Lost in OK

This is a little technical post for all of you geeks out there. I’ve really appreciated some of the features of the WordPress blog engine. One of the really unique features is the ability to attach latitude and longitude information to a particular post and for it to display a link to one of the various mapping sites out there. However, I also really appreciate the various blog posting clients (Azure, wBloggar, Zempt) for creating and editing my posts. But none of these clients has the geographic tagging ability built into it, which is especially important for mobile blogging. The following hack lets you enter latitude and longitude as XML tags within the post content and they’ll be stripped out and turned into the standard GeoTags.

What a week! It hasn’t been my best but I’m fighting through. We are way past “thin” in my department so I am now on a frantic hiring frenzy to fill our vacant posts. The economy must be improving because finding qualified local candidates is becoming extremely difficult. That or they are moving out of state faster than I can find them. We’ll find the right people, but I may have pulled out my hair before then. If you are looking for some good computer work with a fun company, check out these job descriptions.

I guess it’s time for a personal update though there isn’t all that much to report. Work has been keeping me a little bit busier than usual, but hey, if I wasn’t working I would have to figure out something else to do. Besides, keeping busy has been instrumental in helping me through the nicotine withdrawal. I have to admit that it has been much easier this time than any time in the past. Not sure why, maybe I’ve done this enough times that I’m in good practice. ;) Well, here’s to keeping it permanent.

I know this is sick, but this quote has to be a classic. It comes from an Associated Press story this morning titled “Husband’s death called tragedy” and reads:

A northeastern Oklahoma woman who shot and killed her husband while the two were arguing about a television talk show said she was trying to warn him, not kill him.

Reason #4956 why I am still a bachelor. ;)

I guess everyone has noticed the conspicuous lack of posting of the Random Picture of the Day. Since my vacation in January I have to admit that I haven’t been feeling the photo bug as much. However, I’m getting back into it now. However, rather than rushing around snapping and putting up sub-standard work, I’m going to take a brief break from posting. I hope to start posting again in April. Additionally, I’m going to New Orleans in April which is always a photo rich environment. I’m also going to be taking a weeklong bicycle trek across Oklahoma in June as part of the Freewheel tour. It’s been many years since I last took this tour, but I’m really looking forward to it and I certainly will take many pictures. Until then, I’ll try to write more to fill the void.

I received one of the best fortunes ever from a local Chinese takeout:

Money is the root of all evil and men need roots.

Cato has filed an interesting friend-of-the-court brief on the subject of whether it is constitutional for a citizen to refuse to talk to a law enforcement officer. Full Brief

[Listening to: Rush Limbaugh 2 - Premiere Radio Networks - (04:46)]

My colleague Peter and I have been swapping computer jokes/quotes this afternoon and here are the highpoints:

There are two types of programming languages; the ones that people bitch about and the ones that no one uses. -Bjarne Stroustrup

If I were chained to a bench and ‘perl’ was the only thing that could open the lock, I’d probably cut my hand off. -Gerald Penn

In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.

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