After meeting up at the airport, my brother and I picked up the rental car and drove to Avondale where we attempted to check into the hotel. We were too early, though, so they turned us away. We grabbed some lunch at an Islands restaurant down the street and then headed over to Maryvale Stadium …
I’m sitting in the waiting area in Terminal 3 of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport waiting for my brother’s flight to arrive. My flight here from Tampa was uneventful, except we landed 30 minutes early and then sat on the plane for those 30 minutes waiting for a gate to open up. Note: my posts …
I’d been using Blogger intermittently since 2002 but didn’t start using it for “real” blogging until about a year ago. The latest Blogger problem finally gave me the incentive I needed to look into other blogging solutions. Based on a recommendation from a co-worker, I’ve switched to WordPress (so that’s why the site looks different …
A few days ago someone pointed out to me that the RSS feed of my blog was empty, throwing an error: XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: https://www.windracer.net/blog/atom.xml Line Number 1, Column 1: I checked the atom.xml file on my server (I host this blog myself, not on Google’s servers) and found that it …
On one of the forums I frequent there’s been a recent thread about the evolution of the graphical user interface. In that discussion someone posted this link to a GUI timeline that shows screenshots of many of the UIs that evolved over the years. It’s a really cool walk through GUI history and made me …
This has been my daughter’s first year as a Brownie scout, so we’re currently experiencing first-hand the annual selling of the famous Girl Scout Cookies. She hit up the usual suspects (friends, neighbors, and family members) and we also spent time at our troop’s cookie booth the other weekend in front of a local grocery …
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Since I have TiVo, a commercial has to really catch my attention at 3x fast-forward in order for me to stop, rewind, and watch it. That’s exactly what Gatorade’s latest ad campaign, “The Quest for G,” did. The film is a hilarious cinematic re-creation of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” starring sports stars such …
Number of clocks I had to change last night: 30! And that doesn’t include the computers, cell phones, TiVos, etc. that changed on their own! Wow.
It’s been a while since I last posted but I’ve been sick for the last week with a really bad chest cold. I actually stayed home from work on Wednesday (taking the rare, for me, sick day), slept pretty much the entire day and still really didn’t feel any better. I’ve still got the cough, …