— personal —

Quick trip to WV

I got back to SC late last night (actually about 2:30am). Elisabeth and I had a great time together in WV. I arrived there late Friday evening. The drive went pretty well except for getting stuck in Charlotte traffic for about an hour on the way. It was a bad idea to drive through Charlotte… Read More Quick trip to WV

— computing, web stuff —

Dial with your iPod

“Here’s”:http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Pro_Pod_Power_Tips/363 a cool idea: use an iPod (actually a number of different digital audio players would work) to generate a touch-tone signal and place a call over a standard analog line. This scheme can even store address book entries using playlist files. It’s actually quite intuitive know that I think about it, but it’s something… Read More Dial with your iPod

— current events —

ID mixup makes tragedy even more painful

“This”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13081646/ is an amazingly tragic situation made even more painful for some of the families involved because of an extremely unfortunate ID mixup. I find it a little surprising that the mistake was made in the first place, let alone that is was propogated for so long.

— current events —

Trouble in the PA

Not Pennsylvania–that’s the Palestinian Authority I’m talking about. I haven’t seen anything about this in the MSM lately, but it appears that the Hamas-led PA is headed for “serious trouble”:http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/israel/articles/20060522.aspx.

— meta —

Blog search added

All blog entries and comments are now searchable using the site search tool at the top. I installed (and “tweaked”:http://www.joomladeveloping.org/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,49/topic,141.msg1155#msg1155/ slightly) the “JD-Wordpress Search Mambot”:http://www.zerolight.co.uk/web/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,227/func,select/id,3/. Feel free to test it out and let me know what you think.

— links —

Amazon mapping

“Here’s”:http://www.thepurehands.org/Amazon/ a neat app that maps all of “Amazon.com’s”:http://www.amazon.com/ products visually.