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Archive for February, 2005

On the Vine

In honor of Omaha native Alexander Payne and his latest movie Sideways, up for best-picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, here’s a couple wine-related links.
Grape Radio
A podcasted wine show. Podcasting, if you aren’t familiar with it, is simply an audio show released in mp3 format so you can take it with you on your […]

A Slice of Heaven

My copy of Pizza: A Slice of Heaven : The Ultimate Pizza Guide and Companion arrived this past week. Juggling all of my new found responsibilties, I wasn’t able to start thumbing through it until today.
If you enjoy pizza, even just a tad bit, this book looks to live up to its name as the […]

Glacial and Volcanic Activity on Mars

Last week the European Space Agency (ESA) announced a huge water-ice field at the equatorial level on Mars. In the article most media outlets picked up, they quoted an ESA scientists as saying the discovery of the ice field, combined with evidence of volacnic activity at the north pole could provide a habitat for life […]

A Decade of Web Development

Doing some spring cleaning last night, I went through a couple of bookcases looking for outdated tech books and application manuals to get rid of. I stumbled across my first HTML book, Laura Lemay’s Teach Yourself Web Publishing in Days - purchased October 24th, 1995 (the receipt was still stuck inside the back cover).
While I […]

The Conversion to WordPress

A quick update on the progress from converting this site from Movable Type (MT) to WordPress 1.5. First, I made the decision to switch at the right time. Not more than 24 hours after installing WP and getting it up and running, I woke up to 1,200 trackback spams on the MT system. Rather than […]

Record and Playback HDTV with your Mac

Record and Playback HDTV with your Mac
Instructions interspersed throughout the forum.