I received word this morning that Tricia’s dad, Ed, passed away on August 19 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. I hadn’t heard from Rich or Tricia since they headed back to Southern California after Rich’s graduation from his surgery residency, but I had email from Tricia this morning with this sad news.
It’s that time of year again–elections are just around the corner. And on just about every corner in my neighborhood (and many places in between) is a campaign sign asking you to vote for someone you’ve likely never heard of, for an office you hadn’t realized wasn’t something that was make believe. These signs are…
24 books Originally uploaded by jamietr. I am back from Wonder Books and I did good! I ended up spending about 2 hours there and I found 24 books that fill various miscellaneous holes in my collection. The photo to the right is the results of my lastest trip. I spent almost the entire time…
…the Wonderful wizard of books. I’m heading out to Frederick and Wonder Books to make a go at my $100 book challenge. I’ll be back later this afternoon with an update on how successful I was. Until then: “…follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow book road…”
This month’s issue of SMITHSONIAN magazine has a good article about New York City “Five Years Later” by Pete Hamill. The article looks at how 9/11 is affecting New Yorkers five years later, and how it is affecting New York. Pete Hamill, always the realist shines some light on how New Yorkers cope with the…
Flickr does this cool thing with photo tags. It shows the tag name in font-size relative to the frequency that the tag is used in a photo. To see what I mean, check out the tags page for the photos I have uploaded.
This morning, I uploaded my photos from jen_ashlock and Jason’s wedding last October. I did it to see how easy (or hard) it was to get them uploaded and tagged. It turned out to be very easy, Those interested can take a look at the photoset They even have a cool feature that allows you…
I finally caved in and signed up for a flickr account for managing my photos. I was convinced to use flickr over other services for serveral reasons, primarily that it integrates seemlessly with LiveJournal, and it is much easier to organize and maintain photos and photosets. I uploaded one photo before going to bed this…
I did manage to get started tonight, but it was mostly on configuration and design issues: I upgraded my system to PHP 5.1.4 and MySQL 5.0.24. I also upgraded my installation of MediaWiki to 1.7.x (I use MediaWiki for not only developer notes and design documents, but for just about all household related stuff) Once…
September is here, and so is the rain. It’s been raining and windy all day today, remnants of the tropical storm passing through. BUt I’m not going to allow this rain to interfere with the plans that I have tomorrow–something I have been looking forward to all week: the hundred dollar challenge.. Tomorrow, I am…