I used Discover Desktop for the first time today. It generates a one-use credit card number for an online transaction and links it to your credit card. This provides a more secure transaction because your real credit card number is not posted to a web site.

Allergies started right on time this year, but don't seem as bad as I recall from years past.
Its pissing rain and Phil's birthday ride (happy birthday, Phil) has been postponed until tomorrow morning.

hot, hot, hot.
did a 45 mile ride yesterday, drank ~100 oz fluids, still hot.
heartrate over 160 range at the end of the ride, most likely due to the heat.

Another moron on the PA Turnpike. Want to know who the most aggressive drivers are? They are young women! This chick was diving in and out of traffic - passing on the right as well as left, cutting drivers off in the process.

I saw her coming and I could have backed off the gas, but I didn't. She changed lanes anyway. I laid on my horn as soon as I saw her start to change. This had no impact. Its amazing that I didn't hit her. I couldn't remember the cell number to report aggressive drivers in PA, but I will pre-program it later today.

The cost for US passports and renewals is going up as of Aug 19th. Everyone interested should renew or get their passport ASAP. All the information you need is available online from the State Department. The link is:

http://travel.state.gov/passport_services.html

The Macintosh Switch ads annoy me. They have nothing by whiny clueless people talking about how evil PC's are. I also assume these folks have VCR's with the flashing "12:00".

Several spoof sites, ads and movies are around now. My favorite is "Switch to Mac? I thought you said Crack... can I borrow $20?"

http://www.wemakedotcoms.com/ellen/images/Switch.jpg

I'm back.

I actually posted a few other blogs, but I'm torn between keeping stuff current on my home page (www.paulbegley.com) and my blog. I will look into making my blog page my home page.

I hope to nag Sarah into using Blogger rather than diaryland with her Blog page hosted on our server she can learn lots more about the web and system admin work.