Here is an interesting, gnarled old tree.
The tree was in bloom.
Here’s another shot of it.
Mary thought these trees looked interesting.

Here’s a cicada shell I found in the backyard over the weekend while attempting to remove wild black raspberry vines. It was very hard to get the camera to focus on the cicada, rather than the wall in the background. I finally had to put my hand immediately behind it and get the camera to focus on it.

Well it didn’t take long to wipe the shiny off of the Chrome.  When Google said that they had developed new ways to automate user actions in the browser, and that they had tested it on all of the top sites, I actually believed them.  I should have seen their caveat that they couldn’t fill out forms as a warning sign.

What do you think a common user action is for people when there are three active tropical storms in the Atlantic?  Why, they go to weather.com and view an animated map.  Doesn’t it strike you as exceedingly strange that Google’s testing didn’t account for something that … normal?

Here’s how to replicate the crash:

• Go to any city in the US on the weather.com site.
• Click on the Local Map button
• Animate the map and wait for the crash

The funny thing here is that Google talks about how having a separate process for each tab makes the Chrome browser almost crash-proof.  It’s interesting that a simple plug-in can crash the whole thing.

A physics textbook was considered invalid for meeting core requirements solely because each chapter of the book included a single bible verse at the beginning of the chapter. ACSI was told that if the book did not contain these verses, it would be acceptable. A lawsuit was filed, and the case is scheduled for trial later this year.



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A new study (I don’t trust studies!) from the University of Michigan Health System (never heard of them before) suggests (boy, that’s a real weasel word) that a compound in green tea (so … not the tea itself, but a small part of it) may (another weasel word) provide therapeutic benefits to people with rheumatoid arthritis (what about other types?. Oh well. I may as well try it.



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Well, Microsoft has finally gone and created a (free) replacement for FrontPage that doesn’t consist of adding a “Publish to Blog” button in a Word toolbar.  Windows Live Writer is a lean and mean tool that makes blogging easy without a huge executable.  I’ve been able to test it using both MSN Spaces and blogspot.  It’s in Beta right now, so give it a shot.