I have an unconfirmed report that (excerpts from) an interview with Mercedes McCambridge from 1981 will be rebroadcast on Friday’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross This cannot currently be (is) confirmed at the website, which oddly does not contain a schedule of programming (but since it’s now Friday, the schedule for today has been posted).
My hero, George Carlin, gave me a great line last evening, when guesting on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He precisely defined the way I want my five-year-old daughter to remember me as a parent when I’m gone…
“Great Father.
Bad Example.”
From InfoWorld: Service Pack 2 for Windows XP will block pop-ups in Internet Explorer (IE) by default, Microsoft said Wednesday.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/17/HNxpupdate_1.html
Gee, now there’s a new idea. What the heck took you so bloody long?!?
From News.com: High-speed Internet service providers are increasingly putting their customers in the security hot seat, as they try to fight recent virus attacks that turn computers into spam factories.
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5174061.html
If you have a broadband connection, you need to read this article.
From CNN.com: A Utah company launched what it called a digital cable-style subscription television service “for the rest of us” on Tuesday, an alternative that eliminates the coaxial cable and strips basic service to a few essential networks with a price to match.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/17/digital.tv.ap/index.html
Lord, I wish something like that would show up around here so I could drop Suscom like a stone.
From News.com: Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives.
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5174034.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
Gee, modern media incompatable with older machines. What are those odds?
