fredoland

fredoland contains link to the Flock download and is the author's (or main contributor, etc.) blog.

Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

Talks about Flock. Looks interesting.

Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft; Moves to Open-Source Foundation

Ward Cunningham, one of Microsoft's high-profile hires, is leaving the Redmond software company to join the open-source tool group, The Eclipse Foundation

The end of VCRs

Read the following on an email from TiVo.

Many manufacturers have halted production on VCRs forever! 2006 will be the last year for VHS movie releases.

Wow. I haden't even heard that. Not that it effects me much. We rarely use videotape or the VCR any more. We always rent DVDs and have quite a few - although we do still have some tapes so will keep our VCR. Also, I'm a big TiVo user, so now that we are into the normal fall season on TV, we don't even watch movies all that often.

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Arkansas Woman Gives Birth to 16th Child

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Arkansas Woman Gives Birth to 16th Child: "Michelle Duggar (search) just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again."

Internet crime shifts to Russia - Yahoo! News

Internet crime shifts to Russia - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trafficking in stolen credit cards has largely shifted to Russian-language Web sites after an international crackdown sparked disarray among English-speaking scam artists, a U.S.
Secret Service official said on Wednesday."

More of the kind of stuff I deal with.

To Bike or Not To Bike

Been up for a few hours, reading email - I always have a ton of unread, and reading some blogs - waiting for the sun to come up. (BTW: My kid writes a great blog - I so enjoy reading it. What a young woman she is turning out to be!)

Anyway - the temp is dropping, but the cloud cover is disappating, and I think the wind is reducing. So colder, but less wind. Hmm...

Guess I'll jump in the shower, grab a lite breakfast and then head down to the bike rental place, getting a feel for the weather on the way. After all - it is my last day on the Island. I can always get warm on another day. It can't be as bad as standing on the side of the interstate in Montana all day flagging traffice and having your boss yell at you for getting in the truck to try and get warm because its like 0 degrees outside, you can see a car coming from a mile away and one passes by only every 10 minutes or so - so really, what does it hurt to sit in the truck watching in the rear view mirror when ITS ONLY 0 DEGREES OUTSIDE.

Hmm... that was a random thought. :)

CNN.com - Python vs. alligator in swamp - Oct 5, 2005

CNN.com - Python vs. alligator in swamp - Oct 5, 2005: "A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said."

Mac Day 2 - yup, we are sooo on vacation

The plan - get up, eat breakfast, do the tour, check out the fort, go for a horse ride, then eat lunch and maybe go for a bike ride.

Actual - get up, lazy around, eat some breakfast, go for the tour, hang out at the fort awhile. Stop back at the room, go eat lunch (Patrick Sinclairs again! Rebuens, chowder, and Bass Ale - Tif - you were right. I did like it!). Bike ride? A little cold out, but sure, maybe. Walk two blocks to the bikes... nah, back to the room. Take a 2 hour nap. Get up at 4:45 - too late to do anything (bikes, horses, etc close at 5:00). Ok, hit a few shops, buy a Mac Island running jacket - I needed a new jacket, it was nice, and 20% off. Plus its from MI and the Island, so that is cool.

Go to the Villiage Inn (no - not the chain). Get Whitefish on a Maple Plank. Their speciality. Yum - very cool! First time I've had fish on a plank, although I've seen it popping up a lot lately on the cooking channel. Was very good, and would be so easy to do. I may try it at some point.

Have a few after dinner drinks, chat with some folks, then back to the room.

*Maybe* I'll get up early tomorrow before we head back and go for a ride, while Tina sleeps in. We have to check out at 11:00 - so we'll see. We are so on vacation and just having a lazy fun time. But if I came here much, I think I'd bring my own bike and explore. The Island is very big, has tons of trails, and would be so fun. But it was kind of cold and windy today - fine on the tour, but I'll have to see how it is in the morning before deciding if I want to go for an hour ride... I'm thinking yes right now - but we'll see.

