TrackBack on Radio?  Sounds great!  Let's see if this post shows up over at Jake's blog.

I wished for a 'tomato mail' icon and, voila!, Gary Secondino created .  Thanks Gary!  Isn't blogging great?  You can find .png, .jpg, and .gif versions here.
After a bit of resizing and fussing over, I got this .  Woohoo!

Why the tomato?  It means I don't mind if you throw tomatos at me.  I love tomatos!

It is trouble when bloggers meet.  It's like a convention for spinsters.  Uh, can I blog that?  Blah blah, oh, don't blog about this stuff.  Hey, I am getting a headache!

So I propose some rules for bloggers and non-bloggers.  If you are not a blogger and you are talking to a blogger, make it clear what is off-the-record.  If you are a blogger and you are talking to another blogger, everything is off-the-record unless you say it is on-the-record.  Why?  Because the blogger whose blab you are gonna blog about could have blogged about it himself when and if he wants to.

I finally finished the DHTML stuff I was working on.  Of course, the work is never over when it comes to DHTML.  One thing I discovered was that Firebird is definitely not Mozilla.  I mean, both uses same code base, but Firebird mimicks much of what IE does.   Where Mozilla fails with a thumb up its a** by doing it differently or not doing it at all like a stuck up communist peacock, Firebird does what IE does and does it well.  Cool!  I like the Firebird team's attitude.

I replaced the  icon used for RSS feed with  from Bryan Bell.  Thanks to Brian for creating this wonderful icon!  I did shrink the image down a bit so it can line up with the coffee mug icon.  I hope you like it.  Now only if there was a bigger icon for Mail.  I want a red tomato with a mail stuck in it.  BTW, you are welcome to my shrunk version of the icon.

We built this twin tower by being lazy with our little patch of cabbages in our backyard.  I don't know when my wife will chop these fine cabbages down, but I thought they looked magnificent enough to be photographed.  Wiggly stuff behind it are cucumbers that demands more moral support than these upstanding cabbages.

Reach for the Sky, My Brave Cabbages!

Tim is playing tricks with DHTML.  I am also doing some DHTML work today for a client.  Strangely enough, I get asked to do this sort of jobs occasionally when there is a lot at stake.  In this instance, this bit of DHTML work will be used by millions of people everyday.  One glitch here and it's gonna mean an avalance of customer complaints.  Actually, it's more than just DHTML.  There are architectural issues that could affect businesses depending on how I solve them.  Still, wrestling JavaScript and DHTML on Sunday is annoying.  Argh.

Just got back from the dinner.  I got there late because I thought it was at River Oaks location.  Since I don't usually carry a cellphone nor a mobile device these days — long story, short version is I got tired of the weight — I was stumped.  Following Sherlock Homes' example, I was able to deduce that it was nearby and on the same main road.  So I was able to find the right Premier Pizza.  Hey, I was a little proud of myself.

Scoble, Marc, Dave, and others were sitting outside having a lively conversation.  Scoble's son and Marc's daughter was there also.  It was fun.  Thanks to Scoble for picking up the tab.  Afterward, we went around the corner and had some Cold Stone ice cream.  Very tasty, but also very slow.  I also danced a little with Mimi.  I wish I had a daughter like her.

I'll post the photos tommorrow because I still got some work to do.

Update #1: The pictures are HERE.

While most psychologists approach the topic of Forgetting from negative perspective, meaning they try to find ways to minimize forgetfulness, I have discovered the need to forget early on because I am extremely sensitive by nature.  If I don't appear to be, it's because I am buried under all the psychological armor I have collected over the years.

Forgetting is not just difficult, it is near impossible.  Most troublesome is the visual memory because we can easily and even accidentally imagine.  Can you imagine the smell of great coffee, taste of pizza, or sound of glass breaking?  Most people can't, so those senses are not likely to trigger memory.  Which leaves the visually triggered memory.

The idea is to find a way to prevent certain images from triggering unwanted memory.  Here is the technique I found that works for me.  Conjure the image that triggers memory you want to forget.  Follow it immediately with an image of white wall, black board, or whatever image that suits you.  Repeat as often as necessary.

Next time you accidentally conjure the image, the other image will follow immediately and prevent associated memory from surfacing.  Ain't it cool how human mind works?  It's like a monkey with short attention span at this level and you can easily play dumb tricks like this with it.

I have discovered that there are some unfortunate side-effects though.  Particularly, you'll occasionally experience the mental equivalent of flipping over two pages of a book stuck together.  I don't mind it so much, but you might.

Talking about just technical stuff is boring to me, so please bear with me even if you are alergic to this sort of posts.  If you can put up with Tim's roses, you can put up with this.  Hey, you might even get addicted!

Read this Salon bits about a dead body and the Iraq War.  John Le Carre material.