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Good night last night in

Good night last night in the hospitality suite. Couple glasses of wine, watched a couple who really knew how to do the lindy and the Eastern dance up a storm. Met some people, laughed a lot.

Did just a tad of

Did just a tad of sightseeing after lunch at a Pizza and Beer Joint called 'Bottoms Up'. Took my fancy Pontiac Grand Prix and drove down Monument Avenue. Pretty street. The leaves are pretty being fall and all. I took a few pictures which I'll post later. This trip update blogging is kind of fun. If I had a decent laptop of my own, I could post the pictures which would be even better! Oh well. I'm off to the Gala.

iPaulo here in Richmond VA

iPaulo here in Richmond VA checking in. My laptop can't connect to the earthlink point of presence here in Richmond. It sucks. So I'm using the email room at the conference I'm at. I've had some complaints from my bandwidth challenged iPaulonesians that my links usually require a high-speed connection. I had planned to surf the web on the laptop I brought (with its 33.6 modem) and make the next few days a light period. If I can't get the laptop working, well, these machines have a T1 and iPaulo may go right on being modem unfriendly. Sorry... Anywho. Gotta go to my first session in a minute. Didn't have much time to surf, but the blog of the day is a hip looking site about U2.

Howdy all. A D&D movie

Howdy all. A D&D movie trailer was slashdotted today. They don't provide a direct link, at the request of the D&D site. Well, the site is hideous! I gave up watching the Flash animation you can't skip, and almost gave up looking for the trailer in the text only part of the site. If you're a web designer, look at this site to see how to piss of visitors with cryptic navigation and how to force feed users things they don't want to see. Argh! Anywho. I did find the trailer. This page is as close as I could get to a link. (quicktime required)

iPaulo's well is not totally

iPaulo's well is not totally dry. Took a real quick look at the blog of the week. Found Willa's Halloween WebLog 2000! A tidy little blog with some good links. Enjoy.

Golly!

Golly!

Slashdot mentions a cnet article

Slashdot mentions a cnet article which rates cell phone radiation for different models (with a chart!). Mine is too old to be listed.

Uuugggg!! It's Friday the 13th.

Uuugggg!! It's Friday the 13th. Run in Terror!

Can someone explain this to

Can someone explain this to me? Washington Mutual Bank just dropped their ATM surcharges. (an ATM surcharge is a fee a bank charges a non-customer for using its ATM) However, they still have an out of network ATM fee, which is what they charge their own customers when they go out of network. Hence, if it is cheaper for me not to be a Washington Mutual Fund customer. They are PAYING me to stay with Wells Fargo. I called WM and nicely explained this issue. In the end, she was speechless when asked why this makes me want to switch banks--their stated intent. Did anti-competitive aliens intent on sending business to other banks just take over Washington Mutual?! That is the real story here!!!

Lord of the Rings fans

Lord of the Rings fans -- hear from the actor who is playing Sam.

real quick. if you haven't

real quick. if you haven't been to living colours yet, go today. the poem and photo are really classic kaycee. next, like napster but hate giving away your bandwidth for free? check out mojo nation. if you're using napster in ways metallica wouldn't like, then this will be perfect for you. you'll get paid for stealing their music. totally perverse.

great current movies: meet the parents and best in show (flash req'd).

best new tv show: Ed.

Woowho! The Ducks won their

Woowho! The Ducks won their first game 3-1. Excellent. While at the game, I saw the funniest thing. During the intermission, they had a contest on the ice. They brought three fans out. Two were about 18 but the second kid in line was only 8 or so. When it came to be his turn to say "Mighty Ducks fans...Let's get ready to ruummmmble.", he just stood there. And he stood there. And, from off camera, you could tell they were trying to help him with what to say. And, he started to cry. They quickly moved the camera to the third person. Poor kid, but it was hilarious. I laughed for 5 minutes solid. I cheered for him with the rest of the crowd during judging and he won the prize. Then, I went right on laughing.