney’s asser­tions in the debate, and why they’re lies:

  • CHENEY: “Your home­town news­pa­per has taken to call­ing you Sen­a­tor Gone.” — LIE
  • CHENEY: “You’ve got one of the worst atten­dance records in the United States Senate… I’m up in the Senate most Tues­days when they’re in session… The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.” — LIE and LIE
  • CHENEY: “Well, the reason they keep men­tion­ing Hal­libur­ton is because they’re trying to throw up a smoke­screen. They know the charges are false. They know that if you go, for exam­ple, to factcheck[.org], an inde­pen­dent Web site spon­sored by the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, you can get the spe­cific details with respect to Halliburton.” — LIE

Also, the DNC posted a 1-minute video, Cheney vs. Real­ity. Good to see the good guys punch­ing back.

Kos also has a good round-​up of reac­tions from the Lib­eral news­pa­pers, and Salon calls out the Hard­ball crew on MSNBC.

Lazy, lazy media… they com­plain that weblog­gers aren’t always pru­dently jour­nal­is­tic, but it’s clear that they are better than reporters at dig­ging up the facts.

October 6, 2004 » Tags: , , . » Closed

Air America Radio in Boston

For you Boston-​area read­ers, if you self-​identify your­self as a Lib­eral, or if you’re an unde­cided, (I still don’t know how you could be), tune your car stereos to AM 1430 or 1200 — Air Amer­ica Radio has come to Boston.

One stupid thing, is that the sta­tion doesn’t carry Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garo­falo live. Because it’s on delay, you can’t call in with ques­tions, as you listen.

Hmmm… since the sta­tion is owned by Clear Chan­nel, and they have their own talent and shows… per­haps they are afraid to let Randi and Janeane com­pete with the home-​grown crap?

I’d have to do some more research, but it looks pretty fishy…

October 5, 2004 » Tags: . » Closed

Voter Registration Deadline

I just want to remind every­one to reg­is­ter to vote soon, if you’d like a say in the Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion on Novem­ber 2nd.

The dead­line here in Mass­a­chu­setts is Octo­ber 13, so print the reg­is­tra­tion form out, and mail in in by 10/13, if you live in the Bay state.

Also, there are lots of things to choose from on the ballot — if you want to be informed, I sug­gest look­ing over the Infor­ma­tion for Voters 2004 packet.

If you live in another state, or you’re look­ing for more infor­ma­tion, check out Jason Kottke’s ini­tia­tive, Voters Infor­ma­tion Guide for the 2004 US Elec­tion.

Oh, and remem­ber, John Kerry needs every vote… I’m look­ing at you, New Hampshire…

October 4, 2004 » Tags: . » Closed

Flickr

After sev­eral months of trying out dif­fer­ent solu­tions for post­ing my photos here, I’ve set­tled on Flickr. There are lots of great rea­sons why, but my number one cri­te­rion is that it’s easy… and Flickr is easy.

I’ve tried upload­ing photos through MT man­u­ally, and I’ve tried using my Type­pad account for photo albums… in both cases, I’ve dreaded the process so much that I rarely posted photos. Flickr is easy and flex­i­ble — you have a vari­ety of post­ing options, and it pro­vides com­mu­nity fea­tures not avail­able if you run a diy photo album.

The prob­lem is, when you put all your photo “eggs” in one basket, you incred­i­bly depen­dent on this out­side ser­vice. Here are some ques­tions I’m strug­gling with:

  • If Flickr.com goes down, (as it is right now), I’m stuck with embar­rass­ingly ugly broken images lit­ter­ing my weblog.
  • What if Flickr goes away in 1-2 years? What hap­pens to my past posts? Flickr com­ments? I’d be forced to go back and edit a lot of posts, and I might lose a lot of data.
  • Load time: I’m using a Flickr badge to show my last 3 photos posted — but this fea­ture uti­lizes remote javascript, which can delay the page load. There are some other meth­ods of achiev­ing the same result, prob­a­bly via the Flickr API.

Having con­sid­ered the pros and cons, I’m going to stick with Flickr for now. Let’s just hope they can keep the ser­vice up and running.

UPDATE: The prob­lem was DNS trou­ble again.

October 3, 2004 » Tags: . » Closed