http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:35:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Zuzu was out in the yard this morning, and wouldn't come back in, so I investigated. She was in the side of the backyard, just barking at this (That's a rabbit's nest, with four babies in it.) Here's one of them... ...and another shot. http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2008/04/13/bunnies-in-the-yard/ I got on Jeopardy, America's Favorite Quiz Show ®. Maybe. More on that below. Went to the mall, found the tables they had set up outside Sears, waited for a seat to open up, sat down and answered enough of the 10 questions to get invited to round two. This was on Saturday, ... http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2008/03/11/oh-yeah-and/ Oh yeah, by the way... I got a job back at the beginning of the year. Here I'm rewriting some PHP web applications into .NET and SharePoint. That's right, I've gone to the dark side, and I'm having fun. Oh yeah, my company is responsible for these guys. http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2008/03/10/oh-yeah-by-the-way/ Much has happened in the pet world, since last I posted. We got a new puppy back in August, a yorkie-maltese mix named "Zuzu". (was "Karma"...yuck!). She was 6 months old at the time. In November, Bear, our ten year old Silky Terrier, got cancer of the spleen. We had it ... http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2008/03/02/pet-update/ I was laid off on Monday. It's the second time in two years this company has laid me off, just in time for Christmas. Just like last time, I got an unsolicited call from a recruiter the very next day. I have a phone interview scheduled for one place, and ... http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2007/12/02/khrapp/ Klortho as been a work-in-progress in my mind since 2004 or so, but nothing beyond the creation of a sourceforge project has really happened with it. Well, I finally got around to making something happen: I made a small perl fastcgi script for doing automatic XSLT transforms, and added some ... http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2007/07/09/emerging-from-the-vapor/ http://www.43places.com http://www.43things.com http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2007/05/08/neat-semantic-web-things/ The dog wants to eat the cat food. He's been running to the end of the upstairs hallway, and barking at the bowl of cat food that sits on top of the small bookcase. When I yell at him, he trots into the bedroom and starts eating his own food. ... http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2007/01/10/the-dog-is-annoying-me/ The insipid neologism "blog" appears to mean little more than a Web site that *actually* gets updated, as opposed to one that *promises* to be updated REAL SOON NOW and includes an animation of a MEN AT WORK sign. --Nick Moffitt, I think http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2007/01/05/hello-world/