Saturday, May 29, 2004

RSS is more than a format... 

Highly recommend the latest Frontline on how the music industry fell apart during the 80s and 90s. Why? Stopped loving the product.  

SF Chronicle: "Prince is back, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief." 

NY Times on the women of Six Feet Under. 

Scoble sat next to an exec from eBay on a flight from Seattle.  

The day after the day after tomorrow 

I went to see The Day After Tomorrow, yesterday, opening day. I liked it, but then I like almost everything. It wasn't totally terrible, in fact it's badness is part of what makes it good. There are some very good special effects, esp the opening scene. It's a big-budget Hollywood disaster movie. Kids will love it. You may wonder how Dennis Quaid saves the planet, it's actually fairly clever. I've heard that the science is all wrong, but this is one of those times when, sorry, it just doesn't matter.

BTW, one of the coolest things about the movie is that the Vice President is a Dick Cheney look-alike: he's stubborn, stupid and Republican. The President, who defers to the VP, is cheesy and stupid and wears a military bomber jacket in the Oval Office. Someone in Hollywood, a Democratic stronghold, had fun with that. They also found a neat solution to the war in Iraq (but I won't say what it is).

The clean-up continues 

Installing Kazaa wasn't the only insane thing I did,

I also enabled Windows Update, allowing it to install updates from Microsoft every night at 3AM. This was not a good idea for at least one reason -- it reboots my machine every time there's an update. I'd rather decide when my machine is rebooted.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to turn it off. There used to be a Windows Update icon in the tray, but now it's gone. I guess once they have you hooked there's no need to configure it? I've pored over the site, to no avail. If you know how to turn it off, please let me know. Thanks!

Shannon Rush writes: "Click on the properties on My Computer and go to the Automatic Updates tab. Hope this helps."

It did help. Thanks!