{posted by Ned}


5:10 PM I want to be part of a renegade business unit too.

{posted by Ned}


11:45 AM A Cisco executive blamed the overcommitment to Active Directory on a renegade Cisco business unit. I can picture them now, with crazy MicroSoft stickers on their laptops and "AD rules!" tatoos on their arms and chests, members of the "renegade business unit" meeting secretly to tie the fate of CISCO to that of MS.

{posted by Ned}


Tuesday, March 21, 2000
11:22 PM Get ready to Ramble!

Yes, I've made more minor changes to this site, rather than the full overhaul I've been promising. (Promising myself, that is, in case you don't remember me promising to change this page for the better). I've made it just less-anoying-enough so that I can stand to look at it, so long as I don't spend any time comparing it to anyone elses site design.

Liz rocks so hard, and she updates her site with nice long entries. Isn't it cool to hear what she's up to? Don't you wish all your friends had web pages?

Here's my car story:

My beat-up Honda CRX had finally been ruled un-driveable (by that deeply surpressed part of me that manages to keep me from killing myself off through a combo of stupidity and laziness), and was gathering dust (and reducing property values) in front of our house. I had taken the plates off, gotten a different car, and planned to get rid of it somehow, perhaps by donating it to some charity. Apparently the high profile police presence in my 'hood eventually took notice of the untagged heap, and took matters into their own hands. At least I think. I mean, the car's gone, but I haven't called the cops yet to verify that that's what has happened. But I plan to right away.

Eoungh about cars.

The Digeratti? Forget about it. The Ill-literatty rule! And we're not clique-ish either. Really, no, I mean it. Check out what we're reading, post a comment. Join us.

And speaking of reading, check out who's back on the web with a vengence!



A new Christy Paxson Show, and new issues of ChristyWeek; talk about hitting the motherload! Scott and Justine (who's anniversary was today, btw; congrats you two!) came back from visiting Bart and Christy with tales of debauch and whatnot, as well as the need to share this link to Radiskull and Devil Doll (also available direct from the source via ChristyWeek). Good stuff if you've got Flash.

In search of segues? Look no further. It's also Bill's birthday, though like a slug I haven't even gotten an email off to him yet. Bill came back recently from Austin, but he wasn't there for SXSW. Yes, I know you're astonished, seeing as how he works the web for a living now, and SXSW was, like, THE web event of the year. Don't believe me? Look at any other weblog (powered by blogger or not) and see all the pre-event anticipation, the during-event postings, the post-event picture pages. Web-people went nuts for this thingy. Yes, I would have liked to have gone, but it wasn't until I was talking to Bill this weekend that I realized that the South by Southwest they were all drooling over was the same scene that Brown Betty had travelled to years ago. I guess I just assumed it was two events that happened to have the same name.

I never claimed to be quick-witted.

And now for some really big news.... Or at least I hope it's okay to hint around at this, that is, I mean, I think everyone knows by now, but in case they don't I'll be all cryptic and vague.... But Chris and Sarah, are, you know.... They're planning on, that is, Chris has picked up the.... Oh, I should wait til I know it's official.

Congratulations, you crazy kids!

Okay, and the last thingy here. I've added a "posted by" element to the page here, because before you know it, you might see more than one author here at TanqueLogue. You heard it here first.

{posted by Ned}


Monday, March 20, 2000
1:18 PM "if we could have stopped this season three games ago, it would have been a hell of a season." Yeah, basketball season is over.

{posted by Ned}


Friday, March 17, 2000
4:07 PM Hmmm. Blogger wasn't letting me in this morning, but it looks copacetic now. But now I don't feel like posting.....

{posted by Ned}


Wednesday, March 15, 2000
1:13 PM Jim's hit the road for spring break, won't see him again til the Hoosiers are playing. Sean pointed to a CNN story that will air tonight about the General, though it doesn't look like there's any new news to tell. Still, I'll probably try to catch it.

If you haven't checked out Shari's page recently, she's got a new link. :)

{posted by Ned}


Monday, March 13, 2000
6:21 AM Ugh. Don't feel well today. Plus, there's something wrong with the way Blogger is rendering this page, and I don't see the problem. Hurm. I'm going back to bed.

