Monthly Archives: January 2010

I Did not Know all the Words

Posted on by
1

As we celebrate Kansas Day again, all the words to Home on the Range, the Kansas state song:

VERSE 1
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the sky is not clouded all day.

CHORUS
A home, a home where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the sky is not clouded all day.

VERSE 2
Oh, give me the gale of the Solomon vale,
Where life streams with buoyancy flow,
On the banks of the Beaver, where seldom if ever
Any poisonous herbage doth grow.

VERSE 3
Oh, give me the land where the bright diamond sand
Throws its light from the glittering stream
Where glideth along the graceful white swan,
Like a maid in a heavenly dream.

VERSE 4
I love the wild flowers in this bright land of ours;
I love too the wild curley’s scream,
The bluffs and white rocks and antelope flocks
That graze on the hillsides so green.

VERSE 5
How often at night, when the heavens are bright
With the light of the glittering stars,
Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds this of ours.

VERSE 6
The air is so pure, the breezes so free,
The zephyrs so balmy and light,
I would not exchange my home here to range
Forever in azure so bright.

I’ve lived in a lot of places. I think I could live in and like a lot of other places. The Carolinas. Southern Virginia. Nebraska. Texas.

I’d absolutely love to live in Kansas again.

Happy Kansas Day! Providing one of the best lives this side of heaven since January 29, 1861.

-k-

H/T: The Kansas Sampler Foundation, for the excellent “All Things Kansas” blog, for the lyrics.Technorati Tags:

Back on the Air

Posted on by
Reply

The tbbs web provider, the excellent and highly recommended Delaware-based hosting.com, performed some database maintenance in the wee small dark hours earlier today.

In spite of my receiving 5+ emails from them about the scheduled maintenance, I neglected to read any of them until I received the dreaded Database Connection Error message multiple times today, when I tried to access the blog.

A check with their knowledge base, a judicious change of mySQL db server IP, and we’re rolling along again.

My loyal though discerning 5-10 readers deserve proper service. hosting.com was on the ball; I dropped it.

Y’all come back now.

Thanks!

-k-

TSA Knee-Jerkage

Posted on by
1

Following the Christmas Day Johnson-lighting horror, the TSA is pulling out all the stops to ensure our safety in the skies:

I applaud the efforts and vigilance of our public servants.

-k-

UPDATE: From what I’ve seen since, I think they aspire to be our pubic servants.

I Have Nothing to Say, Therefore I Upgrade

Posted on by
Reply

Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB metric, or maybe two. The first is $DAYJOB TDS1, and the second would be $DAYJOB MIS2. Then, given the effort expended in the formalizing of these metrics, along with the needed data collection, it just may be easier to move to $DAYJOB++.

Anyhow, we’re now running the latest WordPress here in tbbsLand, WordPress 2.9.1. And, no WP’s automatic uppgrade didn’t work for me – again. But, the manual process is quick, and fairly effortless. And, yes, that includes a database backup, as well as full file backup, prior to upgrading.

Happy New Year! Y’all come back, now. I’ll try to be more attentive to this old waste of pixels.

-k-

1 Total Daily Suckage

2 Maximum Instantaneous Suckage