Archive for August, 2004
Supine Kitty
Lazy Pandora, lying on the bed. Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.
Krispy Kreme, DC
As a followup to this long-ago entry, I can now confirm that a Krispy Kreme shop has opened in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC, right outside the South Metro escalator. Now excuse me while I go Kreme myself. Photos taken with a Sony Ericsson Communicam (on T300 phone).
Currently
Currently working on AteneoDC.com, website of the Ateneo Alumni Association in Washington. I’m fiddling with various content management systems, trying to find a portal with good community features, but simple enough for non-web-savvy users. Right now PHPWebSite is what’s been working. It’ll be difficult wrenching the tables out of its template and making it output [...]
YSearchBlog
Taking a PR cue from GoogleBlog, Yahoo launches YSearchBlog. Their sidebar links the GoogleBlog, too, although the YSearchBlog itself runs on Movable Type 2.661. I remain fairly annoyed at Yahoo for allowing their search engine to be overrun with links to machine-generated prank pages, most of which have disappeared, though a stray “wasarrested” or “isshitty” [...]
Canon A300 for $99
Update: Sorry, it looks like the Canon A300 is back up to about $120. Still an okay price, but I’m going for the new Canon A400 instead. Amazon is was selling the Canon A300 3.2MP camera for just $99. I almost threw one in my shopping cart right then and there, till I saw this [...]
Terror Lookalikes
Previously seen in the Saddam Photoshop Roundup, Saddam is now busy making Tiger Hands. Josh Claybourn had the Yassin-Saruman connection covered far better. And here’s Iraqi “insurgent” Moqtaqa Al Sadr looking ready to go bananas.
GravenCube
The Evangecube! Because sometimes among the heathen, bibles and Jesus Movie screenings and Passion of the Christ jewelry just aren’t enough. (Via Michael Spencer on Subcultural Spirituality. Thanks for pointing it out, Rod.)
Like a Poor Marksman
“…after 12 years on the Internet and thousands of registrations and forms filled out, the advertising I am seeing still does not appear to reflect my tastes, interests, previous buying habits, professional background, academic background, or income level. They have yet to successfully target me …. Or else they are simply targeting the stupid, the [...]
Golly Gee Whiz
Amy came to DC over the weekend, and we had a grand time viewing Sanford Gifford landscapes at the National Gallery, eating various Greek meats at Zorba’s while the remnants of Charley dumped rain outside, watching Superman II and Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture over adobo with tomatoes and bagoong, and meeting up with [...]
Rubbernecking.gov
I note with some amusement that ever since the “Washingtonniene” story got popular, inbound links from “.gov” computers searching for “Washingtonniene” and “Jessica Cutler pictures” have steadily increased. So far I’ve had search hits from the House, Treasury, Dept of the Interior, and NOAA. More, plus pertinent WashPost link, on Wonkette. Funny headline. UPDATE, 09/01/2004: [...]