Starlight Wishes

Goodbye to Starlight Wishes!

2012-02-20T11:44:00.000-05:00

The time has come to close Starlight Wishes and move on. My Google Friend Connect gadget gave out before the March 1st cut-off date, so no one has been getting any feeds from here in quite some time. Feedburner has also been slower than slow and Starlight Wishes has been depending on Feedburner too. I really do think that deprecating the Feedburner API means things will get choppy for

Happy New Year! ... Sorta...

2012-01-04T17:53:00.000-05:00

My Google Friend Connect is a "sometimes" thing. My December 23rd posting finally showed up in my Dashboard reader on January 1st, a little over a week after it was published on Blogger. Better late than never, I guess. But it doesn't inspire much confidence. I think it's pretty obvious that my GFC gadget is headed on the way out on March 1st with the rest of the non-Blogger gadgets because

Happy Holidays & Google Friend Connect Strikes Again!

2011-12-23T21:57:00.000-05:00

First and foremost ... A very Happy Holidays to everyone! May you have the best time ever! And may the New Year be full of wonderful surprises! Now ... Google Friend Connect ... and Feedburner ... and Google Blog Search. Google is putting a number of APIs on the chopping block. Feedburner is among them. My blog is tied up in Feedburner, which I've noticed is moving even more slowly than

The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn, Part 1

2011-12-13T10:11:00.001-05:00

I finally got to see the latest Twilight Saga movie ... "Breaking Dawn, Part 1!" I confess I was never all that much into the series. I started the first book, but never finished it. Probably because (as Amazon says) the series is for "Young Readers" and I'm not that young anymore. I did, however, see all the earlier movies at some point on HBO when they happened by. And they were all right.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2011-11-21T15:53:00.001-05:00

In the Adirondacks we've already had our share of frosts and even some slight snow. Still, it hasn't been that cold yet. Winter takes longer nowadays to reach full force. The contracting work on the outside of our house is just about done. There's a little inside work, but that should be finished well before Christmas ... I hope. The last couple of months have been filled with outside work that

Labor Day, 9/11, & Other Hard Times

2011-09-09T15:40:00.000-04:00

Labor Day has just passed. I know it's a tough time for some folks. In the last two weeks, one friend got laid off with a lot of others. And a second saw more than half her department laid off. I also know people who have had to take part time work because there wasn't anything else. And others who have had their salaries cut even as their workload was increased. And still others who were

Roofing

2011-08-24T11:44:00.000-04:00

This is what our house looks like lately. Like a wreak in an overgrown yard somewhere. What's really going on is the replacement of our old shingles. The roofers are rushing so everything is in place for the arrival of Hurricane Irene this weekend. She probably won't carry much punch in the Adirondacks because it's so far inland. But tarps and hurricanes don't tend to mix, no matter how

Summer Projects

2011-08-04T10:46:00.000-04:00

How is everyone's summer going? Here in my corner of the Adirondacks we've had endless sun, after a spring full of endless rain. Unfortunately, the plants would have liked things better spaced out. A lot of things in the garden are wilting. And we've got no rain in sight. In fact, the rain clouds that do show up in our vicinity seem to divide up in a specific effort to avoid us. I can't help

Another Opening, Another Show

2011-07-21T16:13:00.001-04:00

This is probably the third time I've begun this blog. Early last year the original one, Starlight Blog, was the victim of the FTP change at Blogger. At that time I decided to stay with my domain host and use Wordpress for the blog. And it worked great till recently. Recently Wordpress upgraded to a new version that my host couldn't support. I didn't realize they were still using an older