Are my eyes really blue?

…mainly for the sake of getting familiar with the client. There’s more below the fold (is that what they say? Really?)

Continue reading “Testing some more…”

…this time of Ecto, the all-everything Mac blogging tool. If it works out for me, I will certainly be using this in future. Now I just have to figure out why the split pane…

Another 12 hour day at the office. For some reason, as soon as there’s a crisis that is somebody else’s problem, I’m a rock star. It’s only my own problems that I can’t seem to sort out. =)
This is also a test of MarsEdit, an aging but still game blog client for Mac OS X. If this works out, I may start using it (in conjunction with NetNewsWire) to handle all my RSS and blogging needs, and can finally start reading feeds the way God intended instead of loading up three or four browser windows with a dozen tabs apiece every time I want to see what’s up in the world.

Vandy beats Ole Miss for 5 in a row, 4 of them against top-25 teams. My fear now is that those teams won’t be top-25 by committee time and Vandy will just miss the tournament because they disarmed a bunch of teams that were otherwise thought good. I don’t think I can stand another trip to the NIT. It’ll be three years this spring since the Sweet 16 run…
Morton drew this weekend, but is still sitting ten points clear at the top of the table. I hope it’s not too early to start thinking about promotion to 1st Division…
I have a birthday coming up, don’t I? All I want for present this year is for the MMS and IM on my phone to start working again without having to pay for it. And maybe a trip to the newly-found pub up the peninsula…

We never beat Kentucky in Rupp Arena…until last year. And now we’ve done it two years in a row.
(25) KENTUCKY 67
VANDERBILT 72
FINAL
Three top-25 teams in three games, beaten by the Commodores. Is it possible that Kevin Stallings is finally finding the range?

(10) ALABAMA 73
VANDY 94
What the phone booth is to Clark Kent, Memorial Gym is to the Vanderbilt Commodores.

“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law….”

This has actually been a pretty quiet week. Most of the craziness at work was offloaded onto December for the express purpose of giving us a glide path to the finish line. With Roo in Vegas for the week, I thought I would be well-set to spend 12 hour days at my desk, heroically delivering last-minute fixes and deftly maneuvering hundreds of pieces of notional gear…instead, it’s been a steady diet of in by 8:30 and out by 5:30, and a short week at that. I’m not complaining, but I’m sure that within a couple of months I’ll wish I could have banked some of this slow time.
Did I mention Roo is in Vegas? My non-smoking, non-drinking, non-dice-shooting, non-helling-around bride is in Vegas, in the Venetian, on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show, room paid for – and I’m not? This is tantamount to me getting a 3-day spa pass. I don’t even have the confidence to have her put some money down on next years’ Redskins for me.
In a new development, I have found a way to slow-pedal the wakeup process in the morning. I set up the laptop by the bed and use the alarm clock function of Panic’s classic Audion MP3 player to pick up the Virgin Radio stream at 6 AM, just in time for the new Afternoon Tea show with Suggs. Nice glide path to wakefulness, without the mind-searing inanity of the Today Show. The downside is now I have to bring the laptop upstairs every night…

* My stock is wobbly and slipping. BOO!
* Met my niece, a wee slip of a thing in a baby burrito blanket. She is adorable. YAY!
* The Tide game is not on Sirius. BOO!
* I had the BEST STEAK OF MY LIFE last night in Pismo Beach. YAY!
* Motel 6 bed = solid asphalt. BOO!
* Heated seat VW Rabbit = eases back pain. YAY!

..as in, the very first, as in she is one day old today.
Zoe Catherine Hahn Smith was born just after noon on the 12th, earlier than expected but just in time for Christmas. At last check, baby and mommy are breathing normally without help; hopefully daddy is too by now. =)
My first niece. This is a new development after 7 years of nephews…