July 2, 2007

Earthfrisk

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Technology

Earthfrisk is one of those Social Bookmarking sites that are around on the net, but this one also combines media with it. I just ran across it today and so far it looks pretty cool.

User post different links and other media and you pick the ones you are interested. It’s a good way to check out new content that you may not have seen before. Some of the best content on the Internet can be found here. You can post links to blog entries, articles, and videos as well. There are already a ton of links there to check out and joining is easy. You can also post your own pictures as well.

What’s cool is that it’s not only links but an active community where you can join in on the discussion on various subjects and categories as well as vote on them. If you want other users to vote on your articles they can be posted as well.

What it comes down to is that EarthFrisk is not controlled or guided by the admins but by the users themselves. Anyway, it’s a pretty cool place to find interesting topics and links, so go check it out.

Entries

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Technology

Since I post a bit often I have cut back down the number of entries to four days worth on the main page again. The page itself seems to be loading a bit faster now that I have changed everything over. Still not using FastCGI though. After that last attempt I am very wary of changing anything like that. Maybe I will mess with it a bit next week.

I am also running the beta 4 version of Movabletype 4 now, oh by the way. I really like what they are doing with Movabletype although a lot of the newer features are stuff that I just will never use, or at least it seems so right now.


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Finalizing Vacation Plans

rmiles7721July 2, 20071Parenting/Family

We finally figured out exactly what it is we are doing this week. Thursday evening we will be meeting some fellow bloggers at some Indian restaurant next to a big hotel in Atlanta, as Eric explained it. Boy, that fucking helps don’t it? Anyway, if I forget to email you give me a call or shoot me an email.

Friday morning the wife has to run to the doctor and then we will probably make the drive down to Bluffton and stay the weekend. We will probably be down there until Monday or Tuesday morning and hit Savannah at some point over the weekend. I would stay longer but since I have to be back at work on Thursday morning I want at least one day at home to get stuff taken care of.

The wife and Pete just went to the store to get the makings for a Greek salad. That will be a nice cool supper. Salad and bread. I am sure that I will be craving beef by the time tomorrow morning rolls around.

Just two more days until vacation. I have a manager off tomorrow but my relief manager will be with me as well as a manager trainee. I am going to try and take it as easy as possible before I am finished on Wednesday. I do have to check on the fireworks. Someone told me that they are doing them locally tomorrow evening. That may very well be a problem as I really don’t have the help I need in my stores on a Tuesday night for that sort of rush. I may end up working fairly late on Tuesday night.

Places to Go…

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Travel

With the impending vacation it’s only appropriate that I come across this post sponsored by DialAFlight. DialAFlight has some pretty nice destinations at a reasonable price. As hot as it is I have been wanting to go someplace that is not quite as hot as it is here.

It’s pretty easy to book a flight and a great hotel and get away on one of their great New York weekend breaks. I’ve been to New York once but it has been quite some time. From what everyone I talk to says New York has cleaned up immensely and is once again becoming a very attractive vacation spot to visit.

This is a shot of Times Square. Man, it has changed a lot since I was there back in the eighties. At that point in time it was pretty nasty.

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DialAFlight also has flights to Canada, which at this time of year is extremely beautiful. Much nicer than the 90 degree weather that I have been having. Talk about the dog days of summer. What we normally have as August temperatures moved in here last month and have yet to leave.

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Above is an unknown lake (to me) and below is horseshoe falls, which is the biggest part of Niagara falls.

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Although I said I want to go someplace cooler I will probably end up going to Hilton Head and be hot AND go to the beach. There area a couple of places I would like to eventually visit that are slightly warm right now and one is Johannesburg South Africa. Not quite among the coolest places around but I certainly wouldn’t give up a chance to go, no matter what time of year it is. Believe it or not there are fairly decent flights to Johannesburg. Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 40 largest cities in the world.

Karpet Killers

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Parenting/Family

It’s nice to have the girls home. I slept much better last night with them here and the wife in bed. I enjoyed the quiet time, but it is much better to have them home. Have to start getting ready for work in a minute but I injured myself this morning and had to whine about it for a minute.

Dinner last night was really nice. We were all stuffed afterward, except for my smallest girls. RePete is just one of those extremely picky eaters and doesn’t eat 90% of what we fix so she ends up going hungry quite often until she gets tired of it and finally eats whatever we have made. Catering to them is not something that we particularly go out of our way to do. If they want to eat fruit or make a sandwich they are more than welcome to but that’s pretty much it.

The wife does the same thing that I do in the mornings and has her cell phone set up with an alarm for the time that she normally gets up. The only thing is that she is on vacation but hasn’t disabled it. The alarm went off a couple of minutes ago so I jumped up from my computer desk and went to run in there and grab it before it woke her up.

Most of their luggage is still sitting there on the living room floor, and I missed seeing a bag and tripped over it, catching my big toenail and snapping it bending it back. I landed on my hands and knees tearing off several layers of skin form my left knee. My big toe is hurting and now I have this nasty fucking carpet burn on my left knee that is oozing blood. Just what I wanted to go to work with. Heck, if I were one of my employees that would be enough to call in to work about, the assholes.

I have to go shower and I am sure that my knee is going to feel wonderful once soap and water hit it.

Screwy Div Tags

rmiles7721July 2, 20071Technology

I will have to be careful and watch anything else I put in with Bloggerwave or any other one that inserts code. Part of the disclosure is a <div> tag that just completely screwed up my site. It’s gone now but took me a minute to find.

U.S. Adds Air Marshals On Overseas Flights.

rmiles7721July 2, 2007Site News

We have apparently added more air marshals on overseas flights, particularly those between Britain and here.

This is something that I am certainly not opposed to, and we probably should have already done that. In the wake of the supposed London terrorists and their Rube Goldberg car bombs that wouldn’t have done anything anyway it looks kind of stupid if you ask me.