I usually try to post something every couple of days, but as a few of you may have noticed, I’ve been absent for over a week. And if you really follow along here, you might have guessed why. Claire Virginia Campbell Earlier this year, I announced Peppermint version 0.3. Susan and I are pround to announce that after several months of work, we now have a finished product, and we present Claire version 1.0! Claire … Continue reading
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The FeedLounge team is looking for some browser developers to help with testing. This is to help distinguish better between bugs that may be in the FeedLounge application or in the browser itself. By getting some browser programmers on-board, they may be able to get problems fixed at both ends. We feel that this will be a mutually beneficial arrangement: We push the limits of the browser and potentially find bugs that don’t normally get … Continue reading
Prompted by some recent comments, I have made a minor update to my HeadMeta Plugin. There are now links to the color-coded PHP source, a plaintext version, a .ZIP file, and a .tar.gz tarball. The new version adds automatic generation of a standard <meta/> tag for posts which have a custom ‘keyword’ or ‘keywords’ field. I often tag my posts with a ‘keyword’ field for use with the Related Posts plugin, so I figured I … Continue reading
Black & Decker Mega Mouse 4-In-1 Sander Polisher Susan and I have spent the last several weeks refinishing some furniture for our kids’ rooms. It’s been taking a lot longer than we had expected, but we’re finally reaching a point where it’s going to pay off. Tonight, I should be able to put the final coat of polyurethane on Jamie’s chest of drawers. Later this week, I should be able to get the final coats … Continue reading
Silliness from the land of my forefathers: Triathalon competitors get monster insurance for swimming Loch Ness. One of the world’s most famous fables faces a serious financial test in two weeks’ time when 100 international athletes plunge into Loch Ness – each insured for £1m against monster bites. […]Not everyone welcomes the insurance deal, though. The official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club took exception to the suggestion that Nessie would attack anyone – however much … Continue reading
Any day now, we will have a new life to watch over. The doctor’s estimated due date is July 18, but there’s no real accuracy to those predictions. The baby is engaged, so it will probably be pretty soon. I’m hoping that she’ll wait about another week, to give us more time to get our house in order. But she’ll come whenever she’s ready, regardless of whether we are. Any day now…
Our hearts go out to all of those affected by the terrorist bombings in London earlier this morning. Those of us in the U.S. know what you’re feeling right now. I’ll never understand what terrorists hope to accomplish by their cowardly acts. History has shown time and time again that terrorism is an ineffective tool for change. Rather than weakening their enemies, the attackers will galvanize their victims and their allies. Purposefully killing innocents in … Continue reading
About a year ago, I started to work on some code to include a “now playing” feature here. It would track music I was listening to in my media player (Winamp, at the time), and put the info in the sidebar of this site. I looked at various canned code solutions, but I usually like doing these things myself. But it wasn’t a high priority, so I just tinkered with it here and there, and … Continue reading
About a week ago, a yellowjacket stung me twice on the ankle while I was mowing our lawn. Obviously, it hurt like hell when it first happened, a feeling akin to being stuck with a hot soldering iron. The initial pain subsided fairly quickly, going down to a persistent itch and a constant dull (but firm and distracting) pain. After I finished cutting the grass, I applied ice, which helped for a little while. Later … Continue reading