Caturday

Cece enjoyed his Temptations today. It's such a beautiful day too for kitty pics.

Happy Valentine's Day

Meowza has another valentine for Sally. I do think that boy is in love.

Salome's Valentine for Meowza

I came across this - Skeezix the Cat's 3rd Annual VD Contest: Salome's Valentine for Meowza. Almost didn't check the contest but as Meowza was wanting my help making a valentine for Salome (he has no Photoshop skills), I decided to get some inspiration from people far more talented than I am. Now he is positively over the moon as he got one from her.

Wordless Wednesday

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Guessing Game

Lux has a guessing game and a really cute pic of him. Note how intensely he studies the object, great expression, love the tooth.

Weird

The kitty festivals, BKCFoC CotC WCB, get relatively few links each week, currently running around 10 or so, yet Mister Linky over at the Cat Blogosphere gets lots, somewhere between 30 and 60 on average per day. How do we increase carnival participation?

BKCFOC #80-Are You Ready For Some Football?

There's a clue in this title - BKCFOC #80-Are You Ready For Some Football? but don't worry, it's kitty filled goodness. Great festival. And regards the football, remembers our Cardinals who won! Yay! My kid will be most happy bout that.

Wordless Wednesday

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Cat Food

On the Animal Rescue Site, it states, "You've given the value of .6 bowls of food to rescued animals." I've given one bowl of food to Cece. Does that count?

BKCFoC CotC Cat ARK FF MM TT TT WCB WW WoW

Background Image

Messing around with a background image cause I can.

Hijacked

Grrr, tried to post at mindofmog.net but got redirected to another site. Tried to load site, got redirected to that same site. Site's been hijacked. Note the other blogs all still work. Arrggg, I've lost my blog. I did fire off an urgent support request to Dreamhost to see if it can be fixed.

Update: Dreamhost fixed it, said it was a severe misconfiguration in Apache which they corrected and apologized for. Their mistake. Obviously someone was asleep at the wheel there.

Megan Monster: New Years Fires

Megan Monster: New Years Fires or how not to start the new year off. Teens saved the day, Megan has a great extended family.

Happy New Year

May you all have a happy holiday and a great 2009. Me, I’m having a quiet holiday at home with the kitties. Changed colors cause I can in solidarity with Israel seeing as it is at war with Hamas. Hope Israel crushes Hamas.

New Stuff

Added couple page elements, now to figure them out, place them where I want. Got to see what Blogger can do now.

Going Violette

I was pleasantly surprised how easy it is to change colors in some themes. Accordingly, colors and theme have been changed in memory of little Violette Noelle - "Sprout" - Monty Q's baby bean whose brief life touched many in the Cat Blogosphere. Our prayers are with her family.

Locked Out

Some Blogger blogs have been locked out as they got flagged as splogs but aren't. Or is it just a Blogger glitch? As quoted on Instapundit:

Many of us are ready to switch to WordPress. I wonder how long it will take before Blogger gets their act together and fixes the problem!

Switching to WordPress is a good idea IMHO. I did long ago.

I blog at mindofmog

I don't actually post here much as this is not the main blog. Hmmm, testing. OK, add pic, it comes out on top. This be Meowza.

Weekend catting: BKCFoC CotC ARK WCB

M-Cats Club: Bad Kitty Cats Festival Of Chaos #49-Father's Day Edition

M-Cats Club: Bad Kitty Cats Festival Of Chaos #49-Father's Day Edition is a good one, go see.

New Goodies

Blogger has a whole new bunch of widgets, called page elements. I was able to add in a blogroll and have it work. That's nice.

Autosaves drafts too, got to keep up with the competition.

Oops, Pardon

I hadn't checked lately and just realized this theme is green. I hadn't meant for it to make any political statement regarding Earth Day. It doesn't so don't let it bother you. Might change the theme which is why I am on Blogspot anyway... so I can mess with all their latest goodies. Sortof comparing services. Still prefer my site.

Changing Layout

I was attempting to edit the sidebar when I changed the theme but got an unable to complete request. Blog looks like it took but will see when posting.

It worked. Spiffy.

Obviously

This is not my main blog, just experimenting here. In case someone clicks my profile from a comment I make, want them to find the right blog.

