Month: September 2004

– Ever get sick of the little “anti-piracy” ads the film industry runs before movies these days? You know, the ones that show a real person who makes a living off movies talking about how pirates steal part of their livelihood? Well, some folks have made an anti-anti-piracy ad in response. Check it out.

Here’s a photo of Beth and Rufus, napping on Labor Day. They were exhausted. Beth had been gardening all morning and part of the afternoon, and Rufus…well, he rested a lot and got in the way some. 

If all goes well, I’m merging my 3 websites (toddbradley.com, 404notfound.net, and suvbacklash.com) into one, to be hosted at 1and1.com. Prices of web hosting has gone way down in the past few years. Currently, toddbradley.com is being hosted by a local company called 4dvision.net. They’ve given me good service, but I’m paying $25 a month… Continue reading toddbradley.com’s on the move

One of the “landings” (crashes) of my new plane last night was particularly rough, and I noticed a crease in the wing, where it looked like it folded on impact. I figured the thing was still flyable, but boy was I wrong! I tried a few more times last night and blamed my lack of… Continue reading broken wing

HobbyZoneSports – Product Information – I bought one of these on Friday, and assembled it this afternoon. That didn’t take long. It actually took longer to read the manual and watch the video than it did to “assemble” the thing. Then, Beth helped me go test fly it. I flew it 3 or 4 times,… Continue reading My New RC Airplane: Aerobird Challenger

BLACKSPOT SNEAKER – I’m really not sure what to think of this. It’s an organic, vegan sneaker that’s made in Portugal, made by a company associated with Adbusters.

Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company – I helped out with a tech rehearsal last night for “The Trojan Women” which is the play I’m going to run lights for. Running lights is going to be very simple, but the play is going to be good. These volunteer/amateur actors are pretty hardcore.

I was dinking around with RSS and Atom feeds from blogs the other day, and ran across some software called NewsMonster. It’s a news client for Mozilla/Firefox, and has gotten good reviews. However, when I installed it, it caused Mozilla to hang. I killed the mozilla.exe process and restarted, but no luck – always it… Continue reading NewsMonster is evil