Richard & Misti's Blog

New: a completely cross-browser security flaw (affects all browsers, including FireFox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.). That’s comforting. Also, check out the recent Nokia cell phone virus and trojan horse, and this weekend’s SCO website defacement (again). Is nothing safe?
We built a snowman (“Frosty”) and a snow bunny (“Snowball”) on Saturday, after the previous [...]

Went geocaching with Dave today, and found the ‘Lexi’s Loot‘ and ‘Butter‘ caches, along with the ‘Octavia‘ and ‘Jumbo Jet‘ travel bugs.
Watched “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde” (2003; Sally Field, Bob Newhart, Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Regina King, Bruce McGill) last night on satellite TV, which is hilarious because any time an airplane [...]

Found the ‘Guitar Rock‘ cache today after work, and watched “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (2004; Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Sir Michael Gambon, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint) last night on widescreen DVD.
Finished reading “The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits” by Lewis Carroll recently. Read the famous [...]

Dave’s homecoming talk was great this past Sunday in the Galena Ward. Ginger and Neal and Marta were there, too.
For my birthday this year, I got some cool gifts, including a huge ‘Croton‘ plant (Codiaeum Variegatum ‘Petra’) from work, a smiley face tie from Becky, a Star Wars tie from Jared, a Mondrian art [...]

I WATCHED the gnomemobile the other day. hey diddle diddle. happy happy dog duh [...]

I’ve tried a few queries via the new Google Scholar, and it looks pretty cool. Also bizarre to hear that Bill Gates gets over four million spam messages per day. Ouch.
In an odd bit of irony, Linux users without a firewall are safer than those with one.
Watched “Glitter” (2001; Mariah Carey) last night [...]

Just when you thought K-Mart was finally dead, they up and merge with Sears!
Anyone up for some online hunting? Can your digital camera take 2.5 gigapixel (2,500 megapixel) photos? Didn’t think so. Muppets are back!
Things to remember when writing even the simplest of perl scripts (especially on a PC):
Wordpad (and Windows/DOS, in [...]

Tried some sugarless Pina Colada Koolerz gum with Xylitol over the past few days. Very tasty.
Also watched “The Transporter” and “Rundown” again a couple of nights ago on VHS. (Seen them before.)
Finally got my Atom and RSS feeds fixed, with a ton of help from Christian Renz at CGI Lance. (Blogger slightly [...]

Tried some Vanilla Silk Organic Soymilk this past week. It’s not as tasty as chocolate soymilk, but it’s not too bad.
It’s been fun to listen to all the Christmas music on the radio lately (95.5 FM). Becker and I actually watched “Frosty the Snowman” (1969; Jimmy Durante) on VHS today, just for kicks.
Found [...]

We took the kids to see “The Incredibles” yesterday at the Riverside Theatre downtown. The previous night we watched all the various trailers and movie clips online, and were stoked for the real deal. When we got there, the 12:30 matinée was sold out, but we got tickets for the 2:00 showing. [...]

Well, I uninstalled FeedForAll 1.0 today. It doesn’t support Blogger’s Atom 0.3 feeds (despite their documentation stating that it *does* offer ‘limited Atom .3′ support), so it’s pretty useless for me at this point. What I’d like to find isn’t really a manual feed fix-it tool, but rather an automatic feed fix-it tool, [...]

Downloaded the new Firefox 1.0 browser that was officially released today, but the jury’s still out (my jury – I don’t like tabbed browsing, and built-in popup blocking is old news). Also got the FeedForAll 1.0 RSS feed creation and maintenance utility that Chris Pirillo recommended today. Looks cool so far.
Finished listening to [...]

The kids and I have slight colds, so I’m consuming Halls Strawberry Mentho-Lyptus throat drops like they’re going out of style. Found a cool website button maker today. Downloaded Konfabulator 1.8 and several cool widgets today. Pretty cool.

8 dOOrs. Legs. crayon. book. book. tree. raTChET. daddy. mommy. baby. MaRy-kate ashley. kick your knees up. bus. becky. blog.

We found the following caches today:
EquinoxQuixoteSpectre
and I ate a mediocre kraut dog at Wienerschnitzel. Everyone’s been writing like crazed maniacs in our group novel. We’re already ahead of schedule, and I have a feeling we’re going to easily surpass our original goal of 50,000 words in 30 days. It’s only day 6 [...]

i ate OrAnGe PaNcAkES . i aTe a lollypop. i watched a movie – Teletubbies.

Wow, Blogger has really sucked over the past couple of days (for reliability). Lame.
I found it quite amusing that there is actually a World Toilet Organization, and that they host a World Toilet Summit, which culminates with the venerable World Toilet Day (Nov. 19)! Crap!

Watched “The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc” (1999; Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway) last night on VHS. Kinda creepy, and too much language, etc. I got the copy from the library, unrated, and it turned out to be a semi-legal preview version (“for your consideration, not for resale [...]

I ATE PURPLE pancakes TODAY.
i bought MY new MARY-kate and ashley shoes. they are for geoCAChing.
we had a good birthday cake.

I was glad to see that John F. Kerry called George W. Bush and conceded the election this morning, and thus putting to rest the whole Ohio fiasco and preventing a long, drawn-out futile fight like in 2000. Congratulations to Mr. Bush!
I ‘attended’ a SANS webcast this morning on worms and virii, but experienced [...]