I just received a spam message that read: Tom Cruise crashes helicoptor over Pacific ocean; body not yet found. (followed by a link) (and no, as of this writing he hasn’t done so, at least not according to cnn.com, who presumably would have posted a story about same…) Back in my practical-joke-pulling days (i.e. the […]
Yet another nasty new variant on spam Read Post »
The Artesian City website is mostly banged in as to menu structure. I’m sure I’ll find things I want to tweak when I get started on content cleanup, and the whole purpose of moving to Joomla is to add gizmos, but not bad for 8-11 hours of work.
Not bad for 8-11 hours work Read Post »
.. can yield some pretty silly results. Not sure what I’m going to do about this.
iframes and mutually referring websites Read Post »
There’s a point in any web project where it seems you have to, like Cortes*, burn your boats. This point came sooner than expected for me. I couldn’t get the zip archive to extract, so I had to upload the tar.gz joomla file to the server and expand it. At that point, while my existing
Last night I downloaded Joomla 1.5.3. (zip archive) This morning I downloaded it again because the extraction wizard keeps failing. I’m hoping the copy I downloaded last night was just corrupted, and the fresh copy will work. It’s taken me a long time to learn this, but “a watched pot never boils” also applies to these
Website update – the first step is always the hardest Read Post »
I’m planning to move my company’s website from a static design (it was designed with php to try to make it easier to update, but it didn’t totally work out that way) to Joomla 1.5.x. Since we have the long weekend ahead of us, I’m going to tackle it tomorrow.
Company website remodel Read Post »
I will be playing alto sax on a nice, sunny (i.e. incredibly hot) stage at the park later, and there will be BBQ, a movie, etc., so don’t think me a total workaholic. But right now I’m at the office “making license plates,” as I’ve come to call mundane work that can’t be sloughed off
Today: got up early, web dev on my mind got to office, realized treepad still tends to resolve the junk in my mental attic to a kind of semi-sticky paste started looking at google apps to see if there’s anything that will take care of what Outlook isn’t doing for me somehow (and this is
Fine line between GTD and wasting time Read Post »
In which I update my loyal audience, both of whom I’ve left hanging. HEALTH UPDATE I got an e-mail from a friend who still visualizes me doddering around with a walker. Fortunately, this is not the case. Let me catch you up with my progress. Since I stopped writing incessantly about the baby steps involved
I had this bright idea about 3 o’clock this morning. It still seems okay in broad daylight, so I’m putting it up here. It’s probably just as well I can’t remember what I was dreaming about. Hat tips: Orange County Choppers website for the photo; http://demotivators.com/ for the “Demotivational Poster” generator tool.