This is one of the tools I've been waiting for....now maybe it will be easier to find time to post again. Maybe.
07/04/2007
06/04/2007
The Sims....Hollywood Style
I can't see this myself. What is the storyline going to be? My wife however, will be looking forward to it
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05/22/2007
Vox Hunt: Summer Reading List
Books: Show us your summer reading list.
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.Just to name a few.....
05/18/2007
I'm Twitter's b****.
I can't help myself. I really can't. I'm not even sure why I do it...but Twitter's got a hold on me. It's almost like a perfect blog platform. While not really being a blog, it is about all I can handle on most days..lol. As you can tell by my Vox blog, I don't have much to say, and if I do, it isn't terribly rambling or lengthy. That's where Twitter comes in. A quick SMS, or Twittermobile post, the occasional link, or a quick thought in Twitbin....it's perfect for me, and my pathetically short attention span.
The amount of tools and mashups alone, make it a lot of fun to screw around with. If you don't yet Tweet, I suggest you get started.
BTW...this post would not have fit in a Tweet....good for me.
mp3eme VOX: There Are No Words
"POST AN INSTRUMENTAL TRACK
FROM YOUR PERSONAL LIBRARY"
Quite a different spin from his career, Alt-Country legend Michael Nesmith gives us a jazzy fusiony track from his newest album.
04/16/2007
Emails tell the Tale of the Tape at VaTech
A student at Virginia Tech has released the emails sent out by school administration during this morning's horrific
shooting spree on campus.
Personally, I find these types of things especially unsettling, it's almost the same as hearing the 911 calls from September 11th. I can only imagine what was going on in the minds of the students and faculty, and especially that of the gunman.
Please pray for all involved in the incident, as well as their families. Please also pray for the gunman and his family.
I only hope that the 32 souls lost today have found their way Home.
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Timeline and text of e-mails sent out Monday by Virginia Tech to students and staff after the first 911 call at 7:15 a.m. reporting a shooting in West Ambler Johnston dormitory:
_ e-mail sent at 9:26 a.m.:
Subject: Shooting on campus.
"A shooting incident occurred at West Amber Johnston earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating.
"The university community is urged to be cautious and are asked to contact Virginia Tech Police if you observe anything suspicious or with information on the case. Contact Virginia Tech Police at 231-6411
"Stay attuned to the http://www.vt.edu. We will post as soon as we have more information."
_ 9:15 a.m.: Approximate time of second shooting at Norris Hall.
_ e-mail sent at 9:50 a.m.:
Subject: PLease stay put
"A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows"
_ third e-mail sent at 10:17 a.m.:
Subject: All Classes Canceled; Stay where you are
"Virginia Tech has canceled all classes. Those on campus are asked to remain where there are, lock their doors and stay away from windows. Persons off campus are asked not to come to campus."
_ fourth e-mail sent at 10:53 a.m.:
Subject: Second Shooting Reported; Police have one gunman in custody
"In addition to an earlier shooting today in West Ambler Johnston, there has been a multiple shooting with multiple victims in Norris Hall.
"Police and EMS are on the scene.
"Police have one shooter in custody and as part of routine police procedure, they continue to search for a second shooter.
"All people in university buildings are required to stay inside until further notice.
"All entrances to campus are closed."
04/13/2007
Meet the new boss.
It would seem that Google has been busy again. This time they are taking out more of their "ad space" competition. I wouldn't really think that G will use the DoubleClick technology, this is probably an acquisition more geared toward pillaging their existing customer base.
The question remains though, how many of those loyal DC customers will jump ship for another company. Evidently they weren't impressed with
Google, or they would have probably gone with the less obtrusive, more site-friendly Adsense.
Should be an interesting developing story though.
About 20 minutes ago Google announced that they have agreed to acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash (nearly double the size of their YouTube Acquisition). Microsoft was reportedly in a bidding war with Google for the company. Google gets access to DoubleClicks advertising software and, perhaps more importantly, their customers and network.
DoubleClick was founded in 1996. DoubleClick was taken private in 2005 by Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity for $1.1 billion. The New York Times is reporting that DoubleClicks revenues are about $300 million/year.
10x revenue for a mature company is a…healthy…valuation. At least part of the acquisition price appears to be due to a desire by Google to keep this asset out of Microsoft’s hands.
04/12/2007
A Sad Day for Me.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, short stories, essays and plays, died in
Vonnegut's most famous work was an iconic novel born out of his memories of war and its absurdities. Vonnegut's mother killed herself when he was a young man leaving to serve in World War II. As a private in that war, he was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a former slaughterhouse in the ancient German city of Dresden. From there he stepped out into the hellish, surreal landscape that Dresden became after it was firebombed. It took him 25 years to turn that experience into Slaughterhouse-Five.
"You can't remember pure nonsense," Vonnegut told NPR in 2003. "It was pure nonsense, the pointless destruction of that city, and, well, I just couldn't get it right. … I kept writing crap, as they say."
Slaughterhouse-Five, filled with the blackest of black humor, was finally published in 1969 — and became an instant bestseller. Vonnegut said he saw the book's publication as a kind of liberation.
"I think it had not only freed me, I think it freed writers," he said, "because the Vietnam War made our leadership and our motives so scruffy and essentially stupid that we could finally talk about something bad that we did to the worst people imaginable, the Nazis, and what I saw, what I had to report, made war look so ugly. You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff."
Vonnegut was a committed humanist and an outraged critic of the war in Iraq. On the lecture circuit in the years before his death, he delivered gentle and gnomic lessons: He told students that teaching is friendship, and told artists that their anti-war protests had the power of a banana cream pie. Vonnegut also asked people to notice when they feel happy.
Fellow author Gore Vidal said Vonnegut was a novelist like no one else. "He was a witty writer. He was a very good science fiction writer, which meant that he could deal rather safely in satire at the times in the '50s when other people didn't really dare."
Indeed Vonnegut approached the darkest subjects with humor, which was also the way he described his own life. He was a longtime smoker who once explained the habit by calling it a "fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide." In Vonnegut's case, it never quite took: He lived into his ninth decade, and died from complications from a fall.
Vonnegut's last work was a collection of essays called A Man Without a Country. In it, he suggested the way that music helped him through tragic times.
"Why this is so I don't know," he explained in a 2005 NPR interview. "Or what music is I don't know. But it helps me so. During the Great Depression in Indianapolis when I was in high school I would go to jazz joints and listen to black guys playing, and man they could really do it. And I was really teared up. Still the case now."
Though he was a vocal religious skeptic, Vonnegut wrote in that final essay collection that "if I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: 'The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.'"
Vonnegut's other novels include Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night and The Sirens of Titan. The author, who had homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons in New York, adopted his sister's three young children after she died. He also had three children of his own with his first wife, Ann Cox, and later adopted a daughter, Lily, with his second wife, the noted photographer Jill Krementz.
04/10/2007
Vox Hunt: Things Left Unread
Book: What book are you most ashamed you haven't read?
Submitted by Byrne.
I'd probably have to say that I feel kinda akward having never read Getting Things Done.
Having said that, I have studied the concepts, and consistently practice the methodology lined out in the book...but I can't help but feel like I'm robbing Mr. Allen......
So go buy a copy to assuage my guilt. :)
02/25/2007
Ray LaMontagne sings better than me. :)
Here's a couple of great tracks from Ray's new album, Till the Sun Turns Black.
Track 4: Three More Days
Track 6: You can Bring Me Flowers.
He's a very good singer and songwriter.
Enjoy.
Track 4: Three More Days
Track 6: You can Bring Me Flowers.
He's a very good singer and songwriter.
Enjoy.
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