Here’s an interesting article in the Strib confirming my long-held and not-at-all researched belief that bottled water is one of the biggest scams there is.
It states that Minneapolis water, which I drink and enjoy daily straight from the tap, no filter, frequently wins taste tests against the major bottled waters. Even our local radio gourmet (whom I love) thought Evian to be the tap water.
Anyway, all the petroleum, plastic and waste that accompany bottled water is ridiculous when we have perfectly good pipes under our feet. I’ll happily continue refilling my Sigg water bottle.
I hope that during our inspection tonight the guy checks for every possible detail. We don’t want company at breakfast!
It’s strangely gratifying to know that when we say, “traffic sucks,” we’re absolutely right. Minnesota is proud to feature some of the worst congestion in the nation, second only to California. Woo-hoo! Way to go!
Any fan of The Office should subscribe to Creed Thoughts, which you will not actually find at www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts. There you will find gems like
They should rename the Virgin Islands. That was an expensive mistake.
If you aren’t down with The Office, I highly recommend you rent/Netflix season 2 immediately. You’ll thank me.
Along with the move to WordPress, I’ve broken TCOB’s RSS and Atom feeds. I tried a couple of mod_rewrite additions to fix that to no avail. So if you’re using the excellent Google Reader or any other RSS aggregator to read TCOB, you’ll want to update your subscription.
The irony of this post is that the intended audience will not see this article, as it alerts them in a way they probably won’t read. Fortunately, I’m sure “they” refers to one person.
While I’m mixing things up, I’ve decided to experiment with the WordPress “personal publishing platform”. MovableType had served me well, but WordPress seems tighter and more versatile. It’s certainly a lot shinier.
I also like that it’s Open Source. I try to use Open Source software as much as possible, but I only do so when it reaches the same level of polish found in comparable commercial versions. This is rare, but WordPress seems to exceed that standard.
Anyway, you’ll see various pre-built themes here until I can figure out how to implement the one I designed myself, at which point you’ll barely see the difference.
Update: back to my theme. Woot! Still a bit of updating left on some pages and posts, but I’ll get to that eventually.
tcob.com now resides at GoDaddy after a sadly frustrating experience at its former host. Dominet had been fine for a couple of years, and I even recommended it to friends. The uptime was never great, and in comparison, they offered fewer services, space and features for the price than my other providers. The last straw was when they decided to upgrade my server’s OS in the middle of the day without warning. That wasn’t resolved by the time I went to bed. Once it was up, it took another day and a half to get my CGI working.
GoDaddy seems pretty sweet so far. Before starting, I had a couple of questions in email that were answered very quickly, and the one phone call I made found a human at the other end of the line with no waiting. Setup was very smooth, and I had easy access to all the CNAME, MX, and SRV records I wanted to change before the transition (I use a lot of the Google Apps for your Domain services). Adding a MySQL database, installing MovableType, and importing all of my blog entries was a piece of cake.
While I’ll miss the shell access I had with Dominet as well as their online file editor, I don’t think I’ll miss them for long. So far so good with GoDaddy.
What in the hell were they thinking? That logo is so bad that I’m certain it will be discarded and completely redesigned before the London games. If it doesn’t, it will have to be remembered as one of the worst logos ever created.
Why is it that each new driver’s license I get reveals a man ten pounds heavier than his younger self? I’ll grant you that I’m glad I no longer weigh the 135 I enjoyed in high school, but I’m hoping this trend will end now.
