What a vacation.
Looking forward to being home. Not looking forward to the weather.
We did a 2 hour dolphin tour that took us around the bay and out into the gulf for a bit. For the first half they dragged a net and brought up some of the sea life.
Note: Not coming home, friends and family. Please box and ship Clancy and Buddy to South Padre… kthxbai.
It’s hard to believe that 2008 is almost over. What a year it has been on all kinds of levels. From Sarah’s tonsillectomy to earth quakes to Springfield Bloggers getting together for a baseball game to Lebowski Fest.
It’s also hard to believe that Sarah and I have been married for a year already, but hey, we’re finally taking our honey moon.
Here are a few favorites from this past year:
(after the break)
Hey ya’ll (TX accent) we’re on our honey moon in South Padre hence the lack of updates. Just got back from a dolphin tour and driving down the beach to see the mouth of the Rio Grande.
It was a beautiful 70 degrees today and we even got a little color. More updates and pictures to follow. Headed off to dinner.
Keep warm.
Buddy is starting to show his age. Still likes to terrorize Mrs. Shoo by getting into the bathroom garbage, but he’s maturing.
I’ve been slowly working on new ideas for Spfldbloggers.com. The newest feature that I just released is a way to view stats for the number of posts coming from a site, and the number hits that site receives from Spfldbloggers.com via the site itself, RSS feed, or tweets on Twitter.
I still need to tweak the graph image, but I thought it was cool enough to go ahead and release.
To get to this view, just click the site name under the post title from the main site.
It may look a little confusing now, but the left axis represents the number of posts and the right axis represents the number of hits the site received for a particular day.
Springfield from gotshoo on Vimeo.
This is a photo montage back from a photowalk I did in Washington Park.
Stole this idea from Marie.
6th photo on the 6th page on Flickr. This photo is back from summer when Sarah and I went down to the St. Louis Zoo for a day.
You’d think a program named Perfect Defender 2009 would be just… well… perfect. Not the case for my wife’s cousin’s PC. He must have been in the back alleys of the internetz because it was a doozy to remove.
First it installed Perfect Defender, then it mutated itself into toolbars on his browsers, then would redirect you to a bogus anti virus site any time you searched Google for ‘anti-virus’, and finally wouldn’t let you run anti-virus software or Spybot Search & Destory.
It was nasty.
I almost gave in. I wanted to call the guy up and say, ‘hey… let’s just do a reinstall.’
But then I would have had to hand in my geek credentials.
In the end, here are the tools I used to clean his PC.
- SDFix - I was able to scan and delete trojans and other malware that was preventing me from running Spybot and stop the browser from being redirected to other spam sites.
- Spybot Search & Destroy - It does what it says… searches and destroys.
- AVG - Free Anti-virus. He ended up not having any viruses but this is always a good safety precaution.
I might as well come out and say it, intertubes I’m addicted. To Twitter that is. 140 characters of pure luv.
For those who are not in the ‘know’ let me fill you in about Twitter, tweets, followers and retweets. Think of Twitter like text messaging, except on a larger scale. Every text, aka tweet, is sent out to your Followers. These are people that find you interesting for one reason or another. You tweet can be as simple as a status message, “Off to the grocery store” or a cry for help, “Anyone know a good mechanic?”
Twitter is informal enough system that you can just follow someone. Your online relationship doesn’t have to be mutual like that of buddy lists for IM or Facebook. So a whole conversation can happen one sided.
Perfect example. I’ve been following Lance Armstrong. Yes, the real Lance. Right now I can tell you a whole slew of info: he’s in Austin training for the Tour de France, he’s addicted to his crackberry, and was just tested for the 10th time for performance enhancing drugs.
http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong
When replying to someone on Twitter you specify their name by first putting an ‘@’ in front of their name. If someone wanted to send a reply or question to me they would start the message out with @gotshoo.
Who is Twitter for? Twitter is best for those looking to connect with other people either by distributing information or going out requesting information. Consider it the adult version of instant messaging.
Quick cheat sheet:
Tweet - A message on Twitter.
140 Characters - The max amount of characters a tweet can be.
Followers - Other people following you.
RT or reTweet - Reiterating a tweet from someone else so your followers can see it.
You can follow me @gotshoo and you can also follow Spfldbloggers @spfldbloggers
Find more info at: http://lifehacker.com/5109709/where-do-you-find-multi+monitor-wallpaper
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