Firebox is selling a USB hub shaped like the TARDIS. According to this article at The Register the TARDIS USB hub “not only flashes its light and blares out the time-space craft’s famous ripping-a-hole-in-reality take-off sound.” I don’t need a USB hub–I have one, and I’ve never used it, except for one day where IContinue reading “On Total Nerd-dom”
Monthly Archives: January 2007
On Potentially Good News
Friday afternoon I moved into a new cubicle at work. I’d spent the past few months at a kind of walled off desk with barely enough room from myself, my CPU unit, my monitor, keyboard, and mouse. My phone? I didn’t really need it — who would call me? — so it was shoved behindContinue reading “On Potentially Good News”
On Falling Snow
Today’s weather forecast called for light rain showers in the evening. I was looking forward to that–the car could use a bath, after the snow and salt of last week’s snowfall. When I left work the wind was blowing lightly from the north and west, and dark clouds hugged the horizon. I frowned–north and westContinue reading “On Falling Snow”
On a Sad Feeling
My grandmother’s sense of time has gone out the window. She sleeps during the day, then doesn’t understand why it’s dark at dinner time. Her understanding of the weather is tricky at best. She has no idea where she is in relation to North Carolina — she thinks we’re twenty minutes from Rocky Mount, whichContinue reading “On a Sad Feeling”
On a "Miserable Failure" No More
Go ahead. Do it. A Google search on the phrase “Miserable Failure.” Once upon a time, the phrase “Miserable Failure” would have brought up this page, the official White House biography of President George W. Bush. But no more. Google has done away with Googlebombs, the technique of linking to a page by using aContinue reading “On a "Miserable Failure" No More”
Again, On Shire Reckoning
I’ve been asked if my Shire Reckoning WordPress plug-in would ever be available as a WordPress widget. As of today, it is. Installation is a snap. Download the .zip file. Extract the file and upload it to your widgets directory. Activate the Shire Widget plug-in. Then on your widget management screen, drag it to yourContinue reading “Again, On Shire Reckoning”
On a Pointless Quest
And there was much rejoicing! I found a Windows binary for PernAngband! Okay, okay. Most of you reading this are probably saying to yourself, “Huh? Wha? Who?” PernAngband. There’s a computer game called Angband. It’s a text-based dungeon crawl, a Rogue-like game similar to Hack and NetHack, a descendant of Rogue and Moria. Where HackContinue reading “On a Pointless Quest”
On Getting Things Fixed
Hopefully, this will be the last post on upgrading WordPress. Hopefully. 😉 It took about two hours, but the sidebar links finally work again. It wasn’t an easy fix–I dug through files of the WordPress code to figure out how the new WordPress code passed arguments to the database to pull link categories and, byContinue reading “On Getting Things Fixed”
On Upgrading
And now, today, we’re on WordPress 2.1. I’m not sure why the upgrade failed yesterday, though I’ve left a couple of plug-ins turned off just to be safe. Unfortunately, the links in the sidebar have been replaced with an SQL error message. I’m going to work on getting that sorted forthwith. On the backend thereContinue reading “On Upgrading”
On Unnecessary Pain
Note to self: Wait a few days before upgrading WordPress to version 2.1. Might be a problem with the software. Might be a problem with the Tarski theme. Either way, unique and exciting failure modes! Getting the website back up and running — two of the most nerve-wracking hours of my life. Interesting. Ultimate TagContinue reading “On Unnecessary Pain”