The Wonders of IMDB

The Atomic Cafe (1982)

Goodnight, My Love (1972) (TV)

Richard Boone (I)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095524/

Biography for
Kurt Russell (I)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000621/bio

Michael Parks (I)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662981/

Full cast and crew for
"Then Came Bronson" (1969)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063955/fullcredits#cast

Harlan Ellison
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255196/

Biography for
Eli Wallachhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919/bio

Eli Wallach Filmography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919/

All these links represent some of Grist for the Mill you can Glean from the Wonderful online site called: IMDB (Internet Movie Database).

Next to Google, I go to IMDB.COM constantly. A forgotten feature of IMDB is that it also shows when a searched movie title will next appear on TV.

As a sidenote: My Open Sources Blog has a detailed explanation of Beagle searcher and the value RSS feeds.

Podcast Central Listing

Podcasts have nothing to do with iPods.

I listen to them on my Sony PSP (Playstation Portable) thank you.

There is no mystery about my favorite, it's Leo Laporte's TWiT.TV podcasts. I'll update my list of Favs here on TWSTW's blog.

Here we go: (The green highlighted text is the Link.)

NPR (National Public Radio) podcasts: For Louie.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4819382

TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast: The Master of Podcasting, Leo Laporte, who just won Blogcast of the year award from xxx, at a ceremony in Vegas. He aslo gave the Keynote Address.
http://twit.tv/twit

SECURITY Now! podcast with Steve Gibson. Yeah, that Steve Gibson. I remember seeing him at OCTUG (Orange County Trs-80 User Group) some 20 plus years ago.
http://twit.tv/sn

FLOSS Weekly podcast. Free Libre Open Source Software has done interviews with several heavyweights of the Linux community, including Miguel De Icaza of GNOME and Mono fame, and the creator of Python, the Great Dane, Guido Van Rossum.
http://twit.tv/FLOSS

MACBREAK Weekly podcast. Not just because of the iPod, the Mac should be on every tech's "what's happening in the Mac World." radar.
http://twit.tv/mbw

The GILLMORE Gang podcast. Here because the hosts have been on TWiT many times.
http://gillmorgang.podshow.com/

Revision 3:DIGGNATION podcast with Kevin Rose, owner of both Revision 3 and Digg.com, and formally from TechTV.
http://revision3.com/diggnation
ROCKETBOOM Daily podcast with Joanne Colan, a girl that talks tech.
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/

SCOBLE Show podcast with Robert Scoble. Also a regular Twit.
http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/

DL.TV podcast Robert Herren (the Photoshop and Video Guru) and Roger Chang (the Digital Camera Lab Rat) from the TechTV show. Formally hosted by Patrick Norton and Roger Chang. Patrick has moved over to Systm Video podcasts.
http://dl.tv/

REVISION3/SYSTM podcasts with Patrick Norton and Jim Louderback also from TechTV show. Previously hosted by TechTV alumni Kevin Rose.
http://revision3.com/systm/

REVISION3/TEKZILLA podcast with Patrick Norton (Sarah Lane subs) and Jessica Corbin. Yep, also from TechTV.
http://revision3.com/tekzilla/ladies
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Here's Three Picks from Louie:

Remember Route 66?

The Past IS Prologue. Or as Spock would say: Remember. ..."Old Time Radio."

http://www.otr.net/

If you're going to be fanatical about something, here's a good place to start:

http://fanaticalapathy.com/

Thanks Bro.
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Okay that about it for NOW, more coming Real-Soon-Now...

Later, Wingman.

Working with Xara Extreme for Linux

A new port of Xara Extreme for Linux shows some real promise.

Check out this simple Icon I created with it for my favorite CMS Drupal.

