http://chris.weekly.org/blog My writings, photos, music and links Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:08:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't gotten really excited about the Olympics since I was a little kid -- and frankly I'm more interested in the NFL preseason than most of the events in China -- but I have to say, the amount of high-quality footage available on http://www.nbcolympics.com/ is remarkable. There's nothing on ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/08/11/olympics-on-nbcolympicscom-wow On windows, setting an iPhone in a sync cradle will trigger a modal dialog window "Camera Connected - Select the program to launch for this action". This is an annoyance. Here's the solution: 1. Run "SERVICES.msc" 2. Find "Services (local)" > "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)" 3. Right-click it and choose "Properties" 4. Set "Startup ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/08/10/iphone-on-windows-eliminate-annoying-camera-detection-dialog I wrote a lengthy comment in response to another great post from Jon Taplin here: http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/anthrax-the-lure-of-big-military-money/ and wanted to share it. I agree there’s no chance McCain would do anything to correct the many egregious changes we’ve seen in our government’s relationship to the Constitution during the Bush administration. And like you ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/08/03/a-response-to-taplins-post-on-government-power Something to consider: we are not at war in Iraq, we won the war a long time ago. Rather we are in the midst of an occupation. Iraq's government and military have been dismantled and rebuilt, all the major cities have been taken over, and the violence is that of ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/29/occupation I spent a couple hours today helping restore, upgrade and secure a friend's website. It was harder than it should have been, in part because of inconsistent configurations and undocumented changes his ISP made to partly restore the site before I go to it (though their customer support was surprisingly ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/29/helping-hand This was news to me: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/domains.html http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/28/google-does-domain-registrations I am listening to Arcade Fire's album "Funeral" right now for the third time in a row and feel like I'm finally grokking (and really enjoying!) this music. I'd listened to them some before -- mostly "Neon Bible" -- but without getting much out of it; they got such rave ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/27/learning-how-to-listen People tend to ask where we got the name "Harper" for our month-old daughter, so here's the story. Shawna first mentioned it about three months into the pregnancy and it immediately resonated with me. I started thinking of her as Harper and was never really able to envision her with ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/25/harpers-name The Cost of Empire « Jon Taplin’s Blog. This might be the most complete and informed account of the current mess we're all in I've seen. Too broad and too rich with insight to paraphrase easily, but its closing serves well enough: It will be our task to imagine a way to ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/24/the-cost-of-empire-%c2%ab-jon-taplin%e2%80%99s-blog Those of us who have been playing w/ the web since the early days have a special relationship with the HTML <blink> tag, having suffered through its noxious heyday. Today, thankfully, few sites I care about still employ it. However there is a chess openings web application which I use ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2008/07/15/greasemonkey-script-to-remove-blink-tags