Archive for October, 2004
Pandora and the Powershot
Thanks in part to a $50 Amazon coupon plus the A9 half-pi instant reward. I treated myself to a Canon Powershot A400 (blue), which arrived this week. Here’s the first photo: A bit fuzzy, because I had to turn off that pesky orange autofocus assist beam, which was causing the cat to squint. This is [...]
New Little Garrett Girl
Congrats go out to Jason and Dawn! Though they haven’t updated their weblogs yet, the news is spreading through the grapevine (1,2,3) that a little bundle of joy was brought forth Wednesday, Oct 13th; thus the child shares a birthday with me, Wendy, and Netscape. Better yet, I’ve checked the calendar for the year 2017, [...]
Inq7 Talking Points
Some hubbub going on about Filipino news outlet Inq7′s Talking Points “blog.” Heh. That’s not a blog, anymore than a guestbook is a magazine. My underwhelmed reaction is posted as a comment to Sassy Lawyer’s Mislead Us Not entry: Corporate groupthink seizes on the latest buzzword — “blog” — and attempts to capitalize on it [...]
Netscape at 10
I wish I’d known this yesterday: I share a birthday with Netscape, that late, great, venerable icon of the dotcom dawn. More links and input on Netscape’s Tenth from WASP and Slashdot.
Here I Stand
My foot is down. It is my firm conviction that salvation from damnation is through Christ and Christ alone, that all are justified freely by the eternal redemption that is given us through Jesus’ propitiatory sacrifice, and that if a man confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes in his heart that [...]
Twenty-Eight
I turned 28 today, and I’ve got the love handles and thinning hair to prove it. Five years ago, I was 23, in the Philippines, working 36-hour days in digital video editing, living in a tiny shared room, and wondering what goals I should set for myself. I remember clearly, writing them down: 1999: Within [...]
An October Afternoon
Here are some scenes from a brisk late afternoon run around Washington DC last Sunday. Autumn is definitely in the air. Photos taken with a Sony Ericsson Communicam attachment (on T300 phone).
Wyclifercules
The more I read about what a paragon of masculine physique Wyclif is turning into since he switched to a job hefting hardware around the great outdoors, the more I wonder if I should turn my next career shift towards more muscular domains. Outside of web development and graphics, my two physical areas of focus [...]
Feeding Time
I’m a latecomer to the world of newsreaders, owing to my stubborn insistence that the old habit of obsessively clicking through my randomizing blogroll was enough for me; but lately I’ve realized how much time I’ve been wasting, clicking repeatedly on links to high-traffic weblogs, only to find that that they haven’t been updated since [...]
Escalator Out
Dear WMATA: How much would it cost to erect and tie down a tarp over the Dupont Circle escalators, as compared to the amount of money spent on yearly escalator repairs and maintenance due to weather damage? To my experience, the south exit has never had all three escalators running for more than a week [...]