I don’t know where all this energy and focus has come from but I have caught up on a few things sitting on my desk and now I’ve even gone out to my Woodworking Workshop. I had some ideas on how to reorganize the shop based on my usage of the shop the last year [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Our Family Twitter
Ok, this isn’t exactly Twitter but I’m going to keep calling it that because at this point I’m not signing up for it. I’ve instead set up a separate WordPress blog with the Prologue theme so that my family can have a very personal twitter like interaction. I’ve mentioned this in a past post. Last [...]
Topamax – aka Dopamax or is it just the Stupid Pill
I’ve mentioned in the past that I suffer from migraines. I’m being treated by my doctor who is also a sufferer and keeps actively abreast of the latest research. That being said, I’m very skeptical. I guess I’m skeptical of all medical treatments in general but in this one specifically I’m very skeptical. The reason [...]
Clinton caught but redirects
I don’t get to watch news programs much because my boys are busy with homework and such around news time. I did read on a few blogs that today Hillary Clinton was asked about Reverend Wright. Up till now, she has deftly avoided answering these questions. It was the right thing to do to stay [...]
Themes
I tried a new theme today but I’ve since taken it down. My problem with some themes is that I like the basics but the authors do such a great job at putting technology into them that they make it hard for people like me to come along and customize them a bit more. The [...]
Guitar – String Bending and Vibrato
Now, I’m probably not a beginner guitar player anymore but I’m not really sure that I’m that far from a beginner. I guess this is one of those areas that I lack confidence in. Yes, I’m building up knowledge and even some skill but putting it all together so that I can replicate the guitar [...]
Blog issue last night
This morning when I woke up (Happy Easter, by the way!), I found that my blog was down. At first, I thought there might be some hosting issues but I quickly found this wasn’t the case as that both my plain website was fine and also another (test) blog was up. Since I am running [...]
Democrats vs McCain
I’ve been seeing a lot of polls stating that both Clinton and Obama are below McCain nationally lately. Now I’m not a well known or respected pundit but I am a voter and I have a thought on this that has not seemed to occur to the Democrats in charge. McCain is ahead in the [...]
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate
WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1 was released yesterday. With my blog, I tend to be bleeding edge so I installed it. It went up with no trouble. The UI for administrators is a nice change though it seems a little slower at this point. It will take some getting used to. There are some features [...]
Obama on Race in America
Today, Barack Obama made an amazing speech on Race in America today (3/18/08) though it was far more personal to him and to anyone who reads it (see the link above) or anyone who watches it (youtube). I find it hard to say anything about this speech that I haven’t already read. It is worth [...]
Blast Gate for Dust Collection
I have had some conversations with a friend of mine over the past bunch of years about these blast gates that I’ve been using. They are very cool. I had the typical blast gates that everyone uses that were simple lift gates. My problem with them were the first set that I had were plastic [...]
More Presidential Race Comments
After yesterday’s comments on Hillary Clinton’s actions and directions, I wanted to add some additional comments to make clear that not everything either candidate in the Democratic party has done has been right or wrong. I’m not a big believer in negative campaigning but I also don’t want a candidate to be weak. A negative [...]
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
I’ve seen a lot of posts recently regarding a variety of topics that make me question the integrity of Hillary Clinton and her campaign. My political leanings could be called fiscally conservative yet socially liberal. This tends to put me in the Democratic camp. With the current candidates, I certainly favor Obama but until recently [...]
Olbermann on Ferraro
I’m a pretty big fan of Keith Olbermann. His show format is not my favorite but he is a straight shooter and doesn’t put his foot in his mouth as often as other new commentators (they all do it eventually so that’s about the highest praise I can give them – heck, it’s about the [...]
Applescript and MacJournal
I’ve never done any Applescript but I thought I would give it a try. I still had some work to do to finish off my migration work that Applescript sounded like the perfect tool for (the migration for my blog history from Ecto/Wordpress to my new blog tool MacJournal). In looking at Applescript, I’ve discovered [...]