Entries from April 2003

He’s telling lies, lies, lies, lies, lies lies lies

Date April 30, 2003

In case you missed it over at “Scott’s”:http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001202.html, the Bush administration has started saying now that it’s not important for us to find actual weapons of mass destruction, just evidence that a program existed at one time.
See, you’re supposed to “lower expectations”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/30/wmd/index.html _before_ you deliver, not after. Seven years in the web development business has [...]

New Music

Date April 29, 2003

Since “Glen is reviewing Apple’s new music service”:http://www.art-machine.org/archives/001956.html, I think now is a good time to mention that three (yes, three!) of my favorite artists have new albums — two of which have actually been released.
*Aimee Mann* (yes, the “Till Tuesday Chick”) has released “Lost in Space”:http://www.aimeemann.com/ on her own label. If you have [...]

RSS Feed 2.0

Date April 26, 2003

Nicole should be happy about this: http://www.thudfactor.com/index.xml is now an RSS 2.0 feed with complete entries (but no comments). It took me some digging but I finally found a pre-made template that seems to work. The Big Pink Cookie has more.
Now, I have to say I like the concept but I’m not sure about the [...]

Have you divined it yet?

Date April 25, 2003

Unless you are an long, long-time trivia-buff reader of Thudfactor, you might be surprised by the nature of my new web tool. It still needs some work and I’m less than pleased with the design, but here it is:
The Geomantic Oracle
Geomancy is an old, old method of fortune-telling. It has a limited vocabulary and involves [...]

Love In

Date April 25, 2003

“Morgan”:http://www.knitwitology.net/knitlog/archives/004144.php#004144 agrees with “Erika”:http://www.snazzykat.com/archives/003601.php#003601 that what the world needs now is love sweet love. And because I’m usually a sucker for those activities that try to spread warm fuzzies around ‘Net rather than cold pricklies, hell, I’ll participate too.
So, my favorite people:
I should of course mention those in my family. “Sarah the Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ has a [...]