Monthly Archives: December 2007

Tweets for 20 Dec 2007

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • OK … back to figuring out why my style sheet isn’t working…. I’ve been thinking about it all night! (20-Dec-07 07:52 am)

  • @sidx001 Drive Safely and enjoy the trip! (20-Dec-07 10:03 am)

  • Problem solved! Off to post office, grocery store — in the snow! (20-Dec-07 11:14 am)

  • Back from errands. Snow has abated. Maybe I’ll be able to snowblow before going to IF for the company party. (20-Dec-07 01:24 pm)

  • Time to go blow the snow out of the driveway. Snowplows have done their job to fill it in…. (20-Dec-07 02:23 pm)

  • Heavy, heavy wet snow. Just what we need … except when I have to shovel it. (20-Dec-07 03:27 pm)

  • On my way to the compny party in Idaho Falls. Road is fairly dry. (20-Dec-07 05:05 pm)

  • Party over. Had a good time. Headed home, roads are getting pretty bad. (20-Dec-07 08:56 pm)

  • Made it home. Roads quite bad from Idaho Falls to Blackfoot. Cleared up south of there. Good to be home! (20-Dec-07 10:18 pm)

The Weather Outside Is … Delightful?

Computer Stuff, General

Snow for Christmas

It’s snowing … big flakes … and accumulating. The birds are really enjoying the snow, however. Some can be seen flying and swooping. A couple dozen are in a tree near the back fence. Others are flocking around the bird feeders (Nina feeds lots of critters, including many who come up out of the ground for the seeds the birds flick over the side). It’s snowed enough that the satellite dishes are covered and we’re not getting a signal (and it’s not being missed, either). Let it snow!

I’ve been working the past few days on the picture album capability. The first deliverable will be the picture gallery concept (pictures not associated with any particular topic). As I’m working on this, I’m also cleaning up the code, fixing some potential security holes, and making the whole process look a bit spiffier. That means doing a lot of work between XHTML (extensible hyper-text markup language) and CSS (cascading style sheets). They didn’t make this easy! Right now getting a page to work properly with a header, two columns, and then a footer is proving to be very problematic. However, I will prevail…. There has to be a way! Good thing it’s snowing because that means I can stay inside and puzzle out this little problem.

Tweets for 19 Dec 2007

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Checking email. About 3 inches of snow overnight and it’s snowing pretty hard now. A White Christmas for sure. (19-Dec-07 07:27 am)

  • Driveway, sidewalks, neighbor’s drive all snowblowed. Bottle of water downed. Now for the fun stuff … programming and blogging! (19-Dec-07 10:27 am)

  • My thoughts on Twitter … as expressed in my blog: http://techmatters.rnsmith.com/?p=10 (19-Dec-07 11:41 am)

  • @psmith553 Any good news? (19-Dec-07 12:25 pm)

  • @lauramoncur Wish I was there. Pocatello is rather devoid to Twitterers…. (19-Dec-07 01:21 pm)

  • @psmith553 weather is good … snow is melting. (19-Dec-07 04:27 pm)

  • Goodnight world. A two-column format with header and footer is kicking my butt in CSS…. (19-Dec-07 10:27 pm)

Tweets for 18 Dec 2007

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Morning work catchup done. Breakfast time! (18-Dec-07 08:31 am)

  • Off to Post Office (including last of the Christmas Cards), Bank, and a hair cut. (18-Dec-07 10:26 am)

  • Home. Weather man says snow … it’s mostly sunny and 44°! (18-Dec-07 12:07 pm)

  • Is there anyone in #Pocatello Idaho on Twitter? (18-Dec-07 02:44 pm)

  • At Kurt Bestor Christmas Concert. Fifteen minutes to showtime. Hall is sold out. (18-Dec-07 07:14 pm)

  • @psmith553 Chinese I can eat anytime, but Kurt Bestor ??? Once a year! (18-Dec-07 07:30 pm)

  • Halftime at the Kurt Bestor concert. This is a wonderful event. Really puts me in the Christmas spirit! (18-Dec-07 08:51 pm)

  • Home from the concert. Didn’t want it to end! (18-Dec-07 10:17 pm)

Tweets for 16 Dec 2007

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Finishing a talk, practicing hymns for Sac Meeting. Busy day today. (16-Dec-07 07:43 am)
  • My feet are working OK on the organ today. Talk went well. Closing hymn is Silent Night. I’ll add chimes on the last verse. Sweet! (16-Dec-07 03:44 pm)
  • Posted a blog entry about my Seemic videos with mom and dad. https://www.rnsmith.com/?p=903 (16-Dec-07 10:45 am)

Christmas Greetings

General

Yesterday afternoon Nina and I drove over to Soda Springs to spend a few hours with mother and dad. As is usual, Nina put together a meal (very yummy meatloaf this time) to take over with us. We had a delightful visit and dinner. Dad was having some trouble getting the snowblower to start, so we worked on that and got it running. I ran it on their driveway clearing off about four inches of snow that had accumulated. Nina and mother put up their Christmas tree in the living room (Dad didn’t think they needed a tree this year since they weren’t going to be home for Christmas. Nina and mother, of course, had a different idea).

Just before we left, I had mother and then dad sit down with me to make a couple of short Seesmic videos with their Christmas greetings. I thought they came out quite nicely. Mothers video is at http://seesmic.com/uFghwAJD64 and dad’s video is at http://seesmic.com/3LLcekQhOA. I posted the videos and we packed up to come back home to Pocatello.

After getting home I plugged my Macbook back in and saw a note from our son James on Twitter saying, “You need to look at the replies to your posts!!” I opened Seesmic and found five replies to the videos I had put up:

  1. http://seesmic.com/CI4wVBtThz
  2. http://seesmic.com/MtxyX0uVO4
  3. http://seesmic.com/XlIqW1qwpZ
  4. http://seesmic.com/eNOPbv5UWd
  5. http://seesmic.com/yPRDcGWLrh (Jim and kids — this one takes about 10 seconds before it starts)

Click on the links and enjoy the responses as well. It’s a nice set of Christmas greetings back from a delightful community. Hopefully the links will work. If not, please try again later. Seesmic is Alpha software and is going through some growing pains right now which I’m sure will be fixed Real Soon Now.

Merry Chistmas!

Tweets for 15 Dec 2007

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Got to get a twit in before Twitter goes down for the day! (15-Dec-07 08:24 am)

  • Just for giggles … is it down or back up? (15-Dec-07 10:26 am)

  • [seesmic] Merry Christmas From My Mother! – http://seesmic.com/uFghwAJD64 (15-Dec-07 06:53 pm)

  • [seesmic] My 86-year-old Dad (and major Jazz fan) Wishing Merry Christmas – http://seesmic.com/3LLcekQhOA (15-Dec-07 06:58 pm)

  • Wow!! Great responses on Seesmic to my mom and dad! (15-Dec-07 08:25 pm)