Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Web Development
• Programming
• Electronics/Robotics

If your eyes have already glazed over, never fear! I’ll have a separate category for personal updates and witty banter.

The Mozilla Developer Center provides some helpful info on how to do something like this: Using files from web applications.

In order to store the cake for such a long period of time, she first wrapped the entire cake layer in saran wrap. Top to bottom, and all around, it was well wrapped. Next, it was wrapped in a layer of aluminum foil. It sounds simple enough, but we’ve heard some horror stories from people who just stuck their cake in the freezer without wrapping it, and a year later they take a single bite of frost-bitten ugliness before dropping the rest of it into the trashcan. That’s a shame. I’m glad my mom knew enough about cake embalming to preserve it so we could share memories with each other, our friends, and our families. (it was a hefty chunk of cake!)

We now have quite a few of these slimy little tribbles roaming about the yard and climbing up on top of the grass, and any attempts to disturb them result in a dark cloud of spores blowing into your face. Apparently the only effective way to eliminate them is to spray them with fire extinguishers and airdrop them into the arctic. (or just wait until the weather dries out a bit)

You start out by creating a station based on a particular artist or song that you like, then as you listen to your station you can give each song a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down to customize the music that gets played. Songs that you dislike won’t be played again, while songs that you like will be played more often. The music your station plays will also change based on the musical attributes of songs that you like, such as heavy metal guitars and screaming vocalists, or soft piano pieces in a minor key.

This seems like a pretty useful tool for finding music that you like, as after listening for only a few minutes I’d already found a few new artists that I like but had never heard of. The main downside is that the number of songs you may skip per hour is limited, but as long as you start with a song or artist that you really like then it shouldn’t be too big of a problem. Their licensing prevents you from listening to the same song more than once every few hours, which is already an improvement over public radio.

After a bit of searching, I found a great solution for this problem in Tasbar Shuffle. It allows you to drag and drop your taskbar items so that you too can have the peace of mind that comes with always finding Eclipse as the first item in the taskbar.

We still have a big stack of gift cards left over from our wedding, so that’s going to be a really fun shopping spree when we get around to it. Fortunately for us, there’s very little repair work to be done, which means that we can use the gift cards for improvements, decorations, and general fun stuff.

On the way home, we visited Carlsbad Caverns. I’d highly recommend walking in on foot rather than taking the elevator, as this gives you a feel for how immense the hole you’re standing in truly is. It’s also a great workout for those of us with desk jobs to descend 750 feet on foot, even if it is on paved walkways.