8/2/09 - Indie 101.5 FM RIP
Indie 101.5 FM has ceased to exist after it’s short run on Denver’s air waves. It was by far the best radio station I’ve ever heard in my 27 years of life on this planet. I am deeply saddened by it’s death and cringe every time I have to get into the car and listen to the abhorrent radio stations we have in Denver. How is it a radio station can feel like they wrap you in a warm blanket of love? Now I’m cold, scared and not sure where to turn to next.But all is not lost. Apparently the guys (and girls) at Indie are starting a web site called www.indie303.com where they will be on the air uncensored. We’ll also be able to stream them live on www.live365.com. I guess it’s time to upgrade my technology so I don’t have to listen to the inane chattering and playlists <cough>93.3</cough> that make me want to swerve off the road just to end it all. Ok now I loved channel 93.3 when I was in high school. Heck I even loved it right up until a few years ago. I participated in music surveys (thinking they actually mattered), became an area93 member the whole 9 yards. That was until I stumbled across Indie and realized what I had been missing. Never before have I bought so much music in such a small amount of time. I spent around $75 in the last 6 months on I-Tunes (that’s a lot for me) after hearing something awesome on Indie. Talk about boosting the economy.
Indie is for REAL humans and while momentarily depressed I look forward to the future and what www.indie303.com has in store. I wish them the best of luck!
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6/4/09 - Bing
As much as I detest M$ I must say bing.com is turning out to be pretty good. I haven’t used it much, but the searches I have done provide better results than google.com. Not really impressed with the look and feel of Bing, but really all I’m after is a search that will understand what I want, so far Bing has exceeded my expectations so props to Microsoft. This is 100 times better than Microsoft’s fucked up search live.com, which has now dissapeared...thank God!4/17/09 - Pirate Bay
1/29/09 - Facebook
Fine! I gave in and joined facebook this morning. While we are supposed to be celebrating Suzanne Pleshette Day and generally being angry with the media, I take it upon myself to go against every fiber of my being and join facebook. Whatever happened to my morals and my rage against this fad called social networking? Can I not stick with my values of good clean web applications? But here I am jumping on the band wagon and shitting on every good practice of software design. <Sigh> I am no better than the evil that came up with MySpace, only I haven’t made millions with my software design.
<shudder>I feel dirty</shudder>
1/30/08
Suzanne Pleshette totally died January 17th, 2008, but no one thought to tell me. We found out yesterday 1/29/08, when Terry was talking to a co-worker about something unrelated when it came up. Normally I don´t give a crap about Hollywood news, but it would have been nice to know one of my all time favorite acteress´ died. I don´t know how many times I have heard this or that about Heath Ledger, I already know way more than I ever wanted about the dude, but not even a snippet that the greatest actress to grace the cast of The Bob Newhart Show had died.
Terry and I are proclaiming January 29th, to be Suzanne Pleshette Day, so we can remember how evil and unjust the media can be.
6/26/07 - New Gallery
Hi it's been a while. I have been busy with the 2nd job so I haven't had much time to do anything else. I did however get time to do a new photo gallery. I am pretty much an idiot since I spent countless hours writing code and optimizing pictures, only to realize someone else has already done this and I could just use their code. Anyway I don't have many on there yet, but I will be adding more and more each day. I have been trying to climb as much as possible and have put most of our climbing pics up. That's about it, pretty much working and climbing9/13/06 - Microsoft Live Search
Microsoft came out with their Live search yesterday. You can find it at www.live.com. However, I would suggest that you not use it.I decided to run a quick test to see how Microsoft Live compared to other search engines, Google, Yahoo, Ask.com. I have been searching on how to set a session to never expire on a classic ASP page. My search criteria was: never expire session asp -net. With the exception of Yahoo who does not recognize the - before net meaning do not include the word net in your search. This is my way to weed out all the .NET crap and focus on classic ASP.
I exclusively use Google and was interested to see if there was another search engine that would understand what I wanted and give me relevant results.
I was pleasantly surprised at Yahoo which returned results similar to Google's. They gave me asp tutorials, IT message boards and forums related to session id's.
Ask.com gave me some of what I was looking for, but also contained some weird results like a user guide for work order software.
Microsoft's Live, on the other hand, gave me results like, Marketing software, A bank's privacy policy, LA hair salon, Ancient Egypt Research Associates. I am not saying these results are out of the blue, they did contain the words that I searched on, but clearly Google and Yahoo knew what I meant. That is what I am looking for in a search engine. A search engine that knows when I put asp and session in the same search I am probably not wanting results from an LA hair salon.
Maybe I am a little biased, hell I am totally biased when it comes to any product coming out of Redmond, WA. But I really was unimpressed with Microsoft's Live search, it only gave me one result on the first page that had anything to do with computers. That would be the only link I would be interested in clicking on, and it wasn't even what I was after. In Microsoft's defense Live Search is a beta, so obviously they have a lot of work to do. I am not sure the business logic of putting out a beta product that sucks, but Microsoft has been doing it for years and we still have yet to see the fall of the giant, so maybe there is something to that.
