Daily Archive for Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Weather Station!

Published on February 6, 2008 in Weather. 2 Comments Tags: Weather.

I just bought myself the Oregon Scientific WMR-968 weather station (and no, I didn\’t pay the list price of $299.99 – Google it, there are much lower prices out there!), and I have to say, it\’s a fairly nice piece of equipment. The unit comes with 4 sensors – an indoor baro/thermo/hygrometer, outdoor thermo-hygrometer, rain gauge, and anemometer. All of these sensors come together in a slick little main unit, which features touch-screen controls, weather forcasting, history, you name it, it probably has it. The base station is also capable of detecting 3 optional sensors – I had an old Oregon Scientific indoor/outdoor wireless thermometer (don\’t know the model, sorry), and the base station started picking up info from that sensor right away. Continue reading ‘Weather Station!’

UPS – What I’ll Never Understand

Published on February 6, 2008 in Stupidity. 0 Comments Tags: musings, shipping, UPS.

ENGLEWOOD, CO, US
02/05/2008 5:35 P.M. DELIVERY
02/05/2008 5:06 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
02/05/2008 4:01 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

How does it take 12 hours and 29 minutes for a package to be delivered after going out on the truck? I can understand if I was some distance away from their facility – but I live 5 miles west of the Englewood, Colorado UPS facility. Used to drive by the place all the time when I was bored at work. Continue reading ‘UPS – What I’ll Never Understand’

Snippets:

That’s odd. I just noticed, Twitter Tools is putting the wrong date on my tweets. Today already has a post created, and today’s posts will show as tomorrow. That is, unless I change something. So, I just tweaked the settings so Twitter Tools will fire off the digest of my tweets at 11:59 PM, rather than 12:00 AM. Hopefully, that will address the problem. If not, I’ll have to find a different solution.

In other news, I’ve also added a script to my hosting account that will automatically loop through the database and close comments (but leave pingbacks open) on all Twitter Tools postings. All I get on those is comment spam anyway, easily weeded out by Spam Karma & Akismet.

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A wireless headset has many advantages over a wired one. One of which is the ability to hit the head late at night with other people in the house trying to sleep, but still rock out.

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Thanks to TweetDeck Support posterous for getting my issue with a blank TweetDeck after a fresh install fixed!

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My pages have apparently all reverted to posts with the latest database upgrade… please stand by while this problem is fixed.

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If you want to hear something bizarre, simply play Rhianna’s Disturbia over ICP’s Let’s Go All The Way. Weird.

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