I don’t understand why the studios seem so intent on driving people to pirate movies. The experience (warnings about piracy, trailers, etc.) with a legitimate DVD or Blu-Ray is already awful and it seems they are trying to make it worse.
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‘Tis the sixth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on my blog. Thanks to my matey Dougal “BlueBeard” Campbell for the right proper plugin o’ th day.
‘Tis the fifth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Yo-ho-ho!
Note: This is the seventh in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. One of the great strengths of WordPress is its plugin system. In the upcoming 2.1 release, there is very little you can’t do as a drop-in plugin. This makes it easy to use WordPress as a CMS and keep…
Professional Career TL;DR version I got into digital page layout in the high school paper. That interest led to tinkering with web design in the mid-1990’s. I was able to turn pro in the late 1990’s and did UI design and front-end development for web-based enterprise software in the Bay Area for 5 years. During…
‘Tis the fourth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Pass the grog and spread th’ word.
Rands In Repose: Swear A Bit Be A Human. This is hard. I don’t think there is a class at your local university that teaches this. Personally, I attribute the tone I use in my writing to spending the past two decades of my life attempting to communicate via my keyboard. I Represent Me at…
Clinton Initiative Seeks Commitments The Birth of the Pilot :: Braeburn :: Tracing the history of Computing Pure Nerd BlackBerry 8700 live shot – but, I’ve already got a Treo. 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages (thanks Geof) Model-View separation and Web mail Doonesbury 2005-09-20 Clinton launches withering attack on Bush on Iraq, Katrina,…
‘Tis the third anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Pass the grog and spread th’ word.
The New Sox — The Hardball Times Yahoo! Local Traffic Widget for Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard Cage Fighter – “Just click the Off button to turn Mail.app’s new (hideous) toolbar buttons off.” (thanks Brent) ESPN.com – MLB – Pitching guru House details own steroid use in ’60s, ’70s Famous 19th century British murderer may…
I is a little late in getting ‘er up, but Talk Like a Pirate Day is once again alive an’ well here. Cheers to me matey One Eye Dougal for the jolly nice code.
In th’ meanwhile, if ye miss the Pirate Speak just click on this ‘ere link for yer daily dose of Yarrr! Shiver me timbers!
In celebration of the previously mentioned Talk Like a Pirate Day (and my birthday), my blog has undergone a wee temporary change. The excellent pirate jargon is courtesy of me matey Dougal.
A flurry of deadline deals have been going on. As a Mariners fan, the A’s – Reds trade that brough Jose Guillen to Oakland for Aaron Harang is one of the most interesting. I’m most of the way through Moneyball and this looks like a classic Beane trade to me. He didn’t like Harang and…
Just a couple of links this week: A long article about Mac users. I just found out that my birthday is national Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr. From Lockergnome Bytes (yes Jason, that is ‘Lockergnome Bytes’, not ‘Lockerbyte Gnomes’), Things my girlfriend and I have argued about. It’s amusing.