Author Archive

There is a new blog in town

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Oct 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

And it is even being authored by an O’Donnell. I had nothing to do with it. Bit N Bridle 4-H Horse Club – Orange County VA



Learn about electricity the GM way

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Oct 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

General Motors, in conjunction with the release of the Volt Electric Car, has a bunch of resources available for K-12, as well as teachers, to help teach and learn about electricity. Random trivia; GM used to sponsor their own University. I have a friend from business school that got his undergrad from GM University. I […]



The baseball playoffs in graphical form

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Oct 6th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local


Virginia State Fair 2010

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 29th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Delaney scored two 3rd place ribbons in art, I scored some pictures, and a nice night out with part of the family. The teenage son is apparently too cool for the Fair. Although had he known about the Frisbee dogs… The rest of the story is in the pictures



Tweets I might of sent this weekend…

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 27th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

…if Internet access had been available where I was. And really, I’m not upset that it wasn’t. For 40 glorious hours I couldn’t even call my wife, let alone post to Facebook or Twitter. When was the last time you were cut off completely like that? It’s liberating. I need to do it more often. […]



The Lost Coin – A Re-read

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 27th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I took advantage of the downtime in the woods this weekend to re-read The Lost Coin. It was just as good as the first time I read it – 8 years ago.



Todo: Buy a weather radio

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 26th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Last night it started raining at about 10 PM. Luckily we had retired to the tent at about 9:45 PM, and I was in the process of crushing Breck at cribbage when the raindrops started falling. Then we split two games of Statis-Pro baseball, with the person playing the 2009 Red Sox beating the person […]



Anticlimatic Appomattox

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 26th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

From Grayson Highlands On the way home from Mount Rogers today Breck and I stopped by Appomattox Court House National Historic Site to visit the scene of Lee’s surrender of The Army of Northern Virginia. That act effectively ended the Civil War. Fighting continued here and there for a few weeks, but with Lee out, […]



Bing hijacked my browser (Firefox)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 22nd, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Last week I noticed that all my keyword searched from Firefox address bar were going to Bing. This wouldn’t be that surprising, except that I run Linux! I still have absolutely no idea what was causing it. I deleted Bing from the search tools list, and I edited URL.Keyword to point to the default, Google. […]



The week’s music find: The August

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Sep 10th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I found them on Aime Street. Sadly, it’s probably the last new-to-me music I’ll ever find on Aime Street. (Aime Street is shutting down later this month) Cute blond singer that also plays guitar…check. Catchy songs that sort of dance on the country / rock /folk fence…check. From Chicago…check. Not sure why the Chicago thing […]