Ticket Of The Day: R.E.M. at Chastain Park Amphitheater, 1999
I remember this being fun show - I think I actually had like a proper date, like a DATE-date. Chastain is one of the best venues for a concert that I’ve ever been to.
Archive for August, 2008
And So It Begins.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryant
Addendum to the Addendum to Yesterday’s Post
The lovely, beautiful, wonderful
MAYA
needs two tickets to the GA Southern game. One for her and one for whats-his-face.
Addendum to Yesterday’s Post
Josh also needs tickets.
Around The Dawgosphere
See, it’s called Dawgosphere because it’s blogs about the Dawgs! See?? Get it??
OMG the College Football season starts in earnest in less than 48 hours. I for one can. not. wait. Tent City has all her preparations all lined up for another stellar tailgating season and we might be on the verge of witnessing a very special season for the Dawgs. Seriously, I can’t wait.
Anyway, here’s some tidbits from the (ha! Get it?) Dawgosphere:
- Mackalicious at Blogging Pantsless has kick-started a new video series, Great Moments In Georgia History. The first episode looks back at Jim Donnan’s first victory as Georgia’s head coach, the 15-12 win over Texas Tech. Get over there and check it out.
- PWD caught up with radio announcer Scott Howard to talk about Munson and the upcoming season.
- Doug needs tickets to the Georgia Southern game. Help a brother out.
- Ludakit at the (Original) Dawg-Gone Blog drops this week’s List: Five Things I Expect to See (and Five Things I Expect Not to See) Out of This Year’s Team. I’m big on #6 and #2.
- Lastly, UGAMummra is to UGA Youtube video compilations what LSUFreek is to animated Photoshopped goodness. His latest vid is Mission: Possible. Watch. Tackle coworker. Rinse. Repeat.
48 freakin’ hours. Woooooooooooooooo!
Podcast #1 Comments and Corrections
By now you’ve undoubtedly listened to the first podcast of the season at least three, maybe four times in order to assure yourself that you’ve caught every word, every tidbit, every nugget of valuable SEC information (if you haven’t yet why not?).
However, I would be remiss to note a few things here that were left out or just plain wrong so here’s Podcast #1’s Comments and Corrections…
PODCASTIN’!
The first (and hopefully not last) podcast of my online life is now up. In this edition Tim, Meimi, Scott and I discuss several critical elements of the upcoming season in the SEC, including the top four QB’s in the conference (Stafford, Tebow, and uh… um…) and the coach you’d recruit for a game of Cornhole.
Achtung, GMailers!
If you have a Google GMail account (and why the heck wouldn’t you?), take Unky DAve’s advice and do this right now, quick-snap:
1. Log in to your GMail account.
2. Click “Settings” at the top.
3. Scroll down to the last option, select “Always use https”, and save your changes.
The primary reason is security. Using https instead of http ensures the site is encrypted. Now, I realize it’s weird that Google would give users the option of either a secure or unsecure connection, but the reason is cost. Secure connections with the GMail servers require all data to be encrypted during transmission and ultimately this costs Google more per e-mail. On your end you’ll notice nary a difference.
Apparently some hackers have forced the issue to bring this to light:
As reported by Hacking Truths, a tool has been presented at DEFCON that makes stealing session IDs from Gmail a relatively easy affair. And once someone has your session ID, he/she can log in to your Gmail account without authentication.
In practice, this means that not having the “always use https” option checked, especially if you’re accessing Gmail through a wireless hotspot, or any other unsecure network, has become a hazard, and is not recommended. Google has been fairly silent about this, letting users decide what they want to do, but I’ve switched to SSL and I recommend you do, too, especially if you use Gmail for business purposes.
- via Mashable!
Musing.
On the way home from the golf course today I passed three people standing on the side of the road in 90-degree heat holding signs for apartment complexes - one was in a full clown suit, one was in a Hawaiian hula skirt, and one was in a tuxedo with top and tails.
When I got home I thanked God for my college degree.
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