Continuous Air Fare Checking...

Interesting daemon written in Perl that continuously searches for the best fares for a particular trip.  Might be quite useful for someone in a long-distance relationship!

North American Dialects...

Here's a fascinating little web site that's chock full of information about the English dialects of North America.  There are even audio samples you can listen too!

Rain, More Rain...

Check out the rain gauges at right – we're now over 30 inches for the year with the 1.25 inches we got yesterday and last night. 

Our ground is saturated, there's standing water all over the place, and our temperatures are down near the freezing mark.  Meanwhile, all the plants have decided it's spring, and they're growing like mad – we have hundreds of bulbs growing in our yard, and the thickest blanket of actual grass (instead of weeds) that we've seen in ten years or so.  If we get a hard frost (quite possible in the next few days), some of these plants are going to suffer...