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Can’t get much closer than that…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Technology

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

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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

rmiles7721September 24, 20072Blogging, Technology

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…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Uncategorized

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…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Entertainment

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

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Uncategorized

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

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Site News

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

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Travel

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

rmiles7721September 24, 20071Site News

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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Ahmadinejad's Columbia Appearance Sparks Protest

rmiles7721September 24, 200719Site News

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled appearance at Columbia University is fueling a debate about whether or not the academic institution should grant the contreversial leader to express his opinions.

In an interview on TV this morning he is claiming that they are neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States.

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Well, you have to appreciate we don’t need a nuclear bomb. We don’t need that. What need do we have for a bomb? In political relations right now, the nuclear bomb is of no use. If it was useful it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

He also said that…

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“It’s wrong to think that Iran and the U.S. are walking toward war. Who says so? Why should we go to war? There is no war in the offing.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

He has a point there about the Soviet Union but that was an entirely different issue with a different government. I do think that if we go to war it will be because we start it.

As far as his appearance at Columbia University I am all for differing viewpoints but how can we let someone speak to our students that wants to wipe Israel of the planet and claims that the holocaust never happened? Ahmadinejad claims that  Iran wants nothing mor e than peace and friendship with the United States and for most of the citizens of Iran that might be true and it may even be true for the President himself but unfortunately he is just a mouthpiece because he is not really in control of Iran. That distinction goes to the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has the last word in all policies in Iran and also has control of the military.

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Ahmadinejad is an outspoken critic of the George W. Bush Administration and supports strengthened relations between Iran and Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria and the Persian Gulf states. He has supported Iran’s nuclear program declaring it is for peaceful purposes in spite of contrary demands by the United Nations Security Council to end it. He was condemned internationally for calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” and described the Holocaust as a myth, leading to accusations of antisemitism. In response to these criticisms, Ahmadinejad said “No, I am not anti-Jew, I respect them very much.”
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While liberal educators and the U.N. General Counsel are busy playing footsy with Ahmadinejad the Supreme Leader (as he is known) is busy laying plans for the destruction of Israel because in the eyes of Iran Israel is an abomination.

He also requested that he be able to lay a wreath at Ground Zero. That request was denied by the city of New York and rightly so since Iran is one of the financial backers for many terrorist groups.
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Same Old Song And Dance…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Site News

I am getting ready to lose one of my cooks at the store I don’t have a manager, which pretty much sucks. He just went through drug rehabilitation but has not been able to get his community service done in the time allotted and will be spending at least 30 days in jail and maybe 60. I don’t understand exactly what it is he’s been doing but I guess he must have though he had better things to do. If I still have a slot open when he gets out he will get to keep his job but I am doing my best to go ahead and get it covered as I don’t particularly want to be working more than I already am.