This is the website of Abulsme Noibatno Itramne (also known as Sam Minter).
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At long last… way too long after it ended, sorry for the delay… the full website for the random trip to a spot near Mackay, Idaho is up and complete. In addition to myself, Marilyn and Chad also came on this random trip, and added their commentary to the website.
Those of you following my blog have probably looked at each of these pages as I have posted them, but for those who have not, check them all out:
Select – The random spot is chosen
Day 0 – Sam packs, leaves home, and meets Marilyn in Minnesota
Day 1 – We meet Chad in Boise, then drive back roads to Ketchum
Day 2 – First attempt for the random spot
Day 3 – Great views and Sam flips his bicycle
Day 4 – Concert, gym and broken camera
Day 5 – Sam gets mad and climbs a mountain
Day 6 – Mackay, river rafting, and Chad gets pulled over by the cops
Day 7 – Getting to the random spot… twice
Day 8 – Goodbye to Chad, Mall of America, Goodbye to Marilyn
Day 9 – Sam gets home, goes back to work, and moves boxes
And that’s it! This was one of the best random vacations so far. We had a blast!
(Check out the earlier vacations.)
I’ll be picking the next random spot sometime in the next few days. Watch for it!
My company, which will remain nameless here on my website, recently announced a change in policy. Got the annoucement last week. It made the news in various places later. I waited to comment here until after it took effect.
Effective 8 August, the ability to log on through the [company] network to e-mail accounts at third-party Internet service providers (ISPs) will be disabled. Employees, therefore, will not be able to log on to their third-party Internet accounts through the [company] network to send or receive e-mail. This policy also includes a ban on the use of Internet-based chat rooms, forums and bulletin boards from the [company] network.
What a crock and step backwards. They claim regulatory and virus security reasons, but both things could be handled without doing this sort of thing if they wanted to.
Of course, they haven’t actually blocked MY mail, they haven’t noticed the nice little server in Chris’s basement I use for this stuff yet I guess. But I am thinking I better respect the policy anyway. They did block one of the internet forums I check regularly though. Grrr! Oh well, I shall live.
I’m thinking of more regularly taking my personal laptop into work and using the cellular connection to get to the net for that sort of stuff if I need it while at work, that way bypassing the corporate network entirely.
So, I went to the Americana, had some pasta spinich thing. It was really good. The waitress was really cute. All was good. But when I left I was completely stuffed. And when I got home, my apartment was above 80 again. (I put in the work request almost 3 weeks ago, they still haven’t fixed the AC.)
It was hot. I was stuffed. I fell asleep within minutes. Just woke up again now, several hours later. The poor birds still haven’t had their cage cleaned. I guess I really should do that right now. But it is so HOT! I don’t feel like moving!
The temperature outside dropped to less than the temp inside while I was asleep. So I just opened the windows and such. So it should get better soon. It is a good thing I am moving I guess.
But I should clean the birdcage. And feed them.
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)
OK. I’ve been playing with the new blog thing and adjusting webpages to work with it for over 8 hours now. I have the first “layer” from the home page converted. Lower than that may just have to get done sporadically as I happen to update those pages rather than all at once. Maybe later today I’ll try some actual links to real news stories or blog stories or something. Or not. We’ll see. For now, a little more TV, then sleep. Night all. Hmmm… I wonder if I don’t actually announce the change to the site how long it will be before anybody notices and comments. I bet it will be awhile. I told two (2) people I was working on this blogging thing tonight. Haven’t mentioned to anybody else. Lets call it an experiment.
Of course all this adjusting my website makes me want to hurry up and get an iSight and get a webcam working again.
Oh, and I do have to figure out how to get an automated backup of this blog thing going. I’ll think about that later. Sleep is first.
Hey, I showed a few people, but hadn’t yet linked to it from the site, so here it is. If all goes well, I am in the process of buying a townhouse/condo in Yardley, PA. At the home inspection my sister took a few pictures. You can see them here.
Well, I went ahead and made the new Blog the homepage of abulsme.com. A bunch of things are still rough and need to be adjusted to really work right. But I’ve got some time this weekend. I’ll fix as much as I can, then anything that is left slowly fix over time. My priority will be things linked directly from the front page. The deeper things are, the longer until I clean them up and make them match the new front page.
Also have to put some things in place to start backing up this new stuff since it is all database driven instead of file based. Can’t be losing anything for posterity!
I’m starting to get a hang of this thing and am customizing a few things. We’ll see how this goes. I may make it my home page soon.
Testing grabbing something from a site.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/sprj.irq.wmdspeech/index.html
A line in President Bush’s State of the Union address alleging that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa should never been included in the speech, CIA Director George Tenet said Friday.
So I tried to set up Movable Type first a few weeks ago, but ran into some issues. So today I tried pMachine, which I’d actually downloaded first. A couple of issues with mysql at first, but all up and running and happy now. Don’t know what I will do with it yet, but it should be fun to play with.
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