First, there was the age old Weather Channel that people used to joke about getting high and watching “for the laughs”. I never saw the point. However, when I moved over to the internet for my weather news, I went directly to weather.com. It took years to break that habit and start using The Weather Underground, who had a much less irritating site layout and generally more accurate data. They also didn’t make it hard to get detailed hourly forcasts, which at the time I switched, was hard to get from the Weather.com site.

Today, I think I have been moved again. NOAA has their own weather forecasting site. It’s time to drink directly from the source. The only bad thing is they don’t do international weather.

• http://www.wunderground.com
• http://www.wunderground.com
• http://forecast.weather.gov/

I’ve upgraded/updated the software running the blog. Mostly so I can use my iPhone to post entries. Yes, I’m a dork.

I’ve taken John Gruber’s lead and blocked the DiggBar from looking at this site. It’s not that I run a high traffic site – it’s that some day, I might. And I think it’s dishonest and downright mean of Digg to do this. And I don’t buy any of the reasons people have offered that might make this “ok” for Digg to do – that they need pageviews to make their VC investors happy, or that they are actually trying to help with URL shortening services.

Here’s the wordpress plugin I use to block the DiggBar.

Even better – Digg is “burying” the negative articles about the DiggBar. How quaint.

This post is a test of posting and writing with the iPhone wordpress application. Seems decent. Not sure how I’d put a link in or anything snazzy like that but I’m sure that poking around will prove usefull. I’ve only used the app for about 5 minutes in total.

Just remembered – last time I remember Digg trying to bury something, it kinda blew up in their face.

So I’ve joined the ranks of the criminally insane. Yes, I’ve joined twitter. I promise to forget about it really soon, unless something interesting starts to happen. Username: bwdezend