This day in history Johannes Kepler Discovers Third Law of Planetary Motion (1618) Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician who derived the three laws of planetary motion. His observations influenced Isaac Newton's later discovery of the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
I created a orkut profile and invited a couple people to be my friends... but looking at my list of email contacts maybe I just put it on here and those interested can contact me about an invite. From the site:
orkut.com is a new social networking service named for the Google engineer who developed it, Orkut Buyukkokten. (Orkut is easier to spell and pronounce than Buyukkokten.) It was created as an independent project to help people around the world connect.
Anyway, let me know if you are interested in joining up. It's like MySpace but less cluttered and less crazy unreadable profiles.
Wednesday is upon us... halfway to the weekend, well at noon anyway.
We're going to my friend James' wedding this weekend in French Lick, Indiana then driving to Edinburgh to stay the night and go to the outlet mall there on Sunday. Kind of a mini-vacation, we've been working on the house nearly every weekend so this will be a good break.
LIFE CHANGING TIPS AND TRICKS!!!! I'm seeing weather reports that are saying that Spring is on the way and that warmer weather is coming soon. In the meantime (was 5 here yesterday with windchill), here's some helpful information on saving someone that has fallen through some ice.
Peyton Manning celebrates his birthday as the host of SNL! I haven't watched a live airing of SNL in ages, this one I will be watching. I watched the IU vs. Northwestern game the other day... that was more thrilling than it needed to be. It was cool to see Wilmont break the IU 3 point record in a game though.
Haffey sent me a nice link on how to optimize your computer, whether you are running Vista or XP. Check it out. Thanks Haffey.
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I think the feature stuff is fun, as it gives me extra motivation to post on the days where I have a specific feature... like Tips and Tricks or Friday Funnies. So I'm going to add one for Thursdays:
This day in history This should be a fun feature... I will put things things in this feature that happened within the last week that were of historical interest and/or humorous interest. For the first installment we'll stay on the serious side, but definitely interesting. On this day in 1692, the Salem Witch Trials began. There is a lot of interesting reading at that link, with a ton of external links if you really wanted to dig in to the subject.
On to techie stuff... Real time traffic updates with Google Maps? Very cool. Adobe is looking at releasing a web version of Photoshop... I'll be interested to see how they handle the access/licensing but this really is the direction a ton of software and services are going.
Have a CVS in your area? Slickdeals is reporting a deal from them for 30 free digital prints. Awesome.
I try normally not to embed videos on consecutive days but this is an amazing piece of hardware and I've watched the video about 4 times myself already.
Late entry: So as a parent, stories about daycare tend to catch my eye... This story on MSNBC is very interesting and a bit worrisome. I think we were very lucky to find such a GREAT daycare when we lived in Nebraska. After moving to Indiana our first daycare experience was horrible but have again been lucky that we were able to move him to the daycare where I work. It's an amazing daycare available for us to use and it keeps Carson close to me as well. I hope that other parents have all the luck we've had and none of the horrible experience.