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If you're interested in beta testing Scorecard 2, please leave comments on this post. I'm looking for both Mac OS X and Windows users.

A bit more information is posted here, but if you're not a member of the forum, please just post here in the comments.

Please include this information:

Name:
Licensed Owner of Scorecard (Y/N):
Number of Rounds in Scorecard:
Operating System (and version):
1-3 Sentences about why you'd be a good choice:

List your email address in the comment form so I have it - it won't be shared.

Thanks.

I'm a self-taught golfer to this point, but I've hit a wall or ceiling and this summer I'm looking at taking some lessons.

I'd like to set up a "journal" to house my notes, images, and perhaps some videos. If it's online, great - I can easily share parts with my instructor(s) - but a desktop app might be fine, too.

Any suggestions before I go off and install yet another copy of WordPress? WordPress seems like overkill and too much of a PITA for this kind of project, so I really hope there's a better idea out there.

Requirements:

• Dated entries
• Ability to have notes (text), images, video
• Searchable
• Moderate to little "maintenance"
• Some sort of "sharing" capability (even if it's via export and then emailing) would be nice
• No need for comments, etc.

Any suggestions?

Every once in awhile, someone advances the opinion that since the PGA Tour has no gender rules ((If a woman ever qualified to be a member, there are no rules to prevent it. Women are allowed to receive sponsor exemptions to play in PGA Tour events - that's how Michelle Wie and Annika Sorenstam have played PGA Tour events in recent years.)), the LPGA Tour should ditch their "women only" rule, too.

I never understood how someone could advance such a theory, but those who believe it tend to be bizarrely adamant that they're right.

How can you possibly explain to someone how (insert a synonym for "stupid" of the appropriate strength here) that opinion is? They're clearly missing some massive part of their brain that is responsible for logic, reasoning, and perhaps common sense.</minirant>

Why on earth is my iDisk so freakin' slow. Isn't it just a .dmg on my disk that's automatically synced with cloud? Why do operations like copying a file to it or writing a file to it take so bloody long?

And why is this still an issue?

Let it be noted that the wife played golf today and thoroughly enjoyed herself. Ha. 🙂

Came home to watch the Pens win a game against the Rangers, Tiger Woods make about 19 bogeys in 18 holes, but also slip in about three or four birdies, to get to second place but well back of Sean O'Hair.

Went to see Benjamin Button in the evening. That's three hours of my life I won't get back.

Anyone out there own a Honda CR-V? Or a RAV4?

We're due to replace the Aztek this year, and we're considering the CR-V, the RAV4, or other vehicles in that "smaller SUV" class.

Remember when we'd measure an app's launch time by counting the number of bounces in the Dock?

I've yet to begin the search (I'll be doing so shortly), but I thought I'd throw it out there…

I'm setting up a blog for a small group and they need a calendar feature that lets them easily add a calendar to their WordPress blog. By "calendar" I mean one capable of displaying events and things - not just a no-function calendar that shows what day of the week the 22nd of the month falls on ((It's for this reason that I suspect my Google searches will be frustrating - WordPress templates have a "calendar" function that is all of the latter type and none of the former.)).

Integration with Google's calendar stuff may be ideal… Can you embed a Google calendar on a website? I dunno. I'll search shortly after I reboot for this iLife update… Please post if you can help, though. I'll appreciate it.

P.S. Back now. Searching for "events calendar WordPress" led me right to this plugin, which may very well do all I need. We'll see.

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A few Republican friends have told me lately how he's noticed that "all the intellectually smug, superior Obama supporters have been relatively quiet now that their guy's in office and completely screwing up, going back on promises, or at the very least not living up to their unrealistic expectations. They're being awfully quiet these days."

Another friend observed that those who aren't quiet are simply trying to carry on with the intellectual superiority position, "putting down those who didn't vote for Obama because we don't understand the complexity of the financial mess when, seemingly, neither does Obama's team - which ironically were some of the folks who got us into this mess under Clinton."

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My Mom: Happy Birthday.
Me: Thanks
Mom: BTW, we're moving to where your sister lives. We bought a house and we've put our current one up for sale already.

Currently they live 30 minutes from me. My sister lives in Latrobe, about 2½ hours away.

Uhm, yeah. Funny timing, that. Happy birthday to me.

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Under new coach Dan Bylsma, the Pens went on a pretty amazing 12-1-3 streak. The one loss, it should be noted, was the guy's first game behind the bench and took place before he could even practice with the team.

Pens and Flyers in round 1 of the playoffs this year? It's looking likely… if the Pens can hold onto fifth place.

Five weeks ago they were five points out of eighth place. What a run.

P.S. Burn the blue jerseys. And the Flyers were thoroughly outplayed. Biron had a - for him - bizarrely good game. And by "whew" I mean I can finally talk about the streak without fear of jinxing it.

The EDGA has posted their 2009 tournaments, and I've got to mark my calendar for:

Men's Interclub
Sunday, May 24 - Whispering Woods

Match Play Championship
June 8, 12-14 - Lake View CC

Mid-Amateur Championship
Thursday, July 23 - Lake Shore CC

I probably won't play in the Amateur - it's at Downing on August 14-16.

So I've heard from a fairly large number of people lately that Obama is completely screwing up the "economic recovery" plan. These people tend to be Republicans, but I've heard from a few Democrats, too.

Most of what I've heard from sources of unknown party are those in the golf industry. There's a flap about how Northern Trust - forced to take TARP money despite the fact that they're already profitable - is feeling the weight of the TARP spending restrictions and may have to cut back on expenses like title sponsorship of a PGA Tour event ((And they'd just give the money back, but they'd still have to pay interest for three years, or something like that.)). The off-shoot of that story is that sponsorship of events like that leads to paying gigs for the service industry - caterers, servers, florists, table/chair rental places, etc.

I've also heard Obama's bailing out homeowners, and from what little I've heard it seems like an absolute crock. Why should I pay to bail out someone who over-extended themselves on a house they couldn't afford?

But, per my usual, I haven't paid much attention to politics, so if anyone can provide a concise response that fills in the gaps, please do.

iMovie fails at something: the ability to work with non-standard sized video.

I've got video that's 720 x 1280 - and that's 720 wide by 1280 tall, as it needs to be rotated 90° - and iMovie can't even begin to handle the video properly.

I've worked around it by just using QuickTime Player, though my "trick" for getting video at 1/4 speed is a bit silly: I have to paste one clip over another clip of all four with the "scale to match" version of paste, then delete the unused video and audio resources to get a clip at about ¼ speed.