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Hello Blueyonder

Hello to pc-80-192-14-241-az.blueyonder.co.uk. You seem to be the first person other than myself hitting the abulsme.com front page after following a link from the Ecosystem. Glad to have you! :-)

It looks like my friend Lynn also hit the front page of my site a little bit earlier, and was the first real human being other than myself to look at the redesigned front page of my site as far as I can tell. She emailed me. I’ll email her back in a bit. I’m behind on my email so it might take me a little bit. :-)

I’m behind on my email because I’m determined to clean my parakeets’ cage before sitting down to do email, and I’m procrastinating.

True Again?

What? The buying uranium thing that was from information in documents proved to be forged and widely discredited many months ago is now true again because it is supported by “other intelligence”? It sounds like grasping at straws to me. Plus, they can’t keep their story straight.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=6&u=/ap/bush_intelligence

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Sunday the president’s statement in the State of the Union address about Iraq (news – web sites)’s seeking uranium was accurate and is supported by other British and U.S. information.

I’m a bright?

I guess I am a bright. But I think this new name sucks, and is not a meme that will last. I’ll stick with agnostic I think. Opinion piece here by Daniel Dennett.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/opinion/12DENN.html

The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet. What is a bright? A bright is a person with a naturalist as opposed to a supernaturalist world view. We brights don’t believe in ghosts or elves or the Easter Bunny — or God. We disagree about many things, and hold a variety of views about morality, politics and the meaning of life, but we share a disbelief in black magic — and life after death.

(via Blogdex)

Insignificant Microbe

OK. I went ahead and added myself to the Blogosphere Ecosystem on The Truth Laid Bear. I don’t expect ever to evolve beyond the “Insignificant Microbe” category as I never have and probably never will really promote this site, I just do it for my own gratification. I’m pretty much the only one who ever looks at it. But hey, might as well get on some lists for a few more occational random hits. :-)

The pMachine software I’m using for this also automatically notifies weblogs.com whenever I make an update. And I’ve noticed that apperantly a few other automated blog trackers apperantly take their cues from weblogs.com to decide when to scan things. Which is cool I guess. At least more robotic spiders will see my site!

Oh, and to make sure I get on both the link list and the traffic list at the Ecosystem, I added the silly sitemeter thing too. You can click on the traffic meter at the very bottom of this page and see all by stats. At least for the parts of my site I’ve added the new footer to so far. Right now it validates that I am the only one looking at this. Which is OK. :-)

Hmmm. After setting up the webcam and then adding the counter and registering myself for the ecosystem. I think it is time to call it a day. Or night. Or whatever.

Trouble Brewing

The strains are apperantly building up in Kurdistan.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aPBWwTSw.6GE&refer=uk

Turkey warned the U.S. that its troops will fire back at U.S. soldiers if another attempt is made to arrest Turkish soldiers in Iraq, Milliyet daily reported, without saying how it obtained the information.

(via Unqualified Offerings)

Heart Tossing

Eww! This is a little bizzare. Although at the same time quite cool. This kid had to have a heart transplant. But after it was over, they let him PLAY WITH HIS OLD HEART!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030711/168/4nldj.html

(via Dave Barry)

Late to the Blogosphere

I’m late. I knew I was slow starting to do this. Should have done it a long time ago. But at least I beat the BIG crowd!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46143-2003Jul11.html

The “blogosphere” may never be the same after America Online releases free blog-publishing software to its 34 million members this summer.

(via Google News)

AbulCam

Oh yeah, the AbulCam is back! I have it set so I can easily swap it between Ares (the server for abulsme.com) and Zeus (my Powerbook). It is updating the website with pictures every minute when it is hooked to Zeus, more often (for now) when it is hooked to Ares (since it is a local file save instead of an ftp). Woo! Of course, this means I have to start making sure I’m decent when the camera is on again. Oh well. I should be able to do that. :-)

http://www.abulsme.com/abulcam.html

(I did eliminate the “Eating” section of the site since I’ve been doing really badly at going through those 100 restaurants closest to my place, plus I’m moving in a month anyway.)

Oh, and if anybody else has iChatAV and a video camera, Video Chat me at “Abulsme” on iChatAV. I want to try that. :-)

iSight

Of course I got it. Was there ever any doubt? Have the box in front of me right now. I probably won’t have anybody to video chat with on iChatAV, but I’ll try to set up the AbulCam again. It has been more than a year I think since the AbulCam was last in operation. I just couldn’t keep the old 6100 up as a webcam server any more. But now, this here should work. :-)

Houses and Cameras

In just a couple seconds I’m leaving to go meet Brandy (my agent) to sign some more papers and turn in some more financial documentation as part of me buying a house. Less than a month until closing. Gulp!

Of course, once I’m at her office, I realized I’ll be close to an Apple Store. Well, maybe not right next door, but not too far away. And I am getting a hankering for that iSight. Now, I’m buying a house right now. And I’m going to have to get stuff for the house. And I’m doing the next random trip shortly. I really should not be spending money. But it isn’t THAT much, right? Right? Pooh. We’ll see if I am able to resist or not. I really should wait a few months. We’ll see.