Archive for September, 2005

WE ARE HOME!!

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Cross Post from Motivation on the Run
The return to San Leon was fairly uneventful, but I wanted everyone to know we arrived safe and sound. The place is a little worse for the wear, but in good shape considering Louisiana and others. The brunt of the storm missed Galveston County and ended up making landfall [...]

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | Why technology misses the masses

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

I hope they didn’t spend a lot of money on this study, I could have told them the same information for free. Hmmm… maybe I’m in the wrong business. Maybe I need to become a prognosticator, like the others.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | Why technology misses the masses
Technology has a peculiar way [...]

In the Interest of Safety

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Galveston County is under mandatory evacuation as of 6:00 pm today, Wednesday 21, 2005. If you wait until then to leave you are told where you can go and the redhead and I had no desire to go to Lufkin. Nothing against Lufkin, it’s just that the kids are in San Marcos and I figure [...]

Huge News for Feline Owners

Friday, September 16th, 2005

The first thing I thought of when I saw this news was how cat owners could have their own domain. Yes it is supposed to be for Catalan speaking folks, but I will bet when it comes available, a lot of USA people will own a .cat domain. The cat industry is HUGE here, so [...]

Give the evacuees their old phone numbers

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

What a great idea. This makes sense for the evacuees, because they may move several times in the transition period and their numbers could follow them around, giving some sense of normality.
TechBlog: Give the evacuees their old phone numbers
The ideas for using technology to help those displaced by Hurricane Katrina are flowing in, and [...]

Firefox 1.5 Beta Set for September 8

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Regular readers know I am a fan of the Firefox browser and it looks like this month will bring a new update with possible features I have been wanting. In getting comfortable with tabbed browsing, the next thing I wanted to do was drag and drop the order of the tabs. It was one of [...]