http://brianshelledy.com/wp Beta Testing the World Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:56:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No doubt if you know me at all, you will understand that the election results are not something that I am entirely happy with at the least. However, as bad as the political ramifications may be for our country down the line, I can at least appreciate a few ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/11/05/something-positive Well, we had the final presidential debate yesterday, and it was probably the most interesting of the three.  I was hoping for McCain to do better, and he did.  It's hard to win against Obama in public speaking, but my opinion is that when it comes to the issues, McCain ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/10/16/debate-impressions All over the news lately we have heard about the crisis in the financial market and the need for government to act.  There has been a massive amount of fear generated about the possibility of a global depression should some of these massive financial institutions fail.  Fortunately, our government is ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/09/23/the-path-to-socialism Well, our power came back on tonight, and with the tree removal service coming in tomorrow it looks like we'll be out of this mess.  This has definitely been an educational experience.  We've experienced what it is like to be in a hurricane, grown closer to our neighbors, and have ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/09/17/take-a-hike-ike Well, things are going well here.  We're still out of power, but I'm expecting it to come back up within the next 24 hours, as they have it across one of the major streets and ours is next in a logical projection I created in my imagination.  We'll see how ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/09/16/update-on-the-aftermath Just to give some of you who are looking at this website some information about how things are going with us, I'm not sure what they are showing on the national news.  We have the local news streaming to us over the internet.  Ironically, our cable is out but the ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/09/14/ike-recovery [caption id="attachment_107" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Tree down in my Front Yard"][/caption] EDIT: Pictures EDIT: More Pictures 6:45 PM 9/13/08 Well, if you've been paying attention to the news, Hurricane Ike came through the Houston area this weekend.  I have lived here for some years, and I've never had a storm this bad. Of course, ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/09/13/hurricane-ike This is just Ridiculous. http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/08/01/ridiculous Today I was looking at the transcripts for various segments of the Rush Limbaugh show - I listen to him in the mornings but usually can only get the first hour before I have to go to class - and I came across an interesting segment on how George Bush ... http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/07/28/what-bush-and-batman-have-in-common Upgraded to Wordpress 2.6, as well as upgrading some of the underlying apps.  Let me know if you run into any issues. EDIT: I also changed themes. Hope you like it. http://brianshelledy.com/wp/2008/07/26/wordpress-26