free wi-fi Michigan hotspots wireless internet access list

Going to Aunt Pat and Uncle Ward's in less than two weeks. I'll be looking for free WiFi access, cause I'm not sure I can deal with dial-up, and I HAVE to be connected. Looks like there some sites just down the road from them!

Also found ConnectedCadillac. Woo hoo. Looking good! :)

free wi-fi Michigan hotspots wireless internet access list

Going to Aunt Pat and Uncle Ward's in less than two weeks. I'll be looking for free WiFi access, cause I'm not sure I can deal with dial-up, and I HAVE to be connected. Looks like there some sites just down the road from them!

Also found ConnectedCadillac. Woo hoo. Looking good! :)

free wi-fi Michigan hotspots wireless internet access list

Going to visit Aunt Pat and Uncle Ward in less than two weeks in MI. Here is a list of free WiFi sites in MI. Some just down the road from them. Woo hoo!

free wi-fi Michigan hotspots wireless internet access list

Woo hoo. Going out to visit Tina's Aunt Pat and Uncle Ward in less than two weeks. Taking my laptop (of course). Worried about high-speed access. (Don't know if I can deal with dial-up any longer). The above site lists free WiFi locations. There are a few in the town just down the road from them. I'm psyched. :)

Sushi and friends pics

Hey, I finally have uploaded some new pictures to my photo blog. We meet on most Sunday nights for food and cards. Spanky suggested we make sushi, so Sunday night I did. Uploaded the pics, thanks to Pastor Joe for taking/sending them! Mostly sushi, but also some people in the background and one of Jamie, Heather and Mac.

I posted a blog entry in the past that told how to post multiple photos at once. I tried it in posting the above and it worked great!

Ballmer: We need a $100 PC | CNET News.com

The Microsoft CEO bristled at the suggestion that Linux is gaining in popularity as a client operating system at the expense of Windows. "There's no appreciable amount of Linux on client systems anywhere in the world," he said.

Just saying it doesn't make it so...

Microsoft Reveals Licensing Plans for Dual-Core Chips

Wow, Microsoft actually does the right thing. Who would have thought?

Morning Thoughts

Thoughts as I sit working in the bedroom, Tina and the dog asleep in the bed next to me:

• Its cool to have WiFi and be able to work anywhere in the house. Even though they she is asleep, it is peaceful to be able to look over and she Tina asleep, her dog laying on the bed next to her.
• Its good to have to think for a living. I remember working manual labor jobs and getting so tired of it and wishing I could have a job that would use my brain. Though it can be stressful at times, it is very cool to get paid to think for a living. Sitting here this morning, writting up design thoughts on a wiki. "What do we need to achive this new functionality. What our our interfaces? How are they consistent with the old interfaces", that kind of stuff. Things I won't actually have to code, but things I'll think up, and then someone else will figure out how to make them work. Its cool.

I've said this many times before, but I'm pretty lucky having multiple "areas of focus" in my life: Family, Work, Church, etc. Usually only one is every having problems at the same time, thus I can always find something "good" to focus on. :)

Have a good day!

Jade

As noted in my previous post, had a few minutes. Did a quick scan of the youth blogs that I follow. Not much posts there lately. So... figured I'd be the first to blog about Jade. :)

Jade played at Murray Street Darts last Friday night. First paying gig. It was a bar, so none of their peers could show up, but there was plenty of us ''older folk'' that did. Parents, friends, etc. It was AWESOME. Sound wasn't great on Michael's vocal, and the bass wasn't loud enough, but it was just cool. Very cool to see them playing. They did a very good job. And they got asked back! Probably because we (those that came to see Jade) made up more than 50% of the crowd. :)

People that didn't know them seemed to like them. They did a few cover tunes and then I think 4 of their own. Anyway, cool stuff. Some very nice guitar work. And Jared is crazy on the drums, which I enjoyed. :)

I don't know at what age you go from "man, this is what I want" to "Hey, I'm so happy for them.", but it was so cool to sit and watch those guys. I felt really proud of them. It was very cool.

Also brought back memories. Been a long time since I've been in a smoke filled bar listening to LOUD music. It was all good.

They are playing again on the 22nd. I'll be there!

viksoe.dk - GMail Drive shell extension

Had a 5 minutes free at lunch, something quite rare lately, and so I decided to surf some blogs. Found this on ev's blog. Wow... what will people think of next. Storing your files as gmail messages. I'd be a bit worried about security (even though I'm not worried about my mail's security... hmm... that doesn't seem right...). But if you've got stuff you just want to store, and aren't too worried if someone else sees it... sounds like a cool idea.

