Inbox plaque Someone forwarded me an email today, one of those "If you send this to 10 more people, other than the 5 that you already have to send to, something major that you've been wanting will happen. However, if you don't send this to 5 people
Caffeine dreams I realise that having a domain name caffeinatedbliss.com is incompatible with saying I've given up caffeine, but there you go, I have. For Lent initially, but surprise, surprise, I'm suddenly sleeping a whole lot better, so the caffeine won't be coming back. (Caffeine
War thoughts A friend in church was wearing a pin with US and UK flags on. It felt very reassuring; we're on the same side, in Jane's words, "sticking together." Dying together too. I'm finding it really hard to pull together any cohesive thought
Geocaching Got a Magellan Meridian GPS on and found our first geocache since October, when Jess visited with her GPS. We found a the first part of a three part multi-cache in Creve Coeur Park, a small plastic container that held co-ordinates for the second part. We ended up
Moving There used to be a white house on Olive not far west of I-270. It's not there anymore. Now it's in Kirkwood, several miles south and west of where it was built. The entire house was picked up off the foundations and put on wheeled
MP3.com I've been plundering MP3.com again for coding music. If you like electronica or trance, these are the best I've found: * The Cynic Project * Bassic * Kryptonic * 7.1 * Kooz * Digital Cardboard * Skuz Plunder, plunder... That's a good word, plunder.
Wallpaper Much happiness. Hubby gave me one of the top ten best birthday presents ever today: a year's subscription to Digital Blasphemy. If you're going to be staring at a computer for most of the day, put something there you actually want to look at. Run, do
Knock and Die Timothy gave me a door handle hanging thing that says this: I need total peace and quiet. I'm in touch with a creative love vibe from the center of the earth, tapped into my own special personal meditative wavelength, tuned in to all the earth's positive
Sorry, but the Emperor is naked Some troll posted the URL of my Linux usability rant on comp.os.linux.advocacy. I took that file down last night because I was appalled, but not surprised, at the vehemence of the personal attacks from that group. Rather than believe that anyone could be less than expert with