Mother’s Day is coming

Mother’s Day is coming. How do I know? This is what I found on my desk when I got home from work yesterday.


Yes, when I see a Nordstrom catalog with a page dogearred I have been trained well enough to recognize this hint.
Husbands and sons, May 11th is Mother’s Day. Make you plans now. Do it today. Give yourself time to avoid the overnight shipping costs. You don’t want to be one of those guys driving around early Sunday morning looking for an open store.
I didn’t mention daughters, because women don’t need the reminder. Women are much more on top of these sort of things than men. Women can think about many things at once and look at a calendar regularly. Men, on the other hand, can think about one thing at a time, and that is usually something simple like “want food!”, “mmm, shiny!”, or “boobies!”.
Now I just need to get my ass to Nordstrom for Michele’s new purse and figure out what to get my Mom.
Fatherhood
On a related note, Being Daddy once again describes the experience of being a father today better than I ever could. I guess being an English Professor has it’s benefits.
Another new father site is Blogsprogs where three new fathers are describing their fun. Good stuff.

Blogsharing

Blogshares went live today. The site simulates a stock market based on weblogs and looks at links to simulate cash flow. It’s a fun little diversion. Ego driven like most weblog things.
Alec Saunders .LOG is giving away $1000 blogshare dollars to link to him. I’m not proud. I’ll take the $1000.
I don’t know where he got the cash, but I’ll help launder it.

Beware

Beware the new Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Beta.
Don’t download it. Don’t do it.
You could end up playing for 4 hours straight and going to bed in the wee hours of the morning.

How to change the agent string in IE

Here’s a snippet of my referrer logs:

Ever wonder what NET CLR 1.0.3705 in your referrer logs means? So did I.
I found out that it’s the version of the .Net Framework Internet Explorer (IE) has installed on the computer looking at your page.
Thanks to Google I learned how to change this string to whatever I want.
I wrote up a page on Changing IE Agent Strings as a reference for others.
There has got to be other cool hacks of the agent strings and other data that is passed to web servers by browsers.
Let the fun begin…

Lazy Photoblog

Rather than incisive words of wisdom today, a set of recent photos for you.


The girls on the plan on the way to Cincinnati, watching a DVD on the laptop.
It was a H.R. Puffinstuff DVD
The girls on the plan on the way to Cincinnati, watching a DVD on the laptop.
It was a H.R. Puffinstuff DVD
The girls and I made cookies in the Easy Bake Oven today.
The girls and I made cookies in the Easy Bake Oven today.
Smuggling goetta and Skyline Chili in my suitcase.
Smuggling goetta and Skyline Chili in my suitcase.
The Cruft Reference Book.
You simply must love eBay for finding things like this.
The Cruft Reference Book.
You simply must love eBay for finding things like this.
My new haircut.
My new haircut.

Time to go make lunch and get the house in order.