Sphere links

I added the Sphere plugin to my other weblog since they have one for self-hosted Wordpress sites. It creates a list of other blogs and sites which may be relevant to an individual blog post on your site. It doesn't take up much real estate and everything is automated, but I'll have to see how useful the links are. It seems geared towards politics since they give you an option to include liberal only or conservative only links as well as all kinds.

What is Sphere?

Sphere has something to do with the blogger links available now on CNN.com. I signed up for their free widget and got an email back saying they were so busy it might take a few weeks for them to get back to me. A few weeks? Sounds like they need more employees. I'm still not sure what they do other than "connecting mainstream and social media," which sounds like a good thing.

109 degrees

The high today in Temecula was 109, which is probably as hot as it's been during the eight years I've lived here, although there may have been a few 110 degree days at one point. Either way, it was very hot and it's still 94 degrees about 90 minutes after the sun went down. It feels like Palm Springs, but it must have been even hotter there today. Looks like it's going to be a long, hot Labor Day weekend with most of the daylight hours spent inside.

I went for a walk today at around 9 AM and it was almost unbearable. Not sure I'll be trying that tomorrow.