I wandered to my hosting service’s main site this morning (domain registration is coming up, and I’m trying to determine if I want to switch to another service or not), and I noticed this announcement: PLEASE NOTE: We will be having a scheduled service outage from approximately 10pm PST on … Continue reading →
That’s what they are. Maybe I’m just exhausted after reading about small town life last week, but I just haven’t found anything to be enthusiastic about here. Natasha had her 30-day check on Saturday, and she seems to be fine. If her cough resumes, we’ll figure it was bronchial asthma … Continue reading →
If the blog was offline for a little while earlier tonight, I was in the middle of upgrading to WordPress 2.0.7, which seems to have gone well.
Continue reading →I’m not so sure Comment Timeout was such a good idea. When I turned it off, it mostly crashed the blog — and it shouldn’t have done that. The place still appears to be reeling from something… Whoa. This feels strange. Where’s something solid to hold onto. Update added Jan … Continue reading →
While blog browsing last night, I found a new tool — Counterize II — at Writer’s Blog. I can’t imagine you’ll ever notice Counterize II. It’s a blog stats program. The most fascinating thing I learned off the bat? Someone in Washington DC hit this blog 92 times between 5-6 … Continue reading →
Has anyone else noticed a new trend in comment spam? “StenXXXX” makes a comment where the only links are in the identifying data for the post. The body of the comment is some variation of “Life’s not worth living.” Since I personally scan my Akismet-identified comment spam looking for legit … Continue reading →
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas. It sounds like the party has gone well while I’ve been gone. Goats, Tech? What would you do with…never mind. I don’t want to know. I’m still in Texas, and I’m using IE7 to stop in and browse. So far, I like … Continue reading →
When it was all said and done, I liked the Geo thingy and the get Firefox link more, so I copied them in at the bottom of the sidebar. Of course, I lost the Firefox image and can’t find where Firefox has them hidden, but oh well. Fading Flowers is … Continue reading →
If you see something unusual here, I’m just playing with the template. I liked some of the things in Holly’s new template. It may or may not stay, so please hang loose.
Continue reading →How many of you know how to read an ISBN? Do you even know what an ISBN is? ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. Until January 2007, it’s a ten digit number which serves as a unique catalog number for books and other print or print-type media. In January … Continue reading →