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Month: January 2007

  • Fifth time’s the charm 🙂

    I googled to see whether other people were having trouble with the upgrade to WordPress 2.1. Most were successful on their first try, but a few people had problems that were similar to me. I made two changes and tried again: I ensured that my user had full permissions on the DB I […]

  • Just joined Technorati

    I thought I might keep this blog a secret, since I have nothing useful to say (seriously!). But, on the off chance that I can ruin someone else’s day by having them read this, that might make me feel a tad better about the things that I am ranting about to begin with […]

  • I’m officially a fool…

    This (meaning, the title of this post) is not news to anyone who knows me 🙂 For the purposes of this post, I interpret being a fool to “continuing to waste time trying to get the Dell Latitude L400 to be a stable machine for my purposes”. It should have been obvious to […]

  • Testing 1-2-3

    I’m not a happy camper. I started out with WordPress 2.05. After the first post or two (or three), I upgraded to 2.07. That upgrade went flawlessly. This past weekend, I upgraded to WordPress 2.1. The upgrade “failed”. The previous blog posts showed up fine, but I saw a SQL error in the […]

  • Hopping Mad

    Now the bureaucrats in Washington have cost me $40, and I’m beside myself. If you follow any of the nonsense involved in the US trying to shut down online gambling, then you know that they are ratcheting up their efforts considerably. The most recent example is serving subpoenas on Investment Banks that were […]

  • Ancient Laptop Frustration

    OK, since I’ve decided to blog a little, I may as well start with something that is driving me nuts. After all, the point of this is to attain a little catharsis (at least, that’s my point). My current laptop (now 2 years old) is a Sager NP8890 Force (this model is no […]

  • Decision Time

    OK, very reluctantly, I’ve decided to post a few blog entires and “dip my toe”. For the moment, I think I’ll keep it to more “personal” stuff. We’ll see whether any business posts sneak in at some future point.