What Better Way To Save the World: My Blogs

MY BLOGGER BLOGS:
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http://koolhunter2.blogspot.com/ aka koolhunter2
http://mediacircus2.blogspot.com/ aka Media Circus 2
http://tvjeebees.blogspot.com/ aka TVjeebees
http://theletterselo.blogspot.com/ aka Written by ELO
http://psphardwired.blogspot.com/ aka PSP On Steroids
http://vistavectors.blogspot.com/ aka Vista Vectors
http://mycordiunnot.blogspot.com/ aka mass media course correction
http://thursdaysave.blogspot.com/ aka thursday we save the world
http://elosblog.blogspot.com/ aka dospossos

http://paintbucketontario.blogspot.com/ aka paint bucket blog

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things:

A man of many interests is, in my opinion, and interesting man. Yeah, you can quote me... Okay, here's the heavily culled list:

Favorite CPU: AMD/AMD-64
http://www.amd.com/us-en/

Favorite Graphic Card: Nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

Favorite OS: Ubuntu Linux 6.06
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Favorite Browser: Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Favorite Browser Plugin: Firebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Favorite Web Sites:
Freshmeat.net
http://freshmeat.net/

RefDesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com/

Fav Sections On Refdesk are:
On This Day In History
Site of The Day
Picture of the Day
Top US Newspapers

Daily Rotation.com
http://www.dailyrotation.com/

IMDB (Internet Movie Database)
http://www.imdb.com/

KernelTrap.com
http://kerneltrap.org/

Engadget.com
http://www.engadget.com/


Favorite Magazines:
Linux Format (uk)
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/

Linux Journal
http://www.linuxjournal.com/

Favorite Podcasts:

TWiT.TV with Leo Laporte & Friends
http://www.twit.tv/

BUZZ Out LOUD
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11455_7-6457370-1.html

Okay, that's it for now.

Stay Tuned.
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Sunday, I saved the World

Took off Fedora Core 6 and installed openSUSE 10.2.

Yeah, I'm fickled. But I started with SuSE way before Novell bought them. And before the "deal" with microsoft.

And since I'm running Windows Vista on my Laptop, I figured I should have the latest Linux Distro with "WOW" too!

I'm coming to the conclusion that the "Desktop" may not matter anymore. And as the inventor of a very smart sorting technique called: ' baysean sort' (whose name I can't remember right now) recently said: Windows is dead...Google has won.

Well, maybe not quite THAT far, but since the greater part of our current computing lives revolves around "Web 2.0." and AJAX this and AJAX that, it's getting closer to the truth all the time.

When my wife, who knows nothing about Windows OR Linux, does just fine 'thank you' clicking on the Firefox or KDETV icons and away she goes. Accessing the web is really all anyone really needs. And Google is the Top Dog there and getting Bigger all-the-time.

Anyway, I'm back up and running.

A few more personalization more and I'll feel right at home.

TWSTW:The Early Years: Part One

From the PCjr, and the CoCo, to the shiny new Acer with Windows Vista. Time passes as the historians and science fiction writers like to remind us. And technologically speaking that is true at an even faster rate.

Part One:

I started My computer history using a borrowed Radio Shack TRS-80. My brothers started with commodores and later atari's. In time, I inherited my brother's PCjr., when he turned to the IBM-XT.


My First purchased computer was the TRS Color Computer for $540 plus tax (with my Radio Shack discount, of course). It had 16k of memory, Level 2 Basic and the infamous "chiclet keyboard".

It connected to a TV, like the Amiga and Atari. Used a cassette recorder for Data, and a Cartridge Rom for commercial programs, most from Radio Shack. I subscribed to a cassette-based magazine dedicated to the CoCo, and received a monthly cassette of programs to use on the CoCo. The magazine was called Chromasette.

Level 2 Basic was pretty simple, but not really a programming language.

On thursday's, which was my day off work, we would meet at Charlie's and "natter" about science fiction (Hour 25 KPFK), and of course, computers. Charlie, Louie, Robert, Me and sometimes Charlie's daughter: Anathea. We basically learned Basic and a little assembly that way.

Hundreds of hours later, keying in data statements from Compute! or some other 'Personal Computer' magazine. We'd either have a nice running program or a hunt for the miss-typed data statement.

On Thursday's, we'd find and "fix" the ills of the world, at least until next thursday.

In time we found Borland's "Turbo Pascal 3.0" for about $30 to $50 dollars, and began coding with blocks of code called procedures. This was the big leagues and it was affordable.


This was the First True IDE for a compiler. See the Wikipedia Site on Turbo Pascal.


End of Part One: The Early Years of TWSTW (Thursdays We Saved The World.).