Mar
31
2008

More Timezone Issues

(Add / View Comments) (0)Monday, March 31, 2008 - 11:35:58 pm
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So, the timezone issues have continued. At work there was much bitchin', and a particular problem is calendaring in Thunderbird, which as far as I can tell there is not a fix for beyond waiting for next Sunday. While all my meetings show up find on Google Calendar, in Thunderbird they're all out by an hour.

It's really shocking that there had been no media covering about the fact that eastern standard time changes were changing as of this year! I had no idea until looking it up that in addition to the transition to standard time going back a week later, daylights savings time will start up 3 weeks earlier than usual in October (at the start, rather than the end). I love daylights savings, bring on having more of it, but geez, it's kinda a pain in the ass having it change, and particularly really having no notice of it. There has been a little bit in the news today, given it's caused havoc apparently on computer systems and mobile devices, but not really that much. Y'know, having a bit of advanced notice on this stuff by the media would probably be good! [confused]

To close out my rant on it all, I'm glad that I had the foresight to restart cron, otherwise I would have missed half of The Basement. Despite what I would have expected (but thankfully considered), after applying the new timezone data to my Gentoo box, processes that had already started were still observing the wrong timezone.
Mar
31
2008

New Gin Blossoms Album?

(Add / View Comments) (0)Monday, March 31, 2008 - 02:51:22 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music)
Today I read this cool interview with Robin - New Miserable Interview: Gin Blossoms Frontman Robin Wilson

Of particular note was this:
Oh, and final answer to your question: by the end of this year—god help me—we'll have a new record out.
That is a) surprising and b) pretty fricken exciting. I must say that I'm surprised that he'd make the claim, given the self confessed bane of his existence it became last time. But maybe making the statement is an indication of how likely it is to happen. Let's hope so.

A new Blossoms record by the end of the year would be great! [smile]

The other thing touched on in the article is the 20th Anniversary since they formed. I read elsewhere that they have '20 Years Of Misery' t-shirts. Fucking awesome, there could not be a better Gin Blossoms t-shirt than that! I want one. I just hope they didn't screw them up with a bad color, or design. [wink]
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