Month: April 2003

I think that I am going to like this. Moveable type looks quite nice and much less complicated than php-nuke. Now mind you php-nuke is very nice product also but it offers much more than I currently require. All I want to do is keep some notes up here for my own use and hopefully to help others. And also to pass news on to those who would like read it.
I like this.

Well, enough for tonight, I need to shower and get some sleep. Need to clean up because I was cutting the lawn today. That was quite a labor because for some places in the yard it was the first cutting of the season, too much damn rain! But I would rather not see things with too little rain. And I have to hit the rack because I in a training class this week for C# which is what we are changing to at work from Powerbuilder. Will report back later what I think about the new language. Good night.

Been busy with many other things. Also avoiding this old slow machine, too much I am afraid though since I do need to get my java program going. I also am going to look at some different software for keeping this up. I like phpnuke but it sure is complex. A lot more here than I require or have time for. We had a nice easter here. A somewhat relaxing day although I did take advantage of the dry weather to knock down the nearly foot high grass. It has been so wet lately that I have had few chances to cut the grass and of course all the water only encourages it grow more. sigh. Most of the usual stuff at work, perplexing problems that have no sensible explanation. My one project that is forever in test and never goes live and I still try to learn C#. This afternoon made an attempt at installing Visual Studio.Net, I had more than an hour but did no more than just setup IIS on my PC. Most of the time was taken trying to get the latest security patches from MS but our network has been saturated lately. I am told that an upgrade is going in this evening, sure hope it works because at this point it is all but useless.

Another weekend come and gone. Not much computerish happened despite my having a big project to get done. I did get some bread made and pecan-cinnamon sticky buns (yum yum). Also made calzones yesterday for dinner, they were delicious. In fact, they were so good that Grant hated them and Matthew loved them, typically the indicator of a good recipe but it does make it hard to cook sometimes.

The days slip by so quickly. They are full days but I get home do stuff put the kids in bed and before I know what’s happened it is 11:30. Oh boy. Matthew had his soccer practice tonight and both boys will have games on Friday. Should be interesting, they are still playing by bunching around the ball. The coaches try but it is hard to break old habits. In my continuing search for a new computer I stopped by the computer store on Monday. They had this little box there made by Shuttle It’s smaller than a bread box but has about everything to offer. I liked it a lot but not sure I can lay out the $600 dollars it would take to fully equip it, processor, memory, hard drive. Then again I may just splurge some, later though. Intially I put in a link to www.shuttle.com above but when I clicked on it I was unable to come back here via the back button. I REALLY hate that! It would almost be enough to sway me away from what is a fine machine, I don’t care to do business with companies that irritate me.

I meant to get back tomorrow, especially since it so much simpler now to put up comments. I just spent the evening messing around, did not get a lot done it seems. Lounged around a bit this morning, made waffles, yum yum. Then made some bread, a basic honey-wheat recipe and by this time it was 12 pm. Poof there goes the morning. Losing an hour last night did not help, we all slept in a like amount. Perhaps I will take a few minutes to figure out php-nuke. Certainly can do a lot. Later.