I’ve decided to participate in my first Topical Tuesday and the topic for the day is Life List. As stated on that page: “This weeks challenge is to write a Life List of ten things you would like to do before you die. Only ten mind – make them count.“ That’s a tall order. Ten things I want to do before I die? I want to do everything before I die. If you do them after you die then who would know?
Well, here’s my attempt. This is going to take some brain strain.
Visit Europe. Anywhere in Europe is fine although I’m particularly interested in England, Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Czech Republic, Austria and Turkey.
Get a six figure income. Bonus points if it starts with a number higher than one.
Live long enough to see my baby girl grow up to be a happy and successful woman and hopefully watch some grandbabies grow up.
Make a positive and profound impact on the lives of other people. My dream job is to be a philanthropist.
Go on a road trip from one coast of the United States to the opposite coast.
Retire early enough that I might get to enjoy some time off before I die. By the time I’m 65, the retirement age will probably be 130.
Have something published and sold – even if it’s not successful. A novel, comic or screenplay I suppose.
Become passably fluent in a second language.
Ride at least five of the fastest roller-coasters in the world. Preferably in at least two different countries.
Own and operate a bar & grill or a pub of my own design.
Wow. That was a lot harder than I thought it would be with narrowing it down to only ten entries. So many things come to mind but with only ten spots its hard to pick the things that would actually mean something to me in a way that was more than just saying, “OK that’s done” and then checking it off a list and never thinking about it again.
It seems that this poor site has been neglected one too many times over the years. I have officially fallen into the dark realms of obscurity on the internet. My stats seem unrecoverable. No one wants to advertise here even for free. It’s a sad place to be. But I’ve been mucking up the place since November of 2000 (wow, almost nine years?) so I don’t believe I’ll be giving this place up just yet.
Today is September 1st and I’m doing fairly well at updating again. I just need to get into that groove again that seems to rise and fall like a perfect wave. Once I can get that going I’ll start on other projects again.
Maybe you’ve seen this and maybe you haven’t. I saw it posted on Facebook but the number of people who have watched it on YouTube is really low.
You need to watch this. If you use your phone in your car or if you have children or other loved ones who use their phones while driving, you need to see this. This is specifically about people texting but the same goes for anyone not paying attention.
This is a very graphic and realistic dramatization. Those of you who don’t like the sight of blood may not make it through the whole thing. It’s very well done. I watched this at work right before I left and almost started crying when they showed the passengers of the second car.
Maybe its because I now have a baby of my own but that was horrible and will haunt me for a while. I’ve never texted or written an e-mail while driving but I guarantee that I never will either. Sure this seems like common sense but this video just drives it home.
You won’t like it but you need to watch it.
If for some reason the YouTube link above doesn’t work, here’s another link.
I hate this theme. Mostly. There are a few things about it I like but overall, meh. But what can I do? I hate the default themes as well. Well how about the WordPress Themes Directory that you can click on from inside the WordPress console? It has 954 themes as of this writing. That should help right? Uh… no. Have you looked at that page? They have taken usability to a whole new low.
954 themes and no easy way to get to them. Unless you want one of the ten featured themes on the page or want to hunt through the miscellaneous popular themes on the side, there is no way to find the others. OH SURE, there’s that big search bar at the top but um… what exactly am I searching for? Here’s a hint: try typing “A theme I would like” into that search field and see what it comes back with. Is that a silly example? Yes it is, but what should I search for? I’m sure there are keywords or tags or something but maybe it could give me some hints.
I like WordPress. I really do. It’s a thousand times better than the cybrblog system I cobbled together many years ago on this same domain. I really like how they keep expanding the features too. But one complaint I have about the standard installation is those default themes. WordPress has offered those same two Default and Classic themes forever. Fine. But could they at least update them to work with the new versions of WordPress and the new features? No, the built-in themes don’t have to have the best features and prettiest presentations but couldn’t they at the very least show off what WordPress can do natively?
For example, a few revisions ago WordPress added in-line or nested comments. Great! However presenting those in that fashion is controlled by the theme you are using. I still haven’t seen a theme that integrates that feature although to be honest I haven’t tried many themes. Because they are unreasonably difficult to browse. Oh wait, there’s no browse feature on the WordPress Themes Directory either! Not much of a directory if you can’t browse it. Seriously though, the default theme should accomodate every new feature built in to WordPress. Throw us a bone here.
Well, it looks like the web hosting move was fairly smooth. Much easier than I had thought it would be. I do think I forgot a few things on the old server and I didn’t note my old IP address… dumb. I’m hoping Yoshi still has that.
