This is just a note to those of you who may wander over here from the Child Abuse site. There’s a problem with the MySQL backend right now that prevents me from posting anything new, and you from leaving comments. (A Perl mod somehow isn’t installed anymore when it had been working fine until yesterday,…
I finally, after spending most of the last two nights and my lunch hour today, have MT installed, configured, tweaked and the entries all put back for the child abuse site. Some stuff is still broken, some stuff will remain broken, existing comments are gone, etc. Some stuff is better. Thanks to a link at…
We’ve made it back from celebrating my Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law’s birthdays up in Sandusky, OH. Had a great time, thanks to Angela’s folks for taking us up there and showing us a good time! While I was gone, there’s been no word on the abuse site, although I do notice that it’s now coming up…
According to Dave this morning: “Can you believe it — there are weblogs that turn away traffic based on referrer. This is bad practice. These people seriously need to take a refresher course in what the Web is about and how important links are and stop screwing around with them. I won’t read sites that…
In response to some of the comments on the post below: Marc wonders what my platform would be, he suggests “Two PC’s in every house”. I’m thinking more along the lines of “What do I look like, Santa Claus? Get a job and buy your own stuff!”It’s not exactly the “caring” platform, but you know…
Related to the last post, I found a copy of the latest issue of Consumer Reports in the office and took a peek at their ratings. They rate a Gateway number 1, Toshiba 2nd, IBM 3rd and a Dell 4th, with the Dell being the “best buy” because it’s 400-600 dollars cheaper than the others….