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November 2004 - Posts

DIG!

The Sundance Channel featured the outstanding DIG! music documentary in November. I finally got a chance to watch the movie and it was amazing. It's distribution is weird (it's going to be in select movie theatres and it was shown on the Sundance Channel), Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 11:28 AM by poo | 0 Comments

Movies...

One of my goals with this blog was to write about every [new] movie I saw. Not necessary for the benefit of the folks who actually come here, but for my own benefit. It would help me remember what I saw and briefly summarize what I thought of the movie. Read More
posted Monday, November 29, 2004 11:17 AM by poo | 0 Comments

400GB

CompUSA had a sweet deal today on 400GB hard drives. I can't imagine that many people will pick one up, but I go through storage like it's free beer. If you are unsure about how to use 400GB of storage, the box for the drive makes some suggestions. Read More
posted Friday, November 26, 2004 1:19 PM by poo | 0 Comments

SecurErase

I'm sending back the new Media Center PC I purchased earlier this month that I'm just not happy with. I'll post more about the experience in a bit, but before I boxed the system up today I decided to use a program called SecurErase to delete the data Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 10:49 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Starbucks E-mail Scamming

Funny stuff: “Shizzy” sends e-mails to a human resources employee at Starbucks and pretends to be the CEO. Worth a read at Shizzy's Mailbag. Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 10:31 PM by poo | 0 Comments

They've Finally Recovered!

It's been almost six years since I've moved out of my hometown and I was pleased to see this Associated Press article today: [New Jersey's] Brick Township was rated the second-safest city for the third straight year [according to a company’s annual Read More
posted Monday, November 22, 2004 10:22 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Thanks for nothing, R.E.M.

R.E.M. at Madison Square Garden, November 4, 2004 So I'm not a huge R.E.M. fan. I like them, but they aren't among the top of the list of artists I like. I've actually seen them in concert three times though because they normally put on a pretty good Read More
posted Sunday, November 07, 2004 1:29 AM by poo | 0 Comments

[American] Disappointment

So I've been quiet the last few days since the election. I'm pretty disappointed with the results and disappointed with America. I think the cover from the Daily Mirror in the UK does a pretty good job of summing it up. I've been able to deal with the Read More
posted Saturday, November 06, 2004 6:07 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Rocking the Vote... Hard

A friend passed along information to me this afternoon to take part in a telephone campaign for Rock The Vote. Basically it involves calling people Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa who have signed up to be reminded to vote. They have a neat little web application Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:30 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Day of Decision

Voting turnout is shaping up to be huge. I voted this morning at around 9:20am. The second I woke up, I threw on some pants (yes, for those of you keeping track at home, I did decide to wear pants) and went next door. I waited around 15 minutes and I Read More
posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:43 PM by poo | 0 Comments

Official "Victory" Party?

I just spoke to my sister who goes to school up in Boston. She's not very political, but she told me: “i am going to see the president tomorrow in copley”. Kerry will be hosting an official election night rally in Copley Square in Boston tomorrow evening. Read More
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 7:56 PM by poo | 0 Comments

My final electoral prediction: 316 Kerry, 222 Bush

Yes, this may be wishful thinking on my part, but this is my prediction for the Presidential Election tomorrow: Thanks to the great PBS tool I used to generate the above prediction. God, I hope I'm close. Read More
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 11:11 AM by poo | 0 Comments