Kyle used the Internet to fix his furnace. I think that’s pretty rad.
According to Lifehacker, there are a lot of good things to look forward to with Firefox 3.
McSweeney’s has a pretty humorous feature about Hillary Clinton’s days as the First Lady, written by Nick Ripatrazone.
Headed out the door shortly to get started on the opening day festivities– Schrubbe came down last night, and we’re going to run to the grocery store before braving the traffic mess.
Looking forward to a good game. The Brewers are a lot better than San Fran on paper, so I think the day should end happily for the hometown crowd. I’ll try to send up some photos throughout the day onto the Flickrs, so keep an eye out if you’re bored at work.
I would be able to blog from my seat if the fracking “post-via-email” thing would work right. I might dick with that a little bit over the weekend.
Catch you after the game!
“JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Legislators are seeking to ban mixed martial arts competitions – sometimes called ‘cage fighting’ – among children in Missouri, which appears to be the only state where youth matches are allowed.”
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Uploaded some more photos today. I now have a galleries for Oshkosh, Eagle River, and Milwaukee, as well as for a few of the vacations I’ve taken in the last few years. Take a look as you will.
Michelle and I were talking about it recently– I don’t think I ever actually put photos from our Glacier Nat’l Park trip on the web last summer. I’m gonna work on those next, be watching for it in a few days…
In other breaking news this evening, I guess Tom Crean is leaving Marquette. How bout them apples?
I thought that there may be some issues within this new site that really made it slow for some people. But, after noticing the poor transfer rate I get from connecting to my house in a variety of ways, I decided a speed test for my Internet connection was in order. The verdict: 25 Kbps upstream. Ouch.
So when I get home later on, I’m going to reboot the modem (I don’t think I’ve had to do that at all since they hooked up the webs for me early last fall), and if that changes nothing (I don’t think it will), it’ll be time for a phone call to my friendly neighborhood Time Warner Customer Service rep. Gotta hold off for the weekend on that one, because I’ve never experienced a hold time in this market (MKE) of less than 20 minutes.
So Howard Dean is lamenting the state of affairs in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, while Mitt Romney is showing John McCain around Utah.
I think Dean’s concerns about the contest between Obama and Clinton are valid–no matter how much broad-based appeal a candidate may or may not have, the core of your party has to be behind you. I have to admit, I don’t classify myself a Democrat, even though I’m an Obama supporter. If Hillary wins the nomination, I don’t know if I’d vote for her. I might end up voting for a 3rd party candidate in that case, who knows? Meanwhile, I’d say that Chris Dodd is freaking out a bit early.
Obama was right– this is a long, tough road. I hope the best candidate emerges on the other side with a legitimate chance at victory in November.
Well, maybe I shouldn’t even admit this, but I got into work this morning, and all of a sudden, soloshootsfirst.com was pointing at my new WordPress site. Wasn’t doing that night when I went to bed. Is now. *shrug*
So, err, welcome to the new version of the site. Yep.
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Update your feeds.
**UPDATE** Talked to Joe and learned something new about Apache and needing to restart it– which I had to do this morning for a completely different reason. But at least I feel better about not being a total schmoe. Carry on!
I don’t get a lot of visitors to my site. That doesn’t really bother me at all. I’m just trying to entertain, enlighten, or inform those precious few, and also myself.
That being said, while this WordPress site is “in development,” I have a feature turned on that keeps Google’s prying eyes away from this webspace, and the site stays “off the grid” to a certain extent. I’m considering whether or not I should keep that feature enabled once I formally go live with it. I don’t have much of a rationale for this consideration. What could I possibly say or do here that would suddenly overrun my server with traffic? At the same time, who needs to find me via a Google search? If you’re reading this blog, odds are over 99.9% that we have met and maintain contact face-to-face.
Any thoughts on this topic?
Two words for ya when you’re creating small galleries from stacks and stacks of photos: filmstrip view.
Check ’em out — I think some of these might not have seen the light of the Interwebs before. Next big project for continuing to switch over: import posts from the previous blog.
I’ve discovered something this evening while I work on building some photo galleries for the new site: my pictures are organized like shit.
On the old site, I had a LOT of pictures in a number of galleries, and something I’m changing here is the volume of pictures that are out here. I figure no one on the webs needs to see that many. Who looks at all those pictures, anyway?
You’d think that would make it easier to do, but really it’s not at all. I’m only going to upload some of my digital pictures, and I have approximately 7000 images to page through and consider including. I can see the vacation collections being toughest to slog through. What I’ll probably do is take my external hard drive (where I have backups of everything) to work, and I can work on this a bit at lunch time. One of the other benefits there is USB 2.0. That’s right– desktop machine at home is still on 1.1. Yeesh.
In somewhat-related news, when are you available for a Brewers tailgate outing this summer? June 14 or 21?