Dropped the six young adults off at school. Went to Mass. Shared some breakfast with Michelle. VPN'd into the office for the rest of the day.
In honor of Greg & Jennifer's 1 year on Sirius/XM, (related link) I activated the XM radio in my car. Now I'm just trying to get the online streaming of XM working.
You've heard me mention my "Concord office" adjacent to the Assabet River. While Google's street view is pretty good, Microsoft's Bing Maps does an awesome job showing this centuries old mill building with ties back to Henry David Thoreau. (related link) It's as though you are flying over in a Cessna.
Back from a late lunch with my spiritual director. Michelle is back from seeing "The Time Traveler's Wife". The girls just got off the school bus.
Geek rant: Web site owners - if you decide to use a teaser excerpt for your RSS syndication feed, please make sure that your actual full web page doesn't take half a minute to load when I decide to follow the RSS web link. I respect your desire to steer web traffic your way, but work with me.
Cool! I can stream XM to my ancient Palm Centro. It may be "obsolete", but it continues to impress me for being such an inexpensive phone (and almost forgotten in the age of the Palm Pre).
Back from a hearty Step circuit class. I think my biceps, triceps, and deltoids will be achy on Saturday, but feeling good for now.
Bookmarks I made today:
Radium
Comment: Had trouble with XM's built-in web based player (something related to Flip4Mac), but downloaded and purchased Radium which so far works flawlessly.
Excerpt: An Internet Radio player for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). It sits in your menu bar and stays out of your way. Supports 50+ networks from around the world, including XM/SIRIUS, ...
I Thought Abstinence Was Unrealistic
Comment: This gave me a chuckle today. "They're just going to do it anyway..."
Excerpt: CBS is reporting that a school district in Long Island, New York is urging students to abstain from touching each other due to the dangers of the H1N1 swine flu. Abstinence from touching one's friends? Come on. Give me a break. They're kids. You can't stop them from touching each other. It's just un...