http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi Not all battles are fought with a sword Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:21:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I fly to conferences I tend to take the low cost carrier, whatever that happens to be. Much of the cost is coming out of my pocket, and I'm cheap ('cause the conferences never are). For GECCO [1], AirTran was the winner, with a price a hair ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/11/msp-humphrey-terminal-a-modern-ghost-town/ Hmmm... Applying vaunted American know-how to find new solutions to the problem of energy independence? What an odd, odd thought, especially when McCain supports a tiny, slow band-aid that ... well ... won't really help at all. We were in Fargo a few days ago buying a car. ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/10/maybe-some-science-would-be-useful-in-this-situation/ photo credit: Leucippus Cory Q of Monkey River Town suckered WeatherGirl and I into forming a fantasy team for the Tour de France. We've never done something like this before, and had to do it in a hurry, so I'm guessing that we will not be stellar performers :-). ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/08/im-sure-well-suck-at-this/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } aller à bicyclette, originally uploaded by Summa for Strings. The mighty Tour de France started yesterday. We've been recording it, but haven't actually seen any of it yet (unpacking, etc.). ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/06/tis-time-for-the-tour/ I really like this photo because it's so wonderfully misleading. Any guesses as to what it is? Hint: It's right here on good old Terra Firma. Click on the photo (or follow this link) to learn what it really is... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/06/mystery-photo-quiz-not-quite-the-surface-of-the-sun/ photo credit: hradcanska As we were car-less in the UK last year, we would rent wheels at various times when we needed to move all three of us and lots of stuff over what passes for long distances on the small island. Our last rental, for our last week ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/05/a-tale-of-misery-and-file-format-woe/ Several people have asked about "culture shock" upon returning home, and for me at least there really hasn't been much (I'll let WeatherGirl and Sub-Evil speak for themselves). One thing that has been really amazing, though, is the peace and quiet here. The photo above is from a few years ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/05/there-are-a-few-differences/ Just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5.1, and the dashboard is quite different. Not sure yet whether it's better or worse, but definitely different. I like some of the nifty Ajax stuff that's been added in the last few updates - these (good) web apps just get spiffier and ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/05/upgraded-to-wp-251/ Just stumbled across Wordle, a neat tag cloud/text visualization tool, and am having way too much fun. Some of my most common Flickr tags (click on the cloud to see it bigger on Wordle's site): The contents of the front page of my blog as of 3 July 2008: I like how the ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/04/wordle-makes-tag-clouds-all-pretty/ We're back in Morris, Minnesota, sleeping in our own beds for the first time in 10 months! We arrived late Tuesday after a long, but generally uneventful trip. (Well, uneventful if we ignore a bit of a rush transferring in Chicago that contributed to WeatherGirl leaving her iPods on the ... http://UnhinderedByTalent.com/Phi/archives/2008/07/04/weeeeeere-back/