Interesting Reads

2:20 PM

I read a couple of interesting articles today. The first article is about how Moore's Law will last for at least the next 10 years. If you don't know about Moore's Law it states that the processing power will double every 18 months and that the cost of the same amount of processing power will be reduced by half every 18 months. I.E. in 18 months the new AMD Athlon 64 will be twice as powerful as the Barton Athlon 3000+ of today, but the 3000+ will cost half as much as it does now. This second article I found much more intersting. It discusses why following Moore's Law might not be such a good thing, stating that in 20 years at this rate Intel's anual R&D cost would have to hit $31 trillion, as big as the world's current GDP.

Another interesting article that I read today is about blogs and how the freedom of everyone posting their own information inherently leads to people only reading a fraction of it.

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Visitors

7:58 AM

Jack Valenti got me thinking, and then he got me pretty steamed. So I posted another rant. This one contains my opinions on file sharing.

In other news our friends Mia, Mike, and Janet are all coming to visit next weekend. I haven't got the whole weekend planned yet, but it should be fun.

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HBO Rules

9:56 AM

I saw something on slashdot this morning, a link to entertainment weekly where they pick the 25 greatest Simpsons episodes of all time. You can see it here. It's kind of interesting because all but one of the shows aired before 1998. Now did the Simpsons really get worse at that time, or did people just stop watching because HBO sunday nights became so much better? I remember where Sunday nights on FOX were a must see. Now it seems like HBO has that designation. I have a feeling it's a little bit of both, FOX went downhill and HBO stepped into the void.

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Jack Valenti Is the Devil

2:23 PM

No real news today. The only reason I'm posting is that there is an interesting interview with Jack Valenti on the web. You can read it here. I'm begining to think this man really is the devil. I should be writing something about file sharing for my rants soon.

In lighter news you should check out this site. I've seen it before and it's quite funny. But now they have t-shirts.

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Heelside Turns

12:42 PM

I'm at home under the weather today, so I thought I'd post a bit of news.

Kathrine and I finally made it back out to Crystal Mountain this weekend. It was alot of fun. I didn't fall that much, and I've almost conquered the lifts. My problem now is, I have a hard time doing any heelside turns, and I can't stop or sideslip on my heelside at all. What this means since I ride goofy footed is: I can only turn sharply to the left and I can only stop while facing up the mountain. Hopefully by my next trip out I'll have that problem licked, and I can actually start linking turns.

I also posed a new rant. This one is in refrence to my political stances. You may or may not find it interesting. I'll leave that up to you.

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Pop Music

4:40 PM

I added a couple of new rants. One about music genres and more specifically the genre called pop. The second is an update of my feelings on lyrics in music. I hope someone finds them interesting.

Not much else is new. I have all my own snowboard equipment now, and am itching to try it out. Kathrine and I planned on going last Sunday but the weather did not agree, who wants to go in the rain? The weather forecast calls for snow all week and snow on the weekend so sunday looks like it might be our best bet.

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New Album Reviews

2:42 PM

Well I told you I was going to do it, and I finally got around to it. My Rants and Raves has been updated with the album reviews. Still to come is my book discussion.

I also added some new information to the Seattle page. I figured I'm not a newbie any longer and could put a little more information there. As always, feel free to leave a comment or drop me a note.

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Three New albums

12:47 AM

Over the last few days I’ve made tons of changes to the site. The best part is though, you can’t see any of them.

Why is that you ask?

Well that’s because they’ve all been internal. I’ve made all the vb scripts in my asp much tighter. I’ve also changed the way the comments and news are stored. They’re now in an Access database that my vb scripts query through SQL. That makes administrating the site much easier for me.

Since the weekend is upon me, I'm going to do some other needed updates. I just bought three new albums: [DARYL] - [DARYL], ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes, and Sorta - Laugh Out Loud. Once I give them all a critical listen, I'll try and put a review in my rants and raves.

Also coming soon to my rants and raves will be a review of sorts of a book I just finished reading Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It. I thought it was excellent and deserves much discussion.

And finally, there are loads of upcoming events.

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Music Snob Rant

10:57 PM

Three days in a row, some new kind of record. Of course this is just all part of my grand plan just to keep in touch with people. I'm bad at calling and writing to friends and relatives. I'm going to send this link out to them all and hopefully I can use it to stay in touch. And if it doesn't work, it will be their fault, because I gave them all the oppertunity to easily stay in touch with me. Isn't passing the blame fun?

In other news I've posted the first rant on my rants and raves page. I probably won't add stuff there too often unless the demand is great, and who am I kidding there will be zero demand.

The page is actually starting to take pretty good shape. Very few things aren't populated. About the only thing left to do from scratch is my biography, but you all know enough about me right?

I also have to update the Seattle info page. I know a lot more about this place now and am in a better position to provide more information.

Well that's the news for now. Hope you enjoy.

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We Have Comments

12:37 PM

Whew. Someone might think that I really care. I just got some stuff working. You can now leave comments, and it works pretty well. I can also leave news remotely. Which makes this even more blog like. But I must stress this is not a blog.

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