Category Archives: Computers

technical support is completed

04.04.08

So… if you checked in earlier today and say my little message about me screwing stuff up on the back end of the site here – I think it’s fixed.

If you didn’t see it, well, nothing went wrong in the first place. (But on the off chance it did, shoot me an email and let me know what errors you found). I’d like to say the site should be a little faster than it has been in the future. I sure seems to be from my end, and that’s really what prompted some of the upgrades and changes I made that caused the mistake to begin with.

If you are wondering, I switched hosting providers, optimized my databases, did a fresh install, and upgraded the blog software on the backend.

Yeah, I didn’t think you wanted to know either.

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Please Standby

12.10.07

If the site is really slow for you, it’s not you.

It’s not me either (I don’t think), but that’s beside the point. I’m working on it.

Update: I think the problem may be solved for the most part. The site should be loading a little faster now.

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Slow Change Is Better Than No Change

01.03.07

There are going to be a few changes coming to this site soon. The pages have looked the same for too long now, and, frankly, I’m a little tired of staring at it while attempting to think of how I could make fun of Rhiannon on any particular day.

To kick start this new action, perhaps you have tried to look at the photos link sometime in the past 9 months and realized that I haven’t done anything with it. Well, I finally did.

It isn’t a gallery with groups of photos organized very well. Rather, it is more of a collection of daily photos. Well, as of right now, it is a collection of one daily photo. Hopefully I can stay with it for at least a week. I hear that’s about how long most New Year’s resolutions last anyway.

I may not post on the main site every single day (and I don’t already, so that’s nothing new), but I will do my best to have a different photo up every single morning.

Check it out.

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We Could All Use A Little More Sleep

11.17.06

If you’re reading this right now, I will assume you are using a computer. This is good. I like computers. I hope that you like computers too.

What do you do with your computer after you leave? Do you shut it off? Do you leave it run all the time (like I do)? I’m not along – many people let their computers on all the time. Many people who run some version of Microsoft Windows have the option of enabling power saving functions but don’t.

If everyone would make the computer sleep when not in use, we would save enough energy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (that cause global warming) by about the amount that a small country (like Ireland) puts out every year. (See this article for more information.)

Wow. I might think about this in the future.

Also, we considering we have two computers that we leave on all the time, it should free up a little more money to handover to big retailers this holiday season (see yesterday’s topic).

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Sure It Looks Good, But Can It Cook Too?

11.08.06

Gone are the days when a little boy could pop the head off of a little girl’s Barbie doll to make her cry. Now, some of them are made to have the head come off, revealing an amazingly clever (or amazingly stupid) USB drive.

Although a regular one would be a whole lot smaller, now you can see little girls cry when a parent pops the head off of a Barbie and sticks the body into the computer.

For what it’s worth, this seems about as effective as yesterday’s voting procedure where we live. Maybe paper wasn’t so bad after all.