XMPP Status

Well… I didn’t get the perfectly universal option I wanted, but I did find where Google hides their status information. Google uses the Google Talk Badge to convey status, and also provide a guest access to the system for chatting.   For anyone else doing this, if you are a Google normal user, you will […]

XMPP PITA

Last night I started playing with the idea of setting up a status page for myself, like I have considered many times. This time I took a different approach though, I started designing as a non-functional sample page, something I could build from. I started laying out a variety of ways I could provide information, […]

Installing Visual Studio 2008

I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional on both my desktop as well as on my laptop. I am preparing for my C# class that will begin on Monday. I find myself being amazed at the simplicity of such a massive application. On my desktop it is about 4.5GB installed, while on my laptop […]

Feeling More Like A Ceramic Artist

Looking back on the last two weeks I feel more like a ceramic artist now than I have in a while. I like everything I have made and have been proud to send it through the kiln. I have also made more work and spent more time working on ceramics than I think I have […]

Back to Herbs

Last night I transplanted out my AeroGarden chili peppers to some outdoor pots. This is my second AeroGarden to reach the end of its cycle, the first was the herb garden which finished up earlier this year. Somehow my gardens have gone from needing my attention every other Saturday to every other Tuesday, which seems […]

Realizing the Obvious

In several days I will start my first ceramics class without Tweedy. I have grown quite attached to Tweedy’s ways of doing things, and the ways of the UNCC ceramics studio.  I  will be in a new studio and under a new instructor. I am terrified.

GoDaddy DNS Rocks!

I have never been one to compliment GoDaddy Software on anything, but I now believe that all of my negative feelings towards them are due to their previous status… a cheap domain registrar. One of my domains, Kularski.org, was registered through GoDaddy because of an arrangement with Google Apps. Now I am starting to wonder […]