Yesterday I became a paying subscriber to Dish Network. I’ve never had satellite TV before, and great googly moogly, it beats the living crap out of the rabbit ears we’ve been using since we bought our house last November. We’re signed up for America’s Top 100 with local channels. Also, we get HBO and Cinemax…

The final version of Trillian Pro 2.0 was released today. Along with it comes a nice corporate-looking redesign of the Trillian website. I guess now that they support Jabber they figure they can start marketing themselves to the business crowd. And they are smart for doing that! trillian.net.ru will probably be back up soon so…

Check out the coolest text-to-speech engine I’ve ever heard. It clearly sounds like a computer simulation, but the word pronunciation is spot-on. They even have voices in different accents!

If you’ve ever received one of those forwarded optical illusion emails, the chances are good that the images contained in the email were created by Akiyoshi Kitaoka. Check out his site. It will leave your head spinning. Literally.

My crazy life: 08-24 Got married at Ocean Trails. The wedding was awesome, and we only had a few no-shows. The weather was beautiful, the band was just outstanding, the food was great, and people seemed to be genuinely enjoying themselves. I hate it when I go to weddings and I’m bored. At least at…

We got back from the honeymoon on Wednesday. We’ve been opening presents and rearranging stuff around the house since then. I’ve made a point of not checking my email (two weeks worth!) until I get in to work tomorrow. The wedding was perfect, the honeymoon was awesome, and I’ll tell you all about them later!

I’m getting married tomorrow. Huh-hoo! I’m not scared or nervous at all. Just happy and excited. See you in September!

It looks like someone has written an XBox emulator for Windows called Xeon. It only plays one commercial game right now – Halo – but that should be enough from what I’ve seen of the XBox game catalog!

I’ve decided that I like bluegrass music…but I only like the songs without singing, which effectively means that I don’t like 90% of bluegrass music. If anyone knows of any good instrumental artists in this genre, please let me know. I’m already a fan of Bela Fleck, which strictly speaking isn’t bluegrass at all, but…

I had my bachelor party yesterday. We arrived on-time to see The Price is Right, but there were just too many people there (some camped out since 9 the night before) for us to make it in. So basically what happened was that all 10 of us met up in the CBS parking lot, then…