Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Category: Short Reads

Updates that are comfortably bite-sized.

  • Facebook Importing, Part 2

    Apparently Facebook stops importing notes without telling you if you delete any of the imported ones. So I can either have duplicates or delete all the past, commented and tagged notes. Yay Facebook for such a limited support of this feature.

  • Managing My Web 2.0 Life

    After going through the whole process to create a Flickr account, I realized my URL of choice, /silversteelwolf, was already taken—by me. I had created another account months ago and promptly forgotten both about it and the login information for it. I’ve spent the past several days sending emails back and forth to Yahoo customer…

  • Importing to Facebook

    For a while now I’ve been importing these blog posts as notes into my Facebook account via the handy-dandy RSS feed Blogger provides. However, I recently added the feed to FeedBurner largely because it allows me to track subscribers using the handy little button on the right-hand side—four already since I added the thing, that’s…

  • Things that make me feel dumb: CAPTCHAs

    With the prominence of bots registering account and posting “comments” with the sole purpose of hawking their master’s shady online market, many websites have implemented a step to impede this unwanted behavior: the CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The purpose of this little image is in effect,…

  • Another Milestone for the Tercel

    Way back when I was still updating my journal (that’s what they called them before “blog” was such a popular buzzword) on deviantART, my ’84 Toyota Tercel hit a pretty significant milestone. On the trip back from Chincoteague, I passed by another one that made me happy enough that I actually wiped the dust off…

  • Thanksgiving at the Beach

    I went away from both home and Maryland for the Thanksgiving holiday for the first time in my life. It’s always interesting to break away from the regular and try something new, and in this case I think the experience was a good one. While it was obviously too cold for swimming (even though Rachel…

  • Omar Woes

    Here in the apartment, we all love Omar. We really do. But sometimes he does things we just can’t understand, like turning up the air conditioning when it’s 48 degrees outside. I literally had to go put on a jacket as my fingers were getting too cold to continue typing. What’s great is that Omar…

  • Cough Medicine

    Rachel took some high-powered cough medicine the other night. This is how our conversation went: Rachel: “I took this medicine… I think it’s going to knock me out.” Conversation ensues for a few minutes. Rachel: “I’m starting to feel a little funny.”Me: “You are?”Rachel: “…”Me: “Are you there?”Rachel: “…” I think I’m going to need…