Today I managed to figure out why the wireless network in the house kept cutting out on my laptop. I’d installed the SBC/Yahoo connection manager before setting up the Wi-Fi, so each time I was logging on to the net the Server would check the connection to the DSL modem which was firmly attached to the desktop upstairs. Signals were sent and misunderstood by all parties involved and a separation would take place. That has now been taken care of on my end.
I also unpacked the old Proview monitor from my deceased desktop, dusted it off and attached it to this laptop so that I’m able to work with two views concurrently. It’s kinda nice having my last.fm connection up on one screen and my surfing window open on the other. Of course – where this will come in extremely handy will be in designing and touching up