I have it almost to the point of looking decent, no graphics yet but the new blog is here. I have a bit more leeway and am busy learning XML and CSS2. So far, it is in compliance with standards and works with the blogger api thou I haven't tried that bit out yet cause I haven't made that many changes yet. But it can be looked at.

Messing with the blog template so if it looks weird, you'll know why. Well, changes aren't working so I tried messing with php on my site, still haven't gotten that to work right so waiting on help to figure out what stupid thing I did.

Still awake and now very unhappy. Curiosity, as I was excused before it was stated what the trial was about, I wanted to know. I found out and even without the back pain I would have been excused. Think it had to do with this. in relation to a crime that I have strong feelings for, abusing and murdering a child. They want impartial jurors.

I'm no expert but that was a great address, me happy. Now I expect stuff will really start happening, well with Iraq, the domestic agenda has to be passed first.

I lucked out, had jury duty. I was picked for a trial that was expected to be a month long and as luck would have it, I got excused, reason it hurt to sit cause of my back. I'm only many thousands of emails behind cause it hurt to sit. Today it really hurt. I was trying to read some mail when psycho cat leaped up, slipped and raked my finger with her claw. I was so pissed at that cat. Must remember to lock the door if I want to use the PC. Her claws hurt.

Now I am going to relax, nurse my wound, and listen to the President's State of the Union Address. I am really curious what he has on Saddam that hasn't been released. I was pleasantly surprised at how bleak Blix's report yesterday was. Guess Saddam didn't fool him as much as Saddam would have liked.

Yesterday when I woke, I went to check my IM email and noticed NAV went crazy, worm after worm had been caught. I also noticed my ISP said I was over my limit on emails. Checking found 68 dupes of one letter, 138 dupes of another. I am guessing either the ISP or Yahoo Groups went crazy with the cyberattack. And I know Microsoft will use the attack as just one more reason to go with their "trustworthy computing", ie Palladium. Uh, hello people. Macs don't get Windows viruses/worms and neither do Unix boxes, all flavors. There is life after Microsoft and life can be sweet indeed without the threat of getting attacked. Sides, I do like Unix. Now if I could find/build an open source alternative to Incredimail, I would be happy. I AM addicted, love creating. However, IM has instituted draconian DRM into their program. Now I paid for mine, did within days of downloading it. Some people have not and have even cracked the program. Now I am not in favor of cracks but the software is still in beta stage. I could hardly consider it a finished product as buggy as it is. And I understand not wanting to pay for beta software. I am still bugged by the bugs thou. And I am no big enthusiast of DRM. So far, Apple has the best DRM natch.

I decided to do something brave. In the face of no info on whether Shania's new CD "Up" is copy protected, I took a chance and tried it out on the iMac and it worked. Copy protected CD's can't play on and will wreck Macs so I always try to find out first. Interesting, in Wired Magazine there is an article about Sony. They make copy protected CD's that won't play on Sony PC's. You'd have thought they would have worked out a DRM for their PC's so they would play. Nope, not even, dumb. In case anyone wonders, I hang out at /..;)

Still have the stone, have been nauseated a lot either from the stone, the antibiotic, or the pain meds, take your pick. Saw the doc who sent me to a urologist, no infection so have to wait it out. Course, if I get too miserable, I can get an IVP.

I did have an interesting day yesterday, after visiting the docs, I attended a meeting for safety reps at work. Rarely is a meeting interesting but with war around the corner so to speak, it was. OK, it was no keynote address. Nothing can match Steve Jobs' keynotes. But it was informative. Recommended reading for everyone whether or not they attended the meeting is here. Pay particular attention to smallpox. You want to find out whether or not you are eligible for the vaccine cause you may need it. Other war stuff of note, I found a site full of useful info you might want to check out here. It even has a map of terrorist cells in the US.

If I hadn't been so tired from not getting sleep, I wouldn't have slept for a day and a half. Now sortof awake, I mush share my latest find...ha! I have a 4mm stone in my kidney and now will have the fun of trying to pass it. I have heard it is the most pain known to man and will get to find out. Joy. OK, so this might just put off that back surgery for a bit, one pain at a time. Got to drink lots of water thou my kid thinks I should try Smirnoff Ice instead. She just wants to see me drunk, sick kid. I just want to do something fun not painful. Hmm, school starts back up for her, that's fun. ^_^