The replacement print server from Motorola has been installed, so printing will require less calisthenics than we’ve put up with here for the last few weeks. As I sit here with the remaining crumbs in my potato chip bowl, I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
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Today I installed a new Wiki/WordPress server for a colleague. The things we do through “trial and error” aren’t always clearly remembered when trying to duplicate the functional part. All part of the learning curve. I now feel much more comfortable about installing this stuff under the WAMP model.
I also tested my own RSS feed for the first time, using the plugin for Outlook. It works. Not that I need to re-read my own work; the whole idea of RSS is great but a bit spooky. Is there a way to see who has added you to their subscription list or aggregator? More reading ahead.
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I didn’t notice the box when I arrived, given that I was wet to the knees from wading through the temporary lake out on the street caused by the cold driving rain. Motorola has sent back a shiny new replacement for the print server mailed away two weeks ago. Good service.
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It’s back. Season five of American Idol, which will see me join my family to idle in front of true entertainment television. Just think about it;, fifteen second clips that prove how few stars there are (astronomy aside). Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson; putting the musical pendulum back to dead center.
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I returned to the hospital today for my pressure check, which turned out as a little low, because my eye had developed a leak. Literally. Never fear, the doctor was near and with her trusty sewing kit she simply did a couple of deft stitches and put some stability back in the tire. Excuse me, eye. It’s getting harder to separate the two ideas…
posted in health | Comments Off on Eye on the needlepoint II | 205 words
I spent a good part of the last night reconstructing an old logo from UPEI with Paintbrush and a scanned image. Funny how that logo was omnipresent at one point in my lifetime/place but now is barely known to a whole generation…
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The temperature soared today, and the bright sun and clement weather softened the atmosphere in the office. An official request to change the venetian blinds which are older than my children has gone in. My work ethic has been (newly) praised. The email server cleanup is done.
Today I decided to retire our old scanner, purchased back when parallel ports and Windows 95 were on the leading edge. The machine will descend to equipment purgatory. So, off to Bureau En Gros, and pennies short of two hundred dollars, we now have a Canon Canoscan 4200F with extended warranty.
posted in computing | Comments Off on Update the gear | 134 words
Here we go. It’s been just over a month since my trabeculectomy (new hole in eyeball). Today I returned for the nth visit, and my Doctor decided to remove a cyst by simply putting a drop of the magic liquid on the eyeball and with a short pointy needle, remove same. Then and there, thank you, see you next week.
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Would someone please notify the CBC that debating is NOT allowing 90 second soundbites! Tonight is the third round in the current campaign, and all I feel is cam-pain.
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