Site Stuff

New Look

As you can see… the appearance of the site has changed a bit. Before, I was using one of the free stye sheets from blogstyle. As I’ve been browsing around various Movable Type sites, I came across Firda’s Firdamatic, which lets you answer a few questions, pick some colors and then it creates a new CSS Style sheet for you (and until I screwed around adding in things like my link to the iTMS, it passed XHTML and CSS validation).

I had to make some changes to templates and CSS sheets that Firda provides, so I could add in all the ‘stuff’ that used to be on my sidebar. I just noticed this morning, that I no longer have a way for typekey users to sign in… so I’m going to have to go back through the templates to see what changed that took that out.

Overall..since I don’t know anything about CSS or XHTML (and very little about HTML)…the Firdamatic is a good way to make get a more unique looking site then what is out there for free templates/stye sheets. If you know as little about CSS and XHTML as I do..I recommend going to take a look at it.

Let me know what you think about the new look…

Kael's Adventures

ER Trip

Kael made his first trip to the Emergency Room today…

He choked on a piece of bacon this morning at breakfast, he coughed it up…but then he started wheezing and coughing alot, so Janice called the Dr., and they told her to head on over to Children’s Hospital, so she did. I got there a little bit after her and Kael did…

After I’d been there about an hour, they took Kael for X-rays…but the x-rays didn’t really show anything that would be causing him to be a raspy and wheezy… so they had one of the Ear/Nose/Throat Drs come take alook.. and they decided that they needed to knock him out so they could stick a tube with a light and camera on it down his throat, so they could take a look and see if there was something causing the irritation..

Turns out… there was… Bacon… still… apparently, even though he’d coughed up the bacon he was actually choking on, he managed to inhale a few tiny pieces, which were causing the raspyness and wheeziness… the Dr. said she pulled out between 12 and 14 pieces of bacon.. they did bring them out to Janice and I in the waiting room..but, we didn’t keep that… we did keep the pictures from the throat tube though…

Bacon-1

thats one of the ‘better’ shots, in that its really easy to make out the little piece of bacon thats blocking some of the bronchial tubes…

We finally got to go home after Kael had been there for like 9 hours or so…. I’m very happy with the result, and the treatment he got at Children’s… I just would have like for it to have taken a bit less time…

All things considered though, it taking 18 months (almost) for Kael to earn a ER trip is pretty surprising…I would have figured we’d have been in there several times by now…

Just Stuff

Maybe not completely cancelled

While the fans of most soon to be (or already cancelled) TV shows stick to letter writing campaigns asking the appropriate studio/network to change their minds and renew the show, fans of the Enterprise are taking a completely different method of trying to keep the show up and running. They are attempting to raise enough money to pay for the production of the next season of Enterprise. Read more about it here, and here.

While the campaign is in its infancy…and the organizers are still hammering out the details (just little things… like how to accept the donations) the numbers that they are using make sense… they figure if 1 million fans each donate approximately $30.00, it will raise enough to pay for a season’s worth of production. Its a far fetched idea…but I think its a good one… once they get a donation method up and running, I’ll make my donation..

Hmmm… Kael doesn’t really need a college savings fund right? He can get a scholarship…so I can donate that money too….

Apple, Just Stuff

iLego?

Ever had the desire to make your own iPod tv commercial? well, now you can.. and you don’t even need to go out and hire any dancers.. just get yourself one of these, and then grab your video camera and go nuts…

Just think…you can make your iPod dancer pull its own head of and dance around while singing to it…just like Jack Skellington!

Current Events

Interesting Twist

Probably not what they had in mind when they started making sex offenders register via a publicly accessible database in California. Apparently, one of the registered offenders, decided to start using the database as a dating service! He would look up other registered offenders, find ones he thought were cute and proposition them to hook up…

Apple, Tech

M$ and iPods

Micro$oft has been pushing their pathetic little ‘plays for sure’ campaign (to try and convince people to buy a WMA compatible MP3 player), with little to no success.. turns out… they can’t even convince their own employees to go out and buy WMA compatible devices…. according to Wired, an estimated 80% of Micro$oft’s employees are sporting iPods around the corporate campus…gotta love it when even M$ employees won’t support M$’s stuff

Just Stuff

Cancelled!

No…not my hosting account, or anything like that…its really much, much worse!

read this! horrible isn’t it? I mean, I’ll admit not all of the episodes were keep you on the edge of your seat, non-stop action type of stories..but..none of the other Star Trek series have been that way either. I enjoyed the show, I’m sorry to see it go… so if you know the email address of anyone at Paramount or UPN..now would be a good time to send them a note telling them to re-consider their decision!

Current Events

Looking for a job?

There’s probably going to be an opening in Connecticut soon. Seems whoever is responsible for testing the Emergency Broadcast system made a huge mistake today…and actually activated the system and told the entire state it needed to be evacuated! I wonder if anyone actually tried to leave their job because they were listening to the radio and heard the evacuation notice…

Apple

New Powerbooks

This morning Apple revised their powerbook line…see the release here. The biggest things to note, are the inclusion of Bluetooth 2.0, making Apple the first laptop manufacturer to include the new standard as standard equipment, and the cool new ‘if you drop it we’ll try and save the hard drive’ feature, which uses some kind of super high tech gizmo thingie to determine if your powerbook is going to fast, and if so, it stops the HD from spinning, which should help minimize HD damage when your fast moving powerbook comes to a sudden halt.

Now…all thats left (if you don’t count the eMac) is for Apple to update the PowerMacs….

Oh.. and what’s with the non-tuesday release? up until today, almost all of the hardware announcements I can remember, were released on Tuesdays…