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  • Gee, Thanks

    My iTunes update said the John Mayer performance from the Today Show last week was available for download. On the off chance it was a freebie, I fired up iTunes and poked around. Turns out they want $3.99 for a 22 minutes of footage. Sandy DVR’d the broadcast and what they showed wasn’t worth it.…

  • Quick Running Stats Now in Sidebar

    I’m slowly but surely getting up to speed on hacking WordPress. Today, I added some quick running stats to my side bar. Just about as easy as it gets. I made it so my run log database manager program prints the desired content to a file. Then I just call it in the WordPress sidebar.php…

  • Ah, Saturday Morning Runs

    I had a particularly good running week, getting in 6 miles at the Y each day. I was pretty worn out during Friday’s run. But, when I was done, I was feeling great and very glad I stuck it out. Friday night, unfortunately, between work and running, I was pretty much spent. I half fell…

  • Ray LaMontange on NPR

    Caught a great interview and in studio performance of Ray LaMontange on NPR this morning. I’ve enjoyed his special brand of vocal since I saw as a Dave Matthews Band opener a few years ago. I highly recommend his first album, Trouble. His second album, Till the Sun Turns Black, due out next week looks…

  • Interesting, Web 2.0 Color Pallete

    Modern Life Is Rubbish had a quick round up of colors made popular by the so-called Web 2.0 sites.  Hmm, I think I might borrow a couple of them for my upcoming website redesign.

  • The Return of the Mascot

    Fun article in NYT Drive Times newsletter today: Mascot Madness: VW Pulls a Rabbit Out of Its Past.  Besides the VW Rabbit, they touch on many forgetten mascot cars of the past like the Super Bee (also coming back as specially flavored edition of the Dodge Charger), Road Runner, Duster and others.