Great view of Chicago along Roosevelt. Just had to take this picture with my cellphone.

Lunch did not taste that good, but I found this on the table of interest. Clever way to find out which songs/bands are resonating with those eating in a mall.


Messing around with new ways to post to the site. Normal service will resume shortly.

Occupy Wall Street has come to Chicago. The protest is not on the same scale as what is taking place in New York, but slowly seems to be growing. Today, the sound of plastic drums resonated up and down LaSalle Street.

In a slightly rash moment of action today, I grabbed the existing SIM card in my mobile and sliced it down (courtesy of the device above) down to micro-sim proportions. Luckily for me it still works (with adapter) in my 'phone.
Now I am left with the sad outlines of the original card...


Born at 5:30 a.m. Her continuing adventures will be found on the Family and Travel blog.
A colleague of mine at work shared some great resources with me today. My site sometimes works best for me as a living reminder of some of the things I should be doing, so I am going to list these resources here
LaTeX to HTML: Pandoc
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
LaTex Extraction: PlasTeX
http://plastex.sourceforge.net/plastex/plastex.pdf
jQuery Mobile
http://qcd.nersc.gov:9080/nersc/default/demo
http://qcd.nersc.gov:9080/nersc