It’s pretty obvious that Nike co-founder Phil Knight wasn’t great friends with former University of Oregon athletic director Bill Moos. But he obviously likes the new guy, giving $100 million to the University today.
Month: August 2007
So What Killed Skype Over The Weekend?
The majority of the blame lies in Microsoft’s Windows Update or so says Skype. I really seems like to me it’s more of Skype infrastructure problem, just like the commenters below said.
Former Models Are A Force To Be Reckoned With
August 16, 2007 — A former model turned the tables on a mugger, beating him senseless on a Manhattan street until cops finally pried her off, authorities said yesterday.
Silva Natividad, 54, yesterday credited the TV show “COPS” for spurring her to tackle Jonathan Burkes on First Avenue near 38th Street at noon Monday.
“He grabbed my money and pushed me,” she said. “But I didn’t fall. I got a grip on myself.”
Natividad said Burkes tried to take off with the cash, but “you know how in ‘COPS,’ when they jump on the person before they run away? That’s what I did.”
There Just Needs To Be An Extra 12 Hours In A Day
Or I just need to quit sleeping…
I have at least a dozen people who all want me to do computer work for them, and unfortunately I don’t have enough free time to do it. I totally wish I could help you all right now, but I have a day job that obviously has to come first. All of you, I’ll get to you eventually, I promise.
Priority #1 for me right now is to get everybody from my previous mailing list software into FeedBurner (there’s a new sign up form on the right of the page). Unfortunately, they don’t have an import function, so I’m forced to manually renter them one-by-one. I’m about two-thirds done. Update: All done — all folks on the list should’ve received a message to confirm they wanted to sign up. You can also use the sign up on the right side of the page.
Priority #2 will come tomorrow night when I take over the Web hosting for Jack Bog. We’re going to move his popular blog to a dedicated server tomorrow, and I want to make sure it goes perfect (and I’ve been planning and setting up for this for a while so it’s also occupied a bunch of my time). Update on 8/18: After the transfer last night, we had some odd ball Perl issues with MT. After a late night, we got them all resolved, and Jack’s site is flying nice and smooth now.
Priority #3 will be to take care of my in-laws computer, which keeps randomly freezing up. It’s not heat related as I let CPU-Burn in run for about eight hours with no issues at all, so I still have some work to do on that. Update: Think I may have this resolved after uninstalling a bunch of unneeded software. But I need to stress it to make sure.
And then Simone, Cheryl, a couple coworkers and a few other folks all need their computers upgraded, fixed, or what not. Just need to find the time to do it all, and actually see my kids (which are far more important than anything on the above list).
And these are all just free-time priorities, not actual work-day priorities, which are a whole other issue entirely.
I just need to quit sleeping … but we’ll try that some other time, so good night.
Video Link Dump
Since I never do video link dumps (</sarcasm>), here’s a bunch of cool videos for your viewing pleasure (all after the jump):
If You’re Going To Rob A Store…
…there are better (and less painful) disguises than wrapping your head in duct tape (with hilarious photos and video).
Michael Vick Hit With “$63,000,000,000 Billion Dollar” Lawsuit
Michael Vick is accused of some very serious crimes, but I seriously doubt he pledged his allegiance to Al Qaeda and that he’s responsible for stealing dogs, selling them on eBay and then using the proceeds to buy missiles from Iran. Full story.
Mailing List Borked
I have had a Dada Mail-powered mailing here for quite a while. But apparently it stopped sending over a month ago, and I haven’t the slightest idea why other than some ugly Perl error that I really don’t have deal with right now.
Since I’m sick of troubleshooting Perl, I’m going to be moving all the subscribers I currently have (about 200 300 or so) over to FeedBurner’s e-mail blast system (since I’m already using them for my RSS feeds with good luck). It’s not as pretty as the messages I have been sending out, but I just don’t have time to deal with troubleshooting more stuff right now.
So those of you on my mailing list, expect mailings to return soon, just in a different format.
Edit: There were more people on my list than I thought.