Yankees End D’Rays' Run. It looks, from the outside, like the pressure of playing in New York is having unexpected negative effects on Giambi’s performance. I’m certain that things will swing the other way, and that this is somewhat of an adjustment time period. Needless to say, it seems the honeymoon was over pretty quick.
Good people can do bad things, and bad people are quite capable of doing good things at times. Sometimes, when a bad person does something that wasn’t intended as a good thing, the results nonetheless are good results. Also, when a good person tries to do something good, they can cause bad results. As a result of this information set, I rarely will condemn a person’s actions across the board. I get frustrated sometimes, that the binary nature of people causes them to do this, to condemn someone across the board. It gets tiring, hearing essentially the same thing from someone over and over again. Just a meandering thought, but one that I seem to be thinking a lot recently.
It’s starting to look like Robin Ventura was the key off-season acquisition by the Yanks. They beat Baltimore again last night behind excellent pitching from Mussina. Too bad most of Manhattan still can’t watch the games due to the cable craziness with the Yes Network.
Stepwise: Restoring HFS and webDAV after Apple’s April 2002 Security Update
The newest version of Omnigraffle for Mac OS X ships with jjg’s visual vocabulary as a palette. How cool and very useful. Upon surfing a bit from a link I found at Webgraphics, I also found that Michael Angeles has a downloable palette that can be used for wireframing with Omnigraffle. Finally, there are even more palettes linked from Omni’s extras page. I have a feeling that I will never regret licensing all of Omni’s software a couple of months ago.
Animated Today 2002 opens the today screen on Pocket PC devices up to Flash development.
Rip ‘n’ Roll: A Date With 8 Jukeboxes This article does not live up to its title at all. I was expecting a comparison of the eight Jukeboxes. At best, all I got was a mention of eight jukeboxes. I can’t believe how shoddy I’ve found the mainstream media’s coverage of technology consumer electronics to be. The reports are, like this one, shallow and uninformative. I’m not talking about hardcore technical specifications or tests even, how about a comparison of the sound quality of these devices, or a listing of which has the best battery life? People are saying that Weblogs are not journalism, but all I keep thinking is that I get better information from Weblogs about many of the things I am interested in. Finally, there’s not a new piece of information in this article anywhere. No conclusions drawn, no recommendations made. Where’s the beef?
This post on Derek’s site, and the comments that go along with it are chock full of links that merit visitations. “who you calling boring, punk?”
Jordan’s Season Is Over Hey, I was pretty vocal about his return, saying that it wasn’t a good idea. I think that he tried to do something that he thought was right for him, for the team, and for the game itself. I’m really sorry that things didn’t really work out for him the way he was hoping. I guess there is always next year.
There are already a few interesting Flash MX components here. mmm yummy.
DaVinci is a Flash MX component for annotating images. This should give some of you Flash haters something to think about.
Darkleaf is the next band from the crew that spawned Jurassic 5. Worth checking out if you like non-mainstream hip hop, J5, or Ozomatli.
Hello. I opened my pool yesterday. I lost six pounds in the first week of my diet, and I’m off to the gym in a moment.
Looks like August 6th is the day that the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring will be released on DVD. Wish I didn’t have to wait that long. Especially when some people I know already have obtained a reasonably high quality DVD version.
Show Ends for the Yanks' Sojo It’s got to be so tough for an old school manager like Joe Torre to have to part ways with so many of his staple players over this off season. Sojo is the most recent to go. You may remember him as the guy who always seemed to come up with that big hit in the clutch situation. I’m certain that the Met’s fans among you will remember him:-)
As a Yankees fan, I can't say I'm not a little concerned about the tean chemistry going into this season. They replaced so many of their core players, and these guys were the ones who set the tone in the clubhouse. Players aren't just interchangable parts that you can easily swap in and out. It could be worse, of course, look at the situation in Texas. I'd hate to be a fly on the wall in the Ranger's clubhouse these days. Regardless of all this stuff, I find myself really looking forward to baseball season. I hope labor disputes don't end up ruining the game for me again.
I started a new nine week exercise and diet plan today. I’ve remained in pretty good shape over the last year and a half, but I’m ready to take a jump up to the next level of fitness. Anyway, the diet seems pretty sensible and I read the book which documented the plan’s choices with studies and whatnot. The workout plan is somewhat similar to one that a trainer I worked with a year ago had me on, but seems a bit more intense. I’ll let you all know how I make out.
Sony taking pre-orders for CLIE NR series in US This looks like the most compelling Palm based device to date. Still, I remain unconvinced at this point that there is any reason not to buy a Pocket PC device instead.
Ars Technica reviews gobe Productive 3.03 This office suite, formerly the standard for the BeOS, is now available for Windows and will soon be available for Linux. I think there is a market out there for a suite like this one. It’s competitively priced, and I don’t think everyone really needs the full power(or price) of Office XP. I, for one, haven’t upgraded from Office 2000 on my Windows machines yet. What is the compelling reason to do so?
NY Times: Online Surpasses Catalog at J. Crew Here we are in the depths of an industry depression, and there seems to be continued evidence that the Internet is going to be a key to commerce in the next few years. Of course, J. Crew was an easy transition seeing as how they were primarily catalog based. I’ve bought things online and returned them at their Atlanta retail locations a couple of times, and somehow that seems easier than sending things back.
Doing my spring cleaning and putting the winter clothes in the attic today. While I work in the house, I have my tower playing music through my stereo that I can hear throughout the house. One thing I love about iTunes is the ability to filter your library usng keywords. This means making a quick mix of songs whose titles all contain the same word quick and very easy. Right now I’m listening to my “me” mix. Some highlights: Bittersweet Me by R.E.M, Try Me by James Brown, Knocks Me Off my Feet by Stevie Wonder, and All That Scratching is Making Me Itch by Rob Swift.
Apple Introduces 10GB iPod They’ve also updated the iPod software to support contacts. I don’t think I’ll be using that feature.
Alison has posted a hip new design tonight. One of the best things about this year’s SXSW was getting to know her.
I apologize for neglecting my weblog duties since I’ve been back. It’s primarily a symptom of some strange blog malaise I’ve been experiencing. I’ve been putting the time away from the keyboard to good use though. My pool is just about ready to be opened, my gardens are much better tended than they were a week ago, and I’ve either hit the gym or gone inline skating every day. That last item is directly related to the first, I don’t want to be flabby computer boy at my own pool. I’m quite sore today as a result of yesterday’s bench press extravaganza. Updates should resume as normal tomorrow morning.