Marc Abramowitz – Page 50

American Idol final goes into overtime

Though the result is out, I am not going to spoil it for those of you who don't want to have it spoiled for you. The subject of my post is the format of the show. They stretched the show out to 2 hours and used the 2 hours to...

General

Emperor Norton

Our local casual Italian restaurant/pizza joint has great pizza and a strange name, "Emperor Norton". A name so odd deserves an explanation and it turns out to be a rather interesting story: Wikipedia: Emperor Norton Only in San...

General

Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

WordPress 2.2 was released while I was out of town. Upgrading was a snap - just did svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.2, resolved some conflicts in two files, went to the admin page and upgraded the...

General

Back in the USA

We're back from our 3 week trip to Amsterdam, Brussels, Brugges, Bath, London, and Paris. More to come soon, including lots of photos...

Books

Hyperion

During our recent Europe trip, I read the book Hyperion and really enjoyed it. The first in a series of 4 books (the others being The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion), Hyperion is a science fiction novel set...

EuropeTravel

Day 5: Amsterdam/Hague/Delft

The Hague for the most part is a modern city and is not super interesting from a touristy point of view. We spent most of our time at a place called Madurodam which is a park with lots of impressively realistic miniature models...

EuropeTravel

Day 4: Amsterdam/Haarlem

Day 4 in Amsterdam and we made a day trip to the nearby town of Haarlem. Haarlem is a very laid back and relaxing place, especially when compared to the crowds in Amsterdam for Queen's Day. Highlights included a canal cruise, a...