Timing is everything…
How about this for timing....on February 27th, I upgraded my version of Wordpress from 2.0.4 to 2.1.1. It was quite some time since my last upgrade, and there were several…
Dumbest…spammer…ever
Someone has been submitting about five "Viagra!" news items to one of my websites every day now for about six months. Such news items are moderated, and never appear on…
Cable nirvana…
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I'm cleaning up my office. Stage 2 was supposed to be "re-do the wiring", but that became "stage 3" when I decided…
A year with Google AdSense…and $19 richer!
I added Google AdSense to my blog in December of 2005. As I said back then, I was curious how it would work for me. I had no expectation when I…
Upgrade in progress
I'm upgrading the version of Wordpress (the software that runs this blog) on my server. This is a periodically necessary process in order to keep up with security updates. Some…
Cleaning up…
Irene is going in for her second hip surgery next week. I'll be working from home for a while as she recovers and gets mobile. In preparation for this, I'm…
Proving I’m kinda stupid…
On Thursday I decided to install some driver updates for Vista. ATI has a new video driver, version 7.2. I had this crazy idea that this might solve my problem with putting the computer in standby mode. The rest of what happened is proof that, despite having a moderately high intelligence, I’m often rather stupid…
Nimbus to be “it”ified tomorrow…
Our kittens are growing up...Nimbus goes tomorrow to have his "bits" removed. It's a comparatively minor operation for the male cats, with very little risk. It's also essential if…
One more Vexing Vista Problem “solved”
Vista has a fancy utility program to help manage photographs and videos called "Windows Photo Gallery". It has a bunch of nice features like the ability to tag images, and…
The continuing Vista saga
I keep making headway regarding outstanding problems with my migration to Vista. It appears that I've overcome the problem with EQ2Map Updater. Apparently, some of the files in the map…