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I don’t know how large of an intersection there is between the number of people who are interested in AOLserver and the number of people who use LiveJournal, but I went ahead and created the 
aolserver community on LJ.
Not sure what to do with it yet, but feel free to monitor it if you’re interested. You can even subscribe to its RSS feed if that’ll make it easier for you.
After telling Carl Garland about manually reposting entries from my main blog into my other blogs, he told me about w.bloggar.
Consistent with the four phases of change (denial, resistance, exploration, commitment), I denied that manually reposting entries was tedious enough to warrant using software to do it, then I resisted the idea of using w.bloggar with lame reasons like “oh, it’s some desktop Win32 app and not a web app” or “where are the screen shots?” This was several weeks ago.
I started thinking about why I blog so infrequently and thought, “it’s because I really don’t have the time to blog often.” Then, while reading and admiring Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, I wondered how he finds the time to update even several times a day. I discovered that Jeremy uses w.bloggar, and has been for a long time. It occurred to me that being able to author blog entries off-line, saving as you go and publishing once it’s finished, would let me jot all sorts of things down without having to commit to saving them to the actual blog software — or, needing to be online to do it. It would also make it easier to repost entries to the different blogs that w.bloggar supports. Basically, it takes away my excuses to not blog more frequently and that’s good.
So begins my exploration phase of change, with my downloading of w.bloggar v4.00 and installing it, setting it up, and getting familiar with the interface. It’s a bit weird, but I think I can get used to it. We’ll see if I reach the commitment phase, or uninstall this thing. But for now, things look pretty good.
Almost exactly two months ago, I blogged about my flight home from Dulles, VA, to Teterboro, NJ, being cancelled due to a plane crash at Teterboro.
Well, there was apparently another plane crash at Teterboro this morning:
A small jet skidded off the runway while taking off from Teterboro Airport on Wednesday, crossing a highway and striking cars during the morning rush hour before slamming into a warehouse.
State police said two people were missing and 11 were injured in the crash. It was not immediately clear whether all those people were on the plane.
A traffic helicopter pilot for New York radio station WCBS said the plane went off the runway and broke through a fence. It appeared to strike at least one car.
Fortunately, I wasn’t even planning on flying down to VA this morning, and from the few details about the operating company of the plane that crashed, it wasn’t even the plane that I would have been on, anyhow.
However, perhaps these two crashes in short succession somewhat validates one of my co-workers behaviors. He refuses to fly, insisting on driving the five-odd hours from northern NJ down to northern VA, each way. But if you ask me, I’ll take my chances in favor of the fourty-five minute jet ride, but maybe not today. :-)
EDIT: Apparently, you can now search the NTSB aviation accident database online. Here’s the synopsis of the crash I blogged about on 1 Dec 2004.
EDIT: Here’s the synopsis of this crash.
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