Archive for August, 2007

WCB 113: Clever Pet Tricks

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

It’s one of those days.
I’m in the middle of transferring a large number of websites, databases, lists, galleries, and so on to a new hosting service and it is tedious work. For those who don’t know, one area in which I freelance is web design and I host sites for my [...]

WCB #115: Storage compartments? Storage compartments?

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

I am not usually susceptible to advertising. I tend to ignore what the hucksters are hucking my way on the telly. Sure the gecko’s kinda cute, but he’s not going to get me to switch insurance companies just because he’s shiny and green and sounds like Brick Top from Snatch — minus the [...]

One Tiny Summer

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

See that tomato? It’s our one and only tomato. Oh, we’ll have more later (with some 12 tomato plants in the yard, we’d better!) but right now, this is it. Our August bounty.
Hey! I think we just saved fifty cents on our grocery bill!
We really do have a great yard [...]

WCB: Prologue

Friday, August 24th, 2007

“Is it time already?” the orange one asked as he lounged before the great calendar of all household things.
A room away, his little gray companion sat up. “Time?” she said. Her voice was louder than its usual squeak. “Indeed it is! Something’s coming. Something… shiny.” She paused, [...]

Stay tuned, kitties…

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

This was my weekend. How was yours?
(Weekend Cat Blogging Round-up will be up as soon as the computers are as cooperative as the cats. In brief, we had an emergency upgrade issue and everything’s in pieces. Somewhere in this office, there’s a hard drive with half a round-up post on [...]

WCB #116: The (very late) Great Round-up Adventure!

Friday, August 31st, 2007

I’ve learned my lesson. Never say “hey, let’s test that new hard drive” in the middle of a project. Days later, and after much agony over ribbon cables and cooling fans, I’m back online. Fortunately, the cats did not interfere with the computer rebuilding process (this time.) Also fortunately, I [...]