{posted by Ned}


Sunday, March 12, 2000
9:04 AM Well, it's happened again; the Blogger site got redesigned. Yep, it looks cool. They've also started requiring that if you use their service, you link back to them. I already do. See, at the bottom of this page, I'm Powered By Blogger.

I've seen this a couple times at work, and now have a web-page to point to. Demons in your PC?

{posted by Ned}


Friday, March 10, 2000
2:45 PM Holy Moley, check out Liz's page re-design!! ProteanMe looks even better than before, and I haven't even seen it through IE yet. Plus you'll get to hear about how much of a stud she is for fixing her jeep on her own.

I don't even change my own oil.

{posted by Ned}


11:41 AM You know you've needed this list at some point. THE REGISTER: 102 ways to kill your computer

{posted by Ned}


10:09 AM The weekend looms, and I for one am ready. Haven't done much with this page lately, I know. Got plans, though, like pulling Shari in to post some stuff on this page (via Blogger's Team function). Also, Ben's been asking about Drunkenfish, i.e., what else we can do with it. He'll be adding a new installment soon, but maybe we need to look beyond the "he-writes-it, I-post-it" formula to a multiple posting-type environment. I'm working on how to do that, but still keep some sort of up-front index available. Hmmm.

Wonder if Ghost Dog will be playing in Theaters in B-town any time soon, or I'm I waiting for a Ryder release....

{posted by Ned}


Thursday, March 9, 2000
11:17 AM Sure, you've used FDISK, but how much do you know about Undocumented FDISK features?

{posted by Ned}


10:27 AM Partitions created with Win98 giving you fits when working with Linux (or vice versa)? Try this cool tool: Ranish Partition Manager.

{posted by Ned}


Wednesday, March 8, 2000
2:56 PM I'm hoping the EP show from this past weekend makes it up to the web, but you can get your fix by watching the first one here at supersphere.com ± ± EmptyBottle. Oh Yeah!

{posted by Ned}


8:16 AM An open letter to Bill Gates from MCSE's upset with the way MS is handling certification for Win2K.

{posted by Ned}


Tuesday, March 7, 2000
12:57 PM Bits and PCs links to a webmonkey article giving some ideas for adding a search engine to your (or my) site. Does Tanque need a search feature?

More cat thoughts on todays tanque.pitas page.

{posted by Ned}


8:52 AM Held a flashlight while Jim buried a cat last night - thankfully not one of ours, but a bummer anyways - presumably the victim of car. The male cats all watched, curious.

Makes me hate those people who speed through our mostly quiet neighborhood just a little bit more.

{posted by Ned}


Monday, March 6, 2000
2:58 PM I'd never heard of Streambox before today, but it sounds pretty cool. Real networks got on my bad side a little while ago when they decided it was okay to secretly upload users' musical selections to their database for marketing purposes; very uncool. They've made a "patch" available, but the damage is done. I'll be checking this ripper out tonight to see if it's a viable alternative to RealPlayer for viewing .ram-type data.

By the way, I happened upon this because of Jon Katz's article in Slashdot, concerning internet copyright lawsuits; nothing new, but worth a quick read.

{posted by Ned}


1:28 PM And we're back.

The weekend was too-cool, one of those great spring experiences that makes you think maybe you could live in Chicago after all. I got to Quimby's, at a new location since I was last there (years ago). Turns out they have a website, but I'm glad I got the chance to browse the weirdness in the flesh.

The real draw, of course, was the Emperor Penguin show, which rocked

-- so hard --.

Really, the Empty Bottle was fairly packed with enthusiastic music-lovers, and a grand time was had by all in attendance. (Side note: there was a cat there Saturday night, all black and incredibly calm considering the mahem - very odd) In due time, I'm sure Shari will have many pictures from the show (and the rest of the weekend) on her site. Thanks Sean/Tom/Sonya/Cynthia for the hospitality! You guys rock!

Now I gotta get myself a copy of Mysterious Pony....

{posted by Ned}


Friday, March 3, 2000
5:38 PM 1. Always be polite on the job. Say please and thank you.

