Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

On the radio there was a commercial for The WebSite Solution from Register.com. The business talking about why they were going to do this had recently lost a “big” sale because they didn’t have a web site. Now for an additional charge Register.com will set up a professional web site for the in only 20 minutes. What a great solution!

Until you would start to investigate the special $29.95 price of the domain registration (on sale from a normal $35 charge). I only pay $8.95 a year for even better service from GoDaddy. They even have a comparison chart on prices. Either they’re losing their shirt or you’re getting screwed. Check the subject.

According to a radio report about the recent news story about a priest who abandoned his mistress after she overdosed, “There is no such thing as a consentual relationship between a priest and parishioner.” Buy the man a dictionary.

I am sure that he push himself on her and forced her to have two children. Perhaps the statement is just for the benefit of the lawyers for the children (now grown up) who have named the priest in a wrongful death lawsuit.

This past fall lady showcased on Animal Planet’s That’s My Baby had three cats named: Tira Misu, Coconut Macaroon, and Creme Brule. If I had three cats, I think I’d call them Barbecue, Skish-ka-bob, and Microwave.

Yesterday I was listening to the radio while they were advertising a new miniseries on USA Networks: “The critics agree that Traffic (based on the award winning movie) is completely original.” Here’s an original idea: buy a dictionary.

Today the station was advertising “Gil Santos: Voice of the Patriots” with background music by Nirvana (Smells Like Teen Spirit). I hope they aren’t expecting Gil to say anything intelligible.

According to a radio commercial for The Harbor Lights, they have a bright staff. I wonder if one of their own wrote the commercial.

According to a Project Bread study done this past fall: kids in poor neighborhoods have the greatest chance of hunger.

And kids living on the beach have the greatest chance of being affected by a hurricane. How much were they paying for this study?

Someplace or another it has been said that New Hampshire is the vanity license plates capital or the world. It does seem like a great deal of people have them. Or perhaps we just always have an extra $25 burning a hole in our pockets when it comes time to renew. I know I couldn’t do without my “SUBMRNE” license plate on the back of my bright yellow Ford Escape.

As I was driving home today there was a snob in the right hand lane. Why else would be be driving a Saab with a license plate reading “SNAAB”? Probably not as stuck up though as the car that I highly doubt belonged to Wayne Gretsky with “GR8-ONE” on the bumper. I would have been able to read “TAILG8R” if they would have moved back a little bit. Or perhaps they just like going out to football games.

One of the best license plates I’ve seen recently was on a minivan coming out of Wal-Mart, by someone who seems to have had a bit too much of children and their videos: “TI2GRR”. If you don’t get it, leave a comment and I’ll post the answer.

There are many pieces of software that I have a love/hate relationship with, iBlog being one of them. And as soon as I can get rid of it, I will. And will let you know what I came up with.

Over 40 years ago a great man stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and told people about his dream. What would this man think about the perversions of his dream that have occurred today?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, except that some should be more equal than others. The black man must still complain about how his life has been crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination and how the world has mistreated him.

I have a dream that all of my white brothers will one day live in fear that anything they say regarding a black man will be turned against them.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, unless it will help them get a job, or get into college, or get other special perks.

I have a dream that one day we will all be considered equals. But that day is not today.

On the new iLife Suite (from the users point of view), it should be great. From the programmmers point of view, it’s not as good: GUI AppleScripts written for iMovie 3 may no longer work with iMovie 4. With out appreciable changes in the look to the GUI. * The name of the main window has now change from just “iMovie” to now include the name of the movie being edited. My scripts now need to reference window 1 instead of window “iMovie” * The area to the right of the preview (where iDVD Chapter markers are defined) has changed from group 5 to group 2. This was fun to track down since Apple’s UI Element Browser doesn’t give the number of the particular element, only the name (which is NULL).

iDVD also has a number of problems on the user’s end: * The new version is even slower than the previous version. * There is now no way to encode in the background unless you are only recording 1 video. This means more sessions of leaving the computer on to crank out a DVD. Over-night. * The new 8 chapters per page themes make exporting from iMovie much more difficult. (Make sure you have a theme with the right number of chapters already open.) * If the main window was resizable, the map would be usable. As is, there is not much room to see what is going on. * The burn has a much greater propensity for just stopping in the middle with no warning.

I think in the end they will be better, but here’s hoping for 4.01.