Time for a subscription to Safari!

AppleScript: The Definitive Guide. A new O’Reilly book by Matt Neuburg “explores and teaches the [AppleScript] language from the ground up.” [ranchero.com]

David Hoggard is running for a city council post in Greensboro, NC. I've started to read his weblog (thanks, Ed) and came across this nugget: Renters to Buyers. David, I'll be passing your idea to *my* city council folks for consideration–this looks like a great idea.

Boston Update

Today we're in the small south Massachusetts town of Uxbridge at a
jewelry supply company. Tammy is meeting one of her suppliers
face-to-face, much like I did with BloggerCon. Personal relationships
are more and more important in this age of Internet communications.

She's going through bag after bag of semi- precious stones, choosing
current trendy stones and some basics for the main part of her line.
Examples? She looking at some Russian and German stones right now, cut
in a fashion I've never seen. Next stp: lunch!

Joe:  I wanted to play with ShareBlogs, but ran out of time each
day with family life and BloggerCon approaching.  I liked the idea
but I never had a chance to give back.  I over-committed and under
delivered.   For that, I'm sorry.

Lotsa pre-BloggerCon stuff:

Doc talks about Scott's BloggerCon essay.  Here he mentions another from Mitch.

Jeff Jarvis blogs a bit of his trip to BloggerCon.  (Thanks, Dave)

Dave on Cameron's participation in BloggerCon.

Jeremey Allaire about a proposed format: RSS-Data

More later.  Off to the train station…

Test post: mail to weblog feature.

Reading Scripting News frequently provides hidden gems like this:

I read the first two pages and had to stop–I need to work and the article is tood good to read with distractions.

My grandfather gave me his Bulova Accutron “SpaceView” watch about a year ago.  It's a great watch with a neat bit of history.  Here's a photo:

I left it with Rick McElvaine, owner of Maxon's Diamond Merchants here in Springfield last January with a plea for help:  find someone who could fix it.  Rick spent 8 months investigating the watch and finding someone withe right parts and creditials that could fix it.  The end result you see above, a beautiful watch restored to perfect running order.  The main coil, index wheel and crystal were replaced and I added the leather band, allowing me to wear it daily.

My grandfather received the watch as a Father's Day gift from his wife in 1966 and was worn daily until it sadly stopped working.  Parts had become non-existent and the original lead-acid batteries were nowhere to be found.

Bob, thanks for the opportunity to carry this watch into the future.  It's a delight to wear and a reminder of good times and the love of my grandparents.

Update:  Link to an Accutron source.

I just found this:

Google Link

That's for my site.  Here's the explaination page.

My Aunt Linda has started a new business:  custom DVDs. 
She's just beginning, but her enthusiasm is infectious.  She's
gone from a simple project for the family to a website with samples in
less that six months.  That's a great example of the marriage of
opportunity and technology.  Of course, she couldn't have done
this without her Mac.