Beginner's Guide: Blogging with Movable Type Want to start your own blog? Creating a Blog with Movable Type - A Beginner's Guide (Thank you, Nadine in Tokyo. Nice work!)

Chandra Levy Laid to Rest "Relatives and close friends of Chandra Levy held a private burial Tuesday, just days after Washington police turned her remains over to her family, said George Arata, an attorney for the Levys. Between 75 and 100 people attended the traditional Jewish service, Arata said. The Levys also were having a service at their home Tuesday night, which Arata said was part of the family's tradition."

Matrix Revolutions Teaser Trailer You can download a (13 MB MPEG) Matrix Revolutions teaser trailer using this link.

Lake Ouachita Courtney and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Arkansas on Lake Ouachita. Along with a few friends, we rented a 53-foot houseboat for three nights. We had a great time. Highlights include the built-in water slide, grilling steaks, fishing, driking ice-cold Corona and margaritas and spending time in the hot tub on the upper deck of the boat.

Scot Finnie's Newsletter No. 46 Many interesting topics, including, The 35 Most Annoying Things About Software and The Software Hall of Shame.

Unloading on The Matrix Reloaded Phillip Graham has some advice for The Matrix Reloaded creators.

New $20 Bill Here is a photo of the new $20 bill.

Bruce Almighty I liked Bruce Almighty. It's not as funny as some of Jim Carrey's previous movies, but it works. It's really a drama/romantic comedy of sorts, rather than a straight comedy.

Atkins Diet I'm thinking of trying the Atkins Diet. If anyone has a personal experience they'd like to share, either positive or negative, please leave a comment. Thanks.

No Such Thing as 'Safe Tan' Here's a good article to remind you that all tans are unhealthy. Even the ones you can get under a lamp. A tan is an indication that skin has been damaged.

Cisco Router Lab for Sale I've got a Cisco Router Lab for sale on Ebay. The lab includes 4 2500 Series Routers and 1 Catalyst Enterprise Switch. It's the perfect buy if you want to assemble a complete CCNA/CCNP lab at one time. You will be able to configure and learn RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, CDP, NAT, ISDN, Access Lists, Route Redistribution, Route Summarization and that all important BGPv4. In addition, you will be able to setup and test Frame Relay and Reverse Telnet. Be sure to send me an email if you have any questions. UPDATE: Sold!

MetaCritic: The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Reloaded is getting favorable reviews from the handful of critics who've already seen the film.

WinZip 9.0 Beta There is a new beta version of WinZip.

Survivor Bummer What the heck? How did crybaby Jenna win? How did she get 6 out of 7 votes? Rob truly deserved to win. From day one, his goal was to win the million dollars. Jenna, on the other hand, was there for social reasons. She wanted to quit several times. She admitted that there things she "would not do" to win. Rob was a Survivor Animal. He lied, deceived, manipulated and worked tirelessly to win the game. And he lost because he couldn't stand on a stupid wooden plank longer than Jenna. Weak.

Search for Iraqis Focuses on Europe "U.S. intelligence agencies are intensifying the search in Europe for officials of Saddam Hussein's government who fled Iraq with the help of French passports, U.S. officials said yesterday. The search efforts were strengthened after intelligence sources reported that France's government secretly provided fleeing Iraqi officials with European Union travel documents in Syria that allowed them to escape to other countries, said U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity."

North Korea May Export Nukes Bill Gertz: North Korea May Export Nukes

Windows Longhorn to Arrive in 2005 "Longhorn, the next major version of Windows for desktop PCs, will debut in 2005 and will usher in a new level of graphics for PC's, Microsoft executives said Wednesday. While Microsoft plans to release "a couple of beta," or test, versions of Longhorn in 2004, the final version of the operating system won't come out commercially until 2005, said Will Poole, senior vice president of the Windows Client division at Microsoft."

New VW Beetle Convertible Check it out!

Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy The RIAA still doesn't get it. They're planning on distributing software that will sabotage the internet connection of file sharers. Are they nuts? This will create an even larger backlash to their asinine, heavy-handed tactics. Perhaps they should remind themselves of what happened to Madonna.

Review: X2: X-Men United Simply put, X2 was as good or better than the original.

Matrix Reloaded Spoilers Time.com brings us these Matrix Reloaded spoilers. (via Drudge)

Deep Throat Uncovered? A group of students claim they have uncovered the indentity of Deep Throat.

X-Men 2 We've got tickets to the 7:30 PM show. It's getting good reviews.

Honda's New Accord A cool Flash commercial.