Posted on August 29, 2008 by foggytown
I thought Obama’s acceptance speech was great theatre. If I thought he could deliver 10% of what he promises I would vote for him. Choosing Biden as his running mate really puts a damper on his “change” theme. I like Biden, but he has sat in the Senate since 1973! Yep, that’s all about change…
McCain [...]
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Posted on August 25, 2008 by foggytown
San Francisco, originally uploaded by foggytown1.
I was out at Pt. Isabelle with the dogs about 7 this morning, the City looked stark, this phone photo does not do it justice…
This post is a test of posting from Flickr
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Posted on August 19, 2008 by foggytown
Midnight in Mississippi (new music) and Omnibus (previously released music) were released this morning–you can get them both from Amazon MP3 Download service in DRM-free MP3 files for $9.99 each.
These are the first Blue Mountain (I link to Wikipedia because the official Blue Mountain site sucks so badly) releases since 2002 and the first album [...]
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Posted on August 10, 2008 by foggytown
[edit: 1/13/09, since this post is still popular I thought I would add an update. Google sync now does contacts and calendar, there is no need for conjola sync.]
When I first got my Blackberry Curve 8330 I was a bit overwhelmed with integrating my google, desktop, and (now) mobile data into a useful whole. Both [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by foggytown
I’ve never been happy with my GNOME theming…until now. Nimbus is a GNOME theme created by SUN for their Java Desktop. I just found it on GNOME-look, and it is beautiful. Very subtle with nice gradients, it simply looks great. It is grey, but the sort of grey that is near blue. I didn’t like [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by foggytown
I finally posted a few vacation photos. They are all in Colorado…(Yes, I know the photo album still needs work;-)
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by foggytown
Trying to ignore the iPhone, I didn’t pay much attention to this phenomena in the past. But now I have a crackberry and see it everywhere. What is “it”, you ask? “it” is the splintering of the web caused by a propietarty company extending web standards on their own and causing web developers to code [...]
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