Good morning all! Hoping everyone in the house is feeling better. It's going to be a blah day here with 45°F and rain. And sadly Abby is still stuck at home in all of this while we make sure whatever she had is really over.
After dropping the girls off, I stopped by Donut Fresh Express and brought a dozen donuts home for the family. Then dad and I took the boys to school. Now I'm VPN'd into work for the rest of today.
Mad! Something screwy is going on with Facebook's RSS/syndication feeds of status updates. My daily archiving script depends on it and every update now shows up as "a:0:{}.", ie. garbage. Hoping it's just a transient bug on their end.
It has been an ultimately boring day. I've been debugging C code while it has done nothin' but rain outside. On the plus side, I fixed a lot of bugs today.
Went with Michelle and our house guests for dinner at The Mile Away restaurant. (related link)
Bookmarks I made today:
Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet - Times Online
Comment: Hmm. Last week I was hearing "have only one child". This week I'm hearing "give up meat" to save the planet. I'm 0 for 2.
Excerpt: People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
Alternative regulations test alternative energy
Comment: This stinks. The man in this story installed a wood pellet furnace, but then later couldn't an FHA home loan because regulations don't consider that a stable source of heat. Makes me glad we still have the propane furnace to back up our two wood pellet stoves.
Excerpt: Today we have a cautionary tale about an alternative energy technology that holds great hope for New Hampshire. Alas, for the geeks in the audience, it’s cautionary, not because of fun technical issues but because of boring regulatory issues.
How dogs damage the planet like a 4x4
Comment: Just one kid, no meat, now "no cats and dogs"?! Man! This combatting of climate change is really getting hard. ;-P
Excerpt: also suggests a cat is equivalent to running a Volkswagen Golf...