Archives for 2002

I’m home 😉

Back on Amtrak’s Acela Express heading from Penn Station, New York back to Providence, Rhode Island…  should be home in less than three hours..

Got to see our stores in Queens Place and Gateway Center (Brooklyn) today as well as spending some office time with the boss – pretty enlightening day.

Looking forward to seeing what Amtrak has cooked up for dinner tonight.  Very interesting to me that I have the same crew in first class on the way home today that I had coming here…

Now it’s Enimem…

Two Trailer Park Girls Go Round the Outside

‘Round the Outside

‘Round the Outside

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I am having a blast being the owner of an Apple iPod. 

I purchased the 20GB Windows Version, and after some intial problems figuring out how to get it to sync the way that I wanted with my Sony Vaio laptop, I eventually loaded my entire CD collection onto it (2200+ songs).  I had previously ripped all of my CDs onto the hard drive of one of my servers.

Right now I’m jamming to Dave Matthews while cruising through southwestern Connecticut on the way to New York City for a real job ™ trip…

Cruising along at around 110mph right now on Amtrak’s Acela Express from Providence, RI to New York’s Penn Station (in Manhattan) – should be there in about 45 minutes.

This is so much cooler (and easier) than flying on a damn sardine can through the air…

I can’t wait to check this out – should be highly entertaining.

Celebrity Rants.com is aggregating all the messed up audio and video that we love to hear and see. Including my favourite; Casey Kasem freaking out in the studio. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

I gotta work on my list 😉

My essential software — sorta.. I set up a new work computer a while back and was logging everything I installed on it. In order. Perhaps for a list of My Essential Software, with commentary. But then I forgot I was doing it. And so I’ve now installed a bunch more stuff. Of course, most of it isn’t essential. And now I’m just going to publish the list because I’ll never getting around to writing the commentary (except the first one), or even, hell, linking the titles.

The machine started was a 2.4 Ghz Dell tower with 512MB of RAM, running WinXP Pro. It came with Microsoft Works and a bunch of other free crap. Here are the first 25 programs I installed.

• WS_FTP. Oddly, this was the first thing I installed. I didn’t consider it essential at all÷in fact, I don’t think I even have it on my other ‘puter. I usually use the command line. But I needed to see the progress of a great-big download, and the built-in FTPing in explorer was not working right.
  
• Zinf.
  
• Putty.
  
• Trillian.
  
• Microsoft Outlook 2002.
  
• Cisco VPN 5000 client.
  
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  
• Nelson Email Organizer.
  
• SpamAssasin Pro.
  
• QuickTime.
  
• Visual SlickEdit.
  
• Java JDK 1.3.1.
  
• Photoshop 5.5/ImageReady 2.0
  
• HomeSite 4.0
  
• AnalogX TSDropCopy
  
• Photoshop 6.0/ImageReady 3.0
  
• Microsoft Office 2000 Pro (sans Access, Word, and Outlook)
  
• Microsoft ActiveSync (for Pocket PC)
  
• Mozilla
  
• Netscape 4.08
  
• Cloudmark SpamNet
  
• WinCVS
  
• Opera
  
• Netscape 6
  
• CygWin

Fascinating, huh?! [evhead]