Last Friday the area around my right side burn got swollen and raw. By Saturday afternoon it spread down the right side of my neck. By Monday (Memorial Day) everyone was reminding me to see a doctor. It was all swollen and hurt a little with pins and needles pain. Tuesday morning I am in [...]
Keeping the BlackBerry Pearl
After speaking with my friend, I’m going to buy the Pearl from him. The geek appeal is too much. I get delivery of my own email, I get Yahoo Mail, GMail, and now thanks to MidpSSH I get a working ssh client on my cell phone. I doubt that I’ll do anything very interactive via [...]
Moved WP back to primary server
I moved WordPress back to the primary server. I took a working copy of all the files and database from the backup and restored it to the primary and poof it works. Yesterday I did get a PHP update for Opensuse, that might have been part of it.
Dealing with pond algae
So Lily and I are at my mother-in-law’s house with the kids. It’s hot and the kids are watching cartoons. I’m hanging out with Lily’s nephew talking about the BlackBerry Pearl when I hear yelling from downstairs. Lily is on the phone getting upset with someone named “Jessica”. Jessica called and is insisting on speaking [...]
Adding Slimstat to WordPress
I run this web site as a hobby but I still like to have tools to check how the site is doing. Slimstat is a tool that I use because it captures things like search strings, referers, etc. It’s like Google analytics but more local. For WordPress there is a useful plugin that adds Slimstat [...]
Something odd going on
The WordPress installation on my primary server has gone spa; dunno why yet. I’ve switched over to the VPS with WP-Cache running so it should perform well. Yay for automated backups.
Blackberry Pearl
I have been thinking about getting a new cell phone/PDA for a while. When I mentioned to Lily the idea she said “get the iPhone when it comes out”. I really like the way she thinks. I mentioned this to my friend and he suggested I try out his BlackBerry Pearl. He got it a [...]
