After months of waiting, the demolition of the old Ogilvie Mills building on Higgins finally went off this past Sunday, and I must be honest, I am unimpressed. It was quiet, uneventful, hard to see, and the after views I have seen going near the area show they didn't seem to bring much down, and what is left seems to be angled precariously, as if it could fall over at any time. They also still have the silos to bring down, which were thought to be in the original plans to bring the building down with explosives. This was definitely nothing like the Canada Packers plant demolition, which was in an open field, and easy for photographers and gawkers alike to see clearly as it came down.
August 2005 Archives
Not content having the most kick ass search engine, including searches in Klingon, hacker, and more, one of the top blog portals, Google Earth, maps, news, images, desktop, toolbar, and offering Picasa, Gmail, and other services entirely free, Google now offers it's newest killer app, Google Talk. The application is small, and small on the desktop(takes up less room than default winamp, if you choose), and integrates heavily with Gmail, their email service. The application is still heavily in beta, but it works as well as all Google programs, which is to say great. This could soon replace some of the more popular VoIP applications, as it is only missing a few of their key features.
Three cheers! Well, ok, 3.2 cheers. Movable Type, Six Apart's primary blog tool, has reached a new plateau, hitting version 3.2, what is being described as a new stepping stone for the tool. The new version has a new spam protection system built in, Spam Lookup, and has a number of changes that have become popular in the community built into the tool itself. There is also changes in the editing area, and a lot of changes in the management side, making it both different, but easier if you can take the time to learn where the feature you are looking for went. I look forward to installing it onto the Geek Blog blogs, and hope you'll all join me in applauding another amazing release from Six Apart.
God am I tired. Been back to work for 10 days, and even on limited 4 hour shifts before now, where I am now at 6 hours, it is tiring. Part of me is happy I have several days off in a row soon, but after 6 months off work, I am not sure i am able to afford having so few hours in a single week. I am happy to be back at work, but my body is straining and complaining, and I am restricted to so little right now it's not funny. Here's to hoping it gets better.
I met with the new Ops manager, the HR manager, and my immediate supervisor today at work and, beginning this Thursday, I am back to work. It's been 6 months since I slipped on ice in the Office Depot parking lot on Regent, and it's been a tough time for a lot of people, those who have tried to help me, who have had to put up with me in a bad mood and angry with the world and myself, but the journey is nearly over. I am on limited return for the first few weeks, to get myself adjusted to the heat and the hard work that Home Depot gives me, but this is a big step on the way to getting fully healthy and able.
I am, at this very moment, putting up several pictures of late on DWP, if you are interested in such things. I have begun to use a rather large logo on all my pictures because I am tired of hearing about my images being used on other sites, or the possibility of such. Check out the best of the best album for new stuff, as well as the miscellaneous alb um, Travels near and far, which will soon include the Bears on Broadway gallery. I am not sure how plentiful or what quality you'll find them to be, but I will do my best to keep you all looking at interesting, and well done images.
This will contain spoilers. If you have not read the book yet, and plan to, I advise against continuing in reading this post. Ok, I have finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in a second reading, and let me say that the losses, the events, and the ending did not get any easier. Of course I went into this with the entire book known, so the surprises weren't there, and I was watching closer for the hints I missed in the first reading. I also went in with the theories and suggestions that were gleaned from the Psychic Serpent Yahoo groups mail list. There were a lot of interesting ideas from that list, as that group has some of the most intuitive and creative minds I have seen in a group that isn't paid to read books.
Who really died on the roof? Did anyone die? If it was Dumbledore, was he killed at his own request? Why does Harry have to believe he is dead? Each book has brought hints from the ones before in this series, and everyone is wondering what from this book is hinting at what we shall see in book 7, what the amazing writer of this series, JK Rowling, has in store. In book 5 she killed off Harry's first hope of a loving person to be a parent to him. Now she has killed off his mentor, his hero. In book 7, no one is safe.
