General

[snipped from Jeremiah’s Weblog]

I’ve been saying ‘Oy!’ a lot. I know I’m not Jewish so saying “Oy Vey!”(which is Yiddish) probably isn’t the wisest thing, but Dave says it all the time on his blog, and it’s addictive.

Speaking of not being Jewish, a surprising number of the people I hang around on a daily basis are (I had named them previously, but I decided that wasn’t a good idea).

Anyways, it just goes to show that I know a lot of very smart people, and a lot of those people are Jewish. I’m wonder if there are just as many Athiests and Christians?

It’d be interesting to see this as a poll.

Interesting, but I don’t know what signifigance it would hold. I don’t think descriminating on the basis of religion is a good idea. Don’t get pissed at me for observing something.

I now concider myself a Humanist, it fits me well. [Jeremiah’s Radio Weblog]

About being Jewish: although my ethnicity is Jewish (and what else could it be with the name Cohen?), I don’t really consider myself belonging to the Jewish religion, or any other organized religion for that matter. I’m not exactly an Atheist, but I don’t really believe in the Judeo-Christian concept of god. Religion isn’t really something I think about, but when I do, I guess I prefer Eastern religions.

Weight loss for geeks. A spectre is haunting Kuro5hin: the spectre of obesity. A look at the diary section reveals that regular K5ers are enormous, bloated fat behemoths, barely capable of reaching their keyboards over their gurgling, grossly distended, sweat-oozing bellies [links omitted to protect the guilty]. But do not despair! Geeks can lose weight. CAD coder and CEO John Walker has created a Hacker’s Diet especially for you! It’s available online, and downloadable as a zipped PDF or even a gzip postscript file. You can even download computer-based tools for Palm and Excel. Too lazy for that? Kuro5hin’s own TheophileEscargot has his own guide, The Fat Bloke’s Guide to Becoming Less Fat, dedicated to proving that even the idle can become thinner. If he can do it, anyone can! [kuro5hin.org]

I really need to start going to the gym again. I’ve been getting really lazy lately. Since I’ve been working at home, I spend way too much time in front of the computer and I’m not getting enough exercise. I feel really out of shape now

I’m now using the new version of Jeremiah‘s Soundwaves theme, with some minor changes to the day & item templates.

Thanks, Jeremiah!

I’ve changed the template slightly to add colored backgrounds for day headers & items.

OK, enough of that. I got sick of the new theme pretty quickly, so I’m now back to the Transmitter theme.

I’m now using the Adult Contemporary theme, although I’ve made some adjustments to the appearance of navigation links.

I notice a cosmetic problem with the bar along the top of the page.

Copied a great them from Bryan Bell. I’m using it here now. You can get your own copy of SoundWave Orange for Radio. Drop me a line if you end up using it. [Jeremiah’s Radio Weblog]

Thanks Jeremiah! I’m now using it

Universal has a new web site to address questions & problems related to copy protected CDs.

Some excerpts:

Why have you copy-protected the CD?

UMG is incorporating copy protection into their CDs to assess its viability in protecting the rights of our artists and copyright holders by preventing CD copying and illegal Internet distribution

Can I play this disc in my PC?

The CD will play in PCs that meet the following minimum system requirements: PC with at least Pentium¨ 133mHz or compatible processor, 32 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, soundcard and speakers, Microsoft ¨Windows95¨, Windows98¨, Windows2000¨, Windows ME¨, Windows XP¨ or Windows NT 4 ¨ with Service Pack 4.

The CD should automatically start playing in most PCs. If it does not start playing in yours, open the CD-ROM drive’s window and click on the music player application. Once in the player you can “Play” or open the “Playlist”, choose a track and click on it.

You can provide feedback at umg@umusic.com .

Notice that they don’t mention Macintosh

Are you considering buying a new PDA or upgrading your current device? The Palm has been around for a while. It is a proven and efficient OS. Many, many apps have been deployed to this platform. Additionally, many hardware components have been developed as well. Palm has even introduced a new conduit that is OS X enhanced. I have been testing the Palm Desktop public beta and I like it. I am beginning to wonder, “Who needs Entourage?” [Radio X Neophyte]

A few months ago I replaced my old Palm III with a Visor Prism. I love the color screen and the USB cradle syncs a lot more reliably than my old Palm did with a Keyspan PDA Adapter.

A few times I’ve seen an error when I sync saying that it can’t access the user data file. When that happens, Palm Desktop also won’t show my data. Going to the terminal window and killing the Palm Desktop Background process fixes the problem.

I’m planning to get a Visor Phone to go along with it so I won’t have to schlep both a cell phone and my Visor wherever I go as I do now.