Week In Review for 16 October 2006

Fresh from being sick with some sort of vague chest/sinus crap, I spent last week with a kinky neck/shoulder thing going on. I blame the dog.

I finally found CR2032 batteries, although they worked the computer I was trying to restore still would not boot.

Three pictures I took all ended up being used on two blogs and one restaurant on the same day. Even though I screwed up the location of one of the pictures. Twice.

del.icio.us is merrily posting away what bookmarks I save every day. This is easier than trying to post a linkblog. One suggestion if you do this, with whatever blog software you use: set up a separate account, since the password gets stored on their server(s). del.icio.us' account is 8f8a46a1213d696e4b8cf4fe26fbf431, which is an md5 hash of something I've already forgotten. This should be the only place that userid is exposed unless I've made a mistake in the MovableType templates (I'm sure I have).

North Korea, a country which we are still (technically) at war with, detonated a emasculatingly small nuclear weapon. The administration's response was to take the matter before the U.N., arguing that diplomacy and sanctions should be allowed to work their course.

This week I am really desperately trying to get some core work done on the project formerly-known-as dripldu, our vertical search engine for health care, and an e-commerce site. These goals for the week were set back slightly when Frisket decided to throw up on me. At 2:35 a.m. EDT this morning. On the bed.

The good news, if it can be termed that, is that Frisket is so self-conscious about making any sort of a mess in the bedroom (since it's her bedroom, and her bed) refused to sleep in the bedroom and instead slept in the front room. Since she is apparently scared of the dark, she whined until I stayed in the room with her and fell asleep (eventually) on the couch.

Also this week, lunch with Pete Fiorese of Alectus Technology Group. Alectus Technology Group specializes in information technology consulting for medical practices in the Mid-Hudson Valley Region of New York State (Dutchess, Ulster, Orange Counties). Pete is also a friend and put up with my antics at the Sydney Olympic Games.

I also have a redesign pending for my business site. Given that I'm prohibited by law from practicing design in multiple jurisdictions, I have tried to violate fewer design principles with this redesign. The new design will launch first on 202: Accepted (a blog) and then creak its way across the 10s of pages that compose the site. Actually it is just 10 pages.

This weekend I am heading to Austin, TX to pick on my brother in person, hang out with Turbo Todd Watson. At the end of the week I'm going to return to Pittsburgh, PA for the 25^th anniversary of the MAPW program at Carnegie Mellon.

That is, unless Frisket comes up with a new devious plan to prevent me from leaving on the trip.

I started off meaning to blog this then promptly forgot: absurd little fact I learned today while reading something on Wikipedia: On September 3, 1967 H Day, all of Sweden changed from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right side of the road, at 5:00 a.m. local time. They even came up with a funky graphic: .