Happy Halloween!

Lisa and Moneka had some fun and did a great job carving jack-o-lanterns from the pumpkins we grew this year:

I’ve been wanting to try and take advantage of the iCal program that is part of Mac OS X. My minimal calendaring needs were met in the past by simply using the calendar that is part of Microsoft’s Outlook mail program. Given that I’m minimizing use of that program, plus the ready availability of iCal, it seemed that a change was in order.

One of my key requirements is that I be able to share my calendar, via the web, and ideally be able to edit it with clients other than my Mac; say, using the Mozilla calendar.

So, late last night I found, installed and configured PHP iCalendar. This program nicely displays .ics calendar files, in all the standard views one would expect of a calendar program. Now I needed to look into how to get my .ics files to the server where I plan to host my calendar.

Like a lot of folks, I updated my Mac to run Panther this weekend. It was mostly uneventful, though I did have to upgrade Kung-Tunes in order to keep posting the most recently played song to this blog. Priorities you know. (Ok I did have to re-install emacs, and a …

Ingredients
1 C sugar
1/2 C butter

2-3 eggs* (original recipe calls for 2)
1 tsp vanilla

1.3 C shredded coconut

1.5 C flour
2-3 tsp baking powder* (original recipe calls for 3)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

1C chocolate chips

Preparation

Cream the sugar and butter.
Stir in the slightly beaten egg and vanilla mixture followed by the coconut.
Combine the dry ingredients and gently mix them …

There are interesting claims that the Dogon tribe of Mali, West Africa, long knew about an obscure celestial object and based some of their religious rituals around this object. Part of the story includes purported visitors from the star in question.

Though no doubt not true (the tribal spiritual leaders were …

For some reason I’ve become interested by the idea of growing our own onions. I’ve been growing them from seed for a couple of years now and this year was the best yet. Shown below are a few of the freshly harvested sweet Vidalia and basic red onions (the Italian Cippolini aren’t shown, …

More and more people use google for an ever increasing number and variety of searches. Most of the time, searching with just a couple of keywords is enough to generate a number of useful hits. However, I’m sure we’ve all searched for topics where it took a number of attempts before we found useful …