• Home Improvement - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Stormy Weather?

    We’ve had a spell of very windy weather, and it looks like there finally might be a storm coming. For 3 days now, we’ve had high, warm winds blowing steadily from the West. Until yesterday the skies were clear, but today it’s steadily gotten greyer, and the clouds are starting to pile up on one another and look like something’s about to happen. We haven’t had much rain, so I haven’t put out the other two rain barrels; I need to get some blocks to raise them up abot a foot or so, and also they would just fly away,…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Tweaking

    Some minor changes I’m working on (not ready for prime time) .side { font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif; color:#2F4F4F; font-size:x-small; font-weight:normal; background:#F5F5F5; line-height:110%; padding:5px; } .sidetitle { font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif; color:#666666; font-size:small; font-weight:bold; padding:4px; margin-top:0px; letter-spacing: .1em; border:2px solid #999; text-align:left; background:#FFCC66; }

  • Photos and Shutterblogs

    Moblog: Flailing Soon

    Oh, crap, here we go. I’ve tinkered with my own gallery, and have yet to upload many pictures, but I can at least do it easily enough. Now I’d like to have the ability to do a little moblogging from the road, if possible. Ideally, send images to the sidewall area that’s currently occupied by several static images. It’d be nice to have them change in random order, with new images added via email. gme.jp: How to make a moblog sidebar in MovableType Mfop2 etc. Alternatively, there’s a way to moblog to Gallery, or integrate Gallery within MT rather than…

  • Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    On The Road

    I’ve been reading a trip blog calledDucks on the Road since the very beginning. I ran across it in a list of newly-created blogs, and subscribed via Bloglines because it looked interesting. For one thing, they were from Oregon, and we Ducks are always interested in other Ducks for some reason – maybe the trauma of having a cartoon character college mascot makes us feel the need to support each other. The Ducks on the Road folks have driven around visiting family and friends; it’s been a relaxing trip. Today they’re in Moab, Utah – on the return leg of…

  • Radio

    Growing Pains?

    In the latest development in what has become a chaotic inaugural month, Air America Radio is losing two of its top executives, including the network’s co-founder. Mark Walsh, the former AOL executive and Democratic National Committee operative who announced the network’s launch to much fanfare five months ago, said Monday that he has stepped down as chief executive officer. Separately, the network confirmed that Dave Logan, Air America’s vice president for operations and programming, has been replaced. I’d describe myself as a loyal Air America listener. I try to listen to some of it daily, because I’m in late-stage early…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    CSS Crib Sheet

    mezzoblue  §  css crib sheet MMMmm! Linky goodness saved for later. I really ought to think about adding a sideblog just for links, since adding short ones to the blog for later perusal at home chops the main “flow” up so. Oh, good. Another half-assed project idea!

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Illuminati Shmoominati

    ***Dave Does the Blog passed along a virus meme, so I decided to play. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions Then I’ll show you the Eclipse Workbench User Guide, an in-depth guide to the features of the workbench. Not that I understand what this book is about – just that it was physically closest to me on the right hand side. In fact, Joe’s a friend of ours, and we’re having dinner with him on…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Oh, No! There Goes Tokyo!

    Once again, Neil Gaiman finds a clever gizmo when he’s supposed to be looking for his lost notebook: Firewire Dino! Here comes Firewire Dino! The coolest 4-port Firewire Hub on the planet! Firewire Dino is stomping through town and he means business. With piercing red eyes and an open mouth that lights up when plugged in to the Firewire bus, Firewire Dino is as menacing as he is useful. When he’s not destroying your desk* he’s helping you with your Firewire connectivity problems. Among its many essential Key Features… 4 ports to expand your computers Firewire capabilities Menacingly fast 400…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Magnetize This

    From the entertaining George Says website – your very own custom political photo-cartoon. For $5 + shipping, they’ll make the image you create into a refrigerator magnet. Imagine this one showing up in the White House kitchens, eh? Via Pale Blue Dot.