September 24, 2007

Update on Ahmadinejad

More of an update on his pre-speech stuff. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger apparently gave a speech prior to Ahmadinejad and in the speech challenged Ahmadinejad on quite a few things. From what I have been reading at Debbie’s site (The Right Truth) Iran has a Columbia University Alumnus under arrest and maybe that’s part of why they are allowing him to speak.

I have been extremely busy and have not listened to the speech but she will be posting updates at the Right Truth through the day if you want more information. I’m sure that later today I will be posting some type of nonsense and ranting about it.

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Quote of the day:
Only fools are positive. – Moe Howard

Wordless Wednesday Blogroll

I started participating in Wordless Wednesday a couple of weeks ago and think I will continue posting Wordless Wednesday posts, therefore the blogroll is in the extended entry so that I can get to it from my sidebar.

If you are interested in participating and joining the blogroll (you can participate without joining the roll) go check out Wordless Wednesday.

Blogroll is below.

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Can’t get much closer than that…

Just playing around with Live Writer and some of the built-in plugins.

Map image

There is also a now playing plugin that you manually add, which is good because it’s a pain to have it in every single post on a page. Here’s what it looks like…

Now Playing: Pixies – Wave of Mutilation – Best of Pixies – Debaser

There is also a "Quote of the Day" Plugin that I may or may not start using if I can remember Smile

 

Quote of the day:
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. – Jules de Gaultier

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Windows Live Writer

Thanks to Owen I found out about another offline blog publishing platform that I wanted to check out. Windows Live Writer is what I am using to type this up. I have a few different sites and sometimes it’s hard to keep in my head which ones I am posting to.

I don’t think that this will particularly solve that problem because mine is more related to the fact that sometimes I will post to several different sites at the same time and that is what confuses me.

So far I like the setup and the options. This is the only blog I have added to it thus far but I will add the rest shortly.

There are options to add ping servers, which are a must and buttons to insert hyperlinks, photos, tables, maps, tags and videos. I will post more about it and maybe a review on my tech site once I have used it for awhile.

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Have Coffee…Will Travel…

I have a ton of writing I need to get finished today and for the last ten minutes or so I have been dozing off in front of my computer. I guess that shake only lasted so long. Time to go make a pot of extra strong coffee. Too bad I ran out of the good Starbucks stuff…

Dance? I Don’t…

My girls love to dance. I think that’s just one of those things that children enjoy. My wife likes to dance as well, although since she has been with me for the last almost twenty years she doesn’t get the opportunity to do it all that often. That’s because I Just Don’t. I dance at our wedding in 1988 and I may have danced once or twice since then but I really can’t remember. It’s not that I don’t like it but I just look stupid. I dance like an ape in heat or so I was once told and that was that.

I wouldn’t mind learning ballroom dancing as long as I could keep it quiet, perhaps from someplace like Dance Crazy. If I could use the great tools that they have to offer and really learn how to do it and not look bad at the same time I might even be willing to attend a ballroom dance with the wife. Now THAT would surprise her for our twentieth anniversary next May…

Breakfast of Champions

After my breakfast of a couple of handfuls of Turkey breast lunch meat there’s not much better than a homemade chocolate shake made with Chocolate ice cream, a touch of milk, and some chocolate syrup. Damn that’s good. I’ve had most of my major food groups now, poultry, dairy, vegetables (chocolate beans), caffeine and tobacco. Good to go.

Boy Scouts in N.C. found

A troop of Boy Scouts in western North Carolina that were supposed to come home yesterday had still not returned this morning. CNN is now reporting that they have been located.

Costa Rica

One of the places I would eventually like to go on vacation and spend some time is Costa Rica. When I wanted to find Costa Rica information of course I used the major search engines as well as the links I already had to see what I could find out about the country, about Costa Rica Travel and Costa Rica Real Estate because that would give me a general idea about the people and the economy down there.

Costa Rica is a constitutional republic in Central America which is bordered by Nicaragua and Panama. It is also the first country in the world to constitutionally abolish it’s army. It does have a national police force but no standing army and unlike most of it’s neighbors in Central America there has not been a civil war since 1948, the year that the army was abolished. Funny how that works.

cataract on the rio savegre.jpg

Costa Rica is a beautiful place. Although probably a tad bit warmer than what I like I would still love to visit for awhile, and up in the mountains it would not be nearly as hot as the coastal regions.

I would like at least once to go see Volcán Irazú, an active volcano near Cartago.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

As Acidman would say, “We’re All Gonna Die!”

I received an email the other day talking about a documentary called “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. I have watched a portion of it and have not finished yet. I was going to post about it over the weekend but ended up not having the chance but Rosemary DID and it makes more sense than anything I would write anyway, so go check out Rosemary’s Thoughts on the video.


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