My hometown of Cleveland, OH is finally a winner … a recent Forbes article named it the number one most miserable city, edging out last year’s reining champion, Stockton, CA. Hoping to continue Cleveland’s championship year in 2010, the Cavaliers traded local favorite Zydrunas Ilgauskas (who’s spent his entire 12-year career with the Cavs) to [...]
Archive of entries posted in February 2010
It was time to upgrade
March 1 is quickly approaching and starting Monday, people who are still running the Release Candidate of Windows 7 will start seeing the expiration message. I’ve been running the RC at home since May of last year and knew this time would eventually come, so this past week I purchased the Home Premium upgrade media [...]
Who dat? An evening with Harry Connick, Jr.
This evening my wife and I went to Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater to see Harry Connick, Jr. who’s touring in support of his new album, “Your Songs.” This was either the fourth or fifth time we’ve seen Harry in concert (we couldn’t remember exactly) and it was a great show as always. The way [...]
Fellow Ozians …
We went and saw “Wicked” this afternoon at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, using tickets we purchased about five months ago. It’s an incredible show and I highly recommend you see it if you have the chance! This was the third time for me (once on Broadway with the original cast, here in Tampa [...]
Another hard drive crash
What is it with me and hard drive crashes lately? First the drive in my Linux server dies, then this past Sunday the stock 250gb drive in my TiVo Series3 went bad. The crash first manifested when the TiVo froze with a pinkish tinted picture on the TV. This has happened occasionally in the past, [...]
Calvin’s Cleveland connection
How, after all these years of being a “Calvin & Hobbes” fan, did I never realize Bill Watterson is from Cleveland!? The Plain Dealer posted a brief interview with the cartoonist, thought to be his first since 1989. A C&H stamp will be issued by the post office later this year. I loved reading “Calvin [...]
