Monthly Archives: April 2006

We had a very interesting day today. This morning we took a tour of Tower Bridge. Horace Jones designed the bridge at the end of the nineteenth century, but unfortunately he never lived to see his creation. His ingenious design allowed pedestrians to cross the Thames by providing them with the walk-way at the top […]

links for 2006-04-13 Most Peculiar Tree House – Cool Pictures That thing’s nicer than our apartment. Welcome to Google Calendar Google calendar has launced. It’s compatiable with everything except your TI-85. NINJA NEWS- ATF rids Univ. of ninja threat Man Ninja’s are getting weak nowadays. Although I don’t think black sweat pants and a red […]

Ugh. I’m sorry, but you’ll have to settle for a relatively small post. We’ve walked all over London today and I’m just not in the mood to type. We saw the changing of the guard this morning at Buckingham Palace. Everyone in the audience watched with reverence, but I felt a little let down. During […]

Today Leigh and I visited Westminster Abbey. King Edward the Confessor built the original church around 1050 as a form of penance to the Pope for failing to go on a pilgrimage. Since the coronations in 1066 of both King Harold and William the Conqueror all English monarchs have been crowned at Westminster Abbey. You […]

links for 2006-04-11 Pat Robertson, Part 1 – via CBS News If you didn’t think Pat was kooky as hell before you read this, then you have something wrong with you and nothing I say will change your mind. But this does add to the general kookiness. Ghost Rider movie trailer- via YouTube At least […]

We made the flight over here to London without any significant problems. But here’s a little tip: if you’re six feet tall you’re not folding yourself up into a small enough shape to lie down across two airplane seats, so stop tryin’. And I don’t care how flexible you think you are, it ain’ happening. […]

links for 2006-04-09 Top 10 Hottest Cities For Car Thieves – via Netscape Autos Notice, if you will, the number of cities on the list in California. I suspect the constant threat of the Big One looming over their heads encourages Californians to act a little crazy. How else to you explain the Governator? Scientists […]

Today at 6:45 Leigh and I fly out of Houston International airport headed towards London, England. For the next three weeks I’ll post from Europe, so you might see a little change of direction on the blog during that time. While I still plan on writing the usual blog nonsense, I’m also going to use […]

I very rarely ask anything of my readers, but the time has come to call for anyone with a vested interest in protecting the neutrality of the internet to take a stand. Before I go further I need to clarify what I mean by “internet neutrality,” or “net neutrality.” The idea behind internet neutrality is […]

links for 2006-04-08 Google Talk Google released a new version of their chat client “GTalk.” I’ve been using it for quite a while now and its a really nice client. You can hack into it to talk to friends on AIM, ICQ, and several other clients. Download it and add “hypermark” and IM me. the […]