After quite awhile of trying and troubleshooting, I updated WordPress to the current version to try again. This fixed another problem and lets me put the quote box on top where it belongs.
But it also made the WordPress iPhone app stop spinning and failing.
So here’s the first post from my iPhone! And while I’m at it let me welcome 3g to the neighborhood.
Got soggy from the rain, wondered if the sun would ever shine again and am getting the house painted.
From the NYTimes: The Lesson of the 38 Candy Bars
Be nice, be friendly in a real way, know your stuff, work hard, keep an open mind. No huge surprises there but somehow we all need to be reminded.
like the great Beatles song says, but love and taking the time to say so and sending it out in the world – maybe more important!
From a great newsletter I get from Robert Genn:
“Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.” (Randy Pausch)
Esoterica: Randy was upbeat and witty during his lecture, alternating between wisecracks and insights on computer science and engineering education. After doing a few push-ups on stage, he gave advice on building multi-disciplinary collaborations, working in groups and interacting with others, and offered inspirational life lessons. Speakers who followed up were in tears. CMU will celebrate Pausch’s impact on the world with a raised pedestrian bridge to connect the new Computer Science Building and the Center for the Arts, symbolizing the way Pausch linked disciplines. (my italics and bold)
Isn’t that last part great? My Aunt Eileen died last week and there was much discussion about how we lead our lives and the afterlife, but at the end, one thing we can do to remember someone is to try to be more like the good things we remember about them and do more to bridge between people and things in our lives. Randy Pausch never said to himself – we can’t do that because that department or program is different than the one I’m in. He said – we SHOULD do this because we’re both interested in the same thing and can work better together than we can apart. Seldom will that attitude be anything but better than our normal separatist notions.
Come together right now over me!
I started a new gallery page where I’ll throw any photos involving fabric and such that come along. Will be experimenting with uploading directly from phone so expect a lot of off-hand snaps.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
