Archive for October, 2003

Legoland searches for Master Builder

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

p. An article on: Wired News: Wanted: Master Lego Model Builder talks about Lego’s search for an additional master builder.

bq. the “role of the master builder exists to offer design, build, repair and service functions to all models and animated features within LegoLand California and selected external locations.”

p. Lego will be launching a cross country search for [...]

Site Updates

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

I’ve made a bunch of changes to the site. In addition to revamping the way the site is setup (breaking it up into parts, and modularizing everything to make the maintanence significantly easier) I’ve added some navigational aids and links. I’m working on integrating the “Movabletype”:http://www.movabletype.org powered blog aspects with some other items [...]

Eggdrop Soup

Monday, October 13th, 2003

p. I made some eggdrop soup today, and it was great. Very simple, quick, easy, and light. All it took was:

Chicken Broth Scallions (chopped) Eggs

Bring chicken broth to a boil.

Add scallions.

Drizzle eggs into broth and cook until fluffy.

Serve

Star Wars: The War on Terror

Sunday, October 12th, 2003

p. In response to new animated shorts about the Clone Wars coming out, a creative individual has produced the following retelling of the events in Star Wars in the context of the current war on terror. “Star Wars: Clone Wars” coming to Cartoon Network

bq. CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the [...]

New 20 Dollar Bills

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

p. “The Bureau of Engraving and Printing”:http://www.moneyfactory.com/ has announced the creation and distribution of the new “Series 2004″ $20 bills. They hope to deter piracy which has become increasingly simple in the age of digital photocopiers and photoshop, while still maintaining the basic look behind the US currency. Personally, I’d love to [...]

Parents Sue NFL for fan DWI

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

The “NYTimes”:http://www.nytimes.com posted an article titled N.F.L. Is Sued Over a Crash That Left a Child Paralyzed that mentions actions by a parent suing the NFL, the NYC Giants, the Meadowlands, the vendors, and anyone else who could possibly have money for a tragic auto accident by an intoxicated fan conviced of a DWI and [...]

SunnComm Drops Lawsuit

Friday, October 10th, 2003

The “Daily Princetonian”:http://www.dailyprincetonian.com has an article titled “Threat of lawsuit passes for student”:http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/10/10/news/8797.shtml regairding SunnComm’s decision to drop a threatened lawsuit against a Graduate student who published a method to defeat their newest copy protection scheme. While they are trying to spin it off as a desire not to be the company that “creates [...]

MacOSX 10.3 “Panther” Coming Out

Wednesday, October 8th, 2003

Apple’s announced that “OSX 10.3″:http://www.apple.com/macosx/ will be released this month on October 24th. The feature set looks quite impressive, and hopefully the speed gains will be as impressive as promised.

iCal and iSync Updated

Wednesday, October 8th, 2003

Apple updated their iCal and iSync software, finally replacing the floating window for event properties with a drawer and fixing the method for entering appointments that span multiple days. In addition, “phpiCalendar”:http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke seems to be progressing quickly, and is now almost at the level of Apple’s own “.Mac”:http://www.mac.com calendar publishing software. The latest [...]

Arnold Elected Governor

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

Arnold Schwartzeneggar was elected governor of California today (Arnold’s Campaign Website). With a fairly solid showing in terms of the electorate. It seems however, that people’s reaction to the recall was more one of disatisfaction with the current administration than a ringing endorsement of Arnold’s candidacy. It should be interesting to see [...]

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