Today is A. A. Milne’s birthday. Milne of course was the author of Winnie the Pooh, one of my favorite characters when I was growing up.
And then once I grew up, I came across “Pooh goes ape-shit” during the early days of the ‘net. I still carry the scars from reading it. I always [...]
I had to take the plunge and update to WordPress 2.1 RC1. The upgrade went smoothly, with one hitch. It took me a while to figure out that the tag wp_listcats seems to have been deprecated, and replaced by wp_listcategories. Before finding the wp_list_categories function it messed up the display of categories in my site [...]
It’s a minor achievement, in the greater scheme of things, but I’m happy.
I got the “recent tunes” display in the sidebar working the way I want. I spent quite a bit of time looking for something that would work the way I wanted, and nothing quite fit the bill. The WordPress plug-ins I tried either [...]
Spectators at the iPhone Display
Originally uploaded by duncandavidson.
As cool as it is, I’m guessing that with the flat glass screen, with no tactile feedback, that the new iPhone won’t be a big hit with visually impaired users.
I found these characters a few years ago in a copy of Shambalah Sun (March 2000):
These two Chinese characters read buji in Japanese or wu-shih in Chinese. A tentative modern rendering is, free from anxiety or fear. Literally they mean no business, no work, no event, or, all is well.
Zen master Rinzai has this to [...]
It’s Monday, Marting Luther King day. My wife doesn’t have classes today, and neither does my daughter. They get to sleep in. I get to go to work.
I spent the better part of yesterday trying to figure out how to automatically export my recently played music from iTunes to an .xml file, then upload and [...]
Sometimes, all that’s needed is one word… bifocals.
Listing to: Done Got Old from the albumSweet Tea by Buddy Guy [requires iTunes]
Since this is a personal blog, I thought I’d get the gratuitous shot of our cat out of the way early. Tigger is a camera slut. The runt of his litter. He is definitely not one of the big cats from the Exotic Feline Rescue Center, but he has the heart of a predator, [...]
Jan 8, 2007 CENTER POINT, Ind. - There is a mountain lion on the loose in Center Point. “Donner” escaped from the Exotic Feline Rescue Center Friday afternoon.
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I really hope this incident doesn’t affect their ability to keep their license and keep doing the work that they do. Although I doubt there’s really [...]
Procrastination…
WASHINGTON (AP) — After 10 years of research on a project that was supposed to take only five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise, it makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier.
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