http://www.bruchal.com/wp Rich & Shannon's Musings Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:44:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I'm the only one writing here, I'm moving the blog over to rich.bruchal.com and making it officially my own personal blog. So head on over there & take a look. You can subscribe via rss at http://rich.bruchal.com/feed/ See you there! http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2008/01/05/the-blog-is-moving/ Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, etc. to one and all from myself, Shannon, & Sasha. Check out our lovely Christmas card: Elf Yourself! http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2007/12/11/our-christmas-card/ Last Saturday night, Shannon took a group of her High School kids on a Midnight Run. For those of you who don't know, Midnight Run is an organization that coordinates volunteer groups efforts to distribute food and clothing to the homeless of new York City and is: ..dedicated to finding common ... http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2007/05/21/midnight-run/ It kind of dawned on me recently what Twitter really is. It's not blogging, or IM, or texting. It's really the worlds largest IRC channel, only with some finer grained control over who you see and pay attention to. I'm still a bit skeptical about its long term prospects, but I ... http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2007/04/30/twitter-irc-v-2/ CNET has a story about Barcade, a Brooklyn based bar/old school arcade: In Brooklyn's warehouse-turned-artist district of Williamsburg, young hipsters flock to Barcade to sample its roster of microbrews and mingle with the likes of Pac-Man, the Mario brothers and Frogger. I remember back in high school, arcades were all the rage. ... http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2007/04/15/barcade/ A belated Happy Tenth Anniversary to Scripting News, the oldest continuously running blog on the internet. It was the first blog I ever read, probably around six or seven years ago, and it's been in my various readers continuously ever since. Dave is sometimes controversial, but always interesting. Here's to ... http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2007/04/03/happy-anniversary-scripting-news/ I'm a little late to the party, but today I downloaded and tried Times Reader, the standalone application that downloads and displays the New York Times. At first blush, I like it a lot. It took a long time to download, mostly because it uses .NET 3.0, which I didn't have ... http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2007/04/01/times-reader/ Shannon & Sasha Originally uploaded by rich_bruchal. This morning we went on a dog walk to benifit STARS, the Stratford Animal Rescue Society, which is the local animal adoption place. The weather was perfect and it was for a good cause. There were of course lots of other dogs for Sasha to meet, ... http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2006/10/07/stars-dog-walk/ I updated the site theme, since it seemed the old one was getting well, old. I'll probably be tweaking it a little over the next day or so. http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2006/10/01/new-theme/ Original Star Trek Gets Upgraded: "Kiss the miniature Enterprise model goodbye: CBS is releasing digitally remastered episodes of the beloved 1960s TV series. Will modern, computer-generated special effects leave fans beaming? My guess is no. Look at the backlash against George Lucas when he "updated' Star Wars. (Via Wired News: Top Stories.) http://www.bruchal.com/wp/2006/09/16/original-star-trek-gets-upgraded/