My Powerbook is two years old.
Still looking spiffy, it’s been all over the world, like my Ixus. And me.
But Bender (that’s its name) has a bum battery. It’s been charged 383 times over two years and has lost over 3/4 of its ability to hold a charge. And yes, my iPod is named “Dr. Zoidberg”. Futurama reference anybody?
Those of y’all that have a laptop understand my pain here. Because a new battery is US$150!!!
That’s a lotta chump change!
Urgggggg…
OK back online now
Whew, that was a long 6 hours! But land line is back now. Means DSL is back now. Yay.
What’s worse then no DSL?
No dial up!
My land line went down today. No dial tone. Nothing.
Phone company says “it may be fixed between now and friday”.
Funny how they want to be paid IMMEDIATELY but when they have to do something, you get fuzzy time…
Grrrrr.
Upgrade Complete!
Took a tad more work this AM, but got the NetPBM module to generate thumbnails of pictures with a little help from IPC Run!
I know, waaay too much geek speek this early in the day…
Here’s a lion from a fren’s wedding.
There’s a tradition during the lion dance that you throw oranges for good luck. At this wedding, an orange, hurled from one end of the room, hit a waiter square on the head on the other side of the room. He cursed up a blue streak in Guangdongwa, despite the fact that he probably is more familiar with some of the obscure traditions than anyone else in the room!
The Longest 3 hours
Six Apart has released the latest version of Movable Type, 3.2, a long overdue overhaul of its blogging software. With lots of anti-spam goodness. And because this goodness is built in, it should make leaving comments easier!
The upgrade instructions seem simple enough.
Replace files in your installation with the files in the upgrade package. Make sure permissions are correct. Then log in as you usually do and blammo, it upgrades itself. Sounds easy, right? Not by a long shot!
Eternal Truths
Sometimes we need reminders of the eternal truths, just to keep us grounded. For example:
Beautiful women are beguiling,
Checks you write for property tax get cashed immediately (overnight!) while checks the City owes take 16 weeks to show up,
The “right” travel deal NEVER comes along at the right time,
And the most relevant eternal truth, at least regarding this entry (drum roll please),
Hella Upgraded!
So after being up REALLY late last night trying to upgrade my MT installation, I ran into a LOT of bugs. “What kind?” you ask? Well…
Upgraded…
So I’ve upgraded MovableType to 3.15 from 2.66, mostly to combat the massive amounts of comment spam that this site seems to attract.
Not so geeky…
as people think!
Comment Spam, yuck!
890 attempts of comment spam. Over the last 10 days!
Sheesh.
Thankfully the spam issue has been addressed. Movable Type plugin. And it works! Whoo hooo!
But can you imagine manually deleting all that crap like I did when I was overseas on my last trip?
That would suck big time.