Injured Dog

Our dachshund, Lucy, was diagnosed yesterday with Intervertebral Disk Disease. It’s fairly common in dachshunds, around one in four dachshunds develop it. Lucy has calcified disc material between her 10th, 11th, and 12th vertebrae. She’s very lucky though. The only sign of a problem is that she decided she didn’t really want to get onto furniture like she normally would. …

Bread Baking

I find baking bread very cathartic. Most people probably think that this is related to the kneading of the dough. It’s not. I use a mixer. I think it is mainly related to how easy it is to bake bread and how much I enjoy the results of something so simple. Bread baking takes very little effort for me these …

MAX 2004 Food

Rob Brooks-Bilson has posted a great list of places to eat in New Orleans. I’ve already started my list of food to consume during the week of MAX 2004. Since so many people will be blogging the technology related portions of the conference, I’ll be blogging about the food. I’m hoping to get in a couple of beer tasting trays …

Scaled Composites Wins X Prize!

So I’ve not been posting because I wanted to keep my quest for a free ipod at the top of my blog, but I’ll be returning to regular posting with this post. I’m a huge fan of manned space flight. I think it’s sad that NASA has basically abandoned manned space exploration. At the same time I’m amazingly happy that …

Free iPODs

On a tip from Jeff over at Vacant Canvas (link). I’ve gone and started my quest for a free iPod. You can get one too. I saw this a few weeks ago and thought it had to be too good to be true, but several sites that I read have commented on actually receiving the free iPod. Here’s the deal. …

Political Affiliations

I’ve been avoiding the Republican National Convention. It’s an odd thing; I watched a lot of the Democratic National Convention. I’m usually a political junkie. I think this year is going to be different. Usually on election night I’m in a room with 3-4 TVs on different networks and several computers connected to the net. Okay, so I’m a big …

Strawberry Tarte

We had some new friends from church over for dessert and games last weekend. We realized that we don’t have the phone numbers of too many people in Springfield (probably only 4-5 people we’ve met here). I’m a pastry fiend. If I ever decided to go to culinary school it would be for training in bread and pastry making. I’ve …

VOIP

So I got my Packet 8 starter kit from FedEx today. So far setup has been a breeze. Three easy steps: 1) unpack 2) plug in ethernet, phone, and power cables — the network cable is plugged into a linksys wireless router 3) call the activiation number. I’ve made a few calls today and with the cable modem not too …

Educara SURVEY 2.1

I should have written about this last week, but just thought I’d slip in the post today. Educara has officially released version 2.1 of our SURVEY product. Downloads are available from SourceForge (there’s a link on the SURVEY product page). This release doesn’t have a lot new features, but we’ve got a good plan in place through the rest of …

Macromedia Dev Net Subscription?

I’ve been a loyal Macromedia DevNet subscriber for a while now. I’ve encouraged others to subscribe. Today I got my third notice email about my DevNet subscription expiring. This one tells me that I only have 29 days remaining in my subscription. I’m torn about whether or not to renew it. Macromedia says: “You’ve got a lot to do. That’s …

Kerner on Food Comment Advertising Policy

I’ve had advertising on this blog in the past. Heck, the Powell’s links on the home page are technically advertising. The AdSense ads were clearly advertising. Sometimes my posts border on advertising. Site comments are not, nor have they ever been advertising. The legitimate ads on this site (Google, Powells, my posts) are fundamentally different from comment advertising. They are …