Newsflash: Blogging is getting common!
I came across this article earlier today by some guy who I don’t know about some other guys I don’t know and how the other guys blogs no longer rule the Blogosphere or something.
Little pieces of history
I am generally not a war-like guy- some might even call me a peacenik. That said, I have great respect for people who serve in the military. And I also find the “hardware” of war fascinating. Stealth bombers, laser guided missiles, ICBMs, tanks…rifles, bayonets, gas masks…swords, armour, and helmets.
A few years ago, Irene’s Aunt Judith offered me a few odds and ends from her basement. I took a couple of bayonets, then spent a happy evening doing Internet research. Once I’d confirmed where they came from, I put them on the shelf to admire once in a while. A conversation I had today with my Nephew Shane and brother in law Bryan reminded me that I had these items.
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Sasha gone…
Our cat Sasha died Wednesday just after 11:00 pm. It was pretty sudden- she was fine Wednesday morning, a little off around dinner time, and in shock by bedtime. We rushed her to the emergency vet, but they couldn’t save her. It looks like she was sick and respirated some vomit, and this was complicated by her heart and kidney problems.
Sasha came into our life as something of a lost soul…
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Kid’s charged for “hacking” school computers…
Thirteen high school students in Kutztown, Pennsylvania have been criminally charged for “hacking” their high school provided laptops. Some relatives of the teenagers have set up a website to tell their side of the story.
Airshow…
Yesterday was the day Chris and I went to the Abbotsford airshow. Its one of our traditions, and one that I really enjoy. I’ve placed a ton of pictures in the album…
Chris’ visit; our trip to the lake
My friend Chris is out here on the coast visiting. We went today to Harrison Lake and rented a boat. I’m slightly sun and wind burnt, and a bit tired, but it was a hoot.
(more…)Yay for Google!
Google is supposedly about to start providing RSS feeds of their Google News headlines. That's great, and I guess I'll have to switch over from using my own Google feed…
Its purdy…
I think I’ve pretty much finished this round of site design updates.
The key things I added/changed:
- The overall theme: the main text block is now “flexible” in size, and that was the main thing I wanted. The theme I picked, the Ensellitis theme by Chris Ensell, was just about perfect. I made some very minor changes, altering a few elements of the left block and link colours and such. I don’t know why there aren’t more of these “free flow” templates- how many website visitors come to a site at 800×600? And frankly, my posts are too dang long to look “right” when scrunched down to 40 characters wide or so
- I’ve added a “most recent comments” section at the left
- I updated my banner image, adding a picture of Sadie in the process
- and finally, I added a simple visitor stats block courtesy of Joe Cheung
I have seen the light
Per my previous post, I have been working on an updated format for this site for the last couple of days. I just finished spending about two hours trying to fix a formatting problem…and it turns out to be a bug with Internet Explorer.
Formatting…
Just in case you were poking around this site sometime between 11:00 PM Pacific and now (1:00 am)…my apologies.
I’ve been testing out different “themes” for Kelly’s World. I went through well over 150 of them at the WordPress Theme Viewer, looking for some specific features. Then I tried a few here on my site just to make see what that looked like.