Jason knits, spins, surfs the Net and contemplates. Now also finding his way around the contemporary art world.
Found out this morning that I am to be on a conference call at 10AM. Received a spreadsheet of things to be discussed. Got a couple of links to websites that will be used as examples. All these before I had my coffee. Oy vey!
I think I am going to work on the unginnged cotton after the day is done.
Normally I don’t take these personality quizzes. Why? Probably because I just don’t have the patience to go through them. But this one that I found on Númenna – Nan Annûn had a very nice interface. So I clicked through the questions and in no time I got this result. Not bad I think. 
The part about me being calculating, that is. 
Got up around 3:30AM this morning. Took my partner to the airport around 5:30. I like being up so early. There’s no need to rush around to get work started. There’s more time to go through my daily Buddhist practice. I used to get up very early. But now I have the habit of staying up late to do more stuff. Whatever needs to be done. But, I can do more stuff in the morning too. I want to change my routine. I like mornings.
I am very tired now though. Only had about 4 hours of sleep last night.
I am sitting here trying to LOCATE an online “store locator” solution for our business. I’ve found many that require large payments. Some hosted solution with reasonable monthly fees. But I found one free PHP script that seems absolutely fantastic. Check out this demo. One look and I had to have it!
This phpGoogleStoreLocator sounds easy enough to install. But I continue to get database problems. I checked out the forums and tried a few fixes. No success. 
OK, I just wanted to vent my frustrations here. Haven’t done anything fiber related lately. Nothing to show. It’s all web stuff. Anyhoo. Back to the tinkering with the codes.
Blogged with Flock
These Yellow-Chevroned Parakeets have finally decided to stop and feed on the pods. I only managed to photograph a few of them. And it’s overcast today. This is the best shot of the bunch. I will try to get more pictures in the future.
Blogged with Flock
This is no news to Flickr users, I don’t think. I downloaded a new web browser recommended, Flock, on the Flickr site. Recommended for it’s ease of use in the areas of blogging, photo sharing and news/blog reading. I was immediately impressed when I opened the browser. It started with a quick setup process. You enter your photo and blog account and voila, you are ready to manage your photos and blog with the ease of “drag and drop”. It works with Flickr, Photobucket, WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Your photos from your online photo sharing account are ready for you to drag & drop into your blog post without worrying about the code. You can even save snippets of text or images when browsing and use them later for your blog posts. How cool. I haven’t tried news/blog reading. I am sure that’s nice too.
Because they advertise it as a photo/blog (social) browser, I thought it would be a slimmed down version of other browsers. I thought there would be limited tools to do other stuff. Not true. I quickly looked at the preferences that you can set for your browsing experience. Everything seems to be there. Maybe even nicer than some of the others. But of course, it is new and there are things to be looked at still. But so far I give two thumbs up for Flock!
OK, time to go clean my “desk” area.
Blogged with Flock
I am taking the rest of the week off. Yay! It was nice not to rush out of the bed this morning. But I have this guilty feeling. A restless kind of feeling. Could it be because I work at home? I am still in the “office” after all. In fact, I am sitting at the “work” desk, blogging on the “work” computer. It’s not the same when I go away for something like the dye party not too long ago, or visiting the temple. You don’t have this nagging feeling that you should do something to produce work.
Speaking of computer, I went out and got a new laptop last Saturday. When we move up north, this “work” computer will be going in a real office. I don’t want to leave my personal data on it. So I got a MacBook. It was difficult deciding if I wanted to go with MacBook Pro or MacBook. Our “Genius” recommended the MacBook since I would only use it for personal stuff. Plus I’d rather have something small that I can carry around easily. If I want a bigger screen at home, I can just add a monitor. I’ll be having fun configuring my new toy this aftrnoon. Crossing my fingers!
One last thing. We have decided to go up to the bay area next weekend (12/1). We’ll be looking around the neighborhoods for a nice place to live in. Tickets are booked and we are ready to go. 
