Month: August 2003

  • D. Stambler — Copyright?

    D. Stambler, please note that I have a copyright notice on this site posted now. Without it being posted it’s courteous to ASK permission first; with it posted it’s more than courteous to abide by the wishes of the copyright holder, since intent of my words are made plain. You have taken my words with…

  • Goodbye HTML — Hello PHP

    Just a little while ago I converted my page extentions to .php, so if you came here looking for a particular page ending with “.html”, just put “.php” in it’s place, and the rest of the page address is the same. I’ve been working more and more with PHP elsewhere, and it was just a…

  • DVD Players, look how far we’ve come

    In light of my last post about the Two Towers DVD and our DVD player, I did some searching on it and found this gem of an article: popularmechanics.com/technology/television/1997/11/All_DVD_to_Me/ “So, it’s been over six months since DVD players finally hit stores. Lots of manufacturers seem to have their hands in the DVD pot of honey,…

  • The Two Towers on DVD

    We dutifully purchased and viewed this DVD, The Two Towers, widescreen edition , on the day of it’s release, Tuesday, August 26, 2003. What happened throughout was not understood until stark awakement at the end when it was bad. The DVD, brand new, was jumping a bit, then really bad. Hmm. So my hubby returned…

  • The Four Feathers

    We watched this movie, The Four Feathers, at home this past week. I really enjoyed it. It’s not for the fainthearted. If you don’t like any kind of war movie, this isn’t for you. It takes you into the Sudan — 1875. There is a “sex” scene, more a sensual thing, though not involving the…