Microsoft has released a version of the Firefox browser. Yup, you heard me correctly. I read it, reread it, and still keep checking to see whether it’s April 1st. There is something innately wrong about Microsoft releasing a version of Firefox and calling it Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional. It is just wrong. It has to…
It’s that time of year again. Whether it’s leaf mold or some other allergen or a weather front, it’s sinus headache time. Thursday night I woke up with a nasty headache: the type that sits behind your eyes and pounds. It was aggrevated by sleeping at a funky angle. The headache lingered into this morning…
Roof is leaking. Again. (sigh) Time to call the guys who patched it last time… Related Images:
After several years, the W3C announced on November 6th that CSS 2.1 is finally in the Last Call stage. From the W3C home page: “The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1). Comments are welcome through 7 December.” It is good to…
Here are some photos of the kids taken with the new camera. It seems to do pretty well with action shots. These pictures were taken at dusk, so please forgive some of the grainyness and blur. It is amazing to see Isis like this, after just two months ago she was so different. Related Images:
I got a new digital camera: Fujifilm S9100. It’s a 9 MP, 10.7x optical zoom wanna-be DSLR. My old camera, Sony Cybershot F707, is still a good camera, but it couldn’t take action shots, like pictures of the horses running, without a lot of work. I also ran into trouble when I wanted to zoom…
Happy Halloween! I had my first trick-or-treaters at my new home! Four of them! Woohoo! Related Images:
In what could be a move towards greater media outlet monitoring and control, the Pentagon has announced that it will “set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet.” (Source: BBC) This new unit has a “mandate” to develop messages and aims to “correct…
Okay, I’m pissed. On October 20, I ordered five DVDs on belly dance from Amazon.com. All of the titles said they were in stock at the time of ordering. None of them listed “this items takes 2-3 days to ship.” Nothing like that. Everything said in stock and ready to go. Initially, I chose standard…
One of the fun things for belly dance is that you get to go shopping for things you would normally only get to wear to a fancy dress ball. I’ve been enjoying shopping for full-crcle skirts, fancy tops, and belts that make a lovely sound when you walk. It’s been a hoot. I can see…
So tonight was my first class. We reviewed the basic steps that are used in the routine we’ll be performing. We also did some advanced work — including working with a veil, which was also a blast. I was able to stay for the begininer and part of the advanced class afterwards. It was a…
In an odd twist of fate, the IE7 development team sent a congratulatory cake to the Firefox development team for release of Firefox 2. That just seems so strange… The story reports that the cake was not poisoned. IE7 to Firefox Team Cake Related Images:
When I was little, I had four things I wanted to be when I grew up: A professional dancer, An archaeologist, A writer, or A parapsychologist. (Note: Professional rider is not on the list. I like to enjoy my horses and didn’t want them to become a chore.) which one, I wasn’t sure, but they…
An Internet friend of mine out in Utah has a scary knack of getting into the same activities I do. We were chatting on Friday evening and she mentioned that she was interested in belly dance. Just so happens a local friend of mine has been teaching belly dance for a year or more. We…
I was going through my pictures of Isis and I finally found the one of her running. I only wish this one had focused better. Oh well. It was taken with a Kalimar 35mm film camera with a 80-200mm telephoto lens. Related Images: