Posting on my new Palm

I got a new palm T|X friday and now I am blogging on it at a Wi-Fi hotspot. It works great!

Video iPod

Steve Jobs has announced the Video iPod, and some new iMacs. Check it out here: Engadget - Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote — “One more thing…”

To start things off, Saturday I made a case for my iPod out of a micro fiber cleaning cloth, by sewing the side and bottom, and flipping it inside out. and it works great.
It's getting colder this week, good thing I've got my earbags.
I'm thinking about entering NaNoWriMo next month.

iPod (again)

Friday I got a brand new 20gb Apple iPod (the one with the color screen!) to save the files off my PC, and to listen to music :-).

Engadget spotted on Google

Engadget's RSS url was spotted on Google's personalized home page:

I'm Baaaack!

It's been a while since I got a chance to get on here, but I'm back.
I've started Geocaching and I've found just about all the caches here in town. And I've placed a cache too.
The new fall shows on Kids WB begin this saturday.
It's starting to get colder around here, as we get closer to fall.

New Baby Cousin

I have a new baby cousin as of the 16th. His name is Christopher.

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Look at this!

Seen at my local Wal-Mart:
1 lb. of Coke for $1.00

ARES Skywarn & CERT presentation

I got to see National Treasure again friday night. Also the hack a day podcast shoud be out this week.

For some odd reason, my radio controlled watch was 1 minute faster than my radio controlled wall clocks, but is now correct.

I finally dug out my camera again for some photoblogging, and I downloaded Hello to help with that.

Also I have posted up the ARES,SKYWARN & CERT presentation, and here is the link: ARESSKYWARNCERT.zip

hack a day podcast

hack a day is planning to do a podcast, I just changed the template on my blog, and I am writing this post on my palmOne Tungsten | T3.

The CD with the presention I planned to post up got misplaced, but now I've found it, and I will try to post the file up.

Last night I watched Maximum Overdrive on SciFi.

National Treasure

I've seen it, it's a really good movie

Pokémon Emerald

Well, Sunday I got Pokémon Emerald, the successor of Ruby & Sapphire, and by now I'm almost all the way through it. In fact I'm playing right now while blogging!

Edit: I Just beat the last gym, now I'm off to the Pokémon League!

Fifty Million Downloads of Firefox!!!

At 8:58 AM PST Firefox passed the 50,000,000 downloads mark! See http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html, Wow!!!

Blogging on an iMac

I'm out at Schlotzsky's blogging on an iMac, sure wish I had an iBook right about now (sigh). Anyway I had a Spicy Chipole Chicken, and it was good.

iPod - Update

The iPod went back to the store, and I got something more useful.

Tri-State Presentation

tomorrow night at 7 PM in Fall City, NE is the monthly Tri-State ARC meeting, and my Dad will put on a presentation about ARES, SKYWARN, & CERT. Tomorrow night or Sunday I will try to link up to a copy of the presentation.

So far this week, I've watched the following movies in order: Finding Nemo (2-Disc DVD), Stephen King's Rose Red (on SCIFI), The Incredibles (2-Disc DVD), and Ladder 49 (DVD).

iPod

I finally got a 20GB Apple iPod from HP from my parents! Oh, is it nice!

Happy Easter

Well, It's easter, don't forget the real meaning of the day.
I haven't posted lately because I haven't had anything to post about.

New templates

I've created 4 templates, all of them look about the same as this one: Template 1, except for the background color.
If you want a copy of the source code, just email me (you'll find my email in the sidebar) and tell me whether you want the Pastel Yellow, Pastel Blue, Pastel Pink, or Pastel Green version.

I've changed my blog template again, and I still haven't got a chance to reinstall Palm Desktop, I'll have to do that tommorow, and I'll have some template tweaks to do tommorow.

Severe Storm Spotter Class Notes

OK, it was too late for me to post all of this when we got home last night so here it is now:

In 2004 there was 69 tornados statewide in Missouri, and 122 in Kansas (a new record)
On May 24, 2004, there was a tornado outbreak in Northern Missouri, a 6" dia. hail stone near Meadville, MO.
On May 29, 2004, there was a tornado outbreak along I-35.

Spotters are critical to a successful warning
Green clouds normally mean hail.
When looking at what you think is a tornado, look before you report. It might just be a smoke stack from the power plant down the road, or it might just be a low hanging cloud. Also look for rotation - no rotation means no tornado.
Tornado - What's important to report:

• Rotation
• Wall Cloud
• RFD - Rear Flank Downdraft
• Tornado
  

A Wall Cloud is a cloud that slopes down and away from rain.
A Shelf Cloud is a cloud that slopes up and away from rain.
Flash Flooding is DANGEROUS, 2' of water can carry a car away, 6" can carry you away, and can carry a car off the road TADD = Turn Around, Don't Drown.
If you have a rain gauge, 4" an hour can mean flash flooding.
On a Doppler Radar, Hot colors means wind blowing away from the radar site, cool colors means winds blowing towards the radar site.

Always know where you are with respect to the storm
If you are spotting in your car, bring a map and know escape routes to get out of the path of a storm.
When a storm is coming through, and you are in a building remember this duck:
Down to the basement or lowest floor
Under something sturdy
Cover your head and neck
Keep in shelter until the storm has passed

DON'T HIDE IN AN OVERPASS!!!

Call-in Phone Number: 1.800.438.0596

Now for the handouts:

Beaufort Scale

Internet Links:

NWS Home Page
Kansas City (Pleasent Hill) NWS Office
Pleasent Hill "Storm Tracker" page
E-Spotter website
Skywarn frequencies
Turn Around, Don't Drown
NOAA Lightning Safety
NWS Real-Time Doppler Radar Network
Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
SPC Mesoanalysis Page
National Centers for Enviromental Prediction (NCEP)
Climate Prediction Center (CPC - Hazards Assessment)
NWS Safety Brochures and Other Publications

Severe WX Spotter Training

At 7:00 PM tonight at the American Red Cross Building at 12th & Faraon here in St. Joseph, will be the annual mandatory NWS WX Spotter Training. I will be there and I will blog the class, so if you're in the St. Joseph, MO area, Please come early if you want good seats, also for Amateur Radio operators, there will be seats reserved for us up in the front.

Flickr

Well, now I'm using Flickr and I love it. My Flickr address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyblog2.
Also, I'm reading more blogs than I was, and when I get a chance I will put more links in the sidebar.

It's Furby!

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Originally uploaded by happyblog2.

Stupid computer!!!

This stupid computer won't let me hotsync my Tungsten|T3, now I'll have to reinstall the Palm Desktop, Grrrrrr!!!

Bill Gates, Doing a Blog?

I just found out that Bill Gates is planning to do a blog. Now that might be a good thing except for the fact that he probably won't tell anyone that reads his blog about upcoming Microsoft products. If he would, myself and plenty of other people would like that.
And if he would post links to pre-betas of Microsoft software, or select a few of his blog readers to give copys of pre-betas, or even alphas, then Microsoft would have even more beta testers.
If he would post more info on his blog about what Microsoft is planning to do in the future, then that would be nice.

On a side note, Yahoo!, is planning to have a blog service called Yahoo! 360, which I won't be using. Go blogger.

We've got our desktop back up and running now, and I am planning to blog more than I have been, and post more photos. Also, I just found out about Blogger Buzz, and I've been reading The Last Nail, and Biz Stone Genius. If anyone knows of a free, easy to use, and easy to install version of Linux, please comment.

Well, I'm posting now halfway across the room on my PDA using a Bluetooth connection, we'll see how this works out.
We ate at the Olive Garden down on Barry Rd. in KC, and it was good.

Well, I haven't been able to post lately with school and all, but now I've got a chance to.
I finally got my Yaesu VX-7R up and running, so now I can talk on the ham radio more than I was.
Yesterday we went down to Springfield, MO, and went to Bass Pro Shops: Outdoor World, I played the laser target practice and on my last shot got one.
BTW, I've been playing Command & Conquer: Attack Copter over on Pogo, and is it FUN!!!

Well, I watched Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys again, and I'm just now getting into RSS feeds myself.

Right now I'm trying out Bloglines as my feed viewer, and it seems to work well for me.

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys - Review

Well, Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys was a pretty good movie, it's about a boy afraid of Pokémon, and a Deoxys looking for another of it's kind.
My only real complaint is that it didn't have a short film with it like all the rest of the Pokémon movies.
The description on the back is as follows:

Leap into an amazing, all-new, action-packed movie and meet the mysterious Deoxys as this exciting Pokémon adventure takes you beyond your wildest imagination.

Four years ago a strange meteorite crashed to Earth carrying a powerful secret. Now journey to high-tech Larousse City where secrets are revealed as Ash, Pikachu and the gang meet Tory-a new friend who is afraid of Pokémon and their trainers. New fears surface when a aurora appears over the city along with Deoxys-a Pokémon unlike any seen before. When a spectacular battle between Deoxys and Rayquaza begins, more than just Ash and Pikachu will be needed to stop it. It will take everyone!

Charged with big surprises, nonstop action and heroic adventure, Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys is packed with out-of-this-world thrills!

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys

Well, I got Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys tonight, and tommorow I will post how it was.

The lasagna I got at Perkin's was good, better than last time...
My Palm has not been syncing to AvantGo, but now that I did a Hard Reset, it works fine.

Wow, how many times does this happen?

Well, I was just thinking of something when my Mom said the same thing, wow!

Anyway, we're heading out to Perkin's for dinner, that's better than Denny's (that place smells and tastes horrible).

Hummer H3 pic

Hummer H3 just another SUV - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com

Finally, a pic of the Hummer H3!
Don't look that different than the H2.

Gmail!, Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

I finally got a Gmail invite, hooray!
I got the account set up in less than 3 minutes, and is it a breeze to use!
I'm sure my primary e-mail will be my Gmail account.

Now most everyone in St. Joseph knows about blogs, Alright!, here's a link to the article:
http://www.stjoenews-press.com/print.asp?SectionID=81&SubSectionID=272&ArticleID=61766

Oh my, What a day yesterday was

Well, yesterday we went to the St. Joseph Home, Lawn & Garden @ the Civic Arena, and was it CROWDED!!!
Anyway, it was quite a day, we went over to Kansas to eat, then went home.

BTW, that Picture battle over on PIC (Palm Infocenter) is now on it's 14th page, WOW.

What should this post be named?

Well, as days go, this was a long one...
We stopped at the library, and I checked out some books on Digital Music.

And, for those of you that don't know, over on the Palm Infocenter Forums in the Off Topic section, there is a Rock, Paper, Scissors Picture Battle (that means that we're battling photos that other users post), you might want to check it out (it's kinda fun): http://www.palminfocenter.com/forum/, then scroll down and click on Off Topic, from there you're on your own.

My first post on this Blog