Yesterday, Mike and Cheryl went with Cheryl's Mammaw to visit the grave of her husband, Eugene Doyle (Pappaw), who died this year. While there, Mike captured this photo of these two headstones that we noticed at Pappaw's funeral. They are very near his grave site and hard to miss.
When I began using Firefox 2.0 as my browser the other day, I needed to replace Flock's «My News» to keep track of the RSS feeds that I monitor. I chose to subscribe to Bloglines. It is «a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio. Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal web news page.» (That quote is from their help file.)
I know many people are fond of waxing nostalgic about the joys of curling up with a good book and how much better that is than trying to read something on a computer monitor. And to a degree I can appreciate that perspective. Because you can take the book to bed and read it there or on a train or plane while traveling and because there is a certain joy in the feel of just turning the pages, staring at a CRT or an LCD screen isn't nearly as convenient and that represents something of a hurdle that one must overcome to see any benefits to reading something online. But as I've done it more, I've now actually come to prefer curling up with a good CRT to read many things. Why? Well, that's what I want to talk about in this post for a moment.
On Monday, October 2, I left town to visit my family in Georgia for a couple of days, but the two-day visit I had planned originally turned into a four-day visit, and I didn't get back to Knoxville until Friday around noon. That's why there were no blog posts last week. I thought about announcing this visit in advance but I generally don't want to make it known that I am out of town for home security reasons.
The Pellissippi State Balloon Festival turned out to be little more than a bunch of hot air. Mother Nature did not cooperate; it drizzled rain most of the night. The advertised Balloon Glow did not occur. Only two of the balloons were inflated at all on the first evening of the event, and because they were tethered to the ground, they never got more than a couple of hundred feet off the ground at most. The nice lake beside which the event was scheduled was apparently the happy hunting ground for all the mosquitos in Knox county. All-in-all the event turned out to be disappointing. It was a nice idea that just didn't turn out as well as Mike and I had hoped it would.
Do you own a camera? Want a good photo op? This weekend might be just the ticket.
I've said many times, I would have loved to have had a laptop computer available to me when I attended college back in the dark ages (1959-1963). Back then my tools were a spiral-bound notebook and a Bic pen for class notes, a manual typewriter, erasable bond paper and White Out for term papers, and doing research in the card catalog and the stacks of musty-smelling books in the school's library. Don't get me wrong. A fellow can learn a lot, and even demonstrate it, using those tools, so my lament that I didn't have the laptop, access to the Internet and search engines to aid me really isn't a complaint about how hard I had it as it is my way of marveling at the changes that have taken place in the last 50 years.
Although there will be many tributes and commemorations of the events of 9/11 today, I wanted to use the occasion to get back to podcasting and to test a couple of new tools I've found. The first is a plugin for WordPress called podPress that makes it easier for me to add a podcast to my blog posts and the other is Hot Recorder, mentioned previously, that permits me to record Skype conversations.
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