I felt like I needed to polish my image a little. This way, I can use Brasso. Via The Cyborg Name Generator
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What a lovely day… well, now it is. The sun is shining. However, last night we got about 5 or 6 inches dumped on us so this morning I had to use the snow blower to get out of the driveway. David couldn’t do it because he had to get out quickly to get to an early meeting, and he’s got all-wheel drive. But I, in my trusty little Corolla stick, did not have the luxury or the horsepower to plow through the heavy wet snow at the bottom of the drive without firing up the snowblower first. It’s one…
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Wow, I managed to implement that smiley project in one swell foop. 8) 😀 ="Very Happy" 🙂 ="Smile" 🙁 ="Sad" 😮 ="Surprised" 😯 ="Shocked" :confused: ="Confused" 8) ="Cool" 😆 ="Laughing" 😡 ="Mad" 😛 ="Razz" :blush: ="Embarassed" 😥 ="Crying or Very Sad" 👿 ="Evil or Very Mad" 😈 ="Twisted Evil" 🙄 ="Rolling Eyes" 😉 ="Wink" Powered by MT Smileys The instructions for doing it and an accompanying discussion thread are here. NOTE: There was a typo in the “Powered by” link – be sure to close the tag.
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House G.O.P. Voids Rule It Adopted Shielding Leader Now that the elections are safely over it’s okay to repudiate that ethically shaky rule, which was the Congressional equivalent of dust bunnies under the bed. This post is to test the NYT Link Generator, as I’ve been avoiding linking to the NYT owing to their Subscription-required access Fee-based archives Crappy angle brackets used as separators So if this works well, I’ll be very happy to link to NYT articles, rather than just reading them.
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BBC NEWS | Business | System gremlins resolved at HSBC You mean those things are REAL? So that’s how online banking is really done – gremlin labor.
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MTHacks’ MT Smileys This might be the next thing to tackle. Unlike other smileys packages I’ve looked at, it accomplishes things with includes and macros. Clickable, too. Hmm. However, I was hoping to use some square smileys that come in a range of colors that I ran across somewhere, so more thinking is needed.
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Hmm. Reduced Shakespeare Company is coming to Elgin. Since we’ve screwed up on getting “Holy Grail” theater tickets, this might suffice. March 18 ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged) Elgin Community College Visual and Performing Arts Center Elgin, Illinois Box Office: 847-622-0300
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Another year, another milestone, another period of hapless casting about for something interesting to blog about. When faced with this problem, many of us turn to our stats pages for a little navel-gazing. And what better time than on New Year's Day? Just who are the robots, spiders, and visitors who drop by? Naturally, any good stats page includes information about connections from other sites. This is usually where the spam hits the fan – a lot of the links turn out to be for C-list sleb porn and for hosting services and info-harvesters. Now and then, though, there's an…
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The earthquake/tsunami disaster just keeps getting worse and worse. Many people and sites are working to get aid workers, donations and supplies out, and refugees, survivor messages, and information back. BoingBoing has been covering the relief effort extensively. The IRC has got a family contact database and also a disaster clearinghouse. Google has a special link to disaster relief organisations, websites, and blogs. When the first wave came in, we were happy that we were seeing something that was really strange, but it was a very mild wave. Then the sea receded back, and we didn’t know what that meant.…
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I was sitting up reading last night when all of a sudden a storm hit – there was no warning other than a lot of wind earlier in the day – and it rained and thundered for about an hour or so. When there’s a storm the wind will beat on the whole house like a drum. I figured today would be a big rainy mess, but it’s actually very warm and balmy. The sun is out and everything is fresh and clean, although the wind is still blowing strongly from the South. If the wind swings around to the…