Thirty Helens Agree

Since the first show on WBCN in Boston I’ve been listening to Howard Stern. Today is his last day on FM radio and even though I am going with him to Sirius I’ve been a little emotional while watching and listening to the last broadcast. The Yahoo coverage of the last day has been absolutely amazing. I’ve been blown away by the production values and video quality. Check it out, they are really showing that their new community building strategy (Flickr, Yahoo 360, etc) can really make an amazing internet experience. We’ve come a long way since the original webcasts that would be in a 100×100 video box and break down with more than 100 people watching.

Check out some of the links:

• Live Yahoo Coverage
• Howard Nation on Flickr
• FanGirl on Yahoo 360

Thank you Howard.

Whatever happened to the cute cheerleader chick in The Goonies?

..then get off the road!

If you do not have four wheel drive, originally uploaded by EricMB.

What are you supposed to do when your digital music players can’t gain traction in the market place? You copy the best product out there!

iPod or ZEN?

Creative introduced their ZEN Vision:M and at the same time filed a lawsuit against Apple on interface patent issues. No press is bad press, right? Way to go Creative.. fitting name for your company right now.

It is days like today that really makes me appreciate Windows security. I had a machine infected with Spyware in less time than it took to bring the server online and download and install Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1 off of a DS3 line: (I broke the image here because it was not rendering correctly)

The first scan came across 41 spyware problems on the first pass. After a reboot I was still getting pop-ups so I ran another scan and it came up with 7 more problems. I continued to get pop-ups so I installed a Virus Scanner and ran a scan that found 5 viruses. I was still getting popups so I’ve now installed SpyBoT Search & Destroy. I’m going to rebuild the machine from scratch but for now I am interested in seeing what it can find.

UPDATE: Turns out SpyBoT found 12 more problems and fixed all of them. After a reboot the server is still having problems with pop-ups and rogue processes. If you’re running Windows and you’re not behind a router you’re OUT OF YOUR MIND. Yet another reason to go Apple..

As always if you’re running Windows make sure you’re wearing protection!

My blog buddy, Girl Underway, pointed out something very interesting and dare I say, DEAD SEXY?

I dare.

Check it out over at the GeekGorgeous.com site. I don’t know how I missed this when I originally looked the site over.

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Every year I feel like Christmas is becoming more and more diluted with policical correctness. This year we had a prime example of this early on in the season when the tree delivered to Boston from Nova Scotia was renamed a “Holiday Tree”. Needless to say this didn’t go over well with most people, including the logger who cut the tree down. Today people were talking about if we were going to have a “Holiday Party” at work and that’s when I started thinking.. is it really that bad to call it a Christmas Party? I mean, we’re not sitting around discussing the birth of Christ at this thing. We’re sitting around boozing our faces off talking about how much work sucks. Whatever. I refuse to call it a Holiday Party anymore. Just when I was trying to put my thoughts together for a post I came across an article by Jeff Jacoby on Boston.com. He nailed exactly how I feel on this subject (I’ve copied it here in case the link gets pulled):

JEFF JACOBY
De-Christmasing Christmas
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | November 30, 2005
WHEN A commotion erupted over the fact that the 48-foot white spruce installed on the Boston Common — an annual gift from the people of Nova Scotia — is identified on Boston’s official website as a ”holiday tree,” the city’s commissioner of parks and recreation sided firmly with the critics. ”This is a Christmas tree,” Antonia Pollak declared. ”It’s definitely a Christmas tree.”

At least that’s what she told the Boston press. According to CBC News, on the other hand, she took a rather different line with the Canadian press: ”A lot of people celebrate various religious holidays but also enjoy the lights, and we’re trying to be inclusive.”

Meanwhile, Pollak’s boss said he intends to call it a Christmas tree, no matter what it says on the City Hall website. ”I didn’t write the website,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald. ”If I had, it would have said Christmas tree.” He must not write the mayor’s weekly column, either. The current one is about the lighting of Christmas trees all over Boston — yet not once does the word ”Christmas” modify the word ”tree.”
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