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 Information about Ty Davison straight from the horse's mouth.
 Years worth of mind-numbing details, ponderings, and events.
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 External URLs that have cropped up in the course of the News history.

 March 5, 2002
 
A Prairie Home Companion
A Midwestern humor and variety hour on radio. I like it. [October 7, 2001]

AbleComm
Online telecommunications store. Great prices, great service, free shipping. I bought our Panasonic cordless phone from these guys. [November 4, 1999]

Accelerate Your Mac!
Mike Breeden's brilliant Mac upgrade site. [April 1, 1998]

Ad Critic
The place to see all the latest TV ads, as well as some of the older all-time great ones. And all in QuickTime format. [January 29, 2001]

Alaska Air
For my money, the best airline on the West Coast. [February 17, 1998]

Alink
My first Internet Service Provider: reliable connections, great customer service, and too expensive. [April 6, 1998]

Amazon.Com
Good pricing and great convenience in an online sales store. [December 15, 1998]

American Water Works
The largest private water company in the US, now owned by RWE AG. Investors who've ridden this long-time stock pick of mine to big-time gains are welcome. [
September 20, 2001]

Apple Computer
Macintosh: The best personal computer on the market. [August 25, 1997]

Apple Store
Build your own Mac online and order it from the source. Bonus: Free shipping! [March 1, 1999]

Atomz.com
A super (not-to-mention free) localized search engine. Works for me! [August 4, 1999]

Bidwell & Company
Online and off-line discount brokers. Great service, great people. Too bad about the $25 annual IRA fee, or they'd be perfect. Update: They've canceled the $25 fee!
[May 13, 1999]

Bill Clinton
Reactionary right-wing site listing a lot of dead people with ties to Clinton. Hmm... [September 8, 1998]

British Airways
Partner of Alaska Air and Erin's airline for France 2000. [
June 27, 2000]

Bushisms
George W. Bush is almost incapable of forming a sentence which doesn't mangle verb-noun agreement. See proof. [
October 4, 2000]

Caen Memorial Museum
Perhaps the finest World War II museum in France, surrounding by beautiful and moving memorial gardens. [
July 28, 2000]

Canon PowerShot S300 Digital Elph
My first digital camera and a good one at that. [May 2 & May 5, 2001]

Carnivore
The FBI's electronic wiretapping system designed to capture private citizens' email and imperil civil liberties throughout the United States. Encrypt, I tell you, encrypt! [
September 13, 2001]

Carpoint
A Microsoft-based internet site dealing with relatively new autos. Good, but very pro-car dealer. [February 17, 1999]

CarTalk
National Public Radio's CarTalk, featuring great (and funny) auto advice and tons of useful info. Recommended whether you're buying a car or not. [February 17, 1999]

Cleave.com
Film analysis doesn't get any better than this. [August 11, 1999]

Corvallis Macintosh Users Group
Probably the best Mac user group in Oregon. Neat web site too. [February 10, 2000]

Crime Victims United
Victims rights organization dedicated to keeping violent criminals behind bars. [October 11, 2000]

Delta Airlines
The low-bidder in my effort to make it to France for as little money as possible. My trip was operated by Air France, and the meals were great. [
June 30, 2000]

Dennis Scott
Back by popular demand. [September 14, 1998]

Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite
Funny online Star Wars spoof in comic form. [November 13, 2000]

Download.Com
The fast and easy way to find freeware and shareware on the Net. [August 29, 1998]

DrLemon.Net
Our friend Debi's web site. [May 24, 2000 & December 28, 2000]

Edmund's
A comprehensive auto information site. Best on the web? Maybe. [February 17, 1999]

Epinions.com
A pseudo-Consumer Reports web site written by the masses. [May 5, 2001]

Eschelon [four separate articles]
An international system of communications infiltration, analysis and privacy violation brought to you by the one-and-only US government. [
May 27, 1999]

Echelon Watch
The ACLU's web site concerning the international spying network. [
November 18, 1999]

Eudora Pro
Qualcom's got a heckuva e-mail program here. Latest version even does voice mail via the net. [August 26, 1998]

Excite
A web search engine which now lists "Davison Online" among the entries. Their customizable startup page, My Excite, is pretty cool, too. [July 29, 1998]

Excite games
You might find me playing chess here under the name "Esmark." [April 9, 2001]

FICS
I also play chess here under "Esmark." [April 9, 2001]

Fireland Text Products
Absolutely "da bomb" when it comes to humorous text-based web sites. Not for the easily offended. [July 29, 1998 & November 14, 1998]

The Force.net
All things Star Wars, including some really neat fan films. [February 21, 2001]

FWB
Macintosh software developers of Hard Disk Toolkit and CD-ROM Toolkit. [
April 20, 1999]

Gart Sports
Big sports store filled with consumer-level items. Friendly helpers, though, so that's a plus. [
February 9, 2002]

Green Money
Socially responsible investing [June 2, 1997]

The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning historical non-fiction novel about World War I. [July 13, 1998]

Half.com
Lots of nifty half-priced stuff, but what I was really interested in was a Sesame Street book for Erin and the accompanying brownie points galore. [
January 13, 2001]

Hotel Le Grillon
Reasonably priced Strasbourg, France hotel. [
July 13, 2000]

HR Dynamics, Inc.
Home to my friend Helana's human resources company. Featuring web design by yours truly. [October 5, 1998]

