What's New With Mick

Tag: rynosoft

  • I’ll be writing more in a week or two

    If you’ve been reading this blog from my web page at www.rynosoft.com/mick, you may have noticed that I’ve been reorganizing things over there. I have been consolidating links to all of the articles there onto a single page, which is available from the “Archive” link on my web page or from the “Archive” link in the “All Things Mick” section on the left side of this page. When I’ve finished putting all the links on the Archive page, the web page at www.rynosoft.com/mick will cease to exist.

    I’m doing this because everything I write these days is on my blog and I write very few, if any, website pages any more. I want to keep the old stuff around and I think a single page archive linking to all the old articles is a good way to keep it available without having to maintain the labyrinthian structure of the website as I envisioned it back when I first started it in 1996.

    So what does this all mean for you, the reader? You now have a couple of options for viewing my blog:

    1. Replace your www.rynosoft.com/mick bookmark(s) with a bookmark to www.rynosoft.com/blog in your web browser. If you want to view old articles, use the Search field (for blog content) or the Archive link on the left (for older content).
    2. Subscribe to an RSS feed to this blog with your favorite aggregator. I use a dedicated reader called NetNewsWire but Safari, which is free and available for Windows and Mac, also has a fine built-in reader. If neither of those options is appealing, Internet Explorer 7 has a built-in reader (or so says Wikipedia) and I hear that Google Reader is an excellent web-based solution. If you’d like to do your own research, you can start with Wikipedia’s fairly comprehensive list of aggregator clients. WordPress, the wonderful software that powers this blog, supports atom, RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF) and RSS 0.92 feeds. You can also click the “RSS” link at the bottom of the page to subscribe to this blog.
    If the second option sounds totally technical and incomprehensible, I apologize. However, you should be using RSS even if my blog is the only blog you read. RSS makes web browsing faster and easier by doing all of the mundane work for you. You can expect a future article here explaining all about RSS: what it can do for you and how to use it. If you don’t want to wait, check out some of the links above.

  • Vital Statistics

    Van odometer: 151601
    Weight lost (in pounds): 10
    Aches & pains: sciatic, right ankle
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
    Recent listening: Clutch, This American Life
    Recent viewing: The Quiet, The Office, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Democratic Presidential Debate, America’s Funniest Home Videos
    Recent playing: n/a
    Recently accomplished: Joined Bally’s gym, finished 401k rollover, replaced heating element in clothes dryer, tagged old blog posts, prescription refill, coordinated Xbox repair
    Imperative To Do: Sell G4, get rid of junk (couch, vacuum cleaner, mower), buy trailer for van, activate new Tivo, weed & feed, change voter registration, develop comprehensive reward/punishment plan for homework, bike to work

  • Vital Statistics

    Van odometer: 151601
    Weight lost (in pounds): 6
    Aches & pains: sciatic, right ankle
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
    Recent listening: News from Lake Wobegon, Go Tell It On The Mountain by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett
    Recent viewing: The Colbert Report, Are We Done Yet, Mystery Men, 10 Things I Hate About You, Vacancy
    Recent playing: Guitar Hero III
    Recently accomplished: Rynosoft.com archives, mowed and trimmed lawn, paid bills, cleaned van, groceries, cat boxes
    Imperative To Do: Join gym, finish 401k rollover, sell G4, get rid of junk (couch, vacuum cleaner, mower), buy trailer for van, activate new Tivo, renew prescription

  • Vital Statistics

    Van odometer: 151601
    Weight lost (in pounds): 6
    Aches & pains: sciatic, right ankle
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
    Recent listening: News from Lake Wobegon, Go Tell It On The Mountain by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett
    Recent viewing: Suns at Spurs, The Simpsons, Medium, Torchwood
    Recent playing: Xbox 360, Guitar Hero III
    Recently accomplished: Cleaning up missing rynosoft.com stuff, tagged existing blog entries, installed statistics plugin for WordPress, modified blog sidebar, entertained the Camps, cleaned cat box, reorganized entertainment center
    Imperative To Do: Join gym, post office (Kent, Sue, Lala), phone calls, test bike commute, finish 401k rollover, sell G4, get rid of junk (couch, vacuum cleaner, mower), buy trailer for van, clean van, activate new Tivo, pay bills

