Anyone who has been to an Astros game must have seen the Astros Girls at sometime or another, you know the girls where one of them has AST painted on their stomach and the other has ROS along with a snarky remark about the away team on their backs? Well if you haven’tthen you need to stop by the 9 Amigo’s bar at the juice box or just keep your eyes on the TV coverage!
Anyway I digress… The whole point of this post is that one of the Astros Girls, Amberlee is embarking upon a modeling career and needs your help! She is currently a candidate for the Girls Riding 2008 Calendar but in order to make the cut she currently needs 87 more posters of herself (of the picture linked in this post) to be sold by April 22nd so you have like 25 days to spend your $9.99 (plus postage) and as an added bonus you will also receive the 2008 calendar so what do you have to lose?
Visit the Girls Riding online store and help out an Astros Girl today! I’m sure you could also persuade Amberlee to personally autograph the poster and/or calendar as well!
The timing of my stint in Perth really hasn’t turned out that badly as tomorrow night I get to go see The Mars Volta at The Metro City here in Perth and they aren’t touring anywhere near Houston any time in the near future so I really lucked out! I was actually surprised I managed to get tickets as the show was originally meant to go ahead last year but was delayed so I would have expected the show to be sold out long ago.
I have never seen them live but friends have told me it will be one of the best concerts I’ll ever go to and I really enjoy listening to both Amputechture and Frances the Mute so I can’t wait to experience them live! I will report back here later in the week with my impressions on the performance!
I currently use Entourage on my Mac for my work’s MS Exchange based calendar but am looking at unifying my calendaring into Google Calendar but don’t actually want to synch the two but rather just have a way to easily add an existing event from Entourage into one of my Google Calendars so it gets on my radar. Does anyone know a way to do that?
If there is a way to do it with MS Outlook but not with Entourage then I may look at just running Outlook in Parallels instead of using Entourage but would have to wait until I am more local to my Exchange server to do that initial synch as it would take forever on my current internet connection.
Ultimately I want iCal to display all of my events but leave my work calendar out of the synch process, at the moment I just manually add the events to gCal or forward the email to my Gmail account then add it using the provided link but that is a real pain and it would be great if I could get a “Add to Google calendar” link in Entourage itself in either the event or the invite to the event.
My return to Houston is only 2 weeks away now and during my absence the long awaited release of the Treo 750 took place so now I am wondering if I really should run out to Cingular as soon as I get back and grab myself one? Heck if I decide to purchase one and there is a Cingular store at the airport (LAX or IAH) then I will probably grab one there!
I guess my main concern about it is the battery life as I will be a pretty heavy user of the 3G for web browsing and email so does anyone have personal experience with the 750 and it’s battery life? I mean from actually using it and not reading about it on some website!
I have really missed having a smartphone over here in Perth as I often go to check something on the web like a review for a product I am thinking of getting as an impulse buy or just checking the score on the cricket! My Treo 650 isn’t going to last much longer as it has seen quite a beating mainly due to the silly external antenna catching on things and launching itself out of my holster before exploding on the floor, I lost the stylus from one such incident!
There just seems to be a huge lack of 3G smartphones available in the States unless you are willing to pay the premium and get an imported phone so the Treo 750 seems like it is just about the only real choice as the others are either too bulky eg. the 8525 or don’t have a touch screen eg. the Blackjack.
I finally got my act together and just purchased my tickets to Opening Day for the Houston Astros v. Pittsburgh Pirates on the 2nd April, which is conveniently just two days after I return to Houston after a 3 month stint back in Perth, Australia!
From what I have read so far about how Spring Training is going it is looking like it could be quite a successful year for the Astros and we may actually get a good level of run support for our pitchers this year unlike last season!
Now all I have to decide is who is going to get my second ticket and join me on opening day at 9 Amigos!
EDIT: As you can see from the comments Kelly is the lucky one that gets to join me!
I just came across a small bug in TinyMCE in the latest Wordpress (I use SVN so I’m not sure when the bug was introduced) that was preventing the WYSIWYG editor from displaying on the write post and other editing pages. The problem is a misplaced comma in /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php.
Edit that file and then goto line 82 or there abouts, which should be a big array for initArray, you need to edit the below code: imp_version : "< ?php echo intval($_GET['ver']); ?>“,
< ?php do_action('mce_options'); ?>
plugins : “< ?php echo $plugins; ?>“
I just tried giving both MarsEdit and Ecto a trial run but they just caused too many headaches for me to be bothered with them so I think I will just stick to the web based interface now especially now I have tagging support in the rich text editor interface thanks to Ultimate Tag Warrior.
Anyone who has been to an Astros game must have seen the Astros Girls at sometime or another, you know the girls where one of them has AST painted on their stomach and the other has ROS along with a snarky remark about the away team on their backs? Well if you haven’tthen you need to stop by the 9 Amigo’s bar at the juice box or just keep your eyes on the TV coverage!
