Rolemaster at Hrach’s place
Posted by rae in friends
at 12:23 am on Saturday, 31 March 2007
I’m updating a
“chatter page”
while we play Rolemaster at Hrach’s place.
at 12:23 am on Saturday, 31 March 2007
Twitter Updates for 2007-03-27
Posted by in Reid
at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 27 March 2007
at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, 27 March 2007
- am waiting for my new 1920×1200 Dell LCD monitor #
- Have feature requests for Bear’s twit bot
# - Updating my MacPorts since v1.4 came out – but selfupdate didn’t do anything, so I guess I was already at v1.4? #
- checking out plazes.com #
- Installed “twitter tools” wordpress plugin. Blog post alerts ensue #
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Vacation posts and Twitter updates
I’ve posted two blog entries I wrote while aboard ship: A Day at Sea, and Mayan Ruins. They don’t have any pictures yet, though. I may add them later or maybe do a separate post about the pictures. I posted them with the date when I wrote them, which is why they didn’t appear at the top of the page. I have no idea how the RSS feeds will react to them! I have installed the “twitter-tools” WordPress plugin, which amongst other things posts once a day to my blog with all my twitters. Now you, too, can experience the ephemeral world of twitter by proxy. Or you can just visit my Twitter page ☺. Update:Oh, I’ve also installed a “Show unread comments” plugin. I think it uses a cookie to show you commetns you haven’t read yet in the side bar there. When you are reading a post there is a little blocky thingee to the right of each comment to show you its read/unread status. Hope it’s useful for people. Let me know! (Um, by leaving a comment, obviously!)
Talkshoe
talkshoe.com looks like an interesting alternative to Skype for online meetings/chats. If someone else could create an account and let me chat with them to try it out, I would appreciate it. Thoughts going out today to Peter and Laura and especially Jon.I’ve installed the “Audio Player” WordPress plugin
It’s quite snazzy! A couple of my recording play back at double-speed with squeeky chipmunk voices, but most are ok. Check out the podcast category for several posts with audio in them. My ReidNews podcast for Fri Jan 14 2005 is a good one to try out.Mayan Ruins
Posted by rae in family
at 11:00 pm on Wednesday, 14 March 2007
We went to see the Mayan ruins at Chacchoben.
Things were going well until Luisa sprained her ankle.
Thankfully, it turned out to be a mild sprain, from which she was fully recovered by the next day.
The port of Costa Maya is pretty much a complete tourist trap.
Even to the point of not being able to hire taxis to drive you away.
To get a taxi at Costa Maya, you must walk about a mile away from the port.
The taxis are not allowed to pick anyone up before that.
This proved to be an issue for us, since we wanted to but some “Presidente” brandy,
and nobody was selling any inside the port area.
I ended up walking out and getting a taxi to a nearby grocery store, which also sold liquor.
The taxi ride cost all of $1.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have that kind of brandy.
I waited for a few minutes and flagged down another taxi.
He thought he might know a place, which turned out to be only about 100 feet down the street.
This time I asked him to wait.
That’s the first time I’ve ever asked a taxi to wait for me.
Hah!
The second place had the brandy, so I bought both bottles of Presidente (all they had) and headed back.
By the time I got back, the rain was coming in.
Despite the rain, Ronnie and I managed to swim in the pool.
We couldn’t get into the ocean because the shorefront was sharp rocky shoals.
I tried to get into the ocean anyway, but it hurt my feet too much.
There were beaches to either side of the port, but they were walled off.
I think they made you pay to go to those if you wanted to.
at 11:00 pm on Wednesday, 14 March 2007
A Day at Sea
Posted by rae in family
at 11:00 pm on Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Luisa had an early breakfast and attended two shopping-in-Mexico orientation sessions.
I think only one of them was useful though.
The kids and I had breakfast, where we discovered chocolate milk!
Ronnie didn’t like it, alas.
Ronnie and I went in one of the four hottubs followed by a refreshing swim in the much cooler, asalt-water pool.
It was quite the sensation, as the ship was sailing with a pronounced rocking motion,
and so the pool was sloshing fore and aft while we were in it.
The pool was very obviously designed with this in mind, since it had an unusually large gap from the water surface to the deck.
All in all, it was just like being in a wave pool.
Quite fun!
Later, Luisa and I went to listen to Paul(?) Dunn playing guitar and singing Beatles songs.
He had stories for every song, and remarked on how the copyright for the songs was reverting to the original authors soon.
Luisa and I went to see the comedy act, but the people around us were pretty loud and it wasn’t very enjoyable for that reason.
at 11:00 pm on Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Conflict Notification is In
So today I landed bug 5308, which was the task “Sharing conflict notification UI”.
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Snow!
Posted by rae in family
at 10:55 pm on Thursday, 1 March 2007
at 10:55 pm on Thursday, 1 March 2007
Lots of snow today!
Gas prices since the refinery fire
A fire in a refinery (which one? where?) has apparently dried up all sources of gas for Toronto and we’re being rationed. Or at least, that’s what I hear. We haven’t seen any evidence of rationing. But then we don’t use our car very much. Glad it has a full tank. Here’s a chart for the last three months’ gas prices, courtesy of TorontoGasPrices.com.