My own web site

I just ordered my own web site... woo hoo. We'll see how it goes. It has a 30 day money back gurantee.

My biggest concern is it only has 50M of space, which seems very small to me (the pack-rat that I am) and it has lots of features I don't need (such as tons of email, sub-domains, etc.). But I figure I'll give it a shot. Mostly I want it to set up my own wiki! And I need some support for that, and they are supposed to have great support. So that is cool.

6 to 12 hours till I get it... I'll be playing with it first thing in the morning. Tina's off on a women's retreat... And I'll be home playing with my new web site. Yeah, I'm a geek. :)

The Seattle Times: Local News: After quakes, steam eruption at Mount St. Helens

"Mount St. Helens belched a roiling plume of white steam and ash today, more than a week after a flurry of earthquakes first warned an eruption was on the way"

AP Wire | 09/26/2004 | 'Wikis' Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online

Article on wikis. They are starting to become somewhat mainstream. Mentions a few public wikis, which should be easy enough to find with google. I think they are very cool.

Jarin Inspired Butternut Squash Soup

Made some soup last night. Turned out really well. :)

What’s So Extreme About Extreme Programming?

Although we don't follow the XP methodology, we use some of its practices and techniques.

Man arrested for going 140 mph over limit - (United Press International)Wow

Wow... 205 MPH on a motorcyle. Cool. :)

And another link.

Creature of Habit

Its amazing sometimes to me to realize what a creature of habit I am. I usually have about 15 to 20 windows open on my laptop at once. I'm on XP and using titles that cascade, i.e., all xterms take up one spot in the task bar, all Outlook windows take up one spot, etc. I usually open these in a particular order. This morning I did not, and it has been confusing me all morning. Sure... the icons look totally different, but if I want to bring up a mozilla window, I by habit start to click on the icon that is in the first few positions... but today it is at position 6. This has been throwing me off all morning.

So... yeah, the difference in icons is a visual clue, but one that obviously (for me) takes much more thought than just "knowing" what position the task is in.

The New York Times > Business > Executives Say MCI Is Looking for Buyers

MCI and its advisers are considering whether to try to sell the company whole, or to sell it in parts by splitting its more attractive business services

Well I'm not going to start worrying about it. Life would go on. Whether better or worse, it just depends on who bought us...

Two new recipes

As promised, I added two new recipes on my recipe blog: Fresh Tuna Cerviche and Grilled Pork Loin with Asian Peach Sauce. Served both of them last night, they were a big hit. Not that they are something you'd usually serve together, but we usually play cards on Sunday night and its just a mix of foods. I also made Brushetta... so yeah, quite the mix. Italian, Costa Rican and Asian. :)

And it was the first time I've used my hand-held blener. It was sooo cool! :) And as noted on the peach sauce recipe, the sauce could have easily been turned into a soup. I'm thinking that with my new found joy in using my hand blender, I might be making a number of soups this fall. Both cold and Hot. Peach, pumpkin, butternut squash (which they had a ton of at the Farmer's Market last weekend). Yum!

Virtual life influences real life

About a month or so ago I was talking about sushi on Pern. We started talking about ways of eating fish and so I made up a Tuna Cervichi recipie - made with fresh yellow fin. I've had cervichi before - canned tuna and also shrimp, but never with raw tuna. Well a few folks tried it and they all loved it. Since that was all in a virtual world, I figured I should really make my recipe, just to see if it tasted any good. :) Its "curing" right now.

Also Tif was talking to me about an idea for Pern where they would have a surplus of some food item and then make all kinds of dishes with it. "How many ways can you serve peaches." Just some ideas we were kicking around.

So today I bought some peaches at the farmers market.... What to do with them. Didn't want to do cobbler... and I'll probably be grilling some pork loin tomorrow... Hmm...! A Peach BBQ Sauce! Yeah!

So I cooked up the peaches with some leeks, garlic, ginger, five spice powder, cinnamon and nutmeg. Let it simmer for a while, then blended it up a "boat motor" (as Emril calls it). Made into a nice puree. Tasted it. YUM! Actually it would almost work well as a soup... I might have to try that - leave out the leeks and garlic, add in some cream.

All of a sudden Pern has me in a cooking mood.

I copied down what I put in all of this, so I'll post it on my recipe site... within the next week or so. (Maybe tonight, we'll see...)