Today: got up early, web dev on my mind got to office, realized treepad still tends to resolve the junk in my mental attic to a kind of semi-sticky paste started looking at google apps to see if there’s anything that will take care of what Outlook isn’t doing for me somehow (and this is […]
Fine line between GTD and wasting time Read Post »
I had this bright idea about 3 o’clock this morning. It still seems okay in broad daylight, so I’m putting it up here. It’s probably just as well I can’t remember what I was dreaming about. Hat tips: Orange County Choppers website for the photo; http://demotivators.com/ for the “Demotivational Poster” generator tool.
www.hulu.com Site has recently come out of beta – numerous TV shows and other material you can view through a flash player. Full screen mode a little jerky, but overall good video quality.
Yet *another* way to watch TV Read Post »
Walking – I just did something very strange. I walked down my hall and back, and did a few other exercises while standing up with a walker. My physical therapist was working with me, and we have once again noted my right leg’s rather irksome tendency to wave around like a flag in a light
I just got to work and updated this theme to support tags. Thanks to these here tips, I added code to my index and home pages. Then I added a tag cloud to my right sidebar. I wasn’t happy with how it came out, so I had to tweak on my style sheet and create
Tags: If you want a job done right… Read Post »
Not much new to report on the health front. I’m still home; I have a doctor’s appointment soon to see if I can start bearing weight again. If I can, then I begin on the long rehab home to walking again and being normal as close to normal as I ever am. And because I
Yep, spinning describes my life, but lately what I’ve been doing is getting up at the ungodly hour of 4:45 and going to spin class twice a week. It’s really helping; I’ve lost a bit of weight and I’m going a bit faster on the road bike, especially up hills. If I can make it
I had to upgrade to this version, because it’s named after Dexter Gordon, the great jazz tenor sax man. It also has an improved text editor, which allows even more silly formatting tricks. And the spellchecker is grate ¿Does it support foreign language characters? You bet. And WordPress finally supports tags!
WordPress 2.3 – Dexter Read Post »
(hat tip: memory-alpha.org) I suppose everyone has them (if not, I suppose I’m in trouble) – those signature lines from books, movies, and discussions with your parole officer that burn their way into your consciousness and become THE go-to line that always plays in your head during certain situations. Often (as I discovered when
Perhaps nothing illustrates old-school marketing like old cigarette commercials. James Lileks posits that irony as we know it today didn’t exist in the culture of this period. How else would the audience sit still for this kind of earnestness? About cigarettes? Whatever the state of irony in those days, the public attitude about cigarettes was certainly different. People