So there I was, resting on my laurels, feeling pretty darned pleased with myself and my way cool install of Movable Type that I did ALL BY MYSELF with no help from anyone! Yesiree, I was pretty hot stuff, in my own mind at least. Then yesterday I was rebuilding the blog and got the…

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I’m at the Sacramento airport, waiting for a Southwest flight home. Chuck dropped us (our friend Jack, his girlfriend Lillian and me) off about 1/2 an hour ago, and then headed off for Yuba City. So having nothing better to do, I logged in using the airport’s Fly Sacramento wireless service. Not quite as slick…

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The last steps in the restoration of our blog are now completed, and all the entries and photos have been restored! It wasn’t too, too terrible – I had to email Movable Type once to iron out a small problem (I turned on dynamic publishing when I shouldn’t have), and after that everything went smoothly.…

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Well, we did it again. We switched web hosting providers (from Hostasaurus to Dreamhost). It seemed like a good idea – we wanted more control over database creation, subdomains, email addresses – stuff like that. So Chuck called Hostasaurus when he got the latest bill and told them we wouldn’t be re-upping (our account was…

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This just in: a new iPod shuffle! Neat, huh? Now if only it were real… But I think I’m at my iPod quota, so I shouldn’t even dream about more of them. Since I’m on the topic, though, here’s a real deal link to an iPod shuffle autopsy. Let’s all bow our heads for a…

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If it’s time for the Super Bowl, it must also be time for another round of iTunes giveaways via Pepsi bottlecaps! Read about it here. Same premise as last year: one out three bottlecaps has a code for a free iTunes song. We have a friend who drinks nothing but Pepsi (and he doesn’t get…

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