Cool software alert

This neat little Winamp add-on, EvilLyrics, uses Google to automatically look up the lyrics of any song you're listening to. It actually works, even on my obscure Brazillian music.

Sweet vindication

Both Andrea and I won two awards each from the Peninsula Press Club for work we did at the Business Journal last year, only weeks before getting laid off. Believe me, I'm making sure all of my old editors know.

This will be Andrea's second straight double-win from the PPC.

I'm glad somebody said this

Byrd blasts Bush for 'flamboyant showmanship' with carrier speech

Now more than ever, I wish this man were my senator.

My favorite parts:

"Last week, the White House had said that such a landing was necessary because the carrier would have been too far out for a helicopter landing. In fact, the carrier was close enough to the California coast for a helicopter landing."

And

"Byrd, who has been a persistent and vocal critic of Bush's policies toward Iraq, said a "salute" to America's warriors was appropriate, but he added, "I do question the motives of a desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech."

Osama victorious

U.S. to end operations in S. Arabia

I'm back!

I didn't realize I was even down until a few people asked me what happened to the site. I renewed my domain name, and because of a weird corporate buyout of my former registrar, it was counted as a transfer and I had to reset my URL forwarding and DNS services.

Anyway, that's taken care of.

I had a really long weekend of journalism workshops, old friends and driving. I got to see Robert and Sarah from the Business Journal for the Poytner Institute's National Writer's Conference -- which, by the way, should have been called a regional conference, since there was another one somewhere that day. And today, I saw former OCBJ collegues Alex and Ludmilla at the L.A. Times book festival at UCLA. It was huge.

And then I took a really long nap.

Attention Pressplay members!

Think twice before downloading the latest Internet Explorer security fix. It causes a Javascript error in the Windows Media Player plugin that makes the service inaccessible. Pressplay tech support just confirmed that it's "working with Microsoft" on the issue. Amazingly, Microsoft is a Pressplay affiliate.

After another Windows hotfix slowed mine and everyone else's PC, I'm starting to wonder whether the "auto update" feature of Windows XP is such a good idea.

Fox News strikes again

AP Wire | 04/23/2003 | Media, military investigated for taking art, artifacts, cash from Iraq

So far, only Benjamin James Johnson, who worked as an engineer for Fox News Channel, has been charged.

The dark side of OTC Claritan

And perhaps, another indictment of health care system that doesn't give consumers incentives to cut costs.

CNN.com - The Claritin over-the-counter dilemma - Apr. 23, 2003

New SARS travel warning issued

New SARS travel warning issued

Responding to the global spread of the deadly SARS virus, the World Health Organization on Wednesday urged against travel to Beijing, China’s Shanxi province and Toronto, Canada’s business capital.

For the record, I've always urged against travel to Toronto.

Rise of the machines

The Unmanned Army

Yes, "The Terminator" was a prophecy.

Hey, check out my new site

To feed my interest in the design aspects of technology, my new site, "Design-Nerd" is finally up. This is where I'll herald all the cool -- and aesthetically pleasing -- gadgets I see. It's not finished (the logo has to be changed, for instance, because the domain name I was hoping would expire soon got renewed), but I'm eager to get early feedback.

I'm rich!

For the first time in as long as I can remember, I have a positive net worth (assuming my car is worth exactly what I owe on the loan). Woo-hoo!

Another bogus war story debunked

CNN.com - Media fooled over helmet escape

Interesting

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see Sadam gone, as are millions of Iraqi's. But it's starting to look like "Wag the Dog" wasn't such a farce after all. I sincerely hope this Web site is a hoax.

The photographs tell the story...

We win!

We came on strong and spanked them. In the words of the great 70s band Queen: "We are the champions..."

Gonna be a rumble tonight

And I'm not talking about Iraq.

Because of a first-place tie, my bowling team faces a bowl-off tonight between Pin Heads and the Lucky Strikes (I'm a Pin-Head) for the IBD league championship. Now I wish I'd bought my own ball.

Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

An excellent editorial by Baltimore City Paper.

In case you haven't gotten it yet, here it is in a nutshell. Criticizing the president is not the same thing as criticizing the troops. Criticizing the president is not the same as criticizing America. And criticizing the president is not "giving aid and comfort to the enemy," which is the classic definition of treason, a federal crime that earns felons the death penalty.

This can't be good.

Major Threat Seen in L.A. Quake Fault

Why does Fox News hate America?

Pentagon Says Geraldo Rivera Will Be Removed From Iraq

"At one point, he actually revealed the time of an attack prior to its occurrence," Lt. Mark Kitchens, a spokesman at Central Command, said yesterday morning. Lieutenant Kitchens added that Mr. Rivera had been escorted to Kuwait.

Navy's floating hospital treats Iraqis

Want federal health care? Join the Iraqi army.

Among the ship’s 62 doctors — mostly Navy physicians from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland — are two neurosurgeons, a plastic surgeon and a pediatrician. Heart surgery and organ transplants are the only procedures that can’t be performed on board.