February 2004 – Page 2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

With the fifth book in the series J. K. Rowling takes a step backwards. While the first book was very simple with extremely flat characters, she has added depth with each successive book. In this one we return to characters who are so clueless and/or so evil that it simply isn’t believable. At the end of the fourth book Harry Potter tells the world that the leader of evil, Lord Voldemort, has returned to power. Rather than raise any alarms he is ridiculed as a liar by both the governing Ministry of Magic and the wizard media.

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In the paper

The Columbus newspaper ran a story about a public information meeting for some of my projects at work. I think it’s funny that no matter what newspaper you get in, you can still call it “the paper”. So I was in the paper.

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/2004/01/16/news/local/7722161.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3c7ka

Sony Car Stereo and iPod

I’ve put together a web page about how to connect an iPod to a Sony car stereo. I had bought a Sony head unit in 1998 with cassette and a CD changer in the trunk. I had been using a cassette adapter but had some problems. So I wound up getting a Sony XA-300 auxilliary input adapter. This is a successor to the XA-107. The web page has other work-arounds that might be useful and it seemed more appropriate for that information to appear on its own web page instead of a blog entry.

http://igirder.com/ipodsony.htm