Monthly Archives: January 2008

Tweets for 04 Jan 2008

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Headed towards Lincoln, Nebraska. 24 degrees, mostly cloudy. Good day for driving. (04-Jan-08 07:37 am)

  • Crossed into Iowa. Turning south on I-29. (04-Jan-08 09:12 am)

  • South side of KC. GPS says we’ll arrive in Springfield, MO about 4:15. (04-Jan-08 12:41 pm)

  • Passed the town of ‘Peculiar, MO’ where the “odds” are with you. (04-Jan-08 01:17 pm)

  • Nothing is finer today than Clinton in our rear view mirror… (04-Jan-08 01:58 pm)

  • Car parked. Playing with grandkids. Great to be out of the car. (04-Jan-08 03:52 pm)

  • @sidx001 How’s twitter4skype working? (04-Jan-08 09:06 pm)

Kearney, Nebraska

General

We’re on our way to Springfield, Missouri for Shaundra’s baptism on Saturday. Yesterday saw us in the car for about 12 1/2 hours, arriving in Kearney, Nebraska about 8 p.m. CDT yesterday evening. We were definitely tired of being in the car! The plan was to drive at least as far as North Platte, Nebraska and we did that plus another hundred miles. We’ve got about eight hours to drive today. It’ll be nice to be with James and his family for a couple of days.

The presidential primary season officially started yesterday with the Iowa Caucuses. That is consuming the news. For me the big news is the storm coming ashore in California today that is forecast to drop about ten feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains as it makes its way eastward. We’ll be driving home in whatever is left of that storm on Tuesday. Oh joy.

We’ll be leaving Kearney behind in about 30 minutes. Next stop: Springfield, Missouri.

Tweets for 03 Jan 2008

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • In about 30 minutes we’ll be on the road … from Pocatello to Springfield, MO. (03-Jan-08 06:14 am)

  • Crossed border into Wyoming on US 30. Minus 10 degrees here! (03-Jan-08 08:30 am)

  • @robertmerrill @windley EC2 is an interesting topic maybe for next CTO breakfastm (03-Jan-08 11:58 am)

  • Gassed up in Rawlins. Very windy and 36 degrees. (03-Jan-08 12:23 pm)

  • Lunch in Laramie. Much warmer here: 42 degrees! onward, eastward! (03-Jan-08 01:59 pm)

  • Arrived in Kearney, Nebraska, twelve hours after leaving Pocatello. We’ll spend the night here and continue to Missouri tomorrow. (03-Jan-08 07:15 pm)

Tweets for 02 Jan 2008

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Just replied to a Hoosgot. Haven’t decided if all the messages I’m getting on Twitter from hoosgot are worth it. I may stop following. (02-Jan-08 07:32 am)
  • Taking car in for service. Big trip starting tomorrow. (02-Jan-08 08:59 am)
  • @sidx001 you mean there are non-boring drives to Joplin occasionally? (02-Jan-08 11:49 am)

Tweets for 01 Jan 2008

E-Mail Musings

My Twittering For the Past 24 Hours

  • Rabbit Rabbit — good morning 2008! (01-Jan-08 09:00 am)

  • It’s a bright, sunny, and VERY COLD (below zero F) day in Pocatello. Fascinating reading at http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html (01-Jan-08 09:44 am)

  • Installing wordpress 2.3.2 security upgrade in all the blogs I host. (01-Jan-08 12:01 pm)

  • Coding up the process of adding tags to my picture album application. Good to have something to do while watching Hawaii get whomped on. (01-Jan-08 08:00 pm)

  • Tags partially working. Kind of fun…. much more work needed! Good night, first day of the new year…. (01-Jan-08 10:35 pm)

Beginning A New Year

Computer Stuff, General

Cold Darkroom

Nina has been cold. Several times a day she’ll ask me, “Aren’t you cold?” I haven’t been cold, though and she’ll go put on a sweatshirt or wrap up in a blanket. Last night I came into the computer room to find the blanket draped over her and her laptop while she was talking on the phone. She was definitely cold!

Today is a football day. The Michigan : Florida State game was outstanding. Nina has been cheering for the past fifteen minutes and that has been fun as well.

I have also been updating the blog software. A new release of WordPress fixes a couple of potential security issues. This was an easy release to install so all of the blogs have been updated.

I’ve wanted to have a way to put in side comments. Normally, I have to put them in parentheses which sometimes causes the meaning of the main sentence to be muddied up. So, I’m experimenting with a new method (*) which might work a little better. The idea is to put the parenthetical comment behind the asterisk. If someone clicks on the asterisk, then the aside will show up in another window. Clicking on “OK” will dismiss the window. Don’t know how much I’ll use the capability, but it is now there and working. Happy New Year!