  • Vital Statistics

    Bike odometer: 2361
    Van odometer: 151601
    Weight lost (in pounds): 10
    Hours of sleep last night: 7
    Aches & pains: sciatic, lower back
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
    Recent listening:  Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by The Cure, This American Life, News from Lake Wobegon
    Recent viewing: March Madness, South Park, Robot Chicken, Countdown, Medium, CSI: Miami, Hardball
    Recent playing: Grow Cube
    Recently accomplished: bought new electric lawn mower, mowed lawn, taxes, finished moving rynosoft.com, started 401k rollover process
    Imperative To Do: Join gym, post office (Kent, Sue, Lala), phone calls, test bike commute, finish 401k rollover, sell G4

  • Rynosoft.com has been moved

    It will probably take a few hours for the DNS changes to propagate, but if you are reading this, the move was successful. If I’m slower than usual to reply to email in the next few days, I might still be working out issues. Hopefully, I’ll have it all working by tomorrow morning. Thank you for you patience and please email me if you find any problems.

    Please note that the address for this blog as well as the RSS feed have changed. This post has been left as a placeholder on the old RSS feed. Please visit the new website for new RSS subscription options.

  • Vital Statistics

    Bike odometer: 2361
    Van odometer: 151399
    Weight lost (in pounds): 12
    Hours of sleep last night: 8
    Aches & pains: sciatic, lower back, right shoulder
    Picks left in March Madness office drawing: 0
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
    Recent listening: News from Lake Wobegon, Science Friday, Fresh Air, Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
    Recent viewing: Blades of Glory, Little Miss Sunshine, March Madness, Countdown
    Recent playing: Puzzle Boy
    Recently accomplished: cat box, installed new tuning pegs & strings on guitar, groceries, Time Machine for Tina, bought and assembled new vacuum, tracked Thomas’ reading homework, Song of the Day, recycling, began moving rynosoft.com, broke mower
    Imperative To Do: Sift through inbox, taxes, post office (Kent, Sue, Lala), phone calls, test bike commute, join gym, 401k rollover, finish moving rynosoft.com, buy new mower, mow lawn

  • Rynosoft.com is moving soon

    Our long time web host has decided to get out of the web hosting business so this blog, Tina’s blog, Graham’s blog, our gallery and every other thing on rynosoft.com will soon be moving. Hopefully, the transition will be relatively painless and there will be little downtime. However, if you try to visit and find that you cannot, please try again later.

  • Vital Statistics

    Bike odometer: 2361
    Van odometer: 151125
    Weight lost (in pounds): 12
    Hours of sleep last night: 7
    Aches & pains: sciatic, lower back
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
    Recent listening: Randy Holden, The Shepherd’s Dog by Iron & Wine, In Rainbows by Radiohead, News from Lake Wobegon, Science Friday, Fresh Air
    Recent viewing: Countdown, Warriors at Suns, The 4400, Doctor Who, The Daily Show
    Recent playing: Spikeys Bounce Around, Virus 2, Peggle
    Recently accomplished: Gym research, list G4 on Craigslist, redeploy UPS’s, redeploy computer monitors, migrate music data to new drive, groceries, redistribute Tina’s unused memory, set and check mouse traps
    Imperative To Do: Sift through inbox, taxes, post office (Kent, Sue, Lala), phone calls, test bike commute, join gym, 401k rollover, find new internet host

  • Vital Statistics

    Bike odometer: 2360
    Van odometer: 150830
    Weight lost (in pounds): 16
    Hours of sleep last night: 8
    Aches & pains: left foot
    Current reading: The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
    Recent listening: This American Life, News from Lake Wobegon, DrugMusic
    Recent viewing: Countdown, Monk, Suns at Lakers, Austin City Limits (Etta James), Soundstage (John Fogerty)
    Recent playing: Spikeys Bounce Around, Chicken and Egg, Virus 2
    Recently accomplished: battery for Graham’s iPod, more Best of 2007, backups for everyone, new hard drive and iLife ’04 for Graham, new hard drive for Tina’s new MacBook, migrated data to my new MacBook Pro
    Imperative To Do: Sift through inbox, post office (Kent, Sue, Lala), phone calls, finish Best of 2007, test bike commute, join gym, 401k rollover, find new internet host