Author: p6admin

Sometimes you need a bigger truck. I don’t know the details yet, but I think this is from Galway. You need to look at all the pictures. It’s pretty funny. See if you can guess what comes next.

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HKG are a lot cheaper than HKG->USA. A roundtrip from the US is $700 or so, but roundtrip ‘back’ is $1000 on this end. Go figure. Plus with the London factor coming into play, I have to decide if I want to go the other way (HKG-London-US). I think it is time for a travel agent on this one. It’s too much for me and my little Internet websites to figure out.]]>

Podcasting and the Podcasting Directory I’ve built. This evening I had 89 podcasts and about 300 different shows, but I finally got my OPML parser to work and the number of feeds shot up to 212 and the number of shows topped 1,000. Then all hell broke loose. Many of the feeds were dupilcate, some of the RSS was improperly coded. There were HTML files mixed in with the XML (crashing the parser) and all sorts of other problems. I ended up erasing all the updates I made and then hand cleaning the directory back to 140 feeds and running the parser again. Now it is at 153 feeds and 1100 different shows. And I’ve yet to find the time to actually listen to the podcasts I’ve downloaded, but at least the directory is up and running.]]>

As you see above, the old town (San Ma Lo) area of Macau is very pretty and quite European. We walked around the downtown for a few hours, looking at the shops. One thing they sell quite a lot of is beef jerkey and these homemade cookies that taste sort of like sugar cookies made with sawdust. I ate it and was like “mmm, cardboard” but the wife said, as the same time and with a serious face “it is too sweet.” Go figure. We did the other tourist things, like visited St. Pauls in Macau which was built in the 1600 but is now just a facade due to a fire two centuries ago. We climbed up on the top and threw a “lucky coin” on the window sill. Mine rolled on the edge, across the sill and fell 30 feet onto the tourists below. Someone either has a bump on their head or thinks God is throwing money at them. We had $3 US bowls of soup for dinner before heading home. We took a catamaran back that wasn’t as smooth as the hydrofoil, but did the job (for a bit less too). ]]>

Yahoo is reporting that pre-election terror sweeps of the usual suspects picked up 700 for immigration violations. Not sure how many terrorists might be in that lot, but there weren’t any terror attacks. I often think back to the Ghostbusters line when he is testing the refridgerator for ghosts and says he isn’t getting a reading. PETER I’m sorry, I’m just not getting any reading. DANA Well, are you sure you’re using that thing correctly? PETER Well, I think…so…. But I’m sure there are no animals in there. So did it stop terrorism? There were no attacks during the election…. ]]>