Now that’s a version number!

Muammar Gaddafi gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Complete moron. The guy rambled on for over 90 minutes on familiar topics– the evil West and the more evil Jews. He even touched on the JFK conspiracy to boot.

Anyway, I’m not writing because I care about him or what he said, I’m writing because each time I saw his name, either in print or on TV, it was spelled differently. I know the news business is cut-throat, but can they get some people on a conference call and maybe agree on the guy’s name? Even bin Laden didn’t have to go through this and he’s a much bigger ass-hole.

So here are some of the different ways this guy’s name was spelled. Also, I’m only talking about the last name, let’s not even worry about the first name. That’s a bag of hurt.

Is it Gadhafi (AP), or Qaddafi (Fox News), or Gaddafi (Reuters), or Kadafi (LA Times), or Khadafy (New York Post)? Who knows, and who really cares.

Just one more day. Can I make it? I hope so. Amazon.com says my STEREO and MONO box sets will arrive on 9/9/9, via Next Day mail. Now I’m refreshing my order status page every few minutes, just waiting for the “order shipped” notice. Supposedly Amazon is also sending an email. I’ll be waiting.

Right now I’m listening to She’s Leaving Home by The Beatles

Update 09.08.09: Both MONO and STEREO box sets have been shipped. STEREO by FedEx and MONO by UPS. I won’t be posting here for at least a week… will be too busy listening to Beatles music:)

You buy a bike, you better get some better parts. Next bicycle I buy, I’m gonna buy the frame only, then buy the parts I want. What an investment…

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Although 2009 isn’t over, I’ve looked at the coming releases for the rest of the year and I don’t see anything I think I’d like. Things may change, and this article would be updated accordingly.

For this list, these are all movies I’ve seen in the theatre. I’ve seen more 2009 movies on DVD (and other sources– wink, wink), but I won’t include those here. This is only for the true experience of the cinema.

You’ll notice some of the “big” movies of 2009 are missing… Yeah, I won’t waste my time with rusty robots or aged comic book heros. Those franchises stray so far from the original premise that I have no connection with them anymore.

And without further adieu, the list.

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The spoken word in harsh contrast
Feels like silk against the cold asphalt.

The warm recollections of a summer’s past
Casts a cold shadow at autumn’s feet.

Is it anger or fear which finds itself
At the moment of universal truth?

To be one with the spoken word
Is to feel the vibration of meaning.

I was once to be reborn in the eyes of the world
Only to realize that to be born is to have been dead.

We are dead before we see
And we are born before we understand.

To enemies of friends and friends to enemies
I cast my shout across the universe.

Bryan Los 09.03.09

With the new release of The Beatles remasters, there is some new, high-quality album art going around– and Amazon.com has it! However, they don’t offer a direct link to it, and you have to use a JavaScript zoom feature to see it. However, the zoom window is much too small for high quality art for your tunes.

The solution? Edit the code yourself.

In a couple easy steps you can have high quality, at least 800 x 800 (depending on your screen resolution) artwork for your new Beatles albums. If you choose to buy digitally (when that happens), you’ll get the art and won’t need this. But if you plan on buying the actual CD, you may need the artwork.

Here’s how to do it.

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No, not for my search engine. I stopped using Yahoo! a long time ago. I’ve switched my web browser home page to Google News, replacing the Yahoo! home page I’ve used for years.

It’s all because of the new Yahoo! home page… in a word it’s stupid. Just about everything you hover over causes a pop-up or some larger area to open up. It got to the point where I couldn’t even move my mouse on the page in fear I would open another pop-up. What’s worse, because there is so much “hoverable” content, trying to click out of something often gets you into something new.

What a mess! Just because you can pack 10,000 items in a 1280 x 1024 screen space doesn’t mean you have to. I’ll go back to Yahoo! when they go back to sensibility.

As for Google, the page meets my minimalist taste.

So Apple’s new operating system, Snow Leopard, is out. In a word… sighs. Is it bad? No. Is it a breakthrough? No. Is it worth $30? Nope.

This is NOT a new operating system… this is a service pack. How to tell? Well, you need to have Leopard installed before you can “upgrade” to Snow Leopard. Want to do a clean (erase and install) install? You need to install Leopard first, then Snow Leopard.

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