Random photo on my way home from work
Someone to watch over me
Saint Isidore’s Feast Day is April 4th
St. Isidore of Seville is my patron saint. He patches my operating system and keeps my device drivers current and up to date. He watches over me and delivers me from the BSOD. He gives me strength to smite sooth my users and optimize my network bandwidth. He protects me from viruses and worms and allows no spyware to tempt me. He is my guardian and keeps my identity from being usurped by those who would phish it. St. Isidore insures my passwords and guards my accounts from hackers. He is the firewall that guards me from the Internet barbarians and the pop-up blocker that shields me from unwanted pr0n. He is the encryption algorithm that guards my data and maintains the integrity of my storage devices. He is my backup and my restore in darker times when I lose my way or my faith is waning. He is the sale at Fry’s and the shepherd of increasingly lower prices on computer hardware. St. Isidore ushers in faster processors, cheaper and better video technology and increasingly smaller portable and removable storage options.
St. Isidore watches over me.
Technology Bytes – 03/08/06
On the air…
Technology Tower of Babel
Esta noche en Technology Bytes, el programa computacional de ayuda, Aurora Losada traducira en vivo preguntas formuladas en español. Ella es la editora de La Voz, el periódico en español del Houston Chronicle. Tú podras explicarle en español tus dudas de cómputo, y ella las traducira al inglés para los miembros de Technology Bites. El programa se transmite hoy miércoles 8 de 7:00 a 9:00 p.m. por KPFT, 90.1 FM. También lo puedes escuchar en www.kpft.org.
Tonight on my show, Technology Bytes, we will once again be experimenting with bilingual tech support. Aurora Losada, editor of the Chronicle’s Spanish-language publications, will be joining us in the studio as we invite our Spanish Speaking audience to phone in their support calls.
The last time we did this it was a huge success…and QUITE amusing.
According to Evil Dwight (who works with Aurora) there are some surprises planned. I am all a-twitter with anticipation.
You can tune in via KPFT 90.1 FM tonight between 7 and 9 pm CST or listen to the stream via the web site at www.kpft.org.
The Register – On G.W. Bush and wiretaps
It’s distresssing to me to consider how foolish we, as Americans, look in the eyes of the world. How willing we must appear to be to give up our rights, our freedoms, our dignity.
At times we must truly resemble a nation of inbred hicks.
Senate to save Bush’s bacon on illegal wiretaps
The House is a prole outfit that hasn’t got the imagination to worry about what these executive powers will mean in a couple of years, when the President and Mr. Clinton occupy the White House, and Democrats control Congress. They are foolishly fixated on letting their redneck boy king, whose handling of national security and public safety has already resulted in the loss of an American city, get away with anything he pleases to do – because, hey, terrorism.
Mark your calendars
I’m all kinds of excited about this show!
And what’s not to be excited about?
Aqua Velva, Houston’s only and by default, best B-52’s cover band, Clouseaux, a band that defies description…lounge, tiki and eclectic are good adjectives to start with and The Flying Fish Sailors…all combined for one evening and it’s a pajama party to boot!
Can you say extravabonanza?
*I know there is a typo on the flyer – blame Thomas Escalante from Sig’s Lagoon
Molly and the Ringwalds will be doing they’re usual happy hour show from 7-9ish. There’s no guarantee they will wear pajamas but the rest of us will be adorned appropriately. Wear yours and get in free!
Reelin’ in the years
The Flying Fish Sailors had a very humble, yet ambitious beginning. This is a photo from one of our first live performances (circa 1988) at what was then known as The Wellington Stone on W. Alabama in the Montrose area of Houston.
Left to right: Jay Lee, Greg Henkel and Joseph Linbeck.
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It’s hard to imagine that we are coming up on 20 years of performing together.
Kudos! I love kudos!
I know it’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but the blogging I do as part of my contract work for The Houston Chonicle over at the Helpline Blog is pretty cool to me.
My great grandfather, Franklin W. Lee, owned the Rush City News of Rush City, Minnesota and my great grandmother took it over after his death. Marilla Upright was the first woman newspaper editor of the country, and made the speech opening the Minn. pavilion at the 1892-3 Worlds Fair in Chicago.
I actually have my great grandfather’s journal that he wrote. It documents the birth of my grandfather and even has his first drawing in it. Kinda like his “blog” so-to-speak.
Anyway, I like what I do at the Chronicle and I like getting to be a part of the online aspects of what is happening there.
Today I got the news that the Chronicle has been recognized for it’s efforts in blogging.
New York University Associate Professor Jay Rosen from Pressthink and his students conducted a study to determine which major U.S. newspapers were best at blogging.
Fifteen undergraduates in journalism, two grad students, and one professor set out to determine–by our lights– the top blogging newspapers in the U.S. among major dailies. We found six standouts, two honorable mentions and some wacky blogs. Number One in our eyes: the Houston Chronicle. By a mile.
Coming in second is the Washington Post.
You can read about the study here.
I don’t fancy myself a newspaper man but I suppose there is some of it in my blood. Franklin Lee is one of my favorite relatives. He was a journalist, poet, playwright, essayist and editor.
I’d like to think that he might be proud of my efforts, or at least see them as something worthwhile. At any rate, it’s good to be acknowledged by one’s peers. And that’s what happened today.
Congrats to Evil Dwight over at chron.com and to all the Houston Chronicle Bloggers!
We’re #1!!!