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Apparently SonyBMG in the UK wants artists to blog their demos rather than send them in by creating an account at SixApart’s Vox.com. I am an avid Voxer and my knee jerk reaction is that this will dirty up the lovely neighborhoods at Vox. I like Vox and really would hate to leave it because it becomes yet another MySpace. I hope my gut feelings are wrong.

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This is kinda cool… the graphical representation of my website. Get your own here: Websites as Graphs.

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New audio blog post from Linuxchic! Click here to listen to it or use this fancy embedded audio player (hint: you need Flash installed to use it!): [audio:http://linuxchic.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/pbpost4.mp3]

I love thunderstorms. The smell and feeling right before it rains and the air is thick with humidity. The smell of the warm pavement as it starts to get wet. The darkness that is penetrated only by the small circle of light cast by reading lamp as I curl up with my knees to my chest in my chair to watch the storm roll in. The bright flashes of lightning as it threatens the ground below it. The powerful crashes of thunder when the booms shake my home and rattle my windows. The wind as it pushes my porch swing into moving with the storm’s rhythm.

I thought I would start a series of about things I love and why I love them as I think of them. Here is the first post:

I love the smell of laundry day after the wash is going. Especially the white loads. The smell of the bleach reminds me of childhood vacations to the Christie Lodge in Beaver Creek, Colorado. I loved going snow skiing every winter then coming back to the lodge tired and cold, pealing off my gear then going down to the pool and hottub and  relaxing. They must have put enough chlorine in the water to kill anything that came in contact with it because you could smell it throughout the entire lodge. Also brought to memory are the wine and cheese parties in the community area. During the World Cup, skiers from other countries would sit and visit and play guitar and sing. It was a great time.

At least the fog burned off.

As posted @ Vox on Mar 28, 2007 at 10:35 AM

“What’s the infamous story people tell about you?”
Submitted by Cherney.

My spouse and geek friends are still chucking over this one…and I think you probably have to be a geek to appreciate it.

I had just taken my first Unix system administration job and I wasn’t real familiar with Solaris having not had much experience with it in the past (I had been a network tech and linux/windows admin previously). I was at my in-laws house and they decided to play Trivial Pursuit. I am NOT a trivia game fan. I am not good at holding all these little factoids in my brain to pull them out on demand for a game like this, so I was pretty miserable. It got down to the final question for my husband and I to win the game - we only needed this one pie piece and I could finally quit playing. The question was for technology. I was ecstatic! Question: “Who put the dot in dot com? - Which company uses that slogan?” I was dumbfounded. I could not for the life of me pull that little bit of info out of my brain. It was right there….but I had nothing. The answer, everyone together now: Sun Microsystems. My husband looked at me and said, what systems do you support at your new job? I told him “Sun” He laughed, I slapped myself in the head and the rest is history. Years later, everyone keeps bringing it up.