Whatever else happens, our granddaughter was tickled to see her smiling face on this here old website. I’m always amazed that this is even possible. Of course, I’m still amazed at radio and TV, and how they are delivered. She will doubtless regard these as the “olden days” as she grows older. For one shining moment, though, Grandpa and Grandma ruled! So did dinosaurs.
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Happy Birthday, young lady!
It can’t be you are 14 today; I know I haven’t aged since you were born. Grandma either for that matter. This picture is a couple of years old, I guess. I’ve been hammering on this website for an hour or two, and my graphics skills don’t hold a candle to your Dad’s. No matter, We love you!
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This isn’t as tricked-out as I’d wanted, but it the spirit of stability, my sanity, and saving something to solve for later, this is my last go-round as a WordPress admin for this evening.
Nice livery though, eh?
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After a trouble-free WP 2.0 upgrade, I got terribly overconfident, and attempted to install a tricked-out new theme I found. To make my tale of woe mercifully short, I thought it might be expedient to change the WordPress URI. It was a war of dueling rewrite rules, which was solved with some direct database massage. Apologies to anyone visiting when the site was in a state of disarray. On the other hand, if you thought it looked better, let me know.
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I spent more time dreading the upgrade than it took to perform. Good to be back!
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It’s time to make the WordPress 2.0 leap. Hopefully, we’ll all meet safely on the other side.
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I attempted to use Quicken to pay some other items an hour or so ago. For reasons manifestly unclear, it now accepts my PIN.
Is this now an odd/even system of working? Every third try? When the software “feels like it”?
Quicken Sucks.
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What a day. I neglected to mention my fantasy racing team’s performance following the Daytona 500. I was hoping to mention that in passing today, along with results from the Auto Club 500, from Fontana CA. No way I could predict two blown engines on my team, and that they’d finish 42nd and 43rd. This, after they were both running well in the top 10, along with 3 others of my team of 8. So, in an instant, I went from a decent comeback, to the racin’ toilet yet again.
Hats off to Matt Kenseth on the victory; at least Jimmie Johnson didn’t win.
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As I mentioned here, Quicken has released a new “stability” update for Quicken 2006 for Mac. I installed it the other night; tonight, I had the distinct displeasure of trying it for the first time.
I had my payment recorded in Quicken Bill Pay, and hit send. I then got prompted for my PIN, I entered that, only to note that the “OK” button was greyed out, and that my only option was to “change PIN”. OK, try that. It now wants my old PIN, and new PIN twice. Standard stuff. I try that; no soap. I try again; nada.
Off to the QBP website, to enter the payment, a trivial payment for the mortgage. The website is more than happy to accept my PIN, and we’ll be living indoors for yet another month.
To anyone along the way to whom I’ve extolled the virtues of Quicken/Quicken Bill Pay: “honest, it used to be really great.” Now, it’s worse than useless. Avoid it. Life’s too short. Quicken sucks.
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First Big Team Driver Released: A.J. Foyt IV
As much as I want to cheer him on, he probably should check out some other options. Crashes during qualifying don’t a racer make.
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