Quiet

Posted on June 20, 2005 by ricbret

Could our neighborhood be settling back down again?  Looking more and more like the low-lifes have been carted off and maybe, just maybe, their mother is looking to fix the house and put it up for sale.  Sure, I’m reaching there, but a guys gotta dream.

For now it’s a beautiful morning, lovely birdsong from the babies learning to fly from the fence top to the tree branches.  A squirrel trying to find the right branch from which to jump from tree to roof, fresh brewed coffee and the newspaper.  Gazebo is a fine addition to the back yard, now we need to shop for new patio furniture too!

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Fathers Day

Posted on June 19, 2005 by ricbret

Not waxing poetic on the day.  Nice weather. Got the gazebo assembled after going back to the store for a copy of the missing instructions.  Heading over to Dad’s shortly. He fell down again last night… a couple of times apparently. Gonna take it easy today, save the work for this evening…

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Victory

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret

Just so you don’t think I’ve been spending all day trying to get this phone photo blog thing working, today I went out early and bought a gazebo, then had lunch, then went and test drove a Mustang GT, went to Frys and bought speakers, went to Mountain View Mini and kicked the tires on the S series Cooper, then came home.  Tonight was Etheopian food at SheBele in Campbell (http://socialwave.net/mp/org_info.php?pid=65&wp=1) then off to Barnes and Noble for some books.  Finally ended up at Paradox Playground, the new game store in the neighborhood ( http://www.paradoxplaygroundgames.com/ ) run by some women I knew a lifetime ago…

Then I came home and finally figured out how to get that damn picture of the toilet up via mail sent from my phone.  Secrets: @microsoft.com isn’t really @microsoft.com, it’s @exchange.microsoft.com, and Spaces want’s the exact address before it accepts a mail blog entry.  That and the HTTPMail add-in for the Audiovox SMT5600 ( http://www.smartphone.net/software_detail.asp?id=950 )   probably doesn’t really support attachments… gotta write that guy a letter.

Anyway, sent the toilet picture from phone to blog entry finally.  Why a toilet?  It was the first one in the list, an old picture I took for reference on a trip to Home Depot when I was going to buy parts.  Yeah, it’s deleted now…

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Toilet

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret
This will work but it is stupid.
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Another attempt from the phone

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret
This attempt through the MSN Hotmail web page, using the phone web browser. How delightfully geeky. This is all just trying to make sure I understand the limits of the connectivity involved. -RB

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Test from phone

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret
Short message of course.
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Fake picture blog from NY

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret

Picture that was taken in New York of a burning garbage bin.  You could see the smoke for blocks, and it was plastic stuff so you could smell it as far away or more.  Guy in front of the smoke was using a huge fire extinguisher to put it out.  Hmm. This must happen all the time.

Oh, this is fake because I didn’t send it live from NY, but it was a picture on my computer from my phone so I used it to try out posting with pictures.  Mystery no more.

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Now with a picture…

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret

Now with a picture… We’ll see how pictures work.  Here’s a nice one.  I particularly like this picture because is works on two levels.  Those who say “oh yeah! Me too!” and those who actually get it.

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Remote Blogging

Posted on June 18, 2005 by ricbret
OK, giving this a go to see how it… well, how it goes.

This is being sent remotely via e-mail. Which avoids all that awful logging
in and having to remember passwords and then clicking that darn difficult
edit button.

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Scientific Proof!

Posted on June 17, 2005 by ricbret

Blogging does not help a headache.  I’m still suffering from a massive frontal lobe burn.  Right behind the eyes.  Shouldn’t even be at the keyboard.  What kind of an addict am I?

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How many times…

Posted on June 17, 2005 by ricbret

How many blogs have you gone to where the first thing you read is an entry about how the blogger is trying out the software, giving it a spin and promising things will get better.

Well, this is that number plus one, except I make no promises.

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