http://joe.junkin.com Life as it happens Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:34:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The following excerpts are one of the best descriptions I have seen to describe the issues found in the climategate emails: (Climategate) "e-mails show that a close-knit group of the world's most influential climate scientists actively colluded to subvert the peer-review process ... manufactured pre-determined conclusions through the use of contrived ... http://joe.junkin.com/2010/01/14/a-nice-summation-of-climategate/ On the final day of our Tuna trip we went further West than before. We caught one Yellowfin Tuna at about 10:00 am. We also saw a Yellowtail and a cool shark. We also saw several Ocean Sunfish. It was fairly rough and by the end of the day we ... http://joe.junkin.com/2009/10/08/sunfish-deep-water-and-kelp-pattis/ Yellowfin Tuna! We finally score some Yellowfin Tuna with the guidance of a local fishing site. First Tuna for both Don and I! [caption id="attachment_74" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Yellowfin Tuna in San Diego"][/caption] Day 3. We called up the guy at 976Tuna and asked for help. He gave us some tips such as ... http://joe.junkin.com/2009/10/07/yellowfin/ Day One: Whales, Sea Lions and birds but no fish ... Cool porpoises everywhere, Mexican police with machine guns, Shamu the retarded Whale and much more in today's adventures. [caption id="attachment_79" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Porpoises off the Coronado Islands in Mexico"][/caption] We left at 7:00 AM and decided we would find our own ... http://joe.junkin.com/2009/10/06/day-one-porpoises-whales-sea-lions-fish-like-birds/ Tuna Fishing in San Diego! It's Monday and yesterday I picked up my friend Don Green from the airport and with boat in tow we proceeded to drive 10 hours straight from Half Moon Bay to San Diego. Our goal is to catch Tuna off the coast of San Diego. We are ... http://joe.junkin.com/2009/10/05/tuna-fishing-in-san-diego/ New boat: Hewescraft Alaskan 24! On Monday August 25th I road tripped to Mt Vernon, Washington to pick up a new Hewescraft Alaskan from Tom N Jerry's Boats. Lee & Kelley were awesome! They're pricing was far lower than clemens in Oregon. I then turned around and raced back to Menlo ... http://joe.junkin.com/2009/09/05/hewescraft-alaskan-24/ Thanks to popurls, I happend to see the exploit warning for wordpress. I just went and updated all my wordpress sites. Thank god for subversion! http://joe.junkin.com/2009/09/05/updated-wordpress/ Is bing.com from microsoft useful? I saved about $450 using the bing.com 'cashback' gimmick when purchasing some marine gps equipment. I was surprised to find that bing.com actually has some value.So I don't think much of microsoft. When I heard about bing I thought 'ho hum' who gives a rats ... http://joe.junkin.com/2009/08/13/what-is-bing-useful-for-saving-450/ I use quite a few YUI panel objects as inline popups used for gathering and displaying information. Using the modal dialog option caused an IE error message: ‘A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly …’ which caused me great worry until I discovered the cause ... http://joe.junkin.com/2008/03/28/problems-using-yui-panel/ I just wrestled with getting a form to post via ajax. I have done this before but had a bunch of issues crop up this time including strange intermitten server errors that only seemed to occur on Firefox. I resolved it by using the extremely handy YUI connection manager 'setForm' function to ... http://joe.junkin.com/2008/03/26/issues-posting-a-form-using-ajax/