Month: July 2004

While browsing the WP support forums, I ran across this little annoucement:

I would like to announce the grand opening of AustenBlog, a compendium of news about Jane Austen in popular culture. This weblog probably will only be interesting to those who like Jane Austen, of course, but I’d like to announce it here and publicly thank some folks who were helpful to me while I was putting it together

I normally wouldn’t make a post on my blog for somebody annoucing their new site, but the design is pretty good and based on Root’s Gemini template for WP (which means I should seriously look at that template for help with designing CoffeeBear’s look). Also, a good friend of mine (AWelkin) is a fan of Pride & Prejudice and I figure she’ll eventually see the link & might want to check it out.

One of my co-workers sent me this list of campaign slogans that Bush/Cheney could use. I found it amusing, so here it is:

  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Four More Wars!
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Apocalypse Now!
  • BU__ SH__!
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Because the truth just isn’t good enough.
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Compassionate Colonialism.
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Leave no billionaire behind.
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Over a billion Whoppers served.
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Putting the “con” in conservatism.
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Thanks for not paying attention.
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: This time, elect us!
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: We’re Gooder!
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: Asses of Evil
  • Don’t think. Vote Bush!
  • George W. Bush: A brain wave away from the presidency
  • George W. Bush: It takes a village idiot.
  • Vote Bush in ’04: “I Has Incumbentory Advantitude”
  • Vote Bush in ’04: Because dictatorship is easier.
  • Vote Bush in ’04: It’s a no-brainer!
  • Vote for Bush & You Get Dick!
  • Who would Jesus Bomb?
  • Bush/Cheney ’04: “Leave no child a dime!”

I started trying to backup all my music from my iPod to DVD-Rs last night and K3B said it successfully burned all the files straight from the iPod to disc, but upon looking at the disc; it was obviously a bad burn (only the center of the disc had “grooves”). I was busy with other things and didn’t get a chance to work on this any further than that last night.

Today while I was home for lunch, I tried playing around with iTunes & the iPod under Windows some more; it’s free single Tuesday, after all! Initially I didn’t have much luck but I did some more searching online and found more suggestions. Most of them didn’t look very helpful or promising, but one said to drop the iPod into the dock, disconnect the dock from the computer and reconnect it.

For whatever reason, that worked! Yeah baby! I got the new free single and a bunch of MP3s I downloaded the other day; so now I’m good to go with additional music. *joy* 🙂