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.