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Of course. Just as I’m using Amazon MP3 for as much online music as I do iTunes.
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Yes, even NASA has a Twitter account. Pretty easy way to keep up with the latest from America’s space agency.
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A great start-to-launch sequence of photos, from the arrival of the external fuel tank from Mississippi to launch of the Discovery.
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Match your “brand”, create a barrier, buy a plant, get rid of the noise, and pay attention to ergonomics. Simple, but very useful stuff.
Tag: links
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“[B]ecause every one of us were told since birth that we were special. … And really? Really? It turns out we’re just not all that special, when you break it down. Beautifully unspectacular, actually. And that truth is going to catch up with us…”
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As a metalhead–musically speaking; I don’t have a plate in my head or anything–I really like this one.
Oh, did I forget to mention my wife’s become a blogger?
And that she did so last year?
Whoops.
Well, that takes me out of the running for Husband of the Year™.
(And if you think that’s all I’ve done to take myself out of the running, I have some beachfront property in Scottsdale I’d like to talk to you about.) <rimshot> But enough about me…
The missus began blogging last May as an outlet for the angst and excitement she felt as a result of our seeking to add to our family through adoption. She’s also been talking about our struggles with infertility as we seek to add to our family on our own. At some point she began sharing little tidbits about our life at home, missing her mom, and other things outside the realm of adoption, and I suggested a name change for the blog.
In private conversations with friends, nearly all online, I’ve often referred to our home in general, and the study, from where I compute, in particular, as “the Phisch Bowl”. Seeing how I have no intention whatsoever of allowing the fish (phisch?) meme, courtesy of my anagramed moniker, to die, my abrupt suggestion to her was, “Life from the Phisch Bowl“. So there you go.
A small word of warning. The missus tends to use some shorthand and acronyms she’s picked up from motherhood/pregnancy/infertility forums over the years, and some might not be readily decipherable. Trust me, there was a time when I was constantly asking her what this acronym or that one meant. Should you need similar help, drop me a line, or better yet, drop the missus a line over on her blog, and ask her. Better still, just drop her a line and say hi.
Her latest post also deals with an issue near and dear to our hearts. Once again, Kel will be participating in the March of Dimes’ March for Babies, formerly known as WalkAmerica. Due to a commitment with the little phisch, I won’t be walking this year, but Kelly will, and she’s raising funds.
(Much to my chagrin, she’s already raised more funds for this than I need in total for my mission trip to Juarez, to build houses for the poor there, in June. This includes monies from my own mother, who was asked, along with several friends and family members, to support my trip prior to Kelly beginning her fund-raising. Hrmmm. Perhaps I should outsource my own fund-raising to the missus, since we all know she is far, far more charming a person than I….)
So, drop by her blog and say hi, and if you’re led, help us with the March for Babies.
I love you, sweetheart.
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Doc points how some businesses need to stop treating Internet access like having to pay to go to the restroom. An argument against him would be bolstered if we actually got what we paid for when traveling.
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What makes this so funny is this past Saturday night, at our minichurch meeting, I did indeed use my iPhone to pull up information from Wikipedia and IMDB.
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The movie version of Snake-Eyes looks pretty…bad-ass. Perhaps the movie won’t be that bad. Then again, Snake-Eyes was always the best thing about the comic, so as long as he’s the same, I likely won’t care about the rest.
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“Three 48-page memo books. 3-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ with rugged three-staple saddle-stitch binding. Perfect 1-pica graphed paper.” One of these has ridden in my back pocket for months, and has held up very well, better than the Moleskine Cahier I used to use.
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Say what you will about Charlie Rose, but you have to admire his sacrificing his face to keep his newly-purchased MacBook Air from sustaining damage.
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“Have you ever received a link from a friend, but weren’t sure why? The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.”
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Controlled from the wrist, this jacket has LEDs on the back to signal which way you’re turning.
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Think about protecting yourself when you’re sitting in Starbucks, working on your laptop.
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Ever have trouble getting to a web site? Do you ping your friends on IM, or give a shout over the cubicle wall, asking if they can get to that site? Now you don’t have to bother your friends and co-workers anymore…
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Bill Thompson on the connectedness of Twitter: “After a certain point Twitter becomes part of the background to life. […] I feel connected to a community of people, feel that we share a space that none of the social network sites can conjure up…”
So I got off my duff and finally got around to putting in to place the redesign (realignment?) of the blog that I’ve sat on for the better part of two years. Those of you who normally read the blog from the RSS feed can click over to see the new look. (If you care, that is.) Those of you who read the blog by actually going to it may have noticed the new look over the past couple of days. (Or maybe not, and if that’s the case, I’m left to wonder whether or not that’s a good thing or a bad thing.)
One thing you might notice on the main page is the Twitter section at the top, marked “Recently”. If you are a regular reader of the blog, you may have noticed that my blogging has taken a huge dive in recent months, with most posts consisting of the daily links posting from my del.icio.us account. The reason for that is I’m doing a lot of micro-blogging over on my Twitter account. I say micro-blogging, because Twitter limits each post to 140 characters. (This is largely due to the number of character one can put in to a SMS message, and Twitter has excellent SMS compatibility.) So now you when you visit this blog, you can also see my latest on Twitter.
There’s further tweaking ahead. I likely won’t leave all of those links in the sidebar. They’ll get spun off to a separate page, like the reading list and photos. I’d like to integrate a linkblog in to the main page, a la John Gruber and other bloggers, instead of relying on my del.icio.us account to automatically spit them out each morning. The linkblog would allow more immediate posting, and any comments about the link wouldn’t be limited to del.icio.us’s text field.
The biggest tweak, however, will be under the hood, as I upgrade to Movable Type 4. Hopefully, this will be transparent to you, dear reader, but will empower me and make my blogging life easier in the long run. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another two years for these various tweaks to be made reality.
I have quite a few people to thank for their input and help over the past two years. So many, in fact, that I dare not name them all here out of fear of leaving someone out. Needless to say, those of you who fall in to this category know who are. You occupy prime positions in my instant-messaging buddy list and e-mail address book. You are my friends, and for putting up with my endless questions of “How does this look?” and “What do you think of this?”, or the myriad times when I failed to even ask a question and just IMed you a link with no backgrounding of any sort on my part, you have my sincerest thanks.
If you absolutely hate the new look of the blog, well, that’s your opinion, and you should place any blame for your dislike firmly at my feet. If you absolutely love the new look, it’s because of the wonderful people, mentioned above, who took time out of their lives to share part of mine with me.
Oh, and if you happen to be nostalgic for the old look, you can still find it here, for a little while.