Posted by admin on Apr 11, 2009 in
random This has been a very busy week for me, and really, I can’t complain! Today marks the accomplishment that I should have made when I was a teenager, and too chicken to try to pass the test. I always did horribly in school, mostly because I didn’t study well enough. Well, I planned to study all this week for the Amateur Radio Technician license, and what I ended up doing was studying last weekend, studying a little bit on Thursday, and cramming last night. But the good news is that I passed!!! So now I have to wait until the FCC database has my ID, and then I can transmit. I am so happy that I really did need to share. So, if you want to know how geeky I am, I am just that geeky 
I had the opportunity to take the General class license test while I was there, and even though I never opened the book for it, I took the test. Well, I did not pass that test. As a matter of fact, I failed that one with flying colors! But that’s okay, because I did not go with the intention of taking let alone passing that test. I can study for it, and take it at a later time. For now, I am excited that I passed the test that I intended to take, and that I will be able to converse on the frequencies which are used by SKYWARN and other weather related amateur frequencies.
Posted by admin on Feb 9, 2009 in
random So I am working on moving things around. I really don’t like blogger, and my work doesn’t like wordpress.com, so I had to move my blog into my own site. The drawback is that I don’t get the notice that I would otherwise get from the wordpress.com site. Sucks to be me, but whatever.
I have also just re-arranged my Mom’s domain, adding her web presence to a single location, that links them all together. Lets think of it as the one ring to rule them all. She sells new and used books online on ReaderWave.com. It’s not the end all of beautiful layouts, but it’s a start. My Mom tends to be very impatient with me so getting something up there was key. It can be made to look nicer later.
I’ve been surprised at how well our sites in general are doing. Linking them all up has been a boon, and Wendy’s writing about her adventures in iPhone programming hasn’t hurt. I will be bringing my programming blog here as well, and will probably just leave the other blogs there pointing at this one or something. Not sure yet, but those are the thoughts.
In general, that’s about it.
Tags: random, update
Posted by weatherangel on Jan 15, 2009 in
random Technology related, sorta. This will be moved to my other blog after work.
The original girl texting excessively story is here
And at this point I must say, when I was a teen in the mid to late 80′s I was chatting on multi-user BBSes before the kids in school knew what a modem, let alone a BBS was – they thought I was weird. This was one of the earliest forms of texting… The coolest part about it was that the kids I was talking to were all affluent, and I was not, but it put me on an even playing field with those kids that I would rather hang out with anyway. Because of my “chatting” habits, the kids at school thought I was “weird”. As it turns out, I was just ahead of my time. That practice helped me see what I could be in my future. Technology is a wonderful thing.
Tags: bbs, chatting, texting
Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2008 in
random I plan to use this blog to link to other blogs which are useful in my day to day work life. Where I work currently, we are still moving away from tables, and into proper XHTML structure. It really seems like it is something that should have happened with the revolution 3+ years ago, but at least this slow boat has been changing course.
To that end, there will be links to educational documents on CSS, Javascript, DOM, XHTML and more, most of which will be older in nature and geared at educating best practices to those who may not have kept up with the digital times.
Tags: begin, welcome, work
Posted by admin on Apr 14, 2008 in
random Originally I started this blog because I needed a wordpress key. Now I’m starting to think that I have things to say that could be helpful to others. I’ll add my two cents in here, and hope that they are worth at least that much. But for now, I’m installing Hurricane Season Info with the necessary tools to make the site great. Weatherangel.com needs and update because the content management system, while great, is not suited for what I’m doing. It is far to difficult to code for the new API, and the instructions for developers is still sadly lacking in the SEO department. So it’s time for something new. Hopefully I will be able to make something great soon.
Tags: news, websites
