Archives: 'April, 2007'

15
April
2007

Beach Golf

On Saturday, I participated in the 2007 Open Golf Playa in Laredo. Yes, we really played golf in the sand.

14
April
2007

Frame Breaking

I’ve just acquired the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. I’ve been wanting to try some frame breaking lately. So here are a few attempts…

13
April
2007

1980 Was A Good Year

After posting some childhood pictures of Marga a few weeks ago, it seems only fair to do the same for me. My mother dusted off some old albums and sent me these two pictures.

12
April
2007

Tennis Qi

I was at the gym the other day when they were having a children’s taekwondo class. As I was listening to the shouts from the little sparring five-year-olds, my mind started to wander.

11
April
2007

WTF is a Gibibyte?

I’ve just started noticing websites (maybe it’s just Wikipedia?) referring to computer storage capacity in GiB and MiB. For example, a DVD holds 4.7 GiB of data. Today, I finally got around to investigating what those abbreviations mean. They’re gibibytes and mebibytes, of course!

10
April
2007

We Feel Fine

It may be narcissistic of me, but a few times a day, I check the recent referrers for my blog to see who is linking to me and what they searched for to find me. Sometimes I find really interesting websites. Yesterday, I found a truly mind-blowing website. It might be the [...]

9
April
2007

Crumbling Sand Art

I didn’t really feel like going for a walk in Laredo on Sunday afternoon. But it was 16°C and sunny and Marga really wanted to. So I slipped my camera in my pocket and we headed out the door.

8
April
2007

Wordpress Countdown Widget

Several people have found my blog lately searching for a countdown widget for Wordpress. I briefly considered writing one with a nice back-end interface for entering the date, etc., but in the end, I think it’s going to take less time and be more flexible if I just explain how I have mine done.

7
April
2007

Social Bookmarking and Viral Internet Memes

With 1337 hits at the time of this writing1, my most popular post for the month of March was one that I made on December 5, 2006, with almost all of the content being pasted from my clipboard.

6
April
2007

Junior World Handball Championship

Some of you might recall a rather intriguing comment I received a few weeks ago from a man named Örn in Iceland. He was inquiring about places to stay in and around Colindres. The reason for his visit was to support the Iceland team in the Junior World Handball Championship qualifier this weekend.

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