Tag: postaday2011

As I type, OS X is installing on the new hard disk in Irene’s Macbook Air. As it happens, I managed to install it. There was a time when the little ribbons used to connect hard disks to motherboards could only fit one way. There was a little plastic nu…

Back in the days when my server was in my basement, upgrading the OS was a bit of an adventure, but it never felt terribly scary. I mean, the backup machine, with all the data and more or less a mirrored operating system was sitting right beside the pr…

Well that was a drag. I ordered a hard disk to replace the defunct one in Irene’s Macbook Air several weeks ago. It finally arrived and I spent much of the evening trying to install it. I must say I was very impressed with the innards of the thing and …

I figured out a problem with a site I’m meant to be supporting as part of my freelance business. It was a Drupal White Screen of Death which was not covered off by any of the possibilities listed in the documentation. It was pretty silly actually. The …

Things are looking good. There is, however the small matter of getting the house ready. Putting away the pizza boxes, hiding the cases of empties, taking down the posters of stock car racing, Bud girls etc.

And other things too. Really. My evening out with former comrades more than made up for the fact that I was at work nosing the grindstone right up to when I left for the restaurant. Summertime and the living is easy? Hah.

When I lived on my own, it was pretty much a certainty that if I was home, there’d be music playing. Not necessarily loud but it was playing. When first I moved in with my then-significant other, the constant stream of music ceased. She wasn’t a big mu…

So you need to wash all your bedding if someone in your family gets pinworms and you want to have a chance at getting rid of them. And that’s everyone. Not just the person who presents with symptoms.

Having a beer in front of the computer. Who hoo! And the tupperware? Out of which I ate leftovers for dinner? Isn’t even washed up yet! Double whoo! Bachelor week begins in style.

My dad rents the back 10 to a farmer – one of the last on concession. Don’t think there’s much money in it, but when it’s canola being farmed, you at least get the flowers.

I spent most of today at my dad’s place, wielding heavy duty gardening gadgetry. My dad runs a gardening business and lately his place is proof of the saying about the cobbler’s kids not having shoes. Of course I’m not exactly used to the vibration and…

Despite a slight reddening around her vagina, the night time only screaming makes us think it’s pinworms. Again. This is the child we’re talking about, in case that’s not clear. I hope so because at least there we know what to do. If …

Today we launched one of the seven websites I need to relaunch this summer. There are still some rough patches, but it’s mostly there. I hope this will start a deluge of site launching. It’s not good timing for projects that need a lot of people’s coop…

And CentOS is still offering only 5.1.6. Oh yes, I’ve read the reams of ‘your mileage may vary’ message board conversations about getting their version of 5.3 to work, but it all seems so bloody experimental.