On August 8th, 2007, the NASA STS-118 Space Shuttle Endeavor successfully launched to rendezvous with the International Space Station. 
For those that missed it, here’s a video of the launch:
Now there’s something to watch on NASA TV, woohoo!! 
Let’s all pray for a successful mission and safe return back to Earth.
Thoughts and prayers also go out to the trapped miners and their families in Utah. 🙁
I’ve updated my blog to the latest WordPress version 2.2.2 which included some security and minor bugfixes. All I did this time was replace only the changed files. In addition to these I also updated the /wp-admin/export.php file as that had a newer date than the one on my local test site. Everything seems to be working!
I have added the 300 2-Disc Special Edition Widescreen to my DVD movie collection. It’s an awesome movie! I have also added a NASCAR upcoming race javascript widget thingamabob to both the blog on the right side and to my NASCAR page. Actually it’s been there for awhile now. I have also temporarily disabled additions to my guestbook and renamed the associated pages and scripts to see if I can get my guestbook off whatever list it must be on. Due the wide range of IP addresses these comment spam bots are coming from, many are probably people’s infected PCs or something.
Oh, my thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the bridge collapse in Minnesota. 🙁
While I was out at Wal-Mart shopping for lightbulbs, I decided to go check the DVD new releases and saw that Ghost Rider was out. So, I picked up the 2-Disc Extended Cut Widescreen version! I have added a Ghost Rider page to my website along with a HiRes and LoRes flash version of the movie trailer on the same page. Concerning movie trailers, I am slowly going through my DVD pages and adding the trailers to them. So far I’ve added the ones for Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Gladiator, X-Men, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I’ve been using 320 x 240 at 360bps and 480 x 360 at 768bps. Since my folks have about the slowest broadband connection available (768/384), I will see if I need to keep making the LoRes version when I go down there this weekend.
First, let me wish everyone a Happy Fourth of July!! Yes.. the national day to blow stuff up! 🙂
Website Changes
OK, within the past few days I have changed some of my webpages in addition to my NASCAR page. I created a YouTube account and have made a few playlists. One of them is on the NASCAR page and another is a music video playlist on my Entertainment page. I have made some other playlists as well and I may place them elsewhere on the site. Depending on how many music videos I add, I may break the playlists down into Genres. Oh yeah, I have also added a NASCAR Nextel Cup headlines section to my NASCAR page as well.
Blog Changes
I have also made some modifications to my blog, which I am still playing around with. If you are reading this at my blog site then you’ll notice on the right side of the main page that I have added a Google Reader Shared items (yeah I have a Google Reader account), NASCAR, and CNN news-feed widgets.
All for now, and, once again, everyone have a Happy and safe Fourth of July!
