I type a lot of link code, and HTML in general. Is anyone aware of any Windows software (or even a Firefox extension) that allows programmable hot keys, so that I could do <blockquote> or <a href=”” target=””> with a single (or dual) keystroke? It would help a lot with my incipient carpal tunnel problems.

I just saw this on Usenet: “Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause kids.”

Yeah, I know, the blogging’s been light. I’m a little under the weather with a cold, and I’ve got paying work to do. When I get around to it, I may post a form that you can fill out for a refund.

Flew in from Amsterdam late last night. Posting may resume once I figure out what time zone I’m in. I will note, though, that NASA has to be a prime suspect in Anna Nicole Smith’s death–it seems to have knocked Nowak out of the news.

Just joking, of course. NASA hardly ever does things like that any more…

I’m in the Netherlands now. We had a whirlind tour of Belgium including a high-speed train ride from Calais to Brussells. It was quite a thrill–I don’t know how fast it was going, but I’m sure that it was the fastest I’ve ever been in a ground vehicle. Planes seem much safer, when you see all the landscape whizzing by (particularly when you pass another train a couple feet away at a relative velocity of whatever it is).

Drove down and had lunch in Ghent, then spent a couple hours in Bruges, and back east and up to the Amsterdam area. Taking care of business here, then back to Florida late tomorrow night.

On the previous post, I was going on the initial reports that Shipman was an astronaut, and hadn’t gotten the latest (it was a frazzled week). And yes, regardless of her actual accomplishments, I should have know to refer to her as a Naval aviator, not a pilot.

[Update a few minutes later]

Sorry, that was sloppy wording in the last sentence. The “her” referred to Nowak, not Shipman.

I’m flying to Europe this afternoon to deal with a family situation. I’m taking my computer, but I don’t know how much time, or Internet access I’ll have, so I may be out of touch for a while. I do plan to be back Tuesday night, though.

I’m upgrading a hard drive on a Win2K machine. From what I gather doing a little googling, you can’t clone a drive with XCOPY32 for this operating system (as I used to for Win98). Is there some way using available system tools to do it, or do I have to buy something like Norton Ghost?

I just downloaded the latest version of Spybot Search & Destroy, with all the latest updates, on one of the Windows machines. When I ran it, it found quite a few problems (mostly cookies). Whenever I try to actually fix them, the program hangs, and has to be killed with the Task Manager. Anyone know what might be up?

[Evening update]

As some in comments suggested, I tried CCleaner. It was a martyr for the cause, dying before exiting. But it seemed to do the job. I ran Spybot afterward (two or three times) and it finally cleaned up all the issues. Or at least it said it did. We’ll see how it goes.

I am busy, getting some proposals done that are due at 6 AM tomorrow. Why do you ask?

It looks like the lonely Kerry story was bogus. Guess it was “fake, but accurate.”

We were cleaning up the house and having a party last night, and today we drove over to the Gulf Coast, and had a sunset dinner on Captiva Island. We just got back. Serious blogging will likely not commence until Tuesday, but as for tomorrow, Go Blue!