A while back, one of the credit card companies offered a small reward for switching to paperless statements. Looking forward to sparing a few trees while easily storing statements electronically instead of scanning them, I accepted the offer. Driven by that same desire to be environment-friendly, I later repeated this for my main card. Fortunately, … The danger of paperless credit card statements
Incredibly, the pre-sale for Rock the Bells did not sell out this week. Not even an entire day after it started. On a whim, I checked the Ticketmaster site this morning as tickets for NYC went on sale to the general public today. Apparently, the show sold out in about 15 minutes. Tickets are going … I’m raging, ripping up the stage and don’t it sound amazing
Redundant systems at my reach, pre-registered with Ticketmaster, calendar marked, cell phone alarm set. Regular weekly meeting gets rescheduled to now. No problem thanks to good ‘ol wi-fi. Meeting runs longer than I’d hoped. Checking the web site every minute just before 9:00. Conversation switches to small talk. Suddenly, the pre-sale is on. Heartbeat is … The rage is relentless
Rock the Bells tickets go on sale this Saturday. I was concerned that a pre-sale notice had been sent while my email was down, but no such notification has gone out yet. Public Enemy has been added to the line-up. Yikes. Tickets start at $82 ($156 for VIP) plus the usual Ticketmaster surcharge. I won’t … Poppin’, sockin’, rockin’ puttin’ a side of hip-hop
Completed a transfer of domain registrar today, which I have been intending to do for over a year. Network Solutions domain registration is way overpriced, and I get private registration at no additional charge with 1&1. The transfer took only four days, which is very fast, but it also had the unfortunate side effect of … Domain transfer
It is done. I transferred nearly six years of entries into the new blog. Wrote a Perl script to parse the content from the original templates and generated a bunch of RSS files, which could be imported into WordPress. The toughest part was categorizing the entries, which wasn’t absolutely necessary, but it gave me the … Blog is in da house
Site is long overdue for a redesign. Way too functional and utterly lacking in aesthetics. Enough of the hand-rolled Perl stuff. I’m working on importing everything into a WordPress blog, which I hope to roll out by the end of the month.
Rage Against the Machine adds more dates. New York, San Bernadino, and San Francisco. It turns out Rage Against the Machine will play more than one show after all–the seminal L.A. band will join the Wu-Tang Clan for three shows under the banner of Rock the Bells, the acclaimed hip-hop festival that kicks off in … …
Media outlets battle it out over free-speech rights. Disney’s ABC tries to bully blogger. Mike Stark, another blogger and a Spocko ally, said: “The way to fight free speech that you disagree with is to engage in more free speech. And that’s exactly what Spocko did.” Gonzales says the Constitution doesn’t guarantee habeas corpus. One … …
Records: NYPD Held GOP Protesters Longer. City fails to hide details of its disgraceful behavior during the RNC. A judge last month rejected the city’s effort to keep secret most of the files and videotapes documenting the arrests, leading to their release. [snip] Records show that arrested protesters on Aug. 31, 2004, were held an … …