- just set up twitter tools for wordpress on my blog, check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/yqzkh6 #
- salivating for bbq over lunch. i love kansas city. mmmmmm. #
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- upgrading my k2 wordpress theme to k2rc6 on http://sprignaturemoves.com. it’s finally out. yay. #
- frustrating day that ended with a productive meeting. the irony. #
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Tags: tweetsI’ve been using Google Docs quite a bit lately. It’s starting to grate on me a little.
If you are particular about how things look, you almost have to hack the HTML version. Setting styles on text sometimes works, clearing formatting sometimes works, etc.
You’ll get in nested HTML tag hell pretty quickly just by doing basic text formatting — headings, bold, italics and so forth.
Don’t get me started on tables. They’re even worse.
No tags for this post.I was poking around the settings in my Google Docs and found that I can actually post to my blog from inside of Google Docs.
Doesn’t do titles at all, so…hmm.
Guess you can actually tag the posts, too. Haven’t tried that.
Pretty sweet.
I’ve known about Launchy for a while, but just recently started using it regularly. What a helpful piece of software.
If you’re like me and have about 50 programs running at the same time, hardly ever see your desktop wallpaper and your toolbars take up too much space on your desktop, Launchy is what the doctor ordered.
I would imagine that if you’re a notebook user and the touchpad isn’t fast enough for you, this will help save you some time.
Even better: it’s open source.
Here’s the official blurb, if you haven’t clicked the link already:
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
Here’s some nice Lifehacker.com reviews and tweaks.
No tags for this post.I’m a fairly content AT&T DSL subscriber. I’ve also been a loyal AVG Antivirus user since my last nightmare with Norton Antivirus 2004. It turned out to be a chipset incompatibility with my model of Dell Dimension 4100 that caused the never-ending cycle of BSODs.
Old news.
I came downstairs to the computer the other morning to find an AVG ad on my screen. Grrrr. Any program installed on my machine that throws ads up on the screen is gonna to get uninstalled.
My co-workers kept raving about the Symantec AV that comes free with AT&T DSL. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought I would give it a spin.
Stupid move.
I should have stopped when it required that I use IE instead of Firefox. I had to set IE to my default browser. The agony.
An hour and a half later, I’m beating my head against the brick wall of crap software that is Symantec Antivirus. Here’s the lovely error message:
Problem is: There wasn’t a previous install or uninstall to be completed. I did everything they told me. I clicked here to resolve. It didn’t. I uninstalled AVG, Windows Defender, disabled my Windows Firewall, manually deleted my Temp files, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Four restarts later, I’m ranting right here.
Check out these moves:
Check, check, check and check. Uninstall. Yes, I’m sure.
Downloading the Norton Removal Tool. Check.
Running…
Ahhhh…Freedom.
No tags for this post.I’m glad our representatives are taking time to body-slam the important issues of the day.
h/t ds
No tags for this post.Yes, it is a Bucks franchise record. Too bad they lost the game 151-135 (not a typo).
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Man, things are crazy in NBA blogging circles about former Sonics owner and Starbucks gazillionaire Howard Schultz’s lawsuit against new owner Clay Bennett.
Apparently, there’s a real possibility that it could keep the Sonics in Seattle.
I’m watching this with great interest because I don’t want the Sonics to move to OKC. I think the chances are less likely that KC will get an NBA team in the Sprint Center if there’s a team in OKC.
Sadly, they probably will move to OKC because:
- NBA Commissioner David Stern has publicly supported the move
- OKC taxpayers just OK’d a huge stadium renovation
- NBA owners are about to vote on the relocation
If they don’t move, I might break down and go buy a Venti Caramel Macchiato at Starbucks to celebrate.
[fingers crossed]
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- Anything about the University of Missouri. Even though I live in Missouri, I’ll always be a Kansan.
- My lawn. Yes, I did just spend a lot of time trying to make it look nice, however, that doesn’t mean I liked doing it.
- Bossy, type-A personality women make me want to turn around and walk the other direction every time.
- The national nightly news. I just don’t believe most of what’s reported.
Updated to Wordpress v2.5 during halftime of the KU vs Memphis game last night.
My first reaction: Impressive interface refresh.
