http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summarySat, 26 Aug 2006 19:49:14 +0000http://kayray.org/blog.htmlKara Shallenberg15http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115661881112799586Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:57:00 +00002006-08-26T12:10:00.753-07:00Blogger.com doesn't work very well lately, so I've installed Wordpress on my server and copied all these blogger.com posts over. This blog will now be discontinued. Please visit my new and improved blog at http://kayray.org/ Thanks! See you there!http://kayray.org/2006/08/new-blog-again.phpKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115654067158144831Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:13:00 +00002006-08-25T14:28:19.846-07:00So! Now that blogger.com is working again and I can reliably create a post, here's a link to the NY Times article about LibriVox that was published today: Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod To misquote Larry David: "Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty cool!" Dan was up early, went out and bought the paper, and left our story on the bed for me to find when I woke up :)http://kayray.org/2006/08/new-york-times.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115653968193743862Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:58:00 +00002006-08-25T14:18:29.783-07:00Yeah blogger.com has been broken to a greater or lesser extent all day. As you can see, i've got some delightful duplicated posts that I CAN'T GET RID OF! They don't show up in my "edit posts" screen. Sigh.http://kayray.org/2006/08/blogger-is-being-lame.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115654040811876140Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +00002006-08-25T14:13:28.120-07:00Interesting. I got fed up with blogger not publishing that last post, and not letting me remove 3 duplicated posts, so I went into the html file on my server and poked it with a stick. Added some plain old text at the top to let people know I knew it was broken. And now it seems to be working again, go figure. But still, now that I know I enjoy the new-fangled blogging experience, with the http://kayray.org/2006/08/hmm.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115652559559397381Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:59:00 +00002006-08-25T13:45:16.036-07:00This morning I cleaned the fridge, since there was barely any food in it anyway, and re-arranged the shelves a little bit. Then Henry and I went Out on Errands. First to the bookstore. Henry is into a series called The Deltora Quest, and had enough allowance money saved up to buy the next book in the series. But our local B&N didn't have #6! The nice clerk called the Encinitas branch, which http://kayray.org/2006/08/errands-with-henry.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115637781814438409Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:54:00 +00002006-08-23T17:03:38.170-07:00It is later and, as promised, here is more. A few weeks back, you may remember, a freelance writer, Craig Silverman, called me for a phone interview about LibriVox. He planned to pitch his article to the NY Times. Last night, in the middle of the night, when we had finally reached the US and it no longer cost a dollar a minute to check my voice mail, I found a couple of frantic messages from a http://kayray.org/2006/08/ny-times.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115637352386922068Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:19:00 +00002006-08-23T16:54:21.416-07:00Boy, we were only traveling for, um, 14 hours or something but it felt like much more. I hate being in airplanes SO MUCH. Hate, Hate, Hate. Hate the cramped seats, hate the dry air that's always either too hot or too cold, hate the tiny little cups of water they dole out like they're worth their weight in gold. D'ya think maybe Evian or someone could get some publicity by providing us http://kayray.org/2006/08/home.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115635449158369584Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:29:00 +00002006-08-23T10:34:51.583-07:00Today we leave Montreal. Sigh. It's such a beautiful city and we had the best vacation ever, mostly because Hugh and Christine were here but also because we just love Montreal. Can hardly wait to come back again someday soon. Slept rather late, since we were up so late last night. Did computer stuff with Hugh, geekifying his macbook pro (quicksilver! menumeters!), and admired Christine's http://kayray.org/2006/08/going-home.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115635409734145527Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:11:00 +00002006-08-23T10:28:17.370-07:00Nice lazy day. Dan and I went down to Steve's Music to return the rented guitar, and then over to a liquor store, Saq, for fancy Scotch. The liquor store was right next to the Basilica so there were a lot of touristy shops. We stopped in one for water and found nice t-shirts to take home to Henry and Sal. Also bought some much-needed candy. It was cooler today and very pleasant. In the http://kayray.org/2006/08/recording-with-hugh.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115612959272674031Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:28:00 +00002006-08-20T20:36:45.420-07:00It started raining last night and rained all day, too! Woohoo! Since we had three rather busy days in a row, we decided to just loaf for our remaining vacation time. Christine had the day off today and she hoped I'd teach her to knit, so in the afternoon we went on a Yarn Store Pilgrimage through the rain. It was much easier for me to walk a long distance, today, in the cool rainy weather. http://kayray.org/2006/08/nice-and-rainy.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115608673925697731Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:49:00 +00002006-08-20T08:28:01.230-07:00Today was the last day of our 3-day museum passes. We went to the Stewart first. It was really hot and humid today and it was kind of a longish walk from the metro station, but it was well worth it! Lots of fascinating historical objects. Dan especially enjoyed the interactive miniature model of old Montreal! After we'd gone through the whole museum, we lay on the grass for a bit and thought http://kayray.org/2006/08/stewart-ramazey.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115608490036095953Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:23:00 +00002006-08-20T08:27:12.230-07:00Dan and Hugh went off to Hugh's office so they could work on Collectik and Librivox stuff, so I took myself to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I really wanted to see the exhibition of "Italian Design and Avant-Garde in the 20th Century"! I had a few small annoying panic attacks on the way, but I forced myself to calm down and managed to get there ok. The museum was wonderful! I went http://kayray.org/2006/08/italian-design.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115586184246231727Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:31:00 +00002006-08-17T17:44:03.653-07:00After breakfast etc this morning, Dan and I walked a few blocks to the nearest Metro station. Easy to find, clean, bright, airy. Took the metro to the old part of Montreal, got off, walked downhill to the Science Center. The Science Center sold us a couple of Montreal Museum Passes, which will let us ride unlimited public transportation and visit 32 different museums, for three days. Neat! http://kayray.org/2006/08/great-museums-great-metro.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115582991179963512Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:26:00 +00002006-08-17T09:02:03.296-07:00Hey look at that, blogger.com is working and I can make a post. Chalk one up on the "drawbacks of blogger" side. This is the first time in two days I've been able to access my blog. Could have something to do with the slow internet, of course. But anyway here I am and here we are in beautiful Montreal! Tuesday was our flight. Uneventful, long and tiring. Note: you MUST have a birth http://kayray.org/2006/08/were-in-montreal.htmlKara Shallenberghttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/32474789/posts/summary/115564544006697544Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:31:00 +00002006-08-15T05:39:01.670-07:00Henry and I did a lot of erands this morning. Bank, library, bookstore, music store. The bookstore was, of course, the most fun! Henry is reading a new paperback fantasy series and needed book two, and I needed something to read on the plane. I got "The History of the World in Six Glasses" in paperback, and also a book about the seamy underside of the Victorian Age, can't remember the title http://kayray.org/2006/08/margaritas.htmlKara Shallenberg