Well, as of 11/6, the two “light rock” stations in Kansas City have switched to Christmas music full time. That pretty much guarantees two months of mediocre music (which is not new for these stations) with what seems like 6 songs to choose between (which is a few less than the other 10 months).

Overview

The Urge was a St. Louis-based Rock/Punk/Ska band that started making noise in 1989, but didn’t really hit their big acclaim until the mid ’90s. While their most commercially-successful single was easily “Jump Right In” (man, that video is terrible) from Master of Styles, their most complete and consistent album, at least in my opinion, is Receiving the Gift of Flavor.

This video once again re-affirms why BMW is my favorite car company.

I don’t use MediaTemple’s Grid Service for Realjenius.com (I’m on their (dv) dedicated plan) - but I was pleased to see this post come across their blog today:

(mt) Media Temple would like to apologize to our (gs) Grid-Service customers for the series of issues relating to the (gs) system in the past few months. As an appreciation for your patience, we have applied 2 months free credit to your account. This credit has been issued automatically and is reflected in the billing area of your AccountCenter. We appreciate your continued business. […]

Nick Boldt has a perfect quote in an IRC trace embedded in his recent blog entry ‘Dr. Strangechannel Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IRC’:

nickboldt: […] it’s open source. to “demand” without opening a bug is like pissing on your car to make it start

I tried that once - what bothered me was the steps to turn it back off.

In a previous blog entry about my computer purchasing process, I alluded to the reasons I chose a 64-bit operating system in my next purchase, I why I chose to do so. One of the main reasons I chose to make the leap was because of the three part series of articles at Anandtech.com titled ‘A Messy Transition’

There is a very intriguing ‘part 1’ tutorial about the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) over at Developerworks.

This article was written in part by Chris Aniszczyk, who most people who deal with Eclipse will recognize as a very strong force in the Eclipse community.

As much as I hate to draw further attention to it, I love the soap-opera progressing between Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Alex Blewitt with these two posts: (Eclipse is Not Free and Oh no, it’s Bjorn Again).

So, sometime Friday night my cable modem, in concert with my drastically out-of-date analog drop from the main line caused any semblance of internet to completely vanish from within the boundaries of my house.

I, like many people before me, became overwhelmingly aware of my dependence upon being wired. This was god-awful. I was seeing babies crawl on the ceiling, and I was willing to dive into the worst toilet in Scotland for my fix. I had Julie take a picture of me just to cement the moment:

This has to be the best name for a cheese ever: The Stinking Bishop Cheese.

I just happened to run across it today at work because we had a cheese-pun email-chain going on, and I needed some clever cheese names. I guess it was featured in ‘Wallace & Grommit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit - but I unfortunately haven’t seen the movie.

That one gave me a good laugh, especially when combined with some euphemisms which will not be named here.