Set up my mail2blog, and other things.

Now I don't have to actually go to the site, log in and navigate through the dashboard, just to add another entry.

 

Still a few things to hammer out about my Twitter account. Am now playing with Friendbar (for Firefox browser) and MadTwitter third-party apps to see how they work.

 

My Twitter list: girls-wearing-glasses has 100 listed, think that's quite enough for now. More accurate name would have been "Twitter-girls-wearing-glasses", but anyway.

 

Snow is melting here, so I think I'll venture out shortly to look around.

“Wind Chill Factor” and “Heat Index”

Okay, the meteorologists often say, “…making it feel like xx degrees.” Who exactly does it feel that temperature to? I thought applied science, which meteorology claims to be, was usually based on standards.

So, does The National Bureau of Standards (USA) have a guy, let’s call him Joe, locked in a room in Boulder, Colorado, and the wind or heated temperature feels like xx degrees to Joe? If so, shouldn’t it be called the Joe Wind Chill Factor and the Joe Heat Index? … Otherwise…

Well, this is just another of my many pet peeves.

“Snow eater”

*Is this a new meteorology term?* One of the local weather men used this phrase last night, apparently as an excuse for why we didn’t get the eight to ten inches of snow predicted by some earlier (which we seem to be getting a bit more of now). Something to do with dry air, blah, blah, blah…

This brings a couple other weather related things to mind…