June 2009 Archives

Two women talking in line in front of me this morning, while waiting to order breakfast. Presumably, they were discussing Michael Jackson's untimely death.

I feel really bad, because it kind of overshadows the whole Farrah Fawcett thing.

The National Weather Service office in Chahassen has issued a heat advisory for Hennepin and Ramsey Counties that is scheduled to be in effect from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The heat index is expected to reach 95 by late Tuesday morning and rise as high as 100 to 105 degrees during the afternoon.

Temperatures are expected to be in the mid to upper 90s.

Lots of updates, lately, at leukemiasurvivor.com. I'm actually doing much more writing offline, and will continue to do so over the summer. Working toward an end-of-summer goal to have a finished manuscript ready to print.

InterfaceLift has posted some great images this week. Love me some DisplayFusion Pro, too, so I don’t have to decide which ones to use – just save to a directory on my PC and let them randomly rotate every hour.

A co-worker ordered some fresh Reese's a couple of months ago, and they were lights-out better than what you get from the corner store. Now they're getting ready to ship some Twizzlers. Do I need five pounds worth? Probably not. Doesn't mean I won't order some to share between friends, though...

So I’m going to give this tool a chance. Looks very promising, and very capable. I’ve grown less fond of MovableType’s UI for updating blog posts over the years, so now I can quickly (and easily) bypass that altogether. I very much like how easy it is to add images to posts – no FTP or file upload necessary. Just copy and paste.

Plus there are plenty of nifty effects available for images. Between a more robust text editor than Notepad (or even Notepad2), the ability to add multiple blogs to manage, future publishing dates, additional plugins, saving local drafts, and the better-than-average imaging tools, I think I might be sold.

Do-it-yourself emergency cufflinks: http://www.blog.ni9e.com/archives/2009/06/diy_emergency_c.html. Although I don’t wear french cuffs all that often, I like the suggestion. And they don’t look half bad. Reminds me of an idea one of my co-workers shared awhile back, to use paper clips as collar stays.

Looking at leveraging some new tools to make it much, much simpler to compose posts offline, and then publish them here (and elsewhere) whenever I want.