avablog

I’m having some difficulties arranging ‘Net access at my mom’s place, where we’ll be staying for the next month or so.  This should make for an interesting social experiment if I can’t get something figured out, and fast.

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I’m ordinarily pretty good at handling stress, but these last couple weeks have started getting to me.  The impending move and all of its details are mostly to blame, but there have been other things going on that have contributed to my befrazzlement. One milestone that I was glad to get out of the way […]

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So, I went shooting off my mouth about working up a new theme for avablog now that it’s hosted at a new site. It seems like I should update the look around here. It’s been a while. But I’ll be jiggered if there’s not a downright dearth of simple, clean WordPress themes out there. So, […]

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avablog now has a new home, thanks to my friend Greg, who graciously offered me a virtual domain on his site5 account.  It’s good to have friends in high places. What this means is that the blog will have a much better uptime; it won’t come down when I, say, move my server to a […]

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Today is Leah’s birthday. It turned out to be a bit of a disappointment for her. I won’t say how old she is, but I will post this nice picture I took of her cake: Anyway, we were supposed to go to Chicago to meet up with Kevin and Rachel (unbeknownst to Leah and Kevin) […]

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I’ven’t* yet ceased to be amazed (and often disturbed) by the search habits of the general WWW-using public. One example is the perennial placement of the search term “philly cheesesteak burger” among the top five terms in my httpd log. Look, I love Hardee’s as much as the next person, and I might’ve even searched […]

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Finally, a reason to not delete my Yahoo! ID.  Pipes. For people who browse, this is huge.  FYI:  That’s you.

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We’re in the market for a new database at work, so we’ve had vendors coming in to give three-day demos of their software. I won’t name any names, but the first group was really top notch. All of the presenters really knew their stuff, and they were polished and professional, but not aloof. Their product […]

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Welcome to the 21st Century’s equivalent of the shoebox full of photos: This is an image of the widget that shows me the status of my RAID, which is where I’ve stored digital copies of every single movie and picture I’ve taken in the last three years (and some pictures from long before that). It’s […]

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This upgrade to the latest version of WordPress was the easiest yet. It’s especially nice to be able to do the update remotely using FTP and have it all work so smoothly. I only use a couple plugins, and as far as I know, they’re all working OK. And I love the fact that this […]

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We were at one of the local coffee houses this weekend, and I got a big kick out of looking at all the different laptops people lug out in public.  Lots and lots of Dells, which you’d expect.  A couple Apple units here and there.  I think I might’ve even seen a Sony.  But my […]

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I feel like I should be getting college credit for having read it (no, I don’t usually read spam, but I was looking for an account confirmation e-mail that I thought might’ve been mistakenly killed). In its entirety:

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The WWW’s killer app.  I’ve been waiting for this since 1990.  Why didn’t I think of it?

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Could today finally be the day I break down and buy a cell phone? I suspect it’ll be as close as I’ve ever come (which is to say, moderately close).

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There’s a big MacWorld conference this week. As always, rumors abound. I’m tempted to sit this one out, but I’m sure I’ll end up taking a peek at live coverage sometime during the day. The keynote is on the same day we’re having an inspector come and look at the house in preparation for negotiating a sale with our neighbor. It’s going to be a big week. By Wednesday we’ll likely know if we’re staying here for a while or moving in the spring.

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Now, why can’t I get my old lady interested in one of these?

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In case any of you were getting sick of all the cute shots of Ava: Shot courtesy Apple’s Photo Booth software.

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My mother and mother-in-law are presently experience the consequences of a huge influx of (mostly Russian-sent) spam e-mail. According to a recent story at CNN, nine out of 10 e-mails are now spam. Just amazing.

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These FedEx guys rock! China to Bumf*#k, U.S.A. in two days? El mundo es un panuelo, si?

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Have you ever wanted to look at thousands of pictures of our adorable daughter but didn’t want to register an account at flickr, where they’re stored? Now you can!

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