July 2007
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For whatever reason, I can’t seem to get the REGISTER links to appear in the sidebar for the blog. The CODE is there, they just aren’t showing up for some reason. Since this was an integration of Wordpress into Joomla CMS, I suspect it might be tied to Joomla’s ability to allow people to register for the site as a whole. I will investigate that later I guess.
Apparently, the module I used to make this happen is no longer being supported by the developer. 
It appears that the only way I am going to get full blog functionality the way I wanted is to separate it from the site, rather than have it integrated. I am concerned this will make traffic to the actual site suffer….what do you guys think? Certainly, I can cross link between the two, I don’t know….
Written by David on July 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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It’s almost hard to believe that a year ago we were dealing with extreme drought and wildfires from MONTHS with near zero to absolute zero rainfall totals and some days with negative dewpoint figures. I am sure everyone has heard about the flooding in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. As devastating as it is…the water really WAS needed. Many lakes that were on the very of drying up or at least were on their last legs are now full and filling up again. Chasing this year I saw areas so green I almost couldn’t recognize them, perhaps greener than I have EVER seen them, especially in areas on and just off the Texas Caprock. I said at the beginning of winter that mother nature WOULD balance things out. She always does, even if we sometimes get in the way of her efforts.
Written by David on July 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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I went ahead and got the old FAQ page back online as well before I got too tired to work on this tonight. I did a few minor changes, but if someone would like to look it over and see if they can think of any other REALLY GOOD FAQ questions that should go there I would appreciate it. It’s linked in the left menu, or click here.
Wow, 3 whole sections back online in one day! I am making progress now!
Written by David on July 7th, 2007 with 8 comments.
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First….thanks everyone for the great reception to my new blog! More than I expected actually!
I just got TWO new section added back to the site. Chase data and Satellites! These were sections of the old website. Had to go through and do some reformatting to fit the new style, drop some adsense in there and fix some outdated links and add a couple of new ones.
Overall though….progress. Not sure if I am going to add any more tonight….maybe.
Now if I could just get adsense to stop showing those stupid public service ads and instead show some real ones!
If you guys see something that ain’t right there, or you think should be linked on those pages, by all means, let me know!
Written by David on July 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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After well over a year at the pushing of several of my storm chaser friends I have finally decided to enter the blogosphere. I resisted for so long, primarily because I tend to fire off my thoughts first and think about what I should have said later. Sometimes this has the effect of upsetting some people, particularly in the storm chasing community.
I finally decided that I am just going to be me, and if that means I ruffled a few feathers, it probably just means I made them think about something they didn’t want to.
So here, it is. I can’t be sure what will show up here from time to time. Definitely be blogging about storm chasing stuff, and other interesting things in the world of severe weather. Perhaps some commentary and whatnot. We’ll see. I’ll probably use this as I FINALLY get this site redevelopment finished. I have some cool stuff planned. At one time, this was one of the most comprehensive sites on the Internet about storm chasing. I let that slip away in my own laziness….perhaps I will bring it back better than ever? Who knows.
I’ll leave the comments open to all and unmoderated for now. If abuse starts to happen, I will probably put some sort of moderation on them. I have no issues posting opposing, well thought out viewpoints on something I posted. However, this is my yard and won’t tolerate those that want to trash it up. I no longer allow time in my life for haters and bashers, so if that’s your goal, go play somewhere else. 
EDIT: I did add first post moderation and multiple link moderations. First post mod just means that the first time you post with that email address it will be moderated. Any time after that it’s goes right through. The link moderation is just spam prevention. Posting more than 2 links the comment goes into moderation.
Written by David on July 3rd, 2007 with 18 comments.
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