The Life and Times of the Watters Family

what i got for my birthday

Thanks Babe!!! I love you.

music

Today my ipod was randomly playing through what I have on it. I don’t usually listen to it that way- but it was kind of fun.
Here’s what we (Sean, Caleb and I) listened to while driving around town this afternoon–

1. Mr. Big Stuff- Jean Knight
2. Drive My Car- The Beatles
3. Senorita- Justin Timberlake
4. Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
5. Baby Got Back (only for a minute and I edited it with the volume control)- Sir Mix-a-Lot
6. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynrd Skynrd (Sean asked if it was Rascal Flatts–my parents would die!)
7. I Can See Clearly Now- Jimmy Cliff
8. You Give Love a Bad Name- Bon Jovi (totally rocked out to that one– the boys are totally into this)
9. Great Balls of Fire- Jerry Lee Lewis
10. When I See an Elephant Fly- from Dumbo (I don’t know who sings it)
11. For Once in My Life- Stevie Wonder

I do my best to fill the boys in on all of the music trivia that my dad imparted to me. Our play list is a bit more random than the music my dad had us (or forced us to) listen to. I love music and the feelings and memories it conjures up. I think that this is definitely an area I am like my dad. I ask (or force) Cam and the boys to listen to songs all the time and then ask them what they think the song means- agghh- who’d have thought? Thanks a lot dad!

Cam’s New Blog

Just a quick heads up. I (Cam) launched a new blog, which I’m calling Cameron Avenue (you’ll see why when you get there) over at cameronwatters.com. It’s mostly focused around technology and consists largely of quotes/links to stuff other places. I’m looking to write something original around once a week, but none of it will be family-ish stuff. It’ll mostly be about the business of software and technology with some politics and religion thrown in if/when I run out of other stuff to say.

I’ve been waiting for these to come out ever since they announced the MacBook Pro, and it became clear there would be no 12″ MacBook Pro.

The black one is cool, but not worth the $200 premium. Maybe if I wait long enough, they’ll stop charging extra for it.

The only other downside, at least from my perspective, is the fact that it is nearly two inches wider than my 12″ PowerBook G4, and would therefore require a new bag to carry it in.

UPDATE: 2006-05-25

Cross this one off this list. I’m posting this from my new black MacBook, which was waiting for me in the pantry when I got home today. Happy Birthday to me!

Google Doesn’t Love Me Anymore

Heh. As recently as a week a go, a search for “Cameron Watters” (without quotes) returned this site as the top result and according to the Google toolbar I had a PageRank of four. Now I have a page rank of zero and I’ve been relegated to page four of the results. I guess I don’t care THAT much, but it seems to be stupid that every comment I’ve ever left on any site with more juice is considered a more relevant result for a search of my name. Eight of the top ten results are references to my person, typically my signature on comments that I’ve left on other sites or mailing list archives.

Too bad there’s no way to find out what happened (at least not that I could find). Seems odd though, that my rank would go from 4 to 0 in a matter of one crawl. Oh well.

Tiger Has Arrived

I’m posting this from my new (work) copy of Tiger. Looks cool so far. I just finished installing it so I’ll post more thoughts later.

Flash & Windows XP SP2

I’ll post more on this later once I’ve had a chance to install Windows XP SP2 RC2 and poke around a little with the various settings, but here are some links to the conversation so far regarding Macromedia Flash content and the new popup blocker in Microsoft Internet Explorer in Windows XP Service Pack 2:

• Initial conversation in jeffdav’s comments in late March
• Comments in John Dowdell’s blog regarding the above jeffdav post
• Comments on June 21st jeffdav post regarding new default popup blocker behavior