The newest version of Firefox is out in beta form. It’s not recommended for the masses but if you are adventurous give it a try. I’m using it to write this post so it obviously works. It’s got a few neat, new features but nothing earth shattering.
Wednesday July 12, 2006
Tuesday July 4, 2006
You say it’s your birthday….
It was Camden’s birthday and we went to Arizona to help him celebrate. We also went to see our new grandson Carsten. See the pictures in the gallery.
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Thursday June 15, 2006
Wednesday June 14, 2006
Widgets!
We’ve got Widgets on the blog now! Ok, you can’t really tell but I certainly can from inside WordPress. The new version of WP, 2.0x supports what they call widgets. What they are is plugins that allow you to put all sorts of stuff on your sidebar VERY easily. All you do is put the main widget file into the plugin directory and then activate it. Once you do that you can put widget enabled plugins in the directory and it allows you to customize your sidebar without doing a line of html. Then in the Presentation manager you just drag and drop whatever you want from one pane to the other and you have your sidebar however you want it. Everything you see on my sidebar is part of the widgets and I can arrange them in any order.
Pretty cool for us Geeks.
Friday May 19, 2006
That’s pretty fast
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-05-19 14:23:28 EST:
4979 / 631
Your download speed : 4979 kbps or 622.3 KB/sec.
That is 120.4% better than an average user on pacbell.netYour upload speed : 631 kbps or 78.9 KB/sec.
That is 48.1% better than an average user on pacbell.net
test IP was to pacbell.net via sbcglobal.net owner sbc.com
After an upgrade to 6000/608. I think it’s probably more like 6000/768 based on what I see here.
Who is this team and where did they come from?
We have a new basketball team in Los Angeles. They go by the name “The Clippers” and I don’t recall ever hearing about them before. Now they are in the playoffs and have tied up the series at 3-3.
I’m pretty sure I would have known about this team if the LA Kobes’ weren’t here but that’s the way it’s been for the last several years. Maybe they came from the east with a name like Clippers. Or maybe they all used to be barbers.
Whatever the deal is we are glad to have a team that actually plays like a team and not a superstar and friends.
The Phoenix Suns remind me of the old Pepperdine(or was it Loyola) team that used the theory that you didn’t need defense if you could outscore your opponent. I guess that works if your opponent is in worse shape than you but these Clippers seem to have some young guys who can run with the best.
I always liked the Suns but I didn’t grow up in Phoenix so I will cheer for this new team from LA.
GO CLIPPERS!
Saturday May 6, 2006
Beta Tester, that’s me
I’ve been busy the last few weeks doing something that mainly geeks would love. I’ve been a beta tester for a new version of Mattie’s Event Scripts. What is Event Scripts you might ask. The short answer is it’s a plugin for the Valve Source Engine, specifically for Counter Strike:Source. I’ve mentioned how I like playing Counter Strike in past posts. CS is a First Person Shooter(FSP) game where your character runs around a map shooting other peoples characters. I find it to be a good stress reliever after a hard day at work but mostly I enjoy the more geeky aspects of the game like building maps and making scripts that modify how the game is played.
That’s where Mattie’s Event Scripts come into play. Using ES you can do all kinds of things to change the game like allow you to change weapons that the game normally doesn’t allow or tell other players when someone dies. In fact there are almost unlimited possibilities to change the game because the company that developed Half Life and Half Life 2(of which CS is a modification) made it so you have access to modify almost everything in the game.
So Mattie created a new version of ES and he wanted some folks to beta test it before he released it to the public. That’s what I have been doing for about the last 3 weeks. Here’s a link to the page where Mattie thanks the beta testers. You’ll notice at the end of the first post he lists them(us).
So that’s what I’ve been up to and why you haven’t seen anything new here recently.
Wednesday April 19, 2006
WordPress 2.0 and no spam
Since I upgraded to WP 2.0 I got rid of the CAPTCHA and still don’t have spam in the comments. That’s not to say people aren’t trying but 2.0 has a little program called Akismet that seems to do a really great job of catching spam. I think mine has caught close to 100 so far. If you are still using 1.5 I recommend upgrading and getting rid of your CAPTCHA.
Edit: I just checked and Akismet has actually caught 143 so far.