I once was a blue haired freak

The new iPod Touch looks like a good upgrade to my 60GB 5th Gen iPod. I’ve been waiting for a multi-touch interface iPod to come out since the iPhone was announced (well, technically since before that.) AND it comes with WiFi and mobile Safari and and and…

I’ve got just over 40GB of songs and videos on my current iPod, And I still have a bunch of CD’s that I’ve yet to get around to importing. A copy of entire iTunes library (and then some) is stored there. If I were to get even a 16GB iPod touch, I’d have to start managing what I have synched, and thats even before I start buying things with the WiFi iTunes Music store.

Maybe I’m lazy, but I think I’ll just wait for a higher capacity iPod touch. That being said, if one of these were to make their way into my life as a birthday and/or Christmas present, I’d happily make room for it.

I wanted to make French Onion Soup the other day. The recipe below is the one I used. The only modification I made was to use wheat bread and a blend of Gruyere and Provalone for the topping.

In my opinion, this recipe is way better than your standard restaurant fare. It makes enough to have leftovers for a couple of days. I think next time, I’m going to make a vegitarian adaptation.

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Well, it looks like (my part of) the DNS issues DreamHost is having have been (partially) resolved.

I wonder if it had anything to do with me going into the web panel and adding a new sub-domain. Probably not.

In other news it looks like their off-network status page is still being DDOSed

I’m playing with www.tumblr.com right now. I want to see if I can use it as kind of a “personal aggregator” since it supports the import of various feeds.

I was having trouble with the feed for this site. I’m going to try importing it again and see what happens.

As of this morning I’m 2/5 of the way to the goal I’ve set for myself. It’s ambitious, but I can do it!

It doesn’t LOOK like the latest upgrade broke anything…

June 11th was when I first noticed something missing, and I started collecting data to keep track of what I’ve lost. (”Keep track of what I’d lost,” if it’s lost how does one keep track?)

As of this morning I’ve lost about 20 of these things altogether. Some days, I find one or two have turned up, but then I just go and lose them again. When all is said and done, I expect 74 of these things to stay lost forever. So far, its going well.

XKCD is a great web comic. I’ve been sent links to individual comics by friends in the past, and I started reading it regularly a couple of months ago. My only regret is that I didn’t start following it sooner. Hooray for archives!

I woke up earlier than normal today, and decided to to head into work, even though I didn’t really want to. I figured the sooner I got in the sooner I could go home.

So far it’s been what I expected, not terribly busy - but enough to keep me (mostly) occupied. Fixed some errors, worked on some documentation, logged in to remote machines to monitor current processing jobs, did a bit of training. Ho-hum.

Paul and I went and had lunch, and drove around looking for a place to buy him a new office chair, we paced a furniture store in the area that looks promising, so he’ll head over there after work. Then we came back to the office. Turns out there was some luau or something at the office that we were kinda sorta invited to, (I love being in the red-headed-step-child department) so we missed out on free food. oh well.

My step-dad is hanging out with Justin today because our day-care is closed for a family camping trip. He called a few minutes ago to let me know how things were going. (And to ask for the code to unlock the TiVo so he could watch something besides Blue’s Clues or Dora.)

That’s it so far. I imagine the rest of my day will be go home, make dinner, do some housework, put the kid to bed, read for a while, maybe play some WoW, then go to bed.

Pretty exciting stuff, no?

Not that anyone cares, but I’m about to upgrade my WP install. I wonder what I’m going to break in the process.

update:
That wasn’t too bad. Just had to get the “Disable WordPress Widgets” plug-in for K2.