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It’s All Relative(s)
Finally got the family tree pages up. Nothing fancy, but the names and dates (of non-living people) are all there. Used a really neat little utility called GED2WWW to convert the basic gedcom file to html. It’s really fast and really cheap (free).
UPDATE: I changed to GED2HTML later.
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Astronomy Pic of the Day
This is another cool site I ripped off…er, had suggested to me…by Sgt. Grump.
Each day, a different space photo is posted by NASA, and a different astronomer tries to explain it to us mortals. As Grump told me, be sure and check out the archives!
Today’s picture is the center of the Trifid Nebula…tomorrow, it’s the valleys and lakes of Mars.
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The Straight Dope
I have heard about this site off-and-on over the years…even perused an article or two in e-mail. But I never realized how handy it could be to have a stupid question answered.
I was looking at the latest copy of Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine (aka, The Devil’s Monthly), when I noticed the cover. There is a power plug being put into an electrical socket. Pretty innocuous. Until you start wondering: “What are those holes in the plug for?” Questions like these drive me mad!
Then, I recalled a conversation I had with Sgt. Grump yesterday about how to find the answer to useless questions. Aha! Enter The Straight Dope. One query of the archives, and I found the article Why are there holes in the prongs of electrical plugs?. I will be able to sleep tonight.
Cecil Adams has been writing a column, answering these kinds of dumb questions since 1973. The Straight Dope was even a TV show on A&E in 1996. (Cecil Adams is a pseudonym, but how can “Solonor Rasreth” hold that against him?)
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New Navigation and Categories
I just spent six hours re-working all the pages on the site to incorporate a new menu system. I am taking advantage of the new webhost and trying to use server-side inlcudes. That way, I don’t have to re-do all the pages every time a menu changes. Let me know what you think.
Here is a good tutorial on how SSI works: http://www.carleton.ca/~dmcfet/html/ssi.html.
All this is leading up to another project that I returned from Maine with (besides getting the family tree up on the site, like I’ve promised myself to do forever). Stay tuned for that.
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What Soccer…sorry…Football team are you?
Better late than never, I suppose. Apparently, I most resemble the team from England:
My
personality matches the English national team
I often try to live up to unattainable expectations, though if I ignore my own hype, then success is surely only around the corner…
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Google Challenge
For those who are scratching their heads because I didn’t tell them about it, the previous entry was brought to you courtesy of the Google Challenge.
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Hello from up heah!
Well, even though we ain’t seen no elephants on this safari, it’s been cold enough to freeze yer toes off! It’s summah in Maine….cold, steady drizzle followed by prolonged periods of damp, cold drizzle. It’s enough ta curl ya toes (unless you’re an elephant).
Speaking of elephants (and their toes), the recent introduction of herds of elephants to the northern Maine woods has not been the smashing success that Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Earl J. Ketchbottom hoped it would be. Black flies–the state bird of Maine–apparently love elephant (especially the spot between their toes). Thousands of elephants have been found walking around on tender toes up and down the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers, victims of those nasty little bugs. The herd is not expected to last through the summer–much less have a snowball’s chance in Orlando of making it through the winter. When reached for comment, Mr. Ketchbottom was found packing his trunk….
Ok…I think that’s enough…sheesh!
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XiaoXiao
O.K. Just one more thing. I keep forgetting to put this up on the site. Everyone in the world’s probably seen it, but it’s really funny: XiaoXiao–the Art of Stick Fu.
The first one’s a little rough, but they get more detailed as the series moves on (it’s up to number 8, about to release 9). Watch for the over-the-top attack in No. 1. It reminds me of the back-and-forth ever-increasing armaments in Rabbit of Seville. Then, of course, there’s the TV showing the first stick fight while another one is going on in a mall, the Matrix parodies, “The Boss”….just watch the darn thing.
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Just a blog before I go…
This has been an exciting week for a geek. I’m completely switched over to the new dot-com home of the Groovy Grove. I still can’t get over the fact that I have my own domain…it’s just too silly. Besides, it doesn’t seem right to be a dot-COM, unless I’m a company. I suppose I really should be Solonor.org, but that’ll have to wait.
I realize that everyone’s cousin-in-law has a domain now. But I’ll bet the conversation between the guys thinking up domain names was like this:
Joe: “We ought to reserve some namespace for individual whackos that might want their own domain…”
Frank: “Are you nuts?! Who the hell is gonna be able to afford a mainframe in their house?”
Joe: “I heard Sam say they’re gonna be like toasters someday.”
Frank: “Sam is on drugs.”
Joe: “Frank!”
Frank: “No…really…Sam’s on drugs…he’s in rehab. Anyway, that’s not the point. Besides what are we gonna call it? dot-whacko? We got enough problems with the dot-EDU domains.”
Joe: “I guess you’re right…”
Anyway, I’m off to Maine for my niece’s wedding! I won’t be blogging or anything else much from there, so I’ll talk at ya when I get back. Maybe by then I’ll be ready to tackle Movable Type.
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