CC on Twitter- Yay. Want to give @SIRIUS_XM_Radio money and their website is having issues. Given their financial condition that is odd...
- Hey Apple! Bring the color back to iTunes! This all-gray scheme stinks.
- Daughter: the tooth fairy didn't come last night! Wife: she's probably just running late. #parenting_fail
- Wow. iPad Twitter client is fantastic. See ya Twitterific.
- Crunch time at work http://bit.ly/9cFLXs
- Life is good http://bit.ly/9wEktu
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Category Archives: Environment
Nature sure is amazing
Tonight as I was driving home from work I was lucky enough to catch the sun setting and the beautiful colorscape it created. Looking southwest I saw a pillar of orange light shooting up in the sky from the point … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Life
Tagged nature, pillar of light, snowflakes, sunset, sunsets
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Iron Chef America – White House Garden edition
Food Network had a special Iron Chef America episode on tonight where all of the vegetables came from the White House vegetable garden set up by the Obamas when they first moved in to the White House. Protein (meat, cheese, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Local Food, Movies and Television
Tagged Food Network, foodnetwork, Iron Chef America, White House garden
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Where is *our* Teddy Roosevelt?
I’ve been catching up on some TV programs that I had recorded on my DVR and as of yet hadn’t watched and tonight I decided to start watching The National Parks series by Ken Burns. Simply put who is our … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, General, Global Warming, History, Politics, Sustainability
Tagged climate change, john muir, ken burns, national parks, pbs, teddy roosevelt
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Getting ready for homebrewing
I was sitting in my basement tonight feeling pretty excited about the 120 or so empty beer bottles I had just counted, enough to hold 10 gallons of homebrew beer. Step 1, for me at any rate, collect enough bottles … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, General, Local Food
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JasperReports underlining all text in HTML reports in Internet Explorer?
Last week I ran into an odd situation with our HTML output from JasperReports in Internet Explorer 7. All text, link or otherwise, was being underlined and I’m not really sure of the root cause other than it would appear … Continue reading
Posted in GTD, Garden Journal, General, Java, Programming, Sustainability, Technology
Tagged css, Firefox, internet explorer, jasperreports
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Earth Hour – You’re either with us, or against us!
From the Earth Hour website: Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. Strains of George Bush saying “you’re either with us, or with the terrorists” eh? Maybe the … Continue reading
Thanks for the Weblogic support Oracle!
I know that it’s a tough thing to move forum contents from one system to another and I know that Oracle and BEA, prior to their buyout by Oracle, had a different forum system than Oracle. I also understand that … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Journal, General, Java, Programming, Sustainability, Technology
Tagged bea, Java, oracle, weblogic
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Seed order for 2009 is done!
Whew. Big piece of work for the summer out of the way. Looking forward to starting some of this stuff in the basement soon. That is the next step, getting the basement set up for seed growing!
Posted in Food and Drink, Garden Journal, Gardening, General, Local Food, Sustainability
Tagged Garden, Garden 2009, Garden Journal, Local Food, Sustainability
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The Pickens Plan: why natural gas vehicles???
I just finished taking a look at the Pickens Plan and it has me scratching my head. It states: We currently use natural gas to produce 22% of our electricity. Harnessing the power of wind to generate electricity will give … Continue reading
If you can’t join ‘em….delay ‘em.
This is unconscionable. Drill for oil anywhere we want and forget the consequences but damn we really need to make sure those solar installations don’t degrade the environment. On the one hand I can understand this. I’d rather have good … Continue reading