4 days 13 mouths to feed (9 adults, 4 kids) 3 blocks of cheese 2 boxes of crackers 1 very large summer sausage 1 bag of baby carrots 1 bag of broccoli florets 1 bag of cauliflower 1 pint of ranch dip 1 pint of shrimp dip 1 pint of spinach dip 4 turkeys cooked (2 baked, 2 smoked) 2 potato & sausage dressing casseroles 2 cans of cranberry sauce 2 batches of gravy 1 … Continue reading
Extreme technical blogging geekout zone ahead! blo.gs: hook up a cloud the old cloud service that operated via rebroadcasting pings over HTTP is being phased out. it is no longer documented here, and will be shut down at the end of 2004. (also, the changes.xml files will also no longer be available after 2004.) I’ve been using the blo.gs changes.xml file for a while to track recently updated sites in my blogroll. So now I … Continue reading
I managed to get a little computer time today after all (everybody else is watching movies and/or in Turkey Coma). I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about all the little things I’m thankful for. But really, there are only a few things that really matter. In particular there are two rather big things worth mentioning here now. The first one is a new job. I’ve really enjoyed the contract work that I’ve been doing since … Continue reading
I don’t know if I’ll get to fire up the computer tomorrow (or the next day, or the next day…), so I’ll take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! We’re going to be baking one turkey and smoking another. Plus we’ll have some sausage/potato stuffing, corn casserole, brocolli casserole, green bean casserole, spinach dip, shrimp dip, pumpkin pie, and assorted other goodies, stretched out over three days (we’ve got relatives coming in on … Continue reading
I’m back. Did you miss me? I didn’t think so. Anyhow, ever since Feedster announced their new ping interface earlier this month, we’ve been getting requests to add them to Ping-O-Matic. Matt contacted them to make sure that they wanted us to start bombarding them with our pings, and they said ‘okay’. So a short while ago, I flipped the switch. We also got the word that A2B was ready for us to step them … Continue reading
Over on the Ping-O-Matic blog pinger, I’ve added the A2B Location-Based Search Engine as a new service on the ping form. This will replace the old GeoURL service, which has been AWOL for quite some time now. I also did some other minor maintenance, mainly adding NewsGator to the manual ping form, and updating the sidebar links to reflect the most recent service changes.
The official Firefox 1.0 version is out. The Mozilla site seems to be overwhelmed at the moment. But I downloaded via BitTorrent, and I’m doing my part to contribute to the network (at least for the US English Windows version). Firefox 1.0 torrent
My wife and I will often stick bottles of water in the freezer for a little while, because, well, really cold water is refreshing. A few nights ago, I had done that, and I got to witness a neat phenomenon. When I first removed the bottle from the freezer, the water was still liquid and clear. But after I jostled it, the water almost instantly turned into a frozen slush. This was a mild example … Continue reading
My weight on the scale this morning was 252 pounds, and my trend weight is less than half a pound higher than that. That puts me at right around 20 pounds lost since early September. I’ve had to add two notches to my belt, as well. If we hadn’t eaten out at restaurants so much this past weekend, I might have dipped down below 250. I expect to do that by next week, though.
After much deliberation, I decided to decline that job offer from Emory University. The lure of a permanent job, with lower out-of-pocket tax and health insurance expenses was pretty strong. But their salary budget and our monthly bills budget just weren’t quite aligned at this time. The salary they were offering was in a sort of “grey zone” for our household budget. We probably could have gotten by, but only barely, and only with the … Continue reading