While I was camping last week, I took a day trip across the Mississippi River to Great River Bluffs State Park in Minnesota.
The above view of Queen’s Buff is your reward after about a mile hike through the woods. My jaw just dropped as I emerged from the forest and saw the spectacular scene.
I got a kick out of this. Yes, you can show affection and still be secure in your masculinity.
Several months ago I started linking to sample MP3 files, when I write about music I’m listening to. Since then I’ve been looking for a simple way to add a Flash player to stream those files right from the page. Today I found a post by someone who discovered the Google player used in Gmail can be used on any website.
Update, July 13: It seems Google has changed the parameters of the player and it no longer works properly. The good news is I have found a decent player which I can install on this site.
Not long ago in a galaxy not far enough away…
From the Robot Chicken Star Wars Special, which was the funniest thing I’ve seen on TV in a long time. Watch all the videos from the special at Robot Chicken Star Wars.
Be sure and see Jedi Butter Fingers and Not Fully Operational.
A day off for me, and a last minute idea sent Dad and I to Miller Park yesterday afternoon, where the Brewers beat the San Francisco Giants, 7 to 5. It was a fun game. Some of the highlights included:
I just upgraded to version 2.2 of WordPress (actually 2.2.1), and there are a few display problems going on with some of the pages. Hopefully I’ll have it fixed soon.
Update: Problem solved. For those of you interested in the geeky details…
The new version of WordPress didn’t like the spacing in between the object elements I’m using to insert Flash files. I had carriage returns after the opening object tag, and the param tags. For some reason, WordPress inserts paragraph tags after those single carriage returns. That in turn would take those elements out of their containing DIVs, and mess up the layout. Once I eliminated those carriage returns, things were fine.
Last night I went with some of my family to watch Rhythm & Booms from the other side of Lake Mendota (along Observatory Drive). The fireworks display was pretty good, and it was fun being outside on a beautiful evening. While listening to the radio before the show (the display is choreographed with music over the radio), we heard the announcer say it was the “largest annual event in Wisconsin.” I beg to differ.
It was another gorgeous summer day today, so I returned to Mendota, and went for a long bike ride along the lake. One of my favorite places to ride in Madison is where the bike path runs along the lake shore in the middle of the U.W. campus.
I ended up biking for most of the afternoon. I stuck to the shore as best I could, riding through where the rich people live, and made it up to the northern side of the city.
After I got home, I decided it had to be one of the best rides I’ve done this year.
This is a composite of three pictures I took of the Fourth of July fireworks. Taken from my front porch.
As an aside… I recently discovered my website settings were preventing web-based RSS readers from displaying the photographs I post. Now fixed.
Like many other workers of the web, I’ve been using Firefox’s web developer toolbar for a long time.
Smiley Cat Web Design posts 10 Things You May Not Know About the Web Developer Toolbar. What a great list. Among the features I didn’t know:
Found via 9rules Design Community.
Ryan Adams new disc, Easy Tiger, has been out for a few weeks now, and it’s been in heavy rotation for me. Prior to this CD, Ryan Adams was releasing music at a very quick pace (three hit and miss albums in about a seven month period). Adams and his band, the Cardinals, took their time with Easy Tiger (it’s been a year and a half since the last release), and the result is the most solid Ryan Adams disc since 2001’s Gold.
The albums starts off with “Goodnight Rose,” a rocking promise of the good music to come.
