Month: January 2005

Rock, hard place, what?

For reasons I won’t go into here, it’s been decreed that there shall be no more automatic deletions of emails. At all. Period.

Well that’s just dandy, because I have a server that’s chronically low on disk space and the only way I can keep it from crashing is to (you guessed it) purge emails that are oversized or very outdated. So, uh, now what do I do?

The answer, of course, is to implement archiving. On each account. Individually. One at a time. Within the next day or two. Or face a crashed email server.

You’d think they’d give me a bit more time in which to pull off the impossible, wouldn’t you? Ah well…

24 January, 2005
Killer Candy?

In the future, I shall endeavor to keep firmly in mind that eating the bite-sized Tootsie Rolls while engaged in an activity that may involve laughter could be hazardous to my health.

I choked on one of the damned things tonight. That, friends, was one of the scariest experiences of my recent lifetime. Being almost unable to breathe? Not fun at all. I was wheezing and panicking. It took a couple of minutes and half a glass of water to get over the worst of it, and my throat’s still a bit hoarse several hours later.

More of that kind of excitement I can do without, thank you muchly.

23 January, 2005
Good, bad, I’m the guy with the cape.

What has become (by far) my main character, a katana-wielding hero by the (somewhat odd) name of Woods Cutter, has reached Security Level 20. You know what that means, don’t you? It’s new costume and cape time!

Look at him, all mean and cool, standing there with his nifty cape and new getup. And here’s what he looks like from the back when he’s jumping all over town:

Pretty cool stuff, huh? For comparison, I offer this shot of his original costume… unfortunately it’s only from the back, and he’s got Stealth on, but you get the gist of it:

That last shot was taken while I was witnessing a serious bit of Hellion-herding, by the way. See if you can spot the other hero in that picture!

Hey, at least I’m getting enjoyment out of my $15 per month…

22 January, 2005
Why I haven’t been updating.

I figured it out once the fact that the “last updated” indicator for my site on Lil’s blogroll read “October 22nd” had percolated in my brain overnight. Ah! That was the day I changed the configuration on the server to switch from ‘/journal.php’ to ‘/journal’. (The old journal.php-based URLs still work, though, to preserve compatibility with those outside sites that link to specific entries here.) Apparently, ever since that switch, my pings to Blogrolling.com have been all for naught.

The same’s been true for Wendi’s site, which I also changed that same day. The same has not been true for Lil’s site, since it was coded “the new way” from Day One. Dawn and Mari have been running Movable Type all along, so they haven’t had to deal with this at all.

Go figure, eh? Now, of course, I need to figure out how to remedy the situation without breaking the new change…

21 January, 2005
What a strange thing to do… funny, though.

I really don’t know what to say to this, other than that I find it rather amusing…

…worth a thousand words

21 January, 2005
For the graphing-calculator set, mostly.

Dawn got a 79 on this thing. Me? I didn’t score so highly

I got a whopping 70 out of 100. Mind you, there were a lot of questions pertaining to graphing calculators and elements of the periodic table rather than just a bunch of computer-geek stuff. I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad about it.

The idea was to score as high as possible, right?

20 January, 2005