WordPress 2.7 lookin’ at you, babe
We can cross ‘upgrade WordPress’ off our New Year’s Lesser Resolutions list. You’re looking at it! We made one small mistake (a misplaced ‘?’ plus angle bracket) in the config file, but quickly found and fixed it in TextWrangler. Two months, two upgrades… and, as of post #1, no ‘403′ errors in MarsEdit…
Counterfeiting our New Year’s resolutions
As the New Year looms we found ourselves making the usual list of resolutions for the New Year. Buddy Scott and I, over our morning coffee, talked about the usual random topics, including at least one New Year’s resolution. I brought up my determination to do our loop walk at 3 mph and also to [...]
Carneros sky
Woke up this morning somewhere near the Napa/Sonoma county line to see pretty clouds drifting in a deep blue sky. We’re still hanging out at our ‘undisclosed location‘…
Christmas blogging
Granddaughter Grace was the center of a very cheery Christmas this year. She’s shown here with her two favorite presents: a 10-foot-long tunnel she can crawl through and a large blue box that had held one of her mother’s presents.
Linda and I had as much fun as we’d had in a long time: this has [...]
Red sky in the morning…
We walkers (Scott, Tiger Lily and I) took note, if not warning as we made our rounds on wet Menlo streets. Scott talked about Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell’s new book that tracks the reasons for success. One of Gladwell’s maxims is that it takes 10,000 hours to become really good at anything (he notes [...]
Woofers
We noted, a while back, that we had decided to go mano a mano with a stereo speaker problem we’d been having. It wasn’t easy, thanks to near-unbelievably bad Sony product design, a broken (actually, critter-gnawed) wire under the house and some other issues, but we finally succeeded.
An amplifier dedicated to producing thunderous low tones [...]
Today’s MRI
Here’s a cheery holiday image (at least from my perspective): it’s a picture extracted from the MRI study made of my brain this morning at UCSF. The small white squiggle in the lower left quadrant of the picture corresponds to the glioma (brain tumor) in the right parietal lobe of my brain (the ‘perspective’ here [...]
Ice and frost
Frost and icy puddles greeted Scott and Lily and me as we headed out into the 38-degree morning. Lily didn’t seem to mind the sharp air as she busily led the way through a neighborhood of frosty roofs and lawns.
One puddle, reflecting the warm colors of the morning sky, had big crystals of ice [...]
Testing, yet again
The UNIX gods are good today… the 403 we were seeing yesterday has just disappeared… I haven’t touched anything on the server or in MarsEdit. And we’ve been thinking about upgrading to WordPress 2.7…
‘Green’ cheer
Finally, a photo of the new LED lights in the Redwoods, seen here from the driveway (above) and from down the block.
The lights turned out to be particularly hard to photograph against a bright Western sky on a clear night. I stood in my long-suffering neighbor’s driveway for almost 90 minutes for the sky to [...]