Well, this is a bit disappointing – according to an interview with BBC News World Edition, Patrick Stewart’s a bit of a “wet blanket” about space travel. (via ***Dave Does the Blog) He and others raise a valid point – “let’s solve the problems of this world first before venturing away from it” – but still it’s hard to hear this commentary coming from the man that inspired the newsgroup alt.sexy.bald.captains “I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations out on to other planets – even though…
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Hmm. Various free/cheap Web graphics programs. I think I might qualify for some of these under the “Photoshop makes me break out in hives” rubric. Last night? Why, yes, there was hairpulling and swearing involved with my last tussle with Photoshop. 😉
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From Chicago NBC Channel 5’s Weather page… Thursday: Winter Weather Advisory through tomorrow morning…Cloudy, breezy and cold this morning, light snow developing this afternoon, increasing to a steady snow this evening. Highs in the upper 20s. Winds E 15-25mph. Thursday night: Heavy snow tapers to light snow mixed with some freezing drizzle, windy and cold. Lows in the mid 20s. Friday: Storm totals between 4 to 8 inches by 8:00AM. More light snow expected through the day, windy and cold. Highs in the upper 20s. Saturday: Cloudy with light snow or flurries mainly in the morning, partial clearing in the…
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Yep, as Officer Brogan used to say, “I love my job.” Yet another blinky has been unstuck, the universe is safe for one more day.
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A look at my logs recently led me down a few investigative Web rambles last night and today – the kind where you start of at Google, click a few links, go back, click a few more links farther down and so on. Interesing and informative links found thus far – attention, my hubby, might have a little more tinkering around for you to do: Random and Irrelevant IMHO, the above site was actually specific and relevant. 😉 Helpfully provided by Random and Irrelevant: robots.txt not honored? And I think I need to cross-reference robots.txt abusers/ignorers against a few such…
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Friday Feast #56: CSS, MT, Style Guides, TopStyle – Brainstorms and Raves- “Criminey, she’s at it again.” Yep, still toying with the idea of a 3 column layout. And cartooneys. More stuff to play with in my sandbox. Reminder: need figure out how to play in sandbox.
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I ran across Alton Brown’s Rants & Raves! earlier today. Love that show. LOVE that show. Mostly because AB offers solid advice about cooking, techniques, gear, and has a quirky visual style that makes it all look like fun. What scares me is that some people watch Alton for Alton. And some compare him (favorably? Unfavorably? to Orlando Bloom, international Elven heartthrob). And now I have a mential image of Alton Brown wearing tights and baking brownies. Please, Mommy, make the pictures stop. 😉 (must fight images. Must go to my happy tuna steak with wasabi place. )
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Well, we’ll try this again – I wanted to have the index page display the flags and countries of visitors, but apparently all the plug-in can do is display flag and town/city, meaning a whole bunch of American flags, some Canadian, a fewBritish, and other countries’ flags in descending order. Yes, yes, I know that a good chunk of the “visitors” are either robots or spammers, but whats the hey, ya? I’d still really rather have just the one flag per country represented. Oh, well. I’m working on the next couple of entries for the travel journal (JEEZ, this is…
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Here’s what was under today’s fractalicious Google nameplate: http://www.google.com/images?q=gaston+julia I always enjoy the fun Google has with commemorating holidays and events with its nameplate graphics. I wonder who the designers are? A Musical Group I’d Really Like To Hear: Reptile Palace Orchestra This group contains one of the only Balkan rock cellists in the world – possibly THE only Balkan rock cellists: Seth Blair The band’s bio tries to explain it all, but I think I’ll have to buy a CD on faith. Seth Blair used to appear every year at Seattle’s Folk Life Festival, and my friends and I…
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I have this feeling that choir practice will be cancelled again tonight. They Who Must Be Obeyed (a loose conglomeration of older ladies who really run things) usually cancel if there’s a light dusting of snow (the “coverlet for a hobbit’s toes” kind). I can’t blame them – if one of them fell, it could be catastrophic. Our previous vicar was from Virginia and never did get hardened off to winter, ice, snow, and that sort of thing, but she’s moved back there now and no longer has to deal with the issue of “to cancel or not” when the…