We had our fifth of six baby classes last night. They show the nastiest crap in the videos and pictures in that class. To hell with providing condoms or teaching sex education in our schools. Just show all of them these videos. They’ll never want to have babies. Ever.
Tomorrow evening we have our final walk-through of the house to see if everything that we requested has been completed before we close on Friday. Friday we put ourselves in enough debt to keep us shackled to St. Louis for the rest of our lives. Wonderful. Oh well, that’s the way it goes. Interest rates are higher now than when moved back to the States. The housing market sucks. To all of you who told us what a great time it would be to come back home because the car market and housing market were so great: YOU WERE WRONG. Unless of course you are in the market for a full size pickup truck and a “remodeler’s dream home”.
But hopefully we will be getting settled soon. Our sea shipment from Hong Kong will be delivered on Saturday and then our storage items will arrive on Monday morning. We need to get our utiliites sorted and get internet access in the house. It’s going to be crazy. And the baby is due any time now….
My friend Yoshi is kicking me off his servers so I had to go get a new hosting package. The data looks like it’s all transferred as of yesterday but I can’t really test it till I get the domains pointing to the new locations.
The change will probably be kicked off overnight tonight. If anyone sees anything not working, please let me know.
UPDATE:
Looks like the DNS changes are underway. I had to repost today’s comic and this post. Yay! So far so good.
Yoshi over at Hello! Yoshi is having a contest this week which you should definitely check out. He’s been planning a contest for the Blogathon ever since the last Blogathon, but they have decided to cancel it this year. So what is Yoshi to do with his fabulous prizes that he bought for this event? He has two brand new MP3 players just itching to be given away. That’s the reason for the seemingly random contest.
The rules are simple and you only have till this coming Sunday to enter. So hurry up and head over to enter the contest today!
Do you like contests? I’m betting most people would answer yes. Even if I know I have no chance of winning or would prefer I not win (which would be wierd), my competitive spirit keeps me coming back for more. In the realm of the internet and blogging I’ve seen lots of different contests: photo contests, writing contests, guessing game contests, comment contests, etc and I’m sure there’s a million others out there I haven’t heard of or seen before.
So my question to you is: What is the best contest you have ever entered and why?
I signed up for Plurk a while back and have only made a half-hearted effort to interact with it. That is until today. Today I decided to play a little game with Plurk. I noticed that when browsing other people’s friends that it often shows what city and country that each person lives in. So I started clicking on people from other countries and seeing if they were actively using Plurk and if so I would send a friend request.
It’s simple and a bit silly, but I think it would be interesting to see the Twitter-like messages of people from all around the Earth. Sure not all of them will accept me as a friend and many of them don’t write in English but that’s OK. I can make out what some of them are saying in some cases and in other cases it probably doesn’t matter. I don’t think it’s possible to get friends in every single country in the world… but wouldn’t it be cool if you could?
If you are interested in signing up and haven’t yet, you should. http://www.plurk.com
Mozilla is releasing Firefox 3 at 10:00am PDT (Pacific) time today (June 17th). Although it will technically be June 18th when the download is available for those of us here in Hong Kong, I don’t mind fudging the numbers if you won’t tell anyone. But the point is that they are attempting to set a World Record for the most downloads in a 24 hour period with this release.
So for those of you interested in being one of the first kids on your block of IPs to get the shiny new Firefox 3, have a click here for more information.
I will be downloading Firefox 3 tomorrow and checking it out. However I’m not staying up till 1:00am to do so. Their record can wait till I get up in the morning.
Packing and getting the car ready today for a road trip to Austin TX at the crack of dawn tomorrow. Interview with a company there on Friday 2 weeks ago
Time for some Blind Swordsman Zatoichi... and ice cream!!! 2010-08-04
General, Internet | cybrpunk | 
March 16, 2010 12:40 pm | 
Comments (2) 
It seems that this poor site has been neglected one too many times over the years. I have officially fallen into the dark realms of obscurity on the internet. My stats seem unrecoverable. No one wants to advertise here even for free. It’s a sad place to be. But I’ve been mucking up the place since November of 2000 (wow, almost nine years?) so I don’t believe I’ll be giving this place up just yet.
954 themes and no easy way to get to them. Unless you want one of the ten featured themes on the page or want to hunt through the miscellaneous popular themes on the side, there is no way to find the others. OH SURE, there’s that big search bar at the top but um… what exactly am I searching for? Here’s a hint: try typing “A theme I would like” into that search field and see what it comes back with. Is that a silly example? Yes it is, but what should I search for? I’m sure there are keywords or tags or something but maybe it could give me some hints.