Integrade Pro
A professional level gradebook program. [October 12, 1998]

Kensington
Maker of my totally cool little Orbit trackball. The best in the biz. [July 4, 1998]

Kosovo Quiz by David K. Every of MacKiDo
Is the military option a good solution? Once again, no. [
May 31, 1999]

LAN Party Movie
Good audio, lousy video, great LAN Party. [
October 24, 2000]

Latter-Day Saints (LDS)
Some very strange and historically unsupportable beliefs, but you've likely never met nicer people. Check out the Family History stuff for the most comprehensive genealogy information in the world. [
September 25, 2001]

loligo
My friend Garr's cool band. Guess who designed the web site? [
July 8 & 16, August 6, 1999, September 20, 1999, May 8, 2001]

MacNN
The CNN of the Macintosh universe. My name occasionally appears in lights, further reducing my allotted 15 minutes of fame. [
August 5, 2000]

Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body and a Better Life
The "how to lose weight" book by Oprah Winfrey. We'll see. [
March 21, 1999]

Marie Callender's
I'd call the food fair, except for the desserts—especially the apple a la mode—which are delicious. [February 9, 2002]

Mark of the Unicorn
Makers of professional Mac audio software and equipment. [September 14, 1998]

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
Apparently I'm not alone in my wacky moral judgments. [January 26, 1999]

The Matrix
An instantly classic science fiction film. [July 16, 1999]

Men in Black
Good movie that shoulda been better [December 18, 1997]

MIT's Pretty Good Privacy site
Distribution site for free encryption software. [April 25, 1998]

My Simon
An on-line buying service. [October 19, 1998]

Nature Conservancy
One highly recommended environmental group [September 25, 1997 & July 21, 1998]

Netscape
Where to download Navigator 4.08 for free [September 6, 1997]

Oregon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
I've never believed in the death penalty (and you can read why in my Opinions section). Now a group in Oregon has proposed a ballot measure which replaces the death penalty with life imprisonment and restitution. [February 2, 2000]

Panansonic
Online ordering of parts, easy to navigate, -bang!- I've fixed our answering machine. [January 14, 1999]

Penny Arcade
An online comic strip featuring two dudes who play lots of video games and who dislike each other. Darn funny. See my comments for a list of favorites. [February 9, 2000]

PGPi.com
A great download site for the free strong encryption program Pretty Good Privacy. [May 31, 1999]

Pink Moon
A song by Nick Drake and a great VW commercial. [
February 9, 2001]

Player vs. Player Online
One of the funniest online comics around. Except for on Sunday, when it's one of the lamest. Go figure. [May 1, 2000]

PowerLogix
Makers of very fast G3 accelerators for the Mac. [February 19, 1998]

Power Max
One of the better online Mac retailers. Interesting used and refurbished stuff, too. [March 9, 2001]

QuickTime
Apple's cross-platform technology for audio and video playback. Now on version 5.02. [April 14, 1999]

Rich Dad, Poor Dad
A pretty simplistic book but one with a couple dynamite financial ideas. [October 16, 2001]

RothIRA.com
A good resource for information on Roth IRAs, exceptionally nifty retirement savings investment vehicles. [
September 10, 2001]

San Jose Giants
The local minor league baseball team with all the refreshing purity of people who play not because of money but because they love the game. [August 1, 1998]

The Second Coming
Another online cartoon. Not as good as Player vs. Player or Penny-Arcade, but there are some occasionally funny ones. [September 11, 2000]

Simple Social Graces: Recapturing the Joys of Gracious Victorian Living
A book by Linda S. Lichter on Victorian-era lessons worth relearning. [April 26, 1999]

Sinfest
Humorous Internet-based comic sure to be reviled by Christian fundamentalists or those of a sensative nature. Pretty funny anway, and occasionally poignant. [
November 29, 2000]

Slip.Net
My old Internet Service Provider. Troublesome service. [April 6, 1998]

sonicare
The best and most expensive toothbrush ever [December 3 & December 18, 1997]

SportsArt 3120
The key to my physical fitness or a $1900 roll of the dice? Probably both. [
January 20, 2000]

Sprague High School
My alma mater and Erin's employer. [July 23, 1999]

Star Wars
The best science fiction movie series of all-time (at least until The Matrix has a sequel), and one heck of a good web site too. [April 14, 1999, May 3, 1999 & May 8, 1999]

TurboTax for Mac (formerly MacInTax)
Is it possible, however unlikely, that a piece of software could make doing your taxes fun? [
January 25, 2001, February 16, 2002]

TD Waterhouse
A decent brokerage house with neat online tools. Trade for $12. [
October 2, 2000]

TyDavison.com
The soon-to-be home of my musical endeavors. [February 11, 2002]

UC Berkeley's Jester 2.0
An online joke recommender. I found some good ones. See what you think. [October 22, 2001]

US Chess Federation
Free subscription to Chess Life with membership [August 20, 1997]

USAA
A bank, an insurance company, and more. You have to be military, ex-military, or, ahem, a dependent of ex-military to join, but it's financial services heaven if you can get in. [August 1, 1999]

VanDriesche.com
Dave is "da man." [May 8, 2001]

VeggieTales
Computer animated kid series with Christian overtones. Fun for the whole family. [March 7, 1999]

 

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