Then back "home". We were thinking of going up to Canada or maybe across the UP for a bit... but we figure we'll get around, get some lunch, buy some fudge and then just head back. Lazy time for us. :)

WorshipJunky Photos - Mac Day 2

WorshipJunky Photos from day 2 on the Island. Mostly from out tour and pictures from the fort. This is where the War of 1812 started! Learned something new today - I didn't know that.

Looks like a good day

Cool and partially cloudy. 40% chance of rain, but by 11AM less chance of rain and only about 58% cloud cover. High around 60. We'll probably take a tour of the island this morning and then maybe once it looks a bit nicer go horseback riding or something.

Well... breakfast is done and time to get around - so I'll "see" the you later. Check my photo blog for more pictures later this afternoon or evening!

Weather Underground: Current Gaylord Nexrad Radar Mapbbbbb

Hmmm... early this morning I could just see the system that is to the island. But now I can see one that is heading across the top of the lower pennisula and looks like it is heading right for the island. But doesn't look too bad. Hopefully we won't get much rain. Still dark here. How weird. I'm use to it being light by this time of the day.

BTW: Not sure if the link above will show "current" or this point in time. Very cool though to click on "6" frames and Speed "fast" and watch the system move. Again - the internet is a cool thing.

Fudge on the Island

So the island is known for its fudge. Fudge shops on the Island are more plentiful than pizza shows in Marlboro MA. There is one every 3 or 4 stores. In fact, in a 1/2 mile strip (or shorter) one of the local fudge shops has 3 stores!

So we are walking down the street and this guy walks up to an Information Booth. Little booth with all kinds of pamphlets on things/sites to do/see on the island, and there a few ladies inside of it to help with guestions.

Guy: "Hey, is this an information booth?"
Lady: "Yes, how can I help you?"
Guy: "Could you possibly tell me where I might be able to buy some fudge?" innocent look on his face

And then he starts cracking up... Well it made Tina and I laugh. :)

Early morning comments

Yeah - I love WiFi. Sitting in my bed & breakfast room on the island, listing to the horses wake up, and doing some work, surfing, catching up on email, blogging. Its still dark out, but the island is starting to come to life, and I'm sitting here connected, because there is a wifi router 10 feet from me. Its a cool thing. Gotta love technology. :)

On a side note - stupid blogger comment spam. Yeah... like I'm going to follow a link on a "your blog is so cool - come look at mine" type comment. Sigh. I'm off to cleanup comment spam... well in a bit.

Internet Archive: Petabox

Just in case you need to store a petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of data. :)h

WorshipJunky Photos

Pictures from Mackinaw Island, MI. This is the final picture from day 1. Its at sunset looking towards the bridge. If you follow the "home" link, you'll be able to browse all 25 of them.

SPACE.com -- Scientists Discover 10th Planet's Moon

"Brown labeled the object a planet and nicknamed it Xena after the lead character in the former TV series ``Xena: Warrior Princess.'' The moon was nicknamed Gabrielle, after Xena's faithful traveling sidekick."

Geeks and SciFi movies. :)

Serenity

Went and saw Serenity on Saturday. I enjoyed it. It was partially fun because the 3 people sitting next to me were hugh fans.

P1: How are you doing?
P2: Awesome, I'm seeing Serenity in 15 minutes

and comments like, "Oh my gosh, Joss Whedon is such a genius".

The movie was good. A must see for any Firefly fan, and should be enjoyable for any SciFi fan who hasn't seen Firefly as well. There were a few unexpected twists. Don't want to say too much more, as it might be a spoiler.

Bicycle sales boom in US amid rising gas prices - Yahoo! News

"More bicycles than cars have been sold in the United States over the past 12 months, with rising gas prices prompting commuters to opt for two wheels instead of four."

The Future Is Worth Fighting For

"There's no power in the 'verse that can stop me.", River - on last night's episode of Firefly.

Going to see Serentiy today. Can't wait. Should be very cool. :)