2. Never say more than is necessary

Oh yeah, just started Elmore Leonard's Swag and it's treating me right so far. Also stumbled upon this site about Elmore himself. It's pretty much what you'd expect, but still worth a quick gander.

Swag's the first of hopefully many books to be read by the newly formed Book Gang (okay, it's just a book club, but I'm looking to find a tougher name since we're starting out with crime fiction). Why not read Swag yourself and let us know what you thought of it?

Just who's in this so-called "club"? I hear you asking yourself. Well, I think the idea came from Clint's noggin, though it might have been Jim. In any event, those two, along with myself and Shari, make up the local contingent so far. BUT, if you're at all interested, feel free to drop a line. The ambitious part of me (which is usually out-voted by the slothful part) thinks there's a website in all this, but we'll see how that goes. Our target date for having it finished is next weekend, which should give everyone plenty of time to get through it; it's a real page turner.

But enough of my yackin' - I'm off to the Windy city to check out the scene and try to be hip. Wish me luck!

{posted by Ned}


4:04 PM Anxiously waiting for BeOS to be free.... BeOS 5 Information and Download

{posted by Ned}


1:17 PM Okay, Klawans gives it a good review this week, so I was already interested, but I'm a sucker for cool-looking movie sites like the one for Ghost Dog.

{posted by Ned}


1:15 PM I love referrer logs. How else would I know that DrunkenMonkey had linked to my site? (Sure, they link to a lot of pages, but they linked to me too!) More than a couple times this site had me grinning. Dinky the Crowd Control Marmot, for instance.

Or the many suggestions for using the word Monkey on their rant page. How coincidental that I spoke to our Monkey-boy just this morning? On the same page is a link to YourMoma, which, of course, reminded me of Spooge. Classic stuff.

{posted by Ned}


11:40 AM Big weekend coming up. If you're in Chicago look out for EP! Of course, if I had my act together I would have gotten a hold of Rob before I left B-town. Maybe there's still hope. I doubt he reads this, though, so I'll have to track down his info on my own. Hurm....

I did a slight redesign of this page; I decided I couldn't stand the colors. They're still pretty ugly, but I can cope with them now until I make the time to really make some changes.

Chris tells me his site is going live soon; I can hardly wait! Don't worry, I put the link up soon.

Mom and Dad, if you're reading this, I passed!

{posted by Ned}


Thursday, March 2, 2000
9:39 PM BLOAT!

It's every blogger's dream to end up on Bloat.

Or is it?

The web is made of cliques. Sites like this are great fun, and yet they confirm the inescapeable; It's who you know.

{posted by Ned}


6:30 PM Can you fit another weblog from me into your life? Sure you can! I'm playing around with Pitas, a service similar to Blogger that hosts your website for free (sans adverts). Check it out here at t a n q u e . p i t a s . c o m. Way cool.

{posted by Ned}


7:49 AM Why would customers want an unproven enterprise directory like Active Directory when a superior, proven, secure, and cost-effective Internet-ready directory - NDS eDirectory - is available?"

Why indeed? Because it's Microsoft; everyone already has at least one version of their software running on at least (if not most) of their machines. Still, I'm hoping Novell hangs in there. It's what I do, after all.

{posted by Ned}


7:42 AM Kate Winslet on her upcoming film: "Jim's opinion is the most important to me of anyone when it comes to deciding about the role, so he knew all those things (the movie's nudity requirements) were there," she says. "But when we both saw the film, we were both really sort of taken aback. ... He's pretty proud."

No, she's not referring to Bloodboy. :)

{posted by Ned}


Wednesday, March 1, 2000
2:46 PM Whew, I'm feeling a little worn, due mainly to lack of sleep the last few nights (slightly different schedule at work; crazy what a difference an hour makes). I had meant to have this site redesigned for March, and may still, but it's not going to happen today. So I'm posting this, even though there's no news or interesting sites to point to.

Shari and I are going to help Clint set up his PC tonight, so hopefully he'll be surfing away soon. After our recent success with Jack Flannel's machine, I'm expecting great things. Speaking of which, we got our latest issue of PotatoMan yesterday, and it was promptly read by all.

{posted by Ned}