Saturday, February 14, 2009

Nice day for a walk

It was a beautiful day for a walk, and a walk is what I did. I again took the long walk to Mercado del Puerto and still have no idea how far that is. This time I stopped at the Museo de Carnival (Carnival museum), 50 pesos, kind of surprised me as there really wasn't much to see and nothing in English.

There were to big cruise ships in port and tourists everywhere.

As I was waiting for a bus at Ciudad de Vieja I noticed a young couple that were obviously tourists trying to figure out the bus schedule. I asked them where they were going, Carrasco, don't know why, not much to see. Anyway, the bus they needed didn't stop at the bus stop we were at and I pointed them in the right direction.

Most bus stops have metal signs with the numbers of the busses that stop there, if the signs are there at all. Others have plastic signs but almost all of them have the bus numbers pealed off or missing.

I was going to walk home and as I was walking down a side street that went towards the rambla I saw a bus stopping that went to my neighborhood so I jumped on and rode home.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Baby Tero

I saw a baby Tero for the first time this morning, just thought I would mention that :  )

Rhino Beetles

For a couple of weeks now I have noticed large amounts of Rhino Beetles appearing in the park near where I work.  They are on the sidewalk, a fresh bunch every morning.
Don't understand why there are so many, and why they all appear to be dying, on their backs, little feet in the air.

I thought the birds would be feasting on them, but not so.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Blog Changes New

I made yet some more blog changes.  I realized that I had some bookmarking buttons in the left hand column that were totally redundant in that I have bookmarking capabilities built in via the "Add This" button on each of my posts.   I know The Doc Report is a little slow to load so I have been wittling away at the dumb stuff.  I hope your taking advantage of the subscribe features and not visiting the blog :  )

I also enabled Blogger "Reactions" features which is supposed to allow readers to click reactions to each post such as funny, interesting etc. but I have yet to see this feature and have looked with a couple of different browsers.

The geekiest thing I have done which is most transparent to the reader is I added some code that changes my posting title to Title - Blog Name.  What?

Well Blogger posts by default appear in listings as Blog name - post name, ie.e The Doc Report - Blog Changes New but with the code I added it now appears as Blog Changes New - The Doc Report.  So should the post appear in Google etc. it would draw the potential blog reader :  )

If anyone is interested in the hack please comment.