Five Acres with a View

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I haven’t really lusted after an iPhone, despite fondling the ones belonging to my sister and niece. I don’t really like telephones in general, and cell phones in specific. I do have a cell phone, but in any gathering, I would wager that my cell phone is the oldest and most battered one there. I started carrying one (that rather resembled a brick) over a decade ago, after I lost the trailer off the hitch of my truck the first time. I still think of the cell phone as an emergency device rather than an accessory.

However, I must say that the WordPress Open Souce iPhone App, which purports to allow you to update your WordPress blog, would tempt me into buying one if I had $400.

Which I don’t.

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I’ve updated my desktop wallpaper galleries. All of the wallpapers have borders like this one, and either a fractal or a photo from Colorado or Ireland.

I’ve been doing a lot of reorganizing of the static html pages at stardel.com including the Fractal Galleries. My newest gallery is Fractal gallery: Jewel Tones.

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Dear lady who almost drove into me with her silver Camry this morning. I know that Camrys have one hell of a blind spot for the driver, but you better figure that out before you total that pretty new car. Fortunately I was able to brake so we didn’t collide when you switched lanes without signaling, but you will increase your long-term odds of surviving if you start using your turn signals.

LJ-XP (the LiveJournal CrossPoster) is now being maintained by someone other than the developer that originally wrote it.

The most annoying thing about new releases of Wordpress is tracking down the new features. A release notes page off the download page would be nice, but I had to find 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6 instead.

The PressThis bookmarklet is back, with a lot of new functions. All three of our weblogs upgraded without any problems.

As Jack and I were driving to work this morning, I saw the first McCain bumper sticker. I’ve seen lots of Obama stickers the past few weeks. This discrepancy is especially surprising considering El Paso county consistently votes Republican. The kicker: the bumper sticker was on a car with Virginia license plates. I think McCain has a problem. (Of course, this observation is totally bogus due to selection bias, but I see lots of Bush/Cheney stickers still.)