May 2007

Just a Quick Plug

My brother came to visit this weekend and left me a copy of his new book to review. I have just started it and will post a full review later once I have finished it, but I have made it into the second chapter (which I had previously read an excerpt from) but I will…Read more

The Site…

I meant to link Elisson’s site above as well, but somehow overlooked it. Here is the link.

Shorts in a Wad…

…not really but that is the title for the inestimable Elisson’s new book! woohoo. It is a collection of 100 of his 100 word stories. If you have had a chance to read them over at hos site you know exactly what I am talking about. Shorts in a Wad: One Hundred 100-Word Stories is…Read more

Skype Worm Spreading…

There is apparently a new variant of a Skype worm that is targeting just about anyone on an infected user’s contact list in AIM,ICQ,Messenger,Miranda,MSN,Trillian (which uses all of the above) and Yahoo. Be very careful when clicking on links that anyone has sent you via IM. I use Trillian as well as Skype, but not…Read more

Star Wars Turns 30…

Holy crap. I feel old now. Star Wars is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary…Links found via CNET.

New Police Album!

Apparently The Police are touring to support their new CD which comes out June 5th (NEXT WEEK!). The new Police CD is entitled simply “The Police” and marks the 30th anniversary of their recording debut in 1977. Makes me feel old… The album itself has 28 of their biggest hits from all five of their…Read more

Graduation field

Graduation field Originally uploaded by rmiles

Color Picker

I have used a few color picker programs over the years, and downloaded Ades Design Color Picker 2.0 the other day to try it out. There are a few different reasons that I have used color pickers before. One is for web pages. When I designed my template for this site, I purchased a banner…Read more

Done In…

One thing I have noticed since I made the change that sped up commenting is that it is also re-indexing MUCH MUCH faster. It used to take about three or four minutes just to post an entry and that was on a good day. Now it’s more like 40 seconds. SWEET. I am very happy…Read more

Key West

Earlier I was rambling on about Key West again. THAT is more my speed than flying. I hate flying anywhere. While I really want to see Europe it will be around the time that they get that underwater train working 🙂 I do want to take another Florida vacation soon though and Key West is…Read more