The Design and Implementation of laffer1

From: JewelArchive@comcast.net
Subject: Jewel-News: Here's last night's setlist with Orchestra
Date: November 29, 2006 2:21:45 PM GMT-05:00
To: Jewel@smoe.org

Hi All,
Last night was quite the show. If you've been following setlists of
late, Jewel has been playing well over two hours at some of the shows,
but last night was the longest performance since I think Jewelstock,
over 10 years ago! I'm a little pressed for time at the moment, so
I'll mostly let the setlist speak for itself, but a few things stand
out. One, she resurrected "I'm Sensitive" after not playing it for
many years,-- with orchestral backing! Also "Per la Gloria d
'adorarvi" was finally performed with orchestral backing, the way it
was meant to be heard. The guitarist for her band, Greg Suran and the
Chicagoland Pops joined Jewel for "Alice" and "Satellite," in addition
to material she had performed orchestrally before. And she tossed in a
Cole Porter number, too.

This was filmed for a future PBS broadcast and an episode of
Soundstage. I'm sure you'll hear more about that before too long.
Otherwise, here's the accurate setlist for ya. Alan


November 28, 2006
Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL

JEWEL with Chicagoland Pops Orchestra
conducted by Arnie Roth


SOLO:
Near You Always
Passing Time
1000 Miles Away
Little Sister
The New Wild West
Life Uncommon (false start)
Stephenville TX
Sometimes It Be that Way
Get Ready Boy
Morning Song
Rosy & Mick
Grey Matter
Break Me
Violet Eyes
Life Uncommon
Cold Song
Race Car Driver
Foolish Games
Mexico Story->You Were Meant For Me
Who Will Save Your Soul

JEWEL with CHICAGOLAND POPS:
Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
I'm Sensitive
Hands
Satellite
Intuition
Anything Goes

ENCORE with CHICAGOLAND POPS :
Per La Gloria d'Adorarvi
Somewhere Over The Rainbow

ENCORE SOLO:
Chime Bells

Seems that opera 9 and ie7 don't handle padding or margins on images anymore.  I wonder why?  Could be a spec thing since the img tag isn't exactly a block level element... I'll try a span wrap later and see if i can clean that up.

Well i just did a patch on the msdos fs.  The third party patch i was looking at was flat wrong.  I think i've got something now, but it needs testing.  I have a bad feeling about it. 

Got an update on my ring tone issue. Get this.. its backordered! How is a digital download backordered? I don't know. Atlantic Records found a way.

Also my attempts at a midi to my phone failed since it won't let me download it. I did get the sprint software to detect my phone in windows but only for surfing off it. Not very helpful.

Apple released the worst security update i've ever seen today. It puts them up with Microsoft. I'm glad to see they are patching OS X but its quite bad. I wonder how long they sat on it to roll out so many at once.

Jewel's selling ring tones on her website. Well so far I just get continuous errors when trying to download the tones. It seems that they have an idiot programmer who can't catch exceptions in .NET and provide meaningful error messages. My phone is supposedly supported and their customer service is terrible. After a week of pointing out its their issue, I got a response to try again and that it was forwarded to their technical department.. (WTF IS A TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT) Remember, I'm a programmer so its not like I don't know what part of the issue is here.

Today I got the bright idea to pass the phone a url to a midi file. It plays it fine but the browser won't allow me to save the file and hence no ring tone. If i could figure out how to transfer to the damn phone over the USB interface....

... i know one thing that it is... Newt Gingrich.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/28/1814245&from=rss

Let's just take his right to free speech away and see what he thinks of it then.

I purchased a copy of the leisure suit larry collection tonight. It has the original 5 games (vga edition of LSL1 and no talking version of LSL6) for DOS. They advertise XP support, but they just include DOSBOX with it. I had to update dosbox to get it to work. It does run well on my PC now. Its nice to have LSL games agian. 7 and 8 are not included and there never was a 4. It does not include the casino game like the old collectors edition cd did.

use dosbox .65 with it instead of .63 which comes with it.

Yes.. that's right. The other computer is a cyrix 250mhz cpu in a compaq with a sis chipset. Interestingly midnightbsd works on it!

