Careful on the Templates

Last night in a fit of curiosity, I reformated the template for Rye Cake with the new templates offered with Blogger Beta. It looks fine, but it erased all of the secondary bells and whistles, especially to Flickr bar and the Amazon pay link.

Before you use the new formatting tool, back up the old template.

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Blogger Beta Desktop via Google

When I signed on to my Gmail account the option to sign into Blogger was presented. That’s a good way to inspire people to make at least daily entries.

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Switched to Blogger Beta

Like Flikr requiring the use of a Yahoo account number, Google is requesting a Google account sign in. Soon all the world will be gained access to through one or two access portals. Like Mark Twains egg basket, guard that portal!

I haven’t taken a grand tour yet, I just wanted to see how easy a quick enty was to make.

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Too Many Changes?

The "new" Blogger is starting to look like the other commercial blogging software. I was happy with the Blogger interface the way it was. It was mostly because I never used it. I did all of my blogging using software designed to work with the inteface as is. Now I can almost be certain all of that convenient software, for some of which I plopped down dinar, will either need to be retooled, or leave the scene entirely.

I will report here the progress of the new interface, still in beta.



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Whence flew the Summer?

Whence flew the Summer? It is starting to get chilly at night.

This is bringing back memories of shoveling the car out of six feet of snow to go to work. Only now I work much further into the sticks, down a steep and curving hill.

Oh, lordy! Mosquitoes or Winter?

There’s a name for what I am doing now. I will stop doing it and go read a book.
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Words of Power

Words of Power
A very interesting blog by a man who has been full of power as long as I’ve known him, and that is a very long time.
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I changed 20 to 6.

An entry or so below called the 20six blog Twenty Grazing. I changed it to Grazing Six
It just looked better on the graphic header.
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Oh, Yeah, the Lyme Disease

After three weeks on antibiotics and Vitamin C (500mg), the fevers are gone and the symptoms are minimal.  We are on wait and see mode now.  The “we” being everyone I’ve told about this, which is, not counting the blog, around 2 and a ½
dozen people.

If there are additions to the med bulletins, I will place them here.
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20six Famous Grazing Blog

Though I didn’t think this would happen for a while, one more famous grazing blog has been opened.  It is called Grazing Twenty.  There has been little design work to it, or content included for that matter.  It looks like a fairly simple interface.  I have found the off line editor for it yet.  I tried the easy method with Performancing, but it is not a default blog, unfortunately.  Perhaps ::w.bloggar will have settings for it.  We shall see.
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Spambots suck

Fight Spam! Click Here! This blog has been the subject of two to three hundred spambot attacks a day. I am considering taking it down. Give me a good reason not to.

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Oh, Great!

The news that I have Lyme Disease came to me last week.  I need to deal with this before I get much else done.  Hold on.

Barry

Passed a Man Building a Boat

If you are in New England, you are wet.  Though the rain hasn’t come with hurricane winds, it has certainly come heavy and steady for several days.  It has done this continuously since the beginning of May.  There isn’t a dry field in the county or a pond or lake not full to the brim and overflowing.  Wet, indeed!

A dear member of our family is recovering from severe burns in a Boston Hospital. If anyone is expecting me to pay attention to petty minutiae for the next few weeks, dream on.  It is not only this family member requiring support.  It is the parents and siblings as well.  Consider me busy.
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Back in The Swing

It has been a stressful week at work and at home.  Friends have been hurt and my job could change or worse not change in the next week. I was reading Gideon Strauss’ blog this morning and thought I should get back into making morning entries.  It is a beautiful morning in New England.  The sign is shining, the birds are singing and the mosquitoes are breeding.  For what more could you ask?

Be Cool Cartoon!

Sam put together this Be Cool cartoon.

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You don’t see too many people sitting in the lounge chairs as you cruise along the Inside Passage along the Yukon/Alaska coast. One of the reasons is there are so many places inside on other decks of this Holland America ship where you can sit in comfort, with a beverage and a companion and watch the wonders of nature pass. As is clearly indicated by this photo, I spent a good deal of the time on the open deck. For those in need of meditative solitude, where better could you find it?
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10 Flagrant Mistakes

Wondering through the net trying to find a way around the endless menu at Signal Insurance’s Customer “Service” I came upon the ZDNet UK page on “10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid“ I can be honest and say I do make at least two of the listed mistakes all of the time.  I won’t tell you which two.
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I was going through my Picasa library and came across this picture.
I have no idea of its origin. I could see some people thinking it quite
provocative.
Let’s see what else I have...
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This is what the Pelson Center looked like this morning seconds before the crowd piled in to watch the school’s closing ceremonies. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as the child of one of the school’s founders and after whom the school is named, graduated.

He handed over the gavel to the man after whose family the Pelson Center is name. One namesake to the next. Very touching.
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Monday-Monday

This was the first Monday back from vacation. Of course vacation was over two weeks ago, but last Monday was a holiday, so it didn’t count. I don’t care for Mondays. I call them the hang over of weekends. On Sunday nights I debate the wisdom of returning to work the next day or to continue the sabbatical that was interrupted by this spate of work.

But then, I survive the Monday and come home to dinner, a family + and a new puppy. I guess I’ll continue with the working for a while at least.
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Mosquito Trap

The most deadly sport, in that more people die playing this sport than any other: Golf
The most deadly creature on the planet earth: Mosquito.

The preventative action against golf is easy, don’t play.
The preventative action against Mosquitoes is don’t go outside at all. This is much harder. When kids and a back yard are concerned it’s even harder.

Yesterday I made an attempt at getting one of the propane based mosquito killers.  My wife nixed it as too expensive. $279.00. How expensive is EEC or Malaria? I asked.

Still didn’t get it. With most things like this I did a little research and found a similar device for $200.00. In a review of the item the two comments against it said a $10.00 bat box was as effective. There’s the rabies and guano side of that equation. The second comment mentioned an almost free invention of a school class in Asia that involved a plastic soda bottle, sugar water, yeast and black paper.

Will try it.
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