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Here’s a happy, peppy duck couple observing their duck friends. Photo taken at Loyal Reader Number Two’s Science Olympiad event, and part of my famous Bird series.

Happy St. Patty’s day. One of our many meaningless holidays. I celebrated by wearing my pale green shirt. Must honor my Irish roots, don’t you know.

Otherwise largely uninteresting day. Got up an hour late, commuted, worked, and commuted again. Evening plans include more fussing with the new remote control and a few more girls camp phone calls. In the event that my other goodies (DVD burner and video card) arrive, I’m sure I’ll find time to install and test them too.

Loyal Reader Number One’s iPhone application has been submitted. Let’s hope it turns out to be a little more lucrative than the Morrowlife Blog has been (still at $13 and holding!). Remember me when you’re rich, LRN1! Better yet, support me when you’re rich.

The Stereo Stream website is making progress too. There are pretty much just placeholder pages at this point, but that’s a start. I expect he’ll have a version of the desktop server available for download Real Soon Now.

Speaking of the iPhone, version 3.0 of the iPhone software was announced today. Developers can already get to it, and it will be available to the public sometime this summer. Lots of people have been looking forward to some of the improvements they’re putting in, like cut-and-paste (finally!), push email, and tethering. I think the most important change, though, is peer-to-peer connectivity. Why? Thank you for asking! I see Apple subtly positioning the platform as a competitive portable gaming machine – especially the Touch, with its other functions becoming more and more secondary. With peer-to-peer capability, tons of fun new games will quickly become available, resulting in a lot more hardware sales. It’ll be interesting to see what comes along. Your opinion?

How about a little controversy? It’s been a long time since we’ve had any controversy. Consider this: Have you ever seen a stupider idea than this? My answer: not that I can recall.

And speaking of stupid ideas, I definitely think my Loyal Readers and I should pool our money and buy this. I volunteer for the position of “Lord of the Manor.” There are plenty of “Serf” opportunities available.

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a little flock of birds at the Detroit Zoo. I think these guys were there voluntarily. Part of my famous Bird series.

Wonders of Blogger. I sat down to write Friday night and immediately fell asleep. Must have been tired. I woke back up just long enough to walk upstairs and get in bed.

The Fourth was pleasant. We had several friends over. We swam, jacuzzified, played croquet, ate hamburgers and associated goodies, and visited. Also watched the local fireworks. They were nice, with one oddity.

We walked out to the entrance to our neighborhood and discovered half of Lardville over there waiting for the fireworks. We arrived at about 9:10, expecting the fireworks to start at 9:30. It turns out they started at 10:00 instead. After going for just a couple of minutes, they stopped. Don’t know why. About five minutes later, half of the crowd got back in their cars and left. Immediately thereafter, the fireworks resumed. We thought it unfortunate that all those people came here and waited over an hour for two minutes’ worth of fireworks. They missed the best part, too. Including the smiley face. Wow.

Anyway. Several things on the agenda for today. I’m planning to wash the Miata, possibly get the Suburban washed (commercially, of course – it’s just too darned big to wash myself), look at a model home with Loyal Reader Number Four, maybe play a little more croquet with the family, swim, and who knows what else.

Have a great rest of the holiday weekend. See you on Monday.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number One creating some rock-based Great Art. We don’t confine ourselves here strictly to photographically-based work. Astute Loyal Readers will note the bird in the background. So I guess this picture could be considered part of my highly-respected Bird Series.

Nothing much to talk about today, especially since I used the Wonders of Blogger this morning to make Monday’s post. Well, there is one thing: my eyes are fine. I’ve ordered some new reading glasses (alas, the depredations of age continue their relentless advance) that will allow me to see short-range things a little bit better, but I’m otherwise doing great. Combined with my outstanding tooth quality, it was a good day, medically speaking. It was also nice to be around the old homestead most of the day, dogwise if for no other reason.

What a windy day! A front blew through this afternoon, pushing some clouds further east. The wind was strong enough to blow the two boogie boards into the pond, one of the noodles into the pool, and the barbecue cover and the covers of two torches onto the ground. Sigh. Even though it was quite cool, I’ve kept the windows closed today, thus minimizing the impact to my allergies. Not to mention the dust level in the house.

Just a minute – the discussion of the pond reminded me that I still need to feed the fellas today. Be right back.

I’m back, having fed the fellas (they’re just fine, thanks), chatted with Loyal Reader Number Four on the phone (she’s fine too, thanks, and having a nice time in Utah), transferred the guacamole to a more secure container, eaten some ice cream, ordered some nice in-ear Bose headphones for my birthday, and shut down my work computer. Whew.

And now I want to spend a little time studying Ruby before I go to bed. Must prepare to open the software company! See you tomorrow.