I am such a newbie. It’s taken me four hours of fussing just to change a few colors around… and now that it’s done, it bears a strong resemblance to one of the color schemes I use on my work computer. Back when I was just an AOL nerd and I’d be cracking on typing and cutting and pasting, I’d occasionally get this humorous error when Windows 3.0 and AOL… um… 3? 4? didn’t play well. I’d copy text, get set to paste in an IM, and nothing would appear in the target window except a forlorn little “pleH.” I…
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Dave’s Place – Hex Color Chart Okay. I’ve been dinking around for days looking at color charts. It’s time to hike up my pants and wade in.
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Liberal talk network lands Chicago outlet Heh. This brought an Evil Chuckle to my lips: “Franken, who has established himself as one of the country’s leading conservative-bashers, said: “My first priority is to get sued by a right-wing jerk in order to generate interest in my new show, ‘The O’Franken Factor.’ Our hope is to do drug-free talk radio, although I understand it’s never been done. :(I don’t know WHAT he means. Or who. Nope.) “Quite simply, my plan is to alter the political landscape, drive this radical right-wing president from office and stand as a beacon for ordinary Americans…
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Playing Now: Kodo: Mondo Head Oh, this is very cool – Jemima’s blog demos, including Moveable Color OOoooh. Pretty colors. I’m hoping to get some sort of 3 column action going with a sideblog on the left…with the bookshelf/CD collection (maybe with different categories for same). ::pondering:: Another Cool Discovery (Old News for the Old Hands, I Know) What’s this Lorem Ipsum stuff? I… I love this. This is way cooler than I could ever have imagined.
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Need to read over later… Blogging with MovableType Media Tinker’s Lucid Explanation
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“Here’s a Health to the Company,” The Chieftains: Celebration Well, here’s to us all. The beermaking kit finally arrived (actually, it had to be reordered, the original was lost by the Tibetan Postal Service) In looking over the instructions, they seem pretty straightforward, so we probably won’t kill anybody with our first batch. And Scott, the engineer-boot wearing bass from church, has offered his able assistance with “getting the baby’s head wet.” He brought over some of his own homebrew last summer, most of which was quite, quite tasty. Me, I’m hoping eventually for a batch of Black Raspberry Hefeweissen,…
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What’s On the AOL Tuner: Andreas Vollenweider: Cosmopoly That’s nice, hadn’t heard any of old Andreas’ music in a long time. I used to listen to one of his first albums a lot years ago in Seattle. They were talking on ::NPR this morning about it being the 40th anniversary of the Surgeon General’s report that advised us all that smoking is bad for us. I wonder if incense counts as second-hand smoke? It sure set off the sniffling and coughing, and it makes my throat tight – not a good thing if you’re trying to sing.
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I’m still in the “clueless newbie” stage of development in doing this blogging thing. I have to ask DH to fix up/install all the technical stuff, and then I tinker around with templates and things and have to yell for help if I can’t revert to something that works. I’ve been gathering links to tutorials and places where people gather to discuss blogging, the blogoverse, blogomania, sideblogs, blogrolls, and other things blog. I’m still learning definitions and trying to figure out how not to do it, in addition to how to do it. Far off in the hazy blue distance,…
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Former leak in pipe remains fixed. Skating rink fundraiser in garage cancelled. Noticed that DH mentions the incident in his blog also. The wall painting project has progressed to the “touch up places where paint bled under masking tape” stage, but it’s basically done. The ceiling touch-ups are more along the lines of “roller-size swipes of orange paint on white must be painted over with big brush” stage. Yep, next time we mask the ceiling with tape at least as wide as the paint roller. The hardwood floor project in the third bedroom, formerly known as the Tiny Room Full…
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ABCNEWS.com : Moon, Mars Proposals Stir Excitement “We had to do the moon first, but we’ve done it,” he said. “So the value of any permanent presence on the moon is not clear to me.” Well, it’s clear to me. We have to learn how to live, long-term, in a vacuum. Right now, there’s a slow leak on the International Space Station that we can’t find to fix. A permanent moon base could include underground rooms that could be pressurized easily and safely that could serve as bolt holes in case of a catastrophic decompression. On the station, or on…