October 31, 2003
October 30, 2003
A Black Cat for Halloween
Chris gets his hands on Panther, Apple's new operating system for the Mac, and seems to like it. I'll be waiting a while before I upgrade. Always best to let others work the bugs out, I say.
October 27, 2003
Southern California firestorm
Nasa has an amazing satellite image of the fires raging in California. The Los Angeles Times has some amazing photos from the scene.
October 24, 2003
Concorde's final flight
We've got the live streaming webcam pointed skywards in the hopes of catching Concorde as it makes it's final passes over our house. The three last flights are scheduled to land at Heathrow around 4pm local time. You can track BA Flight 2 on it's way from JFK to Heathrow here. And, of course, you'll be able to see the landing live on the BBC.
October 21, 2003
A big day for a novice geek!
After five years of being graciously and proficiently hosted by Chris, in California, the ridey.net domain now resides on the iMac here in Reigate. So far, so good. For my next trick, I will attempt to run a mail server. In the meantime, replace any bookmarks or blogrolls to ridey.no-ip.com with the corresponding pages on ridey.net.
October 17, 2003
Ooops
We've had some problems with the MySQL database that stores this blog's data. We've been able to restore several entries that had temporarily disappeared, but I'm afraid we can't resurrect comments made on those entries. Feel free to repost comments, or not!
October 16, 2003
Hear what you've been missing
Apple releases iTunes for Windows. Go on, try it. You'll love it.
Poor Bartman
That poor guy who tried to catch the foul ball in Game 6 will be haunted for the rest of his life. Or at least until the sad losers of Chicago comes to their senses.
Let's face it, Cubs fans. The real villain in this drama was Alex Gonzalez, who forever more should be known as the new Bill Buckner. Your two best pitchers also let you down, big time. Now get over it.
October 15, 2003
Cubs get a new goat
"I couldn't believe, in a game this huge, that a Cubs fan would do something like that." -- Jeff Conine
"I'd like to buy that guy a beer!" -- Roger Ridey
October 06, 2003
Go Cubs Go!
OK, time for drastic action then. I hereby announce that I am rooting for the Cubs to go all the way and win the World Series. In fact, I'm really looking forward to a Cubs-Yankees series. There, that should jinx the both of them!
October 03, 2003
October 02, 2003
Hardball on the hard drive
I've abandoned mlb.tv for the postseason, as all the games are being shown live on one of our cable channels, NASN. But Major League Baseball is quietly leading the way in delivering digital content over the Net. I'll definitely be signing up for another season of watching the White Sox on mlb.tv next year. But in the meantime, MLB has just started a service where you can download classic games (eg, Carlton Fisk's homer in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Barry Bonds hitting Numbers 70 and 71) to your hard drive, then burn them on to a video CD. And for just $3.95 a game. Fantastic! I think the RIAA could learn a few things from baseball.