Need to rewind your hose?

I have an automated sprinkler system in my yard, but I still need to use a hose just about every day to water some areas which don't get enough water or get too much sun, or for various other plants. Managing the water hose is a pain in the neck, but ReelSmart makes a water powered hose rewinder which would really make hose management much easier. Their weblog has lots of info about Hose Reels as well as other garden-related things. I liked their article about how to prune your roses, something I need to do.

Zookeeper

More than 20 years ago I used to play the arcade game Zookeeper pretty much every day. I worked in a bowling alley and the game was right across from the front desk where I worked. It was a great game, but I never noticed it being available on any other platform. It turns out there is a $2000 arcade game system you can buy which comes with 100 games, one of which is Zookeeper. I played it for a little while and was surprised that I still remembered the game very well even though I had not played it in more than 20 years. I did a little more research and Zookeeper is available for the PS2, PC and XBOX as part of Taito Legends for around $20. I think I'll save myself $1980 and buy that.

Bridal Shower invitations

If you are having a bridal shower for your wedding, take a look at this  Bridal Shower Invitations page.This page has some good ideas, nicely organized, with additional links related to bridal shower invitations.Tags: payperpost, "bridal shower invitation"

Discussion about Vizaweb

Anyone who would like to chat about the vizaweb outage/problem -- I have set up a discussion here:

http://www.quicktopic.com/37/H/PLrBXbHiBp6Q

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Vizaweb going from bad to worse

My weblog at brian.reillyville.com doesn't show up at all now, and Vizaweb goes to WhatsYourDomain.com. I am hoping that this will get resolved tomorrow and that part of the reason things aren't fixed yet is that this happened over a weekend. However, I have gotten no replies from vizaweb since Friday afternoon, and there seems to be no way to get any information about what's going on. They've got a problem with their databases and maybe their domain name registration. On the other hand, maybe they didn't pay their bills and they are out of business. It's hard to tell.

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What happened to vizaweb?

Vizaweb.com is the host of my personal site, www.reillyville.com. Since yesterday, I have had all kinds of mysql errors on my weblog there and my photo site is not working. Pretty much anything which uses a MySQL database doesn't work. Vizaweb's support responded earlier yesterday, but not last night or today, and now their site is not accessible and displays an error message which says "This count has been suspended". I know that Vizaweb got hacked this week, so maybe that is the source of the trouble, but it's a little troubling not knowing what's going on or if the problems might be resolved soon.

Interesting video

It says that Noah took a picture of himself every day for 6 years (so far). That's dedication! The thing that gets me about this is that he never looks very happy in the pictures.

Most famous person from Winchester, CA

Adam Gadahn may be the most famous person from Winchester, which is next to Temecula and has a population of around 2000 people.

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MacZot Story Zot

I bought my first mysteryZot last night. It was $5.95 for 3 unknown applications, although TUAW had said that one of them was going to be KIT - Keep it Together -- which seemed like a useful tool. The other two turned out to be RooSwitch and Hawkeye, two things I probably wouldn't have bought otherwise. RooSwitch lets you maintain different settings for an application. Seems useful for software developers and testers. Maybe there will be some way I can use it. Hawkeye has a nice icon which seems to have nothing at all to do with what it does, which is to create DVDs. It may do some transcoding of video formats or recompression, but I haven't tried it yet.

Qumana Blogging tool

I had no luck getting MarsEdit to work with Blogger, but it looks like the free Qumana does work automatically. I didn't have to do any work to set it up. Not bad.

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Cal Bears ranked #9 to start the season

For most of the time I was a student at Berkeley, the football team was not too good. They had some good players but never a big season. Now, with Jeff Tedford as the coach, they have become a perennial powerhouse and this year are ranked ninth to start the season. Tomorrow's game should be a good one against Tennessee.

Apple to sell movies online

According to Business Week, Apple will start selling movies for $14.99 and $9.99 through the iTunes Music store later this month. Wal-Mart doesn't like the idea because the price is lower than what they can charge, but that seems to be the case only because Disney is the only studio which has made a deal with Apple, and Steve Jobs is the largest Disney shareholder.

I'm not sure that I will be buying too many movies for $15. I'd rather rent them from NetFlix because there just aren't too many movies I would watch more than once.

"Bush 3.0 issues patch for Iraq war"

Earlier today I noticed a headline on www.cnn.com which said "Bush 3.0 issues patch for Iraq war". It's gone now, but it seemed like a very strange thing to find on a news site which at least tries to be non-partisan. The story is still there: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/31/bush.terrorism/index.html -- and they do mention Bush 3.0, whatever that is.

Local fires

There is a big fire in San Bernardino right now. Things look pretty dry around here and we are going to be going through several more very hot weeks, so I hope that we don't end up with some big fires in Temecula. I have noticed that many of my neighbors have burned out areas on their lawns from the extreme heat this summer. And that is with daily watering. I bet the guy in the neighborhood with the astroturf lawn is saving quite a bit on his water bill this summer.

Lady drives sons to tagging locations

Some people will do almost anything for their children.

Smoke Detector with personalized message

Woot is selling a smoke alarm where you can personalize the message. 2 for $15 today only.

I need more links

I can't post to Blogger from either of my blogging applications and it doesn't support any editing features in Safari, making it difficult to include a link other than to do it manually with html.

Karr

I never thought that guy Karr was involved in the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. The only thing that seems odd is that four letter abbreviation and the fact that he had used it elsewhere, even in his high school yearbook. Maybe he used it later because he knew it was on the ransom note, but it seems like an odd thing.

Monday Night Footbal is on ESPN

I think that is going to take some getting used to, but I bet it won't be that different than it was in the past.

Where did it go

I am having some trouble posting from MarsEdit. Not sure what the problem is.