Tales Of Brave Ulysses

These are my links for June 30th from 23:44 to 23:58:

• Mango Languages – Home –


• BBC - Languages – Homepage –


• A Solar Grand Plan: Scientific American –


• Landmark solar bill in Hawaii | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist –


• Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter HOME –

These are my links for June 26th through June 30th:

• Flickr: The Commons –


• Obama and Working Class White Voters | Views | TheRoot.com –


• Index of / –


• In Niger, 'Plumpy'nut' becomes a life-saver – International Herald Tribune –


• WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Plumpy'nut –

Check out these amazing pictures of golden rays migrating off the coast of Mexico.

This is from an article in the British newspaper the Telegraph.

FRIDAY UPDATE
Hmm, that link doesn’t work anymore. Go here instead I guess.

And check out their channel on YouTube, these guys are pretty funny.

I’ve linked to this before, but let me go ahead and mention it again. Timeless advice for new parents on how to care for baby.

Safe parenting!

These are my links for June 25th from 04:34 to 05:09:

• How the nation's breadbasket is poisoning its own water supply | By Elizabeth Royte | Grist | Grist Feature | 16 Oct 2007 –


• Sperm count concerns specialists –


• MODABODE - a new housing product for the 21st century, the e-BODE is modernist, modular, prefabricated, transportable, Sydney, Australia –


• Rocio Romero, modern design and prefab architecture –


• shipping container home –


• Graduate School of Library & Information Science: Dominican University –

These are my links for June 22nd through June 25th:

• Container Architecture – shipping container house design and construction in New Zealand –


• ::: LOT-EK ::: –


• tgstroh's bookmarks on del.icio.us –


• Shipping-Container-Architecture Information Repository –


• Canoes –


• LiveModern: The Best Modern Homes ? LiveModern: The Best Modern Homes –


• Maui Photographer – Randy Jay Braun Photography –


• Untitled-1 –

Okay, I’ve been using Safari and/or Camino for the past couple weeks and they are both totally cool and functional programs. But I have to admit, I missed Firefox, despite the abysmal performance it gave after a few days of being open. Mostly I missed Adblock Plus and the almighty Filterset.G – I’ve got PithHelmet installed on Safari and CamiTools installed on Camino (oops, Camitools is no longer developed – how do I uninstall that now?), but neither was as extensive or configurable as Adblock Plus with Filterset.G.

So I downloaded the release candidate for Firefox 3 a couple weeks ago, and updated to the release version last week. It’s pretty nice. Spiffy look and much faster performance. I haven’t made the complete decision to jump back to Firefox yet, but it is looking good.

Okay, all my kvetching was in vain… My domains all transferred to Dreamhost without a snag. I just wish dreamhost would send me an email saying “success” or something.

Well the transfer of my domains from Aplus to Dreamhost apparently started last Tuesday. At least, I haven’t received any failure messages. However, I have not received confirmation notices either, and this domain, along with a few others, expires in a few hours. I am in a bind. I guess I will have to renew with Aplus for another year, something I did not want to do. Crap. Or maybe I will just let the domains lapse and pick up the pieces afterwards. I don’t know, it’s been more of a pain in the ass than it should be, that’s for sure.

Yeah, longest day of the year. From here on out, the days are getting shorter.

Spent the day at a funeral. It was hot. There was ham o’plenty, and we brought some home.

These are my links for June 20th from 17:02 to 23:40:

• Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds –


• WASP Injection Systems, Inc. – WASP Injection Knife –


• mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died –


• Caustic Musings » Fitness on a Budget Part 1: The Poor Man?s (or Woman?s) Precision Nutrition Plan –


• Get Fit Slowly ? physical fitness that makes sense –


• Ocean Waves for Mac OS X - generates simulated sound of ocean waves –


• Blackhole Media – Noise –

Well that fix didn’t last very long. I guess the software patch is not particularly useful after all. It needs a hardware fix, which means I’m back to the Razr and the Treo gets sent to the back burner for now. Oh well, premature excitation about my phone after all folks.

The darn thing works, but there is a problem with the audio earphone jack. The phone thinks it is always plugged in and cuts off the speakerphone and regular receiver and microphone functions. This guy will fix it, but I have to ship it to Northern California. Sigh…

These are my links for June 19th through June 20th:

• Hallucinogenics, drug use, salvia divinorum | Salon Life –


• Palm Treo 650 – why I still love the Treo. –


• Water Only Dries » Blog Archive » Make a RAZR Ringtone with iTunes –


• Healthcare reform | Salon Life –


• 'I fell in love with a female assassin' – Americas, World – The Independent –


• Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Complete Guide and 40+ Resources –

I downloaded the latest nightly build of Webkit this morning. Cool beans. It’s just like Safari, but they boast screaming fast javascript execution. I’ll be keeping my eyeballs on this for the next few days, seeing how this thing works. It’s kind of freaky, since it thinks it’s Safari. Kind of disconcerting actually. But I’m willing take it for a test spin or two.

Well today was a good day. This afternoon my Treo came back from the dead. It bonked on me back in late January or early February; right around the time Lorelei was born. Luckily I had a spare Razr laying around I could swap the SIM card into, or else I would have been without a phone the last five months. But now I spent a bit of time monkeying around with the phone today, and it came back to life. Lord know how long before the speakerphone and volume drop off again, but for now I can enjoy my clunky, old Treo 650 again. Hurrah.

And yes, I still love my Treo 650 too, it’s been a good phone for me. Getting it back is like seeing an old friend again after too long an absence.

Well, I think I can say that rainy season arrived this year at 11:37 this morning. The intermittent squalls and rain showers of the past couple weeks was replaced with a storm that lasted two hours. That’s two hours of heavy rain. No wind, very little thunder, just a downpour of rain everywhere I went. I got back to the office a little while ago, and checked the Tiyan NOAA page and discovered the headline “Tropical Storm UPDATE” plastered across the top. Yep. Rainy season is here.

By the by, my little girl was frightened by the thunder.

I uploaded a pile of pictures of Lorelei last week. Check them out on Flickr.

These are my links for June 16th through June 18th:

• Ocean Paddler TV –


• Songbird Media Player –


• Great Art Parodies 1 –


• Migrate a WordPress site to Drupal | Adding Understanding –


• Live, on Drupal | Burningbird's RealTech –

These are my links for June 9th through June 13th:

• puppet – Trac –


• Sonzea – Syncopation –


• FuseCal – The Web's Events in Your Calendar –


• BBC NEWS | Business | Oil crisis dominates G8 meeting –


• The Shape of Your Life | Outside Online –