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Genealogy Update

29. October 2004 | Category Genealogy

I’ve been toying around with some new features to incorporate into the genealogy section at Piotter.org. I’m updating the links feature in the Extra Genealogy section of this website as well to reflective those additions.

At Flickr, a really interesting photosharing tool, I will be storing genealogy related photos that go along with genealogical data on this website. I may integrate this into the actual Piotter.org pages at some point in time… we shall see.

The other important new tool is PHPGedView, viewable on this site at Piotter.info. It makes the gedcom appear a little more lively and has some interesting features such as a calendar to ‘remember’ important birthdays and the such.

These things should liven up the genealogy section of the site a bit. Enjoy!

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Dear Hotmail

12. October 2004 | Category Internet

Why do you insist on using javascripts to open a new window for every link that appears in an email??? I hate using your pathetic service and now I get an new window for every link I click on? Forget it. I am seriously considering dropping your service. It serves no useful purpose other than to piss me off even more. STOP MESSING AROUND WITH HTML THAT APPEARS IN **MY** EMAIL MESSAGES. javascript is for dinosaurs and idiots, and you can figure out which you are!

—— Hotmail is bad and getting worse. The previous paragraph is my inquiry into a new method of madness they are trying to implement. Every link in your emails are set to open a new browser window. What the hell is that good for? I personally use Mozilla Suite and LOVE the use of tabbed browsing and can often use the open hyperlink in new tab from the right-click submenu in mozilla. But this Hotmail BS renders that inactive and insists instead on opening a whole new browsing window for every,EVERY little link.

Pathetic.

How can they continuously piss me off even more? Maybe the Microsoft connection is why.

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Hobnobbing in St.Peter

7. October 2004 | Category Personal

What an interesting night. To think one could be rubbing elbows and shaking hands with a player on the world stage that is actually a ‘somebody’. And to meet this person a town none other than St. Peter, MN. Granted some highly important people in their respective fields come to Gustavus Adolphus each year for the college’s Nobel Conference, it’s wild to think you’d be able to dine with them.

I had the pleasure to dine at the same table as Dennis J. Selkoe, a agreeable gentleman that appears close to possibly curing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s interesting that a person who could possibly win an actual Nobel Prize, would be so pleasant and down-to-earth as Mr. Selkoe was towards myself. I was rather astonished when he was giving his remarks tonight at the closing of the Conference that he would actually personally thank my sister, Lynnea, to the gathered crowd of nearly 1000 persons. Lynnea had been his campus chaperone throughout the conference. This honor in itself was humbling for my sister and she was greatly rewarded by his acknowledgement of this as well. I think she gave the same great impressions to some of the other presenters as well, as they personally asked her to give them a call when she is considering grad schools, which were in close proximity to these world-class individuals.

I’m just hoping that Mr. Selkoe persues his great studies and will be justly rewarded with a Nobel Prize for his work!

[Listening to: Somebody Else’s Money – The Wallflowers – (8:26)]
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