Author: Elaine

First Clone Horse

BBC News reports on the first cloned horse born in Italy ten weeks ago. A mule clone was born earlier this year in the United States. Prometea, who is the clone of the mare who acted as surrogate, looks like a sweetie. It will be interesting to see how she develops. The success that resulted in Prometea took 328 attempts.

International PGA Tour event in Castlerock

Jack has volunteered to help at the International, a PGA Tour event that is being held in a nearby town. Since he got some passes, I will be going up tomorrow. I’ve never watched any professional golf before. I am glad that I checked the site, since I learned that cameras are not permitted.

Movable Type

I would love any pointers to a script (perl cgi, php, whatever) that will delete all entries in a Movable Type Weblog. I know I can drop the entire weblog, but I want to retain the template and setup information.

Synonyms in Google

There is a new Google operator which allows search by synonyms. As an example, search for “movable type ~help” and you’ll also get results containing “guide”, “tutorial”, and so on. Via Winged …

Google has a page with tips on how to refine your search which includes the new operator.

Summer sky

Summer sky
We have had thunderstorms in the area since about five, but have seen quite of lot of blue sky as well. I have been watching for a rainbow in the east, but the clouds have mostly been too dense to the west.

Quote of the day

My goodness. Google Alert just informed me that my name came up on qotd, one of the quote of the day sites. The quote was Art is too much fun to be left only to those who are good at it. I used this in my email signature block for years before I decided my signature was getting too complicated.

(Zempt gets very cranky when you try to reference a deleted weblog.)