Since I use the K2 theme, I had to upgrade to the most recent nightly and recreate my K2 sidebar with the stock Wordpress sidebar to make it work.
Image uploading is way different than before. Haven’t tried the new add video and audio features yet.
No tags for this post.![[fry’s]](http://sprignaturemoves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/frys.jpg)
So we got up, had another good breakfast and checked out of the the hotel.
I just had to go to the Fry’s Electronics store down the street. We don’t have cool stores like that in Kansas City. I could spend the whole day in that store. Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif. Ahhh, the smell of electronics. Sweet manna from heaven.
After a while, we headed east to the Kemah Boardwalk (warning: annoying auto-play music). It was OK. It was a small amusement park on the Galveston Bay. Ho-hum. Here’s some pictures.
![[rock chalk jayhawk]](http://sprignaturemoves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rockchalkshamrock1.jpg)
The highlight was the three nice retired ladies sporting the “Rock Chalk Shamrock” t-shirts in honor of the Jayhawks on St. Patrick’s Day. I even didn’t care that one of them smirked and asked about my Bucks shirt. Hey, I can be a native Kansan and still root for the Bucks. Someone needs to.
We snarfed a quick leftover lunch in the parking lot, we headed for Dallas. I was tired already and this trip was a real drag. We did see the big ole Sam Houston statue.
![[pappa’s]](http://sprignaturemoves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/pappas.jpg)
We finally made it to Dallas. We had some time to waste so we decided to find some Texas BBQ to really make the comparison with Kansas City BBQ. We had seen Pappa’s Bar-B-Q places all around, so we decided that’s what we’d try for dinner. Very nice atmosphere. We got a sampler platter and a few sides. The ribs were very tender. Brisket was so-so. The coleslaw was excellent. However, the meat didn’t really have a smoky flavor and the sauce was real tomatoey. It was good, but, sorry, just can’t stack up against Jack Stack in Kansas City.
After that we bummed around a local Target and returned the rental car at about 9-ish. We took the Enterprise shuttle to the airport. Our flight was set to leave at 6:00am the next morning. We figured that it would be a waste of money to have the rental car for another day and a hotel room for 5 hours, so we decided to camp out at the airport.
Bad idea.
![[airport chairs]](http://sprignaturemoves.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/airportchairs.jpg)
Dallas Love Field Airport has a central TSA checkpoint, which just so happens to close overnight, so we had to sleep in 5 or 6 of the 25 or so chairs outside of the terminal area. It was fine for a couple of hours. Nothing was open and there were hardly any people around. But, that didn’t stop the annoying PA announcements from going the WHOLE STINKIN’ TIME. I tried to sleep, but there was just no way to get comfortable. I got bleacher-butt real bad. Not good.
We met an older gentleman who had a 6 hour (!?) layover in Dallas while en route to Houston. It was a last minute flight for a funeral. The poor guy struggled and struggled to get comfortable and rest, but he just couldn’t do it. He ended up walking back and forth in the hallway for 4 hours. We talked a security guard into letting us use a chair from another area, but it didn’t really help him that much.
I finished the Chasing Cool book I had been reading. Pretty good book.
Caleb slept almost the whole time. I maybe got in an hour. Rachel stayed up the whole time. Becca slept a little longer than me. About 4 am, a real annoying family showed up with takeout IHOP. Rude. Ugh. About 5 something they opened the checkpoint and we finally made it to the nice terminal seats. Didn’t matter, we were all zombies, except of course, for Caleb.
I hardly remember the flight home. We arrived in KC at 8 something in the morning. Took the shuttle out to our car. Wouldn’t start. Had to pay $30 for a jump. Home. Must…get…rest…pillow…ZZZZZZZZZ.
You better believe that I’m not booking flights for weird times anymore.
And so it went. Texas Vacation 2008.
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The end of porn
Know one thing I’d like to see?
I’d like to see the porn industry exposed and vilified as much as the cigarette companies are.
Let’s just call porn for what it is: the #1 destroyer of relationships in the world
Who calls out the porn industry when:
- a sexual predator rapes and kills a 10-year old girl?
- a marriage ends up in divorce and the kids have to pick up the pieces for their whole lives?
- a college girl gets AIDS after getting conned into doing a porn video?
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