Year: 2005
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Another year for Uncle Mark
Leading into the holidays, Mark Hurst releases another free Uncle Mark’s Guide, for 2006. Get the free PDF. Agree or disagree, Hurt tries to free you from the tyranny of choice. Trust him or not… I do, although the NYC-specific suggestion aren’t particularly helpful, personally.
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Movie: Hellboy
Hellboy filled a quiet Saturday night. I think I need to stop the comic-book movie streak. This film wasn’t terrible. Still, I’ve never read the comic, so I hadn’t bought into the backstory or the characters beforehand. With other movies where I have read the comic, the background brings me into the film, and then…
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Book: Skipped Parts
Skipped Parts, by Tim Sandlin, goes in a different direction than many of the books I read. I asked Vin to share some light fiction. This novel wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. It’s sarcastic-funny, and a quick read. But when the protagonist is a thirteen year old boy, living with his twenty-eight-year old…
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E-mail back up at pencoyd
No response from Verio, but e-mail is back up now. It doesn’t appear that everything got through from yesterday, though, so re-send if you don’t get a response.
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E-mail is down at pencoyd, Monday October 24, 2005
Not sure what’s wrong with Verio right now, but my pencoyd.com e-mail is down for the count right now. Can’t send or receive. Filed support notes via two different methods, but the toll-free numbers just warns that only limited support is available due to Hurricane Wilma, especially if your servers are hosted in Boca Raton.…
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Movie: The Iron Giant
After three months on the shelf, making money for Netflix, The Iron Giant DVD finally made it to the player on Saturday night. The final selling point on taking the film of the shelf was its length: the movie is less than 90 minutes. Perfect for this tired parent. What I knew before watching: animated;…
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Links: Media, Media, and Management
Three items which made it through my scan, click, read, close routine in the last 24 hours: Media: Mark Glaser probes media companies’ deep ambivalence about Yahoo. Make sure you read the first comment, where Glaser adds an after-deadline quote from Charlie Tillinghast of MSNBC.com. Tillinghast is the only one who comes right out and…
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Five
“Hey, today I turned five.” That’s the soundtrack from the boy to his sister this morning, even when they are still “sleeping.” You can’t beat the anticipation and excitement of a birthday at this age.
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Book: The Cathedral & The Bazaar
I appreciated reading the hardcover copy of The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revoluionary, even as I recognized some of the ironies of the act. First, the hardcover book, published in 1999, is out of print. Second, Eric Raymond published every essay in the book for free…
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Blogarithm: RSS for the e-mail crowd?
I’m not sure I get it. Via The RSS Weblog, I read about Blogarithm, which lets you know via e-mail that a blog you follow has updated. Huh? I do know RSS is not (yet!) for everyone, but I hadn’t thought there still was even a sliver of market opportunity for doing update notification via…