A Work In ProgressHistory is nothing more than a vast collection of todays.(Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Step Three: Moving DayThere are still a few things to take care of (aren't there always) but I might as well announce that the move has been made. If you have bookmarked or blogrolled me, first of all, thanks! I appreciate the patronage. Second, please modify yer link to point at http:www.robertkbrown.com. If you've subscribed to the RSS feed, http:robertkbrown.comindex.rdf is where you can find the new one.Automatic redirection of pages here will be made much simpler by the fact that my new MT.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/05.html#a458 Hi. I Queue.- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Went ahead and took the bait on daypop, and tried the five minute IQ test. I was surprised. It's basically a vocabulary test. Big whoop. I'm not gonna say what I got, but it was above the threshold (126) for qualification in this cool club of cognizant citizens. Did I pay the sixty dollar entrance fee Hmm. This must be part of the test. A paradox: to be included in the special society, you need to be above the line; but if you're above the line, you probably won't waste your money.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/02.html#a443 Speaking of Effort Expended- (Found June 24, 2008 ) If you haven't listened to Aimee Mann since her days with 'Til Tuesday (hush hush, voices carry), you've been missing out. After watching Magnolia last year, I immediately picked up the soundtrack. From Momentum, one of my favorite songs on the CD:Oh, for the sake of momentumEven though I agree with that stuff about seizing the dayBut I hate to think of effort expendedAll those minutes and days and hoursI have frittered away.And she gets it: her new album, Lost in Space won't be released until..http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/02.html#a442 Good News- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Turns out all that effort expended last night wasn't for naught. This morning the tub had cleared, and the drain is running nice and fast. Guess it just took a bit longer to work through whatever was causing the backup. Hip hip hooray. After seeing the tub last night, and taking a peek this morning, Esmé declared "Dad, you're such a good fixer." Nice.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/02.html#a441 102-9557139-9658555- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Final update on the "Funky Amazon URLs". The extra hash from my home PC is the same as it was a couple of days ago. I just wiped out all of the cookies on my machine. Now it's 103-6295626-9570229. Deleted them again: 103-3195233-8521434. Hmm. Curious.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/01.html#a440 The Horror!- (Found June 24, 2008 ) OpEd piece from the local paper. Of course, it's late Thursday night, and this is for Friday's paper, so I'll have to make sure to buy a copy with coffee in the morning: The White House should accept the House's judgment and let the half-baked concept of Operation TIPS remain in the congressional trash bin where it belongs.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/01.html#a439 How To Chop An Onion- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Sure, sure, chopping an onion is very simple. Just get a sharp knife and a cutting board. Slice parallel lines between where the root and stem used to be, creating nice circular wedges. Stack the circles. Cut again, maybe even criss-crossing. Wipe your tears and a joke about how onions always make you sad. Or you could make it surprisingly easier, and with no more tears. Cut off the top. Holding the onion by the root, make numerous slices from the top to the root end, stopping just before...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/01.html#a438 Bedtime Stories- (Found June 24, 2008 ) It's a good sign when your eldest daughter starts picking books that you bought for her years ago, partly because you thought she'd like them at some point, but mostly because you thought they were pretty cool. They've been collecting dust for years. There are much more popular books in the shelves. Books that have accompanying dolls, or movies. It's been a good run the past three nights. Open Me... I'm A Dog! Moon Lady The Day I Swapped My Dad For 2 Goldfishhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/01.html#a437 Pride Before the Drain- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I'd like to think I learned a few things from the AC fiasco. So when the bathtub was draining slowly a couple of days ago, I took some preventative measures. Last night, after the girls' bath, it was extremely slow, but some heavy duty plunging cleared it up okay. This morning left a few inches of standing water after both showers. I'd already planned some corrective action. I knew where to look for trouble, and had already eliminated a couple of possibilities. During the day, I called the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/08/01.html#a436 Step Two: Strategy- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I know next to nothing about programming languages for Unix. I can (and probably will) learn them, but not in the timeframe I'm looking for. I've already discovered, through Step One, that MovableType has a nifty little import feature. All you need to do is format the output of your blog into a predefined format, collected in a single .txt file. I had help with this already, but it didn't quite get me where I wanted to go. No titles. Posts I'd sent via e-mail have all kinds of goofy formatting.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101146/2002/07/31.html#a435 |