28 Mar 2002
I finally broke down and installed Microsoft Office 2000 on my old Pentium-200 Win 98 box that I had set up as a spare computer in my office (because Star Office isn’t hacking it as a replacement). Imagine my suprise when I discovered Office 2000 runs much more quickly than on the Pentium-III 550 Win 2000 machine in my office. Turns out Office is run from a CD server on all university machines. Looks like I’ll be doing most of my work on the older computer from now on…
27 Mar 2002
The United States can stop the AIDS epidemic. “The Bush administration proposes to spend $1 billion every single day next year on defense — the same amount it plans to spend during the entire year on AIDS prevention.”
25 Mar 2002
Danger HipTop
Danger HipTop. “I have a technology boner that could cut glass” — Cory of boingboing.net.
Me too. The HipTop is exactly the cell phone / PDA combination unit I’ve been looking for to replace my aging Palm IIIe. The way the screen slides out to reveal the mini keyboard is incredibly sexy. All the reports say that it will be coming out sometime Spring 2002, and I’m crossing my fingers that the wireless service will extend to Kirksville.
How cool would it be to have wireless web access so I could schedule shows on my TiVo and turn my x10-controlled lights on and off from the other side of campus?
24 Mar 2002
Lost Musicals
Lost Musicals. Great set of photos, sound clips, and links for cult musicals — especially one of my guilty pleasures, Moby Dick.
22 Mar 2002
Church v. Google
Church v. Google. “How the Church of Scientology is forcing Google to censor its critics.” An informative write-up about the recent removal and reinstatement from Google’s search engine of xenu.net, a website critical of the Church of Scientology.
I’ve read a number of articles about Scientology over the past couple of years and the more I read the more I wonder how anyone could ever buy into it.
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