I installed the new Google Toolbar (version 2 beta). I like the popup-blocking feature and the ability to automatically fill in form fields. The default search engine in Internet Explorer is now www.google.com, which is also nice. However, the blogger feature is not too useful. I'm curious whether the Google Compute project works with it, but I don't think the laptop I use hasn't enough spare CPU cycles to bother.
Today, I weeded the roughly 25 x 30 foot garden at Noelle's. My mom was the champion for it, but I seem to have been stuck with most of the most work, which I limit to one hour per week on average. Noelle helped in the late winter by adding partly decomposed horse manure to the area. The garden contains broccoli, beans, (snap and snow) peas, eggplant, corn, pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers, pattipan squash, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, spinach, catnip, cauliflower, sunflowers, leeks, onions, garlic, bell peppers, hot peppers, and carrots. To keep the weeds down and prepare the soil, I rototilled a couple times. After rototilling I tried using some fancy cloth groundcover to limit the weeds, but it was partially transparent and porous, so the weeds still rapidly grew beneath it. To keep out Noelle's dog, Elle and wild animals, such as rabbits, a two-foot wire mesh fence rings the garden.
About 10 months ago, my friend Dave mentioned that the right tail light on my pickup truck was not lit, though the blinker worked. He mentioned the section in the California motor vehicle code that required its operation. He had been following me back to Stanford after we had dinner. Within a few days, I took apart my tail light enclosure in the Sears parking lot and found that there was only one bulb. Since the bulb worked for signaling, I jumped to the conclusion that the problem was due to the wiring system. A few weeks ago I mentioned the situation to my dad, and he said the bulb probably had two filaments. I bought a new bulb, and close examination proved him correct as usual. Finally, my tail light is working again.
I've spent the last several hours configuring our linux box to use MoveableType for creating weblogs. It uses PostgreSQL to store the entries, user info, etc, and that task took some time as well. MoveableType is basically html, images, and a few cgi Perl scripts, which are run by the Apache server. Overall, installing and configuring MoveableType wasn't that bad.