Your Wildest Dreams Have Come True

Wow, of course you have to have heard by now about Oprah buying her entire 250 or so audience Pontiac G6’s. Damn, thats like 5 mil – 6 mil. The audience was told “Your Wildest Dreams Have Come True”. It’s a good thing but I don’t like not working for big items.

Walmart Music store and Walmart Internet Radio… just seems weird that Walmart is doing it.

Finishing Up

Ok, got a new look… its pretty good.

All I have left is to finish up (its mostly done) the Site Documentation and Important Information… just have to write docs… no more coding. Should be finished today.

However, I’ll wait till I get back on Friday to release.

9/11
http://www.lowermanhattan.info/rebuild/new_design_plans/default.asp http://www.renewnyc.com/News/MediaResources.asp.htm
http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin7.html
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/wtc/
http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/

Approx Timeline:

• 2006 – Construction of first tower complete
• 2008/2009 – First building opens for business. Each subsequent year, the next of the towers open
• 2012 – Entire project completed

Started Again…

Ok, been a while since I’ve worked on the site… just took a break.

Anyway, all the logic is done… just working on the final layout and content… I know I’ve been behind on when I planned to finish it but meh, I got tired working on it.

Lets see… With the new design, for some reason using <div>s made Mozilla mess it up… it seemed to not want to make the heights right (to near 0)… So, went with a table instead… Not good design maybe but, looks are better. Still, its all standards compliant.

Our Good Vice President Speaks

It just doesn’t stop:

“It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.”

- Dick Cheney

Well, I only hope he didn’t mean what he said.

I got it, I got it, I got it… I don’t got it – Keith Oberman talking about Genesis.
Watch the Countdown on MSNBC.

Our Good President Speaks

Ok, so I know we pick on his speaking skills too much but meh, what’s another time.

“Too many OBGYNs are unable to practice their love with women all across this country.”

- George Bush

Well, at least he’s admittedly bad.

Nightwish – Once is a good album.

The Wayback Machine

This site is simply awesome… http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Ah, the memories.

Wake-up call

So at about 3:30 AM, I wake up (I wasn’t really asleep anyway) to the sound of a police helicopter circling overhead. It was pointing its night sight/search light thing a block or two from my house and police cars were roaming the streets. So, I feel a whole lot better about living here.

Diff Madness

Well, havent slept all night and interpreting these diff results to format and display is horrendous. There doesnt seem to be any easy way to do it… the function is so messy.

Seen the new iMac G5’s?… I usually love the look of Apples and I have to say its one of their unique traits. However, these things are not that pretty looking. I have to admit, they did seem to cram everything into a pretty slim design but still, this thing doesn’t look that great. Maybe you disagree.

Did I yet complain about how annoying formatting these diff results are?

Aagghhh

Damnit, I need to sleep. Its been over 2 weeks since I’ve had some really restful sleep. For the past week, I’m not sure I’ve been sleeping at all. For the past 2 days, I know I have not. Well, today I turned the computer on in frustration and couldn’t think of anything better to do than write an entry because the damn SF shell server isnt working. Not much on Insomnia anywhere except that it could be caused by anything, can be temporary and some other crap. Damn you WebMD.

WMP 10 is here… do you have it yet? Integrates with many music services… wonder how they worked that out. The SuperSite has a new WMP 10 Review… http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/wmp10.asp. This thing is freakishly complex looking. The new MSN music looks like it’ll be good too … http://beta.music.msn.com/. No more free music videos? Hopefully, not the case.

Damnit… why isnt this freaking shell server working??!? How convenient.

Politics:

Stewart on Arnold: “For those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy – don’t be economic girlie men”… Yes, Arnold’s message to the hundreds of poor families out there… don’t be pussies.
Stewart on Bush: He will finish the work he never began.

The Great Zell Miller on Hardball w/ Chris Matthews… the now infamous debate:

MATTHEWS: OK. Do you believe now—do you believe, Senator, truthfully, that John Kerry wants to defend the country with spitballs? Do you believe that?
MILLER: That was a metaphor, wasn‘t it? Do you know what a metaphor is?
…
MILLER: I think we ought to cancel this interview.
…
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about this, because I think you have a view on the role of reporters in the world. You have said and it has often been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. Was there not…
MILLER: Do you believe that?
MATTHEWS: Well, of course it‘s true.
MILLER: Do you believe that?
MATTHEWS: But it‘s a statement that nobody would have challenged. Why did you make it? It seems like no one would deny what you said. So what‘s your point?
MILLER: Well, it evidently got a rise out of you.
…
MILLER: You didn‘t have anything to do with freedom of the press.
MATTHEWS: Well, you could argue it was not nurses who defended the freedom of nursing. Why did you single out freedom of the press to say it was the soldiers that defended it and not the reporters? We all know that. Why did you say it?
MILLER: Well, because I thought it needed to be said at this particular time, because I wanted to come on…
MATTHEWS: Because you could get an applause line against the media at a conservative convention.
MILLER: No, I said it because it was—you‘re hopeless. I wish I was over there.
MILLER: In fact, I wish that we lived in—I wish we lived in the
day
…
MILLER: Get out of my face.
MILLER: If you are going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer.
MATTHEWS: Senator, please.
MILLER: You know, I wish we…
MILLER: I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
MILLER: Now, that would be pretty good.
Don‘t ask me—don‘t pull that…
MATTHEWS: Can you can come over? I need you, Senator. Please come over.
MILLER: Wait a minute. Don‘t pull that kind of stuff on me, like you did that young lady when you had her there, browbeating her to death. I am not her. I am not her.
MATTHEWS: Let me tell you, she was suggesting that John Kerry purposely shot himself to win a medal. And I was trying to correct the record.
MILLER: You get in my face, I am going to get back in your face.
MILLER: The only reason you are doing it is because you are standing way over there in Herald Square.
MATTHEWS: Senator, Senator, can I speak softly to you? I would really like you to…
MILLER: What? No, no, no, because you won‘t give me a chance to answer. You ask these questions and then you just talk over what I am trying to answer, just like you did that woman the other day.
…
MILLER: I don‘t know why I even came on this program.
MATTHEWS: Well, I am glad you did.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this about John Kerry‘s war record.
MILLER: Well, are you going to shut up after you ask me?
MILLER: Or are you going to give me a chance to answer it?
MATTHEWS: Yes, sir.
MATTHEWS: I am going to give you a chance to answer.
…
MATTHEWS: But thank you very much for coming here tonight. I hope we can have a more civil conversation in closer terms. I would love you to come tonight. In fact, you can meet with Joe Scarborough, who will probably be nicer to you.
MATTHEWS: But we will both try to get the truth out of the conversation.
And I feel bad that you are upset with me, Senator. I have never had this kind of a fight with you before.
MILLER: I know it.
MATTHEWS: I think you misheard me. But please come over tomorrow night. We‘ve got a convention ending.
And, by the way, you will help our ratings tremendously if you come over tomorrow night, because everybody thinks you are going to beat me up.
…
MATTHEWS: Hey, it‘s great having you on. Let‘s be friends. Let‘s be friends.
MILLER: See you later.
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
Well, that was unexpected turn of events.

Hope you get to watch the video at some point because it’s way more amusing.

Ah, what a great loss Zell Miller will be… an intelligent, patient man. An eloquent speaker. A true champion of liberal values. He will be missed hugely.

Haha.

A Calling

A “Calling from Beyond the Stars”… Any Questions?