I had a lazy Sunday Afternoon, followed by a Deathmarch and then followed by a lazy Sunday Evening. So the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-Compound Bartender got to experimenting.

(One of the favorite activities of The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com)
(more…)

I saw this UPI Article over at The Pirate King:

Jupiter may be undergoing climate change

This is serious. If we don’t change our addiction to fossil fuels we could destroy not only our own planet, but the whole solar system.
(more…)

I’ve been updating some of the plugins for WordPress today.

The first, you should notice, are the Recent Comments in the side bar. I’m using a new Vendor for this, and I like the result. For one, the output is more customizable, and for two, the Trackbacks/Pingbacks don’t get in the way.

The second, I’ve added a third layer to the Spam Prevention Schema.
(more…)

It is a new month, and that means that it is time for everyone favorite Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Monthly Feature: Searchy Fun.

For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com via the various Search Engines of the World Wide Web.

Let’s get to checking!
(more…)

Once upon a time, my family visited Arizona, on vacation, and one of us picked up the book The Story of Superstition Mountain and the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. I think Mom read it when we got back home. Years later, I tried reading it, and maybe got through a few chapters. I put it down, and I forgot about it, and when I moved to Arizona in 1996, it followed me here.

I picked it back up again, to fill the leisurely reading slot in the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Reading List.

It is a novelized history of the well known volcanic plug to the East of Phoenix near Apache Junction, misnamed Superstition Mountain. (It is misnamed as it is a collection of cliffs and peaks, each with their own names.)

It was a unique enough book that I thought I’d write a Book Review.

Once again, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com have subverted the estate of their Arch-Nemesis, The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr..
(more…)

This article has gotten a lot of play in the previous two weeks on the Right Wing Talk Radio circuit. Granted, the subject matter would drive listeners to call, on both sides of the issue:
Conservatives more honest than liberals?

The headline may seem like a trick question — even a dangerous one — to ask during an election year. And notice, please, that I didn’t ask whether certain politicians are more honest than others. (Politicians are a different species altogether.) Yet there is a striking gap between the manner in which liberals and conservatives address the issue of honesty.

(more…)

It seems that some others are observing the new development of Generation Y entering the Workforce.

Cisco sent me these links of the Pontifications of Tamara J. Erickson, from the Harvard Business Publishing Website, and they have a different perspective of the interactions between the Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y in the workplace.
(more…)

I had a great idea for a parody about Barack Obama’s campaign bus, given all the people he has thrown under it (figuratively) in the past few months.

But when I google “Obama’s Campaign Bus” in Google Image Search, all I see are pictures of Barack and company inside the bus, or the exterior of McCain’s Straight Talk Express. Nothing of the exterior of the Bus.

Now I’m curious.
(more…)

And now, for entirely unimportant reasons, I would like to give my 34th annual State of the Geek address.

The occasion for this address is the fact that the Earth is in a specific position in its yearly orbit of the sun.
Today, the Olsen Twins celebrate their 22nd Birthday.
Tim Allen also turns 55.
Malcolm McDowell turns 65.

For those of you who don’t quite understand, just keep reading. As I mentioned, it is entirely unimportant.
(more…)

Before the events of the State of the Geek Address, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com learned that Ron Paul had ended his Presidential Campaign.

(This was a wonderful Birthday Present from the Ron Paul Revolution.)
(more…)

I was saddened to learn that the mighty-mighty Tim Russert collapsed and died on my birthday, yesterday. I spent all afternoon listening and watching the newscasts honoring the giant of Political Journalism.

Tom Brokaw chokes out the first announcement on an NBC Special Report

Like I suggested, the arguments about Pluto’s Planetary Status isn’t over

And for all their troubles, it just got more complicated: Pluto is now a “plutoid”.

When in doubt, make something up. This is Science.

Hatip: Pencil Nub
(more…)

It seems The Colonel is not taken by the message of Hope and Change of the Barack Obama campaign.
Gaddafi attacks Obama on Israel

Libya’s leader has strongly criticised US presidential candidate Barack Obama for saying Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel.

It seems that Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qadahfi, who has been dictator of Libya since 1969 (and has only achieved the rank of Colonel) also questions the Senator’s experience.
(more…)

Today, the people at Mozilla released the MR of their award winning Web Browser Firefox 3.0. (The browser most recommended for Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com)

So it is installed, and Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com looks as it was designed, so I’m happy with it. There are a bunch of new features and whatnot in the Release Notes which I will be slowly checking out.
(more…)

For those of you keeping score, The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com have evacuated The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr.‘s Lair, as The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr. was taking his lair back by force, yesterday.

The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com barely escaped with their lives.
(more…)

I just crossed Patrick O’Brian’s The Surgeon’s Mate off of the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Reading List.

Funny thing, I thought I knew “who” “the Surgeon’s Mate” would be, but in the end, I was wrong.

Go figure.

Today marks the official start of the Tucson Monsoon Season.

While last night, on the DeathMarch, there was some rain; today was the first serious downpour of the 2008 Monsoon season.

I’d just like to recall a joke from my Uncle who has lived here longer than I have:
(more…)

Think of this as a bookmark in your Lifetime-at-a-Glance book (if you have one; I do, its called my blog)
(more…)