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I usually read several books at once.  I love history, and have been working through "The Green Flag:  A History of Irish Nationalism."   I've also been on a Neal Stephenson tear, I picked up "Snow Crash" and devoured it, which inspired me to go pick up "Quicksilver."   It made me glad to see some of the familiar names from "Cryptonomicon" and a revival of their essences.   Stephenson can bring a character to life better than most authors.  The only one that does it as well, I think, is Steven King.  I'm also finishing up William Gibson's Sprawl Trillogy.   I just finished "Count Zero" and am going to pick up "Mona Lisa Overdrive" as soon as I find a copy at Half Priced Books.

I just finished up a study session on Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest" and am just starting Donald Miller's "Blue Like Jazz."

"Pillars of the Earth" is a fantastic read.  The follow up, "World Without End" is also great, even though it's pretty much the exact same story substituting in a bridge for a cathedral.

Yep.  And because the chord is made up of minor 3rds, if you want another voicing for the same chord, you can just move up or down the neck three frets, and there you are.

I bought Rock Band 2 for the family, and spent most of the weekend jamming with the kids.  That game is a riot.

Yep. That's a diminished chord.

The reason the chord finder is confused is because of an odd artifact of diminished chords.  If you take a look a the notes you are playing in that chord.

D G#(Ab) B F

If examine what notes are in a Ddim7 (D F Ab B), you'll find all those notes.  If you examine what's in Ab dim (G# B D F), you'll find all those notes.  If you examine what's in Fdim (F  Ab  B  D), you will likewise find all those notes.   So in a very real sense, a G#dim IS also a Ddim, and a Bdim, and an F dim.

It's like learning one chord, and getting three more for free.

This is one of the reasons I hate tablature. 

Anyway, in formal chord notation, a + sign indicates an augmented chord.  That is a major chord with a raised 5th.  Informally, it could mean any one of a number of things.  Of the two suggested, I'm inclined to go with Guitarpix's over Russ's.   Major chords already have the V in them, so a specific notation to add it seems redundant.

Anyway, there are a whole lot of various ways to chart and notate music, but honestly, I think there are very few good ones.  Standard notation on a lead sheet is still my all time favorite.  It's formal enough to give you the detail you want, and informal enough to give you quick reference when you forget what you were doing halfway through a bar. 

Let it snow.... SOMEWHERE ELSE!   

Even the threat of snow causes Seattle to laps into huge bouts of panic and stupidity.  It's as if they've never seen water fall out of the sky before!

I've often thought about having the Circle of 5th tattooed on my left forearm.   If I had a whole lot of money, I'd have it engraved or inlayed with mother of pearl on the top of my acoustics.

There's a number of different things you can do, but the 1st thing you have to do is quiet down your playing.  If both of you are banging away full throttle, neither of you is going to sound good.

Once thats done, there are a number of things to do.

Finger picking
One of you play a harmony.  This is easy to figure out if you know what key you're in.
Change your instrumentation.  Turn one of those guitars into a dobro or a mandolin or a bass.

Or alternatively, practice your scales so you can play lead lines in key.

I work at Wintergrass (http://www.acousticsound.org/) every year, and the vendors there do have some pretty good deals.  The nice thing is that you get to meet the builders themselves, and deal directly with the people that make the guitars, rather than the people that sell them.

Uisce beatha.  "Water of life."  What could be a more right name for whiskey?

Depending on my mood.

Sunshine coast of British Columbia for the SCUBA diving.

Anywhere on the Mediterranean, but the Provence area in France, and Norther Italy in particular, for the food.

I've been to Ireland a lot, so it's less a vacation spot than my burgeoning home away from home, but I'll go to see GAA Hurling anytime.  Best sport ever invented.