Iced Kansas

They predicted we’d get an ice coating on everything at least an inch think, resulting in major disaster. In our general area, however, the temperature somehow stayed one or two degrees higher than predicted. So, what we got was an ice coating that was very pretty but not very disastrous. Down in Oklahoma, on the other hand, the story was quite different; and north and east of us there were a lot of power outages. Today the sun came out and the ice melted off of everything in about an hour. During that window, however, I was driving Becky home after her colonoscopy, and stopped to take some photos. Even as I did, huge chunks of ice were dropping from high limbs and wires. Anybody interested can check out a set of the pics at the famly picasaweb.

Man, it’s almost Christmas!

Well, I Like It

I haven’t heard what anybody else thinks of the “new” look for the website and blog, but I like it better.

:banghead:

Chappells Website Upgrade?

Fueled by momentum from sort of figuring out Yahoo pipes and incorporating “feeds” of latest Chappell photos uploaded on Flickr and Picasaweb, today I proceeded to tweak the Chappells Website stylesheet resulting, I hope, in some aesthetic improvement of the site. From there, I proceeded to play around with Google Gadgets, and got a couple working that I incorporated in the Douglas County Bar Association website to “feed” the latest headlines from the Lawrence Journal-World “Court” section and the Law.com Newswire. So, despite the KU loss to MU, today wasn’t a total loss. On the other hand, if anybody feels like the site has taken a turn for the worse, be sure to let me know. As is sometimes pointed out to me, my tastes are not necessarily universally acclaimed.