Archive for August, 2004

Walmart Sells Batteries

August 18, 2004

I replaced the car battery today (it had gotten run down last weekend). I typically would have gone to Sears, but we have WalMart close by and sure enough they sell car batteries. So that’s what I got (only a 2 year warranty, but it was cheap).

Automatic MySQL Backup

August 17, 2004

After my fiasco with deleting my weblog database, I just installed this script, Automatic MySQL Backup, so that I can backup all my databases automatically.

Implemented Photo Matt - On Asides

August 17, 2004

I’ve implemented Photo Matt’s Asides feature. I had some problems, but found help via this posting on the WordPress forums.

Books on Tape woes

August 17, 2004

I have a love - hate relationship with books on tape. I love them for a great many reasons, but I borrow them from the library and sometimes they are damaged. I’ve been listening to The Bear and Dargon by Tom Clancy. It’s a 31 tape book, and the last 5 tapes are all damaged. [...]

Redesign

August 16, 2004

Due to a dumb mistake (deleting my old blog database by accident), I was sort of forced to into migrating my blog to new software. Becuase I was playing with WordPress before the accident, that is what I went with. I still have a lot to due to fix everything, but we’re slowly coming back [...]

Goodbye GroupWise

August 13, 2004

We’ve finished our GroupWise to Exchange migration! All in all, things went very well; it just took a long time to get started and then it was a lot of manual effort to perform the tasks. We’ve still got a little bit of clean up to do, but as of today GroupWise is no more [...]

Revisiting WordPress

August 12, 2004

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve started looking at WordPress again. It has a lot of things going for it. One of the nicest is a hack by one of the developers, called Asides. It allows for posting quick little items. One of the problems that I currently have is that sometimes I get [...]

Office Redesign

August 11, 2004

With a growing family, you never seem to have enough closet/storage space. So to be able to storage all of Ellie’s old toys and junk, plus the stuff that got moved out of the guest room, we’re going to be installing the Pax wardrobe system from Ikea in the office. This necessitated a redesign of [...]

More pictures

August 8, 2004

Fern has added a bunch more picture to the gallery so check them out.

Baby Gifts

August 5, 2004

The guys and gals who work for me at the office had some gifts for the baby and Ellie today when I returned to the office. Thanks!