This too shall pass.
For a limited time, FriendsForFamilies.com is offering a 1-year full membership to the site for $1.99. Normally the price is $19.99, but because we just launched the site, we are excited to get members signed up.
What’s to lose? You can sign up and see who you can find in your area for next to nothing!
When Internet Explorer 7 is released at the end of the year, it will totally abandon support of HTML frames on web sites. Web accessibility geeks are cheering this development, while frame-based Geocities web site owners are in a tizzy.
Now that the site has launched I’ve had a little time this weekend to sit down and catch up on some things. One of those things includes this blog!
A few of you might be interested in the new gallery of pictures I posted. Some of these are from our trip to Louisville a few weekends ago. You’ll see Gray having a ball at Bowman Field thanks to my old pal Jeremy.
The rest of the pics are just random adventures with the boys. I am seriously considering selling my Olympus C5050 in favor of something more compact that will slip into my pocket. I think I’d end up taking a lot more pictures this way.
So yeah…that’s that for now. Enjoy.
I am proud to announce the birth of the secret project I have been developing full-time (and then some) since April.
Ladies and Germs, I bring you FriendsForFamilies.com.
“FriendsForFamilies.com is the premiere Internet service completely dedicated to helping families find other families in their local communities that share common interests, beliefs and life circumstances. It is a company created by families for families to meet a need of families.”
This has been the biggest project I have ever had the pleasure of working on. It’s pretty massive in scope once you sign up and get inside.
Check it out, sign up, and let me know what you think!
So I’ve been pulling 60+ hour work weeks in anticipation of launching the big project I’ve been doing since May. It’s supposed to happen September 1, and I’ll be able to disclose things then. Anyway, that’s why I haven’t been here lately.
I am currently in Charlotte though, as we came here to meet our new niece and nephew twins. I also took Gray to see The Wiggles last night, which was a monumental event for him. That would have been like me going to meet Darth Vader when I was his age.
Oh, then this morning, we went to Discovery Place in ‘uptown’ Charlotte, which is a big museum for kids. They had a movie exhibit with props from Star Wars, which was pretty cool. At one point, after gazing in awe at the Speeder Bike from Return of the Jedi, we turned around and there was a real-life stormtrooper looking at us. Then there were 3 more. Then appeared a Biker Scout and a TIE Fighter pilot.
And what happened next? Darth Vader came around the corner. Man, that was great. And Gray is 3. This event seemed to hit him harder than The Wiggles last night, and he has been talking about giving Darth Vader a high-5 all day.
Anyway, being a grad of WWC, I though this was interesting.
The series of tubes known as the Internets by our nation’s educated leaders, never ceases to amaze me.
Today I learned that there have been over 485 user comments and reviews of Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz on amazon.com, a fact that amuzed me. The way people latch onto things like this, then spend a lot of creative time and effort to contribute to its longevity, make the Internet such a novel piece of human existence. Take, for example, this quote from the Tuscan Milk reviews:
Jug of Milk, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life, & bid thee feed
The children & lay o’er the cereal;Gave thee whitest of white color;
Softest velvet taste, smooth, and soothing;
Gave thee such a pleasant after-taste,
Making sleep to soon over-take?Jug of Milk, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?Jug of Milk, I’ll tell thee,
She is called by her name,
For she calls herself Elsie.
She is meek, & she is mild;
She is as dumb as a box of rocks.I a child, & thou a bowl of cereal,
We are called to use her milk.Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz , God bless thee!
Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz , God bless thee!
If I haven’t responded to an email or a phone call you have left me, it’s because I have been working around the clock trying to meet a deadline. I’ll respond soon…
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
It was announced yesterday that Internet Explorer 7 will be coming in the fourth quarter of this year, and will be pushed out as a critical update for Windows XP users. This is pretty good news, as it means that the bulk of Internet Explorer users will be upgraded to the much-improved browser automatically, and IE6 marketshare will quickly drop.
The main reason this is a good thing is that IE7 fixes a whole lot of CSS bugs, and when creating web sites, one will no longer have to worry so much about catering to these bugs and providing workarounds. This is because IE7 closely follows web standards, and attempts to be a legitimate player in the web browser market in this regard. At the same time, it’s going to break a lot of web sites that unaware developers created which rely on proprietary IE6 ‘features’.
It will be interesting to watch this all unfold.
Yesterday was an exciting day. One of my project sites, The Best of Youtube, got Farked by the popular news site Fark.com. Someone posted a link to my recent Star Wars on a Banjo video.
By the end of the day, I received over 32,000 visits to my site, which witheld the onslaught of traffic with grace (thank you, Dreamhost).
For a while, I was featured at Youtube on the “Most Viewed Today” page, rising to the 35th spot, and my video received an “honor” for this status. Strangely, my video suddenly vanished from this listing though, and the “honor” vanished, which I have yet to figure out.
The second comment on the posting at Fark.com was from none other than Drew Curtis, the creator and owner of Fark.com:
“This video pretty much sums up the entire Internet”
The rest of the feedback I received, through comments on fark.com, youtube.com, and thebestofyoutube.com, were mostly positive and funny. A few people didn’t seem to be able to hear the melody in the banjo picking, which is difficult sometimes for an untrained bluegrass ear.
I’ll be eagerly watching this over the next few days to see how much traffic I continue to get.
Since I have been scouring Youtube for the best videos lately, I decided I would start contributing some of my own. Using my Logitech webcam, I recorded the following video this evening for your listening and viewing pleasure. When I was in The Second String Bluegrass Band, we used to play this tune when the crowds were rowdy. Have a look-see.