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Back in the USA from our trip to Monterrey
We had a good trip to Monterrey, Mexico, and thankfully were able to make our connecting flights back flying standby on Northwest. More pictures to follow. If you can’t wait, this is the Flickr set that will have all of them in it. 🙂 Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/04/14/back-in-the-usa-from-our-trip-to-monterrey/
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American Airlines, why pick today for your 1,000 flights cancelled COMPLETE FAIL?
Northwest pilot saves the day. So, our flight to Monterrey, Mexico was supposed to be today. Kristin has an author school visit tomorrow morning. Got the message that our flight had been cancelled. Went to the airport, scanned passport in the machine. “You’re checking in too early for your flight, which, by the way, we’ve…
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Going to Mexico for a couple of days
Kristin has some author school visits scheduled at an international school in Monterrey, Mexico in the next couple of days. We’re leaving later this morning (Wednesday, April 9) and will be returning Monday evening (April 14). Where is Monterrey, Mexico, you might ask? View Larger Map This is the hotel we’ll be staying at over…
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Video of the fire in the outdoor patio fireplace at Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis + exhibition opening pics
YouTube – Fire in the Patio Fireplace at Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis We went to the Mad Art exhibition opening tonight. This video is was taken using my Treo 700p and was of the fire in their outdoor patio fireplace. It was quite cozy and nice. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/04/05/video-of-the-fire-in-the-outdoor-patio-fireplace-at-mad-art-gallery-in-st-louis-exhibition-opening-pics/
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A recent favorite picture I took at the Missouri Botanical Gardens
Flowers in the Temperate House (next to the Climatron). I really like how the focus came out on this picture. You can see more of my favorite pictures in my Favorites set on Flickr. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/04/05/a-recent-favorite-picture-i-took-at-the-missouri-botanical-gardens/
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New site design is live (also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress – 2.5)
In preparation for upgrading a whole mess of sites to using the latest version of WordPress I decided it was time to finally upgrade my own site and to implement the new design I’d been working on for a while (for over a year now). Check it out: www.gabrielserafini.com Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/04/01/new-site-design-is-live-also-upgraded-to-the-latest-version-of-wordpress-25/
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America’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost – the importance of context, and the power of selective quoting
One of the clips that has been played over and over again was of Barack Obama’s pastor saying that America’s chickens were coming home to roost. This video reveals that he was quoting a U.S. Ambassador who had said this. Fox News and other media outlets played the quote, over and over, making it sound…
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Gabriel – So I’m on FriendFeed now…
I can see why people like FriendFeed. It brings together lots of services, very easily, quickly, and more twitter-like and simple presentation than Tumblr which does much the same thing but shows larger versions of the content vs. smaller thumbnails. Also, the whole social aspect of it (the ‘friend’ part) is pretty sweet… see who…
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Full text and video of Barack Obama Speech: ‘A More Perfect Union’
Watch Barack Obama’s speech on his vision of the future of the perfection of the United States of America: My favorite quote from this deeply nuanced, insightful and intelligent speech: “This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and…
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RSS2.com “Down for Maintenance” screen
Today, as we were working on speeding up RSS2.com SQL queries and also repairing the database, I had the opportunity to make a quick little "down for maintenance" screen. The boy is Jackson, my friend Damon’s kid. Thankfully the server wasn’t down for too long, and it’s running well now. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/03/17/rss2com-down-for-maintenance-screen/