On the move again . . . 

A Web Undone 2 is moving again, but will hopefully stay put for a while in its new home at http://www.williamsonday.com.

11:21:01 PM    

Google It!

First USA Reaches 28 State Settlement "ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - First USA Bank, the nation's largest issuer of Visa credit cards, has agreed to pay $1.3 million as part of a settlement with 28 states over the way telemarketing firms sold products and services to the banking company's customers.

"First USA, now doing business as Bank One Card Services, also agreed to police its third-party vendors to prevent deceptive telemarketing aimed at its more than 53 million credit card holders, according to New York state's Attorney General's office."

How long before Spitzer runs for President?

11:07:05 AM    

Google It!

 I have been having problems with the Radio Userland comments server, so I am going back to YACCS.

6:16:55 PM    

College Chess's Silent Knights (washingtonpost.com) "MIAMI, Dec. 29 -- Too bad the wrestling people don't run chess tournaments."

11:54:27 PM    

Google It!

 

A long day just trying to keep things going. 

Transferring settings from my old computer at work to my new one proves to be a process taking days not hours.  For the past couple of days, the computer has ground away "collecting information" and then the transfer process has burped out an error saying it has lost contact with the new computer and has to quit. I hope that by collecting and saving the settings and files on the old computer first, rather than trying to transfer them directly over the network, I will be able to complete the process.

I have also sealed up the hole around the pipe in the bathroom, and I am hoping that this will give me the upper hand against the invading sugar ants.

11:47:13 PM    

 

This morning, for the second day in a row, I had some of the best coffe I have had for a long time, thanks to my Christmas present from my wife.  Undoubtedly, it is the best present I received this Christmas.  She gave me a briki for making Turkish coffee and a brass burr coffee grinder from Natasha's Cafe that produces the fine grind necessary for Turkish coffee.  It takes a few more minutes to grind and prepare, but the reward is proportionate.

7:46:35 PM    

 

I had almost despaired of being able to run Infocom text adventrure games on my Palm after pilot-frotz broke in Palm OS 5.0.  Fortunately, I found frobnitz, and it looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

12:20:23 AM    

 Besides spending a very pleasant evening with two good friends, with whom we enjoyed a delicious grilled lamb dinner at the Lebanese Taverna in Pentagon Row, I probably learned more about basketball tonight than I have in the preceding thirty-odd years.  For my first live professional basketball game, we went to see the Wizards, who narrowly defeated the Atlanta Hawks.  Now I will be able to tell my children that I saw the legendary Michael Jordan play, even though a better time would have been when I was in Chicago ten years ago.  Still, he made a palpable difference when he was on the court.  The half-time show was quite fetching: the eleven members of the Boehmer family jugglers juggled batons in every conceivable combination, and the patriarch engaged in feets of balance on his chin ranging from his youngest daughter in a chair by one leg to a full-size canoe.

11:35:12 PM    

PDACool "Quel est le comportement des principaux logiciels sur la plateforme Palm OS 5.0 ? Voici un état des lieux qui risque d'être dépassé au rythme des mises à jour des programmes."

11:45:21 PM    

Google It!