That means 24 hours, not eight! I have a fairly large and involved web server share where I keep all my web sites alive and well. I have a reason to need a new version of one of the programming languages I use called PHP 5.2 . The old server I was living on only could give me a very old PHP 4.x version. Yeah geek talk but reason to make a change. It is...
Continue reading...No FM
Wahhh! I just discovered another victim of the lightning disaster at the ol’ homestead. I have a small FM broadcast band transmitter (1/4 watt) that I use to transmit Christmas music for my computerized light show. Yesterday I discovered it had become a paperweight. It was setting among the computer gear on my large desk and was plugged in but turned off using the button on the front. It is powered by one of those...
Continue reading...The Profound Beard
If you go back into some of the photos in this blog or elsewhere, you can see that I wore a full beard for about a year. The face change is not the first time and probably not the last. That means it comes and goes but not in a rapid succession. The people with whom I interact over a long period get to see both “faces” for a fair amount of time. The last...
Continue reading...Facebook (part 2)
I have been playing with Facebook (FB) for about two months now. I have developed mixed feelings about the so called networking service. First I never trust anything free. There is always a reason for something like this to be given away. This holds for other networking services such as LinkedIn and all the rest of its kind. There is a definite reason behind this entire personal information gathering. Don’t lie to yourself and pretend...
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