SETI@Home Stats

I added my SETI@Home stats to the Miata Diaries site. I got it to work after several failures. I wanted to add it to this site as well, but I was stymied by the same thing that slowed me down on the other one, I couldn’t get it to work in anything but the root directory of the plog. So I had to use two copies of the PHP script and two copies of the XML file. For whatever reason the one on this blog doesn’t update. It still has last night’s stats.

So I tried once again to get it to link to the one file that is residing in the diaries directory. After one messy failure I think it hooked up to it, but it still shows the old stats.

I guess it wasn’t linked after all, I just deleted the supposedly not being read .php and .xml files and the script fails and outputs what you see on the left.

Back to the drawing board.

Style Bar?

After asking my wife for years about getting a style bar for the car and having her deny all requests, I have successfully worn her down. Today she said yes. She said yes to this bar. I like its looks from the top picture’s angle, but I’m not sure about the straight on from the rear view. Plus the other pictures I have found on the web of them shows it finished in gloss black. I like the matte finish that shows on the page.

I really like the Evil Spider bar, but it is a bit more than is in my budget.

The Moss Motors bar is worth investigating too. It also promises no seat travel restrictions and no cutting.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $923.63
Started up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 167

James Brown Announces Breakup Of Marriage

You may have not noticed this unless you live in LA (Los Angeles) or LA (Lower Augusta) but in today’s newspaper there appeared this blurb in the people in the news section of page 2:

The “Godfather of Soul,” James Brown, has announced his breakup from his wife, Tomi Rea Brown, with a full-page ad in the show-business trade newspaper Variety.
In the July 21-27 weekly edition of the paper, the ad features a photo of the couple and their 2 year-old son, James Joseph Brown II, smiling at Walt Disney World while posing with the costumed character Goofy.
Above the photo, a statement said that because of their “heavy, demanding tour schedule, they have decided to go their separate ways. There are no hard feelings, just a mutual show business decision made by both parties.”
Mrs. Brown is one of Mr. Brown’s background singers.
The pair is touring together in Europe, the newspaper added, and may continue working together despite the breakup.

They are splitting up because of the heavy touring schedule? They’re together! I could understand it is she was home while James toured the world.

They are going their separate ways? Yet she is one of his backup singers and may continue to work together!

I glad to see I wasn’t the only one to find humor in this announcement, why else would have the copy person who culled this from the Variety ad have made room for the part about the whole family posing with Goofy.

When Will I Watch A Movie Again?

It has been two weeks at least since I’ve watched a DVD. Right now there are 4 Netflix rentals on the coffee table waiting a spin. ( Rabbit-Proof Fence, Moonlight Mile, Spirited Away and Adaptation ) Also stacked up there are 3 other movies from my Co-Worker DVD Swap Club: Pork Chop Hill, Tuck Everlasting and K-19. Plus on top of those I have A Brother From Another Planet that I picked up in a truck-stop in rural North Carolina for $4.88. I guess I’m going to have to take a break from writting in 3 blogs and reading 10 for a night or two…

House Cleaning Day

Did a little sprucing up anound here, very little, but I feel better.
1) This site is now a proud member of the Blogging Brians, so I added a link to the left.
2) I got rid of a stale weblog that hadn’t been updated since like March from the Mortal Blog list and added Blogumentary, go check it out.
3) This page’s extention is now PHP instead of HTML. I snagged a script that allows me to keep a constantly updated set of stats in my search for ET and installed it on the left. Thanks Sam Ley.

Purchased Today: $0
Money spent since 03/03/03: $923.63
Started up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 166

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First Class Mail

Mailed off 6 home made CDs today. Three to Texas and one to Canada as part of the Burn It – Summer Edition. (Wonder if I need to make a little page with the song list and such like I had for Josh’s CDMOM?) One to the state of Washington for the People’s Choice Award winner in the Barndoor Fan Club Flag Photo Contest and one to Merry Ol’ Scotland and Sinclair as a payback for sending me a CD of the Scooter’s latest.

Purchased Today: $15.00 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $923.63
Started down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 166