Archive for August, 2006

My new playlist

August 31st, 2006

Dixie Chicks – Not Ready to Make Nice
Neil Young – Let’s Impeach the President
A Perfect Circle – Fiddle and the Drum
Green Day – American Idiot
Bright Eyes – When the President Talks to God
System of a Down – BYOB
Neil Young – Looking for a Leader
Merle Haggard – Where’s All The Freedom
A Perfect Circle – Imagine
Pink – Dear Mr. President
Kayne West – Crack Music
Pearl Jam – World Wide Suicide

Notice a theme?

Discovery & Good News

August 30th, 2006

I found the artist Anouar Brahem today. I suppose I truly found out about him a few days ago from All Songs Considered, but the album I ordered from Amazon just showed up today. What a peaceful artist. I believe his music is Arabic; it is absolutely beautiful, highly recommended!

Also, read some good news today. My friend Matt’s older brother Mark is making huge progress in recovering from a spinal cord injury that nearly took his life a month ago. It’s amazing to read the story day by day; what a great way for technology to help us keep connected.

Deepest Sender

August 26th, 2006

Found a new tool today that allows me to blog inside my web browser… Deepest Sender. It’s pretty cool, but ran into an issue setting it up; kept getting an error when I tried to log in that said “TypeError: node has no properties”. I found a few suggested solutions on the web, but in my case, I had my posting URL set to the wrong URL.

Thought I’d explain my fix in case others have the same problem.

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Testing out a new version of CincyIvy

August 22nd, 2006

Found a great new software to manage the CincyIvy.com site: Geeklog. It supports just about all the functions that we need for CincyIvy, it’s relatively easy to implement, and best of all it’s 100% free! This post is testing out the “trackback” feature of my blog and the CincyIvy news section.

Old Times for Good Friends

August 19th, 2006

Caught up with an old friend from Cornell today… always good to hear from friends.

Sarit and I watched Syriana last night; what an utterly depressing movie. Don’t get me wrong, the plot developed in an incredibly interesting way, but at the end of the movie I was left feeling like there is no way to solve the deep, deep issues in the middle east.

NORAD tapes

August 9th, 2006

This both enrages me and helps me understand just how confusing that day was for the people on the ground trying to figure out what was happening:

NPR : NORAD Tapes Reveal Sept. 11 Chaos

What’s so outrageous about this is how the blatent lies in the Pentagon’s testimony to the 9-11 Commission have been uncovered and that no changes in leadership–like replacing Donald Rumsfeld–have occured.

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