[ music | Johnny Cash - The Wanderer ]

Ok, I'm packing up and heading out soon. So for now I'm disabling comments here on the site. You can still email me all your love and hate letters, but I probably won't see it till the weekend. I have a lot of work to do, and very little time to do it, just how I like it. ;) Later folks.

[ music | Joan Jett - Victim Of Circumstance ]

Well, CNN did it, they let go the classiest and most interesting anchor they had. As if giving Wolf Blitzer three solid hours every day wasn't bad enough, they've let Aaron Brown go from the network. I liked him almost instantly from the morning of September 11, 2001, when he was on the roof of CNN's New York offices covering the horrors of that day. And I liked his NewsNight show ever since. No longer. If he shows up on another news network, I just might find myself watching a lot less CNN.

Update: Ok, Anderson Cooper, who now has Aaron's timeslot, just finished his first hour in that timeslot with a 4 minute piece on Aaron's background, his time at CNN, how they worked together at ABC and then CNN, and thanked him in a very generous and sincere manner. Not a ten second blurb or something thrown together, but a 4 minute segment with old footage and such that actually took time and energy to do. CNN is was damn lucky to have Aaron, and I'm telling you, they're damn lucky to have Anderson Cooper. They dismissed Aaron in a very tactless manner, but Anderson Cooper just showed the world that some people at CNN still have class. Bravo, Anderson, bravo.

[ music | Queen - Don't Stop Me Now ]

Now that Mozilla.org is kicking off its "Extend Firefox" competition, Jesse suggested I offer my services to extension authors lacking artistic skills for designing icons and logos. For him I've designed the logos and iconsets for Thumbs and HIGH, as well as graphical work for dozens of websites. This is a commercial thing, as much as I'd love to be able to donate time, I haven't much time these days free to donate. But, all fees would be negotiable, and reasonable, and a portion of payments would even be donated back to the Mozilla Foundation. You'll have a non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual license to do with as you please, as long as I still receive original credits. Extend away!

[ music | Monty Python - I Like Chinese ]

By the way: I'm really good at laundry, too.

[ music | Dire Straits - Money For Nothing ]

I actually know a couple folks who have successfully gotten stuff through these folks, so it's legit. Now, here's the deal. You sign up through my link here, and complete one "offer". Most are signups for credit cards, but the good ones are a free 30 day trial of eFax (just cancel online within 30 days if you don't like it and there's no charge), a free/$0.99 trial of Real Rhapsody for 30 days (they say it's 99 cents, but I was never charged, and cancelled after about 3 weeks), Columbia House DVD club where you get 5 DVDs for 49 cents each, etc. I've done the eFax one, and it was easy to cancel, and the Real Rhapsody one, which was also easy to cancel. The Real Rhapsody service is actually pretty good. Lots of great music is available for listening, and you can download full albums and burn then to CDs, etc., all under the subscription. I was very impressed with that.

Now, with that said, to get a free Nano, you need to complete one offer, and get 5 other people to do the same. I have signed up, and have had two people complete offers through me, and a third is due to complete one this week. This means I need only 2 more people to sign up and complete one of the free offers, and I get a free iPod Nano. So, I'm appealing to my readership to see if anyone wants to complete one offer and help me get the Nano. When you sign up, they ask for an emal address, a mailing address, and a phone number. The email address actually doesn't get spammed, amazingly, but email addresses are still easy to get, so that's not an issue anyway. The mailing address has to be in the US, because if you get 5 people to complete an offer, they need a US address to ship to. And the phone number, well, just lie about that. I did. Use your area code and exchange, and just make up the last 4 digits.

Bedtime for Bonzo, I guess.