August 27, 2007
Once, a long long time ago, I got burned by a hardware failure and lost a lot of important data. Ever since then, I've backed up my data - especially with the relative cheapness of external drives, it just seems like the wise thing to do. Oh, I'm not perfect about it, and I don't back up every last byte, but I have all my client work mirrored off to another drive, and my very critical data is also backed up to an online service. Plus, I sync a lot of my stuff to my laptop, so all in all, I'm pretty well covered.
So Saturday morning, I installed some new memory and when I closed the box back up, ...
August 12, 2007
Would someone please explain to me why they combine an expectorant, designed to make your coughs more 'productive' and get all that goo out of there, with a cough suppressant, designed to make you not cough? Seems dumb to me.
Still not doing great. In fact, marginal at best. Keith made me get up and out of the house yesterday, and I think that helped some. I also suspect I threw my electrolytes out of balance - I have been drinking copious amounts of water (see above expectorant issue) but I haven't been eating much at all. The nice, yummy salty
movie popcorn saved me, getting some sodium back into me. At least that's what I'm choosing to believe at ...
Dialog, schmialog. Only the bare necessities of plot in this one, with terrific result. Best chases and action scenes evah. Exciting, fun and what a summer movie should be.
August 6, 2007
Well, this has been an odd day.
My throat has been irritated and hurting for the past couple days, and this morning, I woke up and really couldn't manage speaking. Laryngitis, potentially of viral, not bacterial, origin. (No fever, no general cold symptoms.) It probably didn't help that we had a rowdy, goofy, raised-voices kind of weekend with the boys, either.
So driving the boys to camp: I can't talk and everyone in the car is silent. I make some hand signals to Keith and he tries to make hand signals back. No no no - I can't talk, but you can, goofball!
Most of the day was pretty quiet, lots of emails, Keith made some calls in my stead, and pantomimes to ...
August 4, 2007
Blueprint is a css-only grid layout system. Better than any I've seen. Still has non-semantic divs, and source ordering is so-so, but intuitive and quick as a whip to create layouts.
August 3, 2007
A little Friday pin-up action for ya. Gotta love
The Fratellis. Great summer music. As far as I can tell, all the best music comes from Scotland.
Spinner.com, which is run by AOL of all things, is one of my many my guilty pleasures. They have free .mp3s everyday - not too shabby!
Edit: Ok, screw Spinner, can't resize their player. Try this one.
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