I looked at the two beater computers. The first has a windows 98 sticker on it and a bad 4GB seagate drive. Its got a sis chipset, doesn't see the harddrive in the bios although it seems to boot off the replacement one (9GB). It has a broken network card and a working cdrom. I'm attempting a redhat 5 install. Its up... 2.0.32 kernel

i'll put something more useful on it later. Its more to see what it is than anything.

My mother's old HP is a 700mhz celeron with ~160mb ram i think. The power supply and cpu fan were caked with tar from her cigarettes. I had to scrub the hell out of the heatsink and carefully clean up the fans and then put new thermal compound on it. (arctic silver 5)

I'm waiting for a few parts to dry out a bit before i test boot it. She said it was loud and i agree. The system was the most dirty i've ever seen and another box had a dead bug under the cpu. (some jackass had removed the cpu to see if he could fry a bug and ruined the motherboard)

I just finished up having some ice cream.

Best selling video games for the sega genesis.  The site allows you to search other consoles as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/22/woman.shot.ap/index.html

Well if plain clothes officers came up to my house with weapons and I was old and they probably didn't identify right away since it was a drug raid, i can see why this happened.  She freaked and shot at them and then they killed her.  The real question is why did they think there were drugs there to begin with? 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/11/22/ethiopia.lions.ap/index.html

Couldn't they sell them to another zoo?

I decided to do some work from home today.  I've managed to setup apple remote desktop to work using a ssh tunnel!  Simply map port 5900 to a local port and setup the tunnel.  Then go into ARD, add the computer, hit edit and change the ip to localhost and make sure you add :5910 or whatever you mapped it to locally. 

I also got mysql running on that box which should help a great deal.  I can start working on my webapp further. 

Firefox has a security issue related to its auto password save feature.  Its easily possible to trick firefox to apply a password at another domain using a hidden field allowing an attacker to steal the password.

Got my mom's pc ready. I think she'll like it.

This media guy is wack...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emEK7t2m35Q

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061119/NEWS03/611190639

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E

While I agree the guy was probably froggy with the police up front, they could have simply handcuffed him and pulled him out of there instead of 5+ taser events.  Students were right to be pissed and the police did not want to give out badge numbers.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/0438238&from=rss

Even slashdot has coverage.

Today, I was listening to the radio on my way to work. I overheard a discussion by a female DJ about how she pleasures herself at work in the bathroom and "everyone does it." She talked about how it was easier in an office setting than working retail! Then they took calls since the male dj said men don't do that at least. A construction worker and a hospital worker called in to say they do it at work. The construction worker actually jacks off in a portapotty!

First, I'd like to say I'm shocked how fast the Wii is selling.  I knew it was a nice looking system, but the volume is amazing.  Sony fanboys must be wondering what the hype is about and if they did get a PS3, they sure can't afford a Wii too.   It better be a miracle system for them.  Interestingly the PS2 is selling for $130 dollars!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/11/19/nintendo.wii.ap/index.html

That article is rather good and talks about the Wii sales.

Next, I'd like to talk about Casino Royale.  Overall it was an OK movie.  It wasn't the best Bond film, but certainly midrange.  I would have given it a great review had it not been for the last twenty minutes of the film.  I'm not fond of the ending.  I'll refrain from ruining it for anyone else, but it was disappointing.  In terms of the actor playing Bond, I think he did a good job with the role.  He was mostly believable although I understand some of the criticism about his appearance.  I'd rather he kept his clothes on during the entire film.  The torture scene was a bit disgusting.  I had also hoped for more scenes with him playing cards, in a casino, etc.  The theme wasn't enough and with only one scene showcasing his card playing ability it was hard to get a feel for Bond's ability to win especially as an "early" double o.  (in contrast to the book as seen on wikipedia) 

Funny I should make fun of  the PS3 and discuss a sony pictures film in the same entry.  

Caryn was not fond of many elements of the film either.  After that we took a drive and came home.  She played WoW.  I didn't do much aside from complete an email assignment for technical writing.  All immediate homework should be done.