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New user? Saturday, December 2, 2000
OmniDiskSweeper for Mac OS X
OmniDiskSweeper. (free download)
I just used this drop-dead-easy-to-use utility and was able to easily find and remove over 450 MB of cruft from my 3.1 GB Mac OS 9 partition. Now I have 529.1 MB available!
If you're using Mac OS X, try out this utility, you'll probably find all sorts of crazy files that were hidden in Mac OS 9 that took up insane amounts of disk. (IE's cache file was 130 MB! There were 100's of MB of useless stuff in the "Temporary Items" folder!)
What's Abstinence Got To Do With It?
What's Abstinence Got To Do With It?
I don't usually link to stories about sexuality, instead I leave it up to Dan over at Flutterby, who you'll notice I got the above link from. I'm not embarassed to link to these kinds of articles, but seeing as I don't go looking for them myself, the only place I find them is Dan's site, so there's no point duplicating his effort. :-)
This is a good article (even if it has some dirty words in it, not that I give a fuck about dirty words!) and it reflects some of my beliefs, that I hope I'll remind myself of sometime in the future when I read through the archives of this site. The most important value this article shares with me is:
Teaching ignorance is not an acceptable solution to social problems.
The Ultimate (expensive!) Video Game Library!
eBay item 507007174 (Ends Nov-28-00 10:00:57 PST) - The Ultimate Video Game Library!
$70,000 was the last bid, and the reserve was not met!
Maybe he needed the money to buy a PS2??
Buddy shot twice during vest test
Buddy shot twice during vest test -- "They're Manitoba's version of Dumb and Dumber."
This is one for the Darwin Files. :-)
Update: Sorry, the link for that article expired. I tried and tried to find the article's new link, but it appears to be gone. The only way you'll get to read it now is to buy a copy of it from Sun Media. Sheesh!
Dried-up sea beds found on Mars
Dried-up sea beds found on Mars -- "NASA scientists have discovered ancient sea or lake beds on the surface of Mars that could once have harboured life"
Friday, December 1, 2000
Announcing: Becoming Conversant
Mark Morgan announces "Becoming Conversant"... a site for new Conversant users.
"The goal is threefold: help newcomers by explaining Conversant from the user's viewpoint; organize, point to, mirror, and provide examples of documentation for Conversant; and share some of the really neat stuff users and others have done with Conversant."
Joe Average has his say
Regarding pro athlete salaries...
"Mr. Taylor:
I'm presently working my 14-hour night shift while my family is at home.
Twelve years as a firefighter and I have many incidents that would turn the heads of a crowd of 16,000 and make them want to go home.
[snip]
I will budget and work it out over time, knowing I have a secure job and 10 days from now I will get another cheque.
I would like more, but I can't tell my employer that I am holding out this season for more.
I wish he would offer me $6.4 million, even for the next 20 years. I wouldn't even go home.
At my present salary, I would only have to work my day and night shifts for the next 106 years to make that amount."
Thursday, November 30, 2000
Rookie slays a Dragon
Rookie slays a Dragon -- "After a nine-year battle, most of it uphill, his movie Dungeons & Dragons is about to be released in theatres."
Cool, the director is Canadian! I'm not really sure about this movie, from the trailers... I mean, the characters were too "clean" looking, they didn't look rough enough. But of course I'll go see it! :-)
Aqua look
Back due to popular demand (cough), the Aqua version of this weblog.
Made possible by the new WeblogView page type in Conversant which allows a webmaster to set up as many different versions (looks/formats) of their weblogs as they want.
Becker doesn't want son to be a tennis player
Becker doesn't want son to be a tennis player
"I will, in any case, find a way to see that he never becomes a tennis player. He would always be measured against me and the pressure would be far too big. If he wants to become a basketball or soccer player, then fine."
When I was young, my dad owned a very large, very successful concrete business. I would tell him I would take over that business when I grew up. He always told me he'd sell the business before letting me take it over.
Must be a German thing. ;-)
Honestly though, I don't think it's fair to his son, he should be allowed to do what he wants. But he's not my son so too bad for me!
Hypocrites
The GOP's New Mexico Switcheroo -- "Mickey Barnett, a Republican national committeeman for New Mexico, said he found it 'highly unusual' that 10 percent of the voters in the southeastern New Mexico county chose not to vote for president. That's of course the same argument Republicans ridicule when it's made in Florida by the Gore forces. "
Hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites. All of em.
My HBWT
Ever wished this weblog looked different? Is it slow in your browser, or the wrong colour? Think you can come up with a better design?
If so, go for it! Send me working Conversant weblog templates*, and I'll install them so you can have your very own version of this site! (as long as it's reasonable and doesn't offend me)
The documentation for the new WeblogView page type has links to all the applicable documentation to help you make the templates.
I'll post the templates for this version and the aqua version later to help people get started.
*a page template, a day template, and an item template
