tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143728262011-08-26T17:43:29.181-06:00Thoughts and musings on life, the universe, everything, Macs, bikes, computing and politics...Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383754713040629485noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14372826.post-1162649456130072442006-11-04T06:58:00.001-07:002006-11-04T09:46:36.470-07:00

OK, it's really just a blog entry prompted by an e-mail, but it is still exciting news! Our friend and fellow cyclist, Ron Wesley, has finished a CD of his music! Check out his music at Broadjam. He's got songs up for preview and download. Ron is a bass player extraordinaire. The tunes are a mix of smooth and funky electric blues. If you are interested in the CD, drop me an e-mail and I'll hook

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Mac OS X 1.4 (Tiger) introduced many new features, including Widgets, small programs accessed from the Dashboard. One of these was the dictionary widget, which does just what you would think. It lets you look up a word and gives you the definition. It works very well as long as the word you want is in the Oxford American Dictionary, which the widget uses.If the widget doesn't find the word you

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For anyone who hasn't heard of Nick Charles, he is a fabulous guitarist and songwriter from Australia. I was pleasantly stunned to find out he was playing Las Cruces. Cindy and I were blown away by his playing earlier this evening. It is easy to understand why Nick was chosen “The Blues Artist of The Year” and “Solo Performer of The Year" in his native state of Victoria, the most recent in a long

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Sunsets in the southwest are times of beauty. Tonight was no exception. Cindy and I took a short walk around the neighborhood, returning home just at sunset. This picture is looking west over the side of our neighbor's house. Our house is to the right, just outside the picture, on the north side of the street opposite the neighbor's house. Just another beautiful evening in the desert.

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Last night we went to see the stars at Leasburg Dam State Park, about 15 miles north of Las Cruces near Radium Springs. The Sky Safari consisted of two New Mexico State University (NMSU) graduate students setting up an 8" telescope to view various stars and planets.As the sky darkened, we were treated to a wonderful display. Jupiter, Saturn and Mars were all in the sky and visible to the naked

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I haven't posted since April, which could lead one to wonder if my inbox cleanup had done any good to free up time to do other things! The answer it that it freed up some time but I filled up the time saved and a whole bunch more. To make a long story short, we decided early this year that it was time to sell our house in Colorado Springs. It was a dream come true to live in one of the old

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It's been two months since I cleared the lists from my inbox. This effort has succeeded except for a few stragglers to unsubscribe from every few days, though these are tailing off as well. Clearing all the lists out of my inbox has created an interesting side-effect, predictable, but one whose impact I hadn't really thought about. Now that almost all of my e-mail is from people I care about and

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Today I finished emptying my inbox and unsubscribing from almost every e-mail list I was on. I stayed on a couple because I really like to get the information and the sites/organizations/people do not provide an RSS feed. The motivation for cleaning out my inbox should be obvious to anyone who has an e-mail account. But why dump all the e-mail lists and sign up to RSS feeds?First, I was receiving

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Watching Senate hearings may not sound exciting, but this is one to care about. I happened on the Senate Commerce Committee hearings on C-Span while channel surfing in the hotel tonight.Daniel Berninger has done a nice job of summarizing the issues in a guest columnon Om Malik's blog. Follow the link there to get to an archived video of the hearings. Laurence Lessig, one of my favorite writers

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The Whale and the Supercomputer, Charles WohlforthThis book tells many stories centered on the theme of climate change as seen in Northern Alaska. The Iñupiat people have lived around what is today Barrow, Alaska for over a thousand years. As with many indigenous peoples, they have a keen awareness of their natural surroundings. For the Iñupiat, knowledge of weather, ice and whale behavior is a

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Welcome to my latest attempt to get a blog going. I've tried a couple of times with various things I wanted to focus on. This will probably ramble over a lot of different territory as I decide what I most want to talk about. If you find something interesting, please feel free to comment or respond by e-mail. If you disagree with something I say, I welcome a respectful exchange of ideas.

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