Useful Ramblings

One of the two eggs has hatched and he/she is quite the “fatty”.

	Caught you sleeping.
	I am awake now!!!!! This chick looks like it is sitting on the edge of the nest.  I get the feeling that it is going to fly soon.
	At around 5 this afternoon checked the nest and no one is home.  There was no indication of damage.  I think that the chick was further along than I thought and the mother kicked it out and abandoned the nest leaving behind an unfertile egg that she will also abandon.  Will give it a few more days to see if she returns but I do not think that is going to happen.

Stopped to “smell the roses”.  Pond plants are growing and blooming.  This is a pic of a Louisiana Iris “Black Gamecock”.    Posted some other pics here .

Well I decided to complete the backyard effort by starting the final phase – a pergola.  See “pergola” in the right sidebar.  You can see the finished product here (upper left of the live feed – IE not supported).  I wanted a pergola to provide shade for orchids.  Usually they hung under the lychee trees but you could not see them so a pergola would solve this problem. 

I moved to new server hardware which required an install of a 64 bit OS and a resinstall/configuration/compile of most of the software I run.  I am still finding “missed” requirements and address them as they occur.  You too might find issues like broken links.  Not all the webpages have been restored but I am working it.

I have also upgraded the blog software and added a new look (theme) as well as reworked the way pages display in this blog.  Before, all posts were logged to the default page (the page you are currently looking at).  Now only the last post with a “previous entry” link for others in this default category will be displayed.  All others posts now display only under their assigned categories listed in the right sidebar.

Last flight of Atlantis as seen from the backyard.

A government that fears its people is a government to be feared. – rab

Two heroes stand out for me.  First is the the guy that stopped a column of tanks with a sack of groceries and second is the driver of the lead tank that refused to run over one of his own countrymen.  I wonder what happened to both of them?