Finally..

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Hooked on a Feeling

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This from a link in my agent log:
... you noticed an entry in your web server log file that references this page. NPBot is the NameProtect Inc. web crawler. As a Digital Brand Asset Management company, NameProtect engages in crawling activity in search of a wide range of brand and other intellectual property violations that [...]

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Wow! The “security” folks have been having a field day with the block functionality of the proxy servers here at my office (and corporate wide).
They’ve always blocked the minimum: porno, warez, playboy and even security sites that publish exploits or software that could be used to exploit systems. That’s pretty smart when you’re [...]

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Do you remember my end-of-year post of predictions and highlights, in which I predicted that “the most interesting record of 2003 will be made in, of all places, Germany, outside of Munich?”
Well, I was only half-prescient. The record was already available as an import and I had downloaded the MP3’s off of the Napster [...]

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As if there was any doubt that the music industry is really just a giant corporate marketing scheme, look no further than the hype surrounding the new Lisa Marie Presley album.
How’s this for a PR/press job for your first album: the cover of Rolling Stone, a one-hour prime time television special, video and radio airplay [...]

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Just got in from our Caribbean vacation. Photos are coming soon, but in short:
Fort crawling and mofongo in Old San Juan, third-world sketchy-ass taxi rides through the Dominican Republic, Powerboating from Saint Thomas to Jost Van Dyke, Celebrating my Father’s Retirement with my family, snorkeling at the Sand Bars, exploring Nassau, and a [...]

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My hometown makes the news:
Student suspended for use of word ‘gay’
By Nancy Lofholm, Denver Post Western Slope Bureau
A sixth-grade student at a Grand Junction middle school was suspended this week for referring to a student referee’s call during a playground ballgame as “gay.”
Ben Madison, 12, said he was playing at West Middle School when he [...]

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I was getting a haircut at the Great Clips, and the woman who was about to perform the job was showing me to my chair. Large, flat mirrors hung from the ceiling in front of each row of chairs. How many rows of chairs there were depended upon whether or not you [...]

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What a wild, weird week!
First, my wife is out of town for business, which throws me all off kilter. I sleep strangely and sort of lose track of my routines.
Monday was a big day. David Walsh flew in from Portland to attend the Atlanta Braves home opener. The morning low: a [...]

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The March Mosaic is in the house.

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OK, I have worked out what is going on. I woke up Sunday morning to discover snow falling outside. I live in Virginia and it is the end of March; this is insane. I was feeling irritated about having to wear snow boots the day after I had been in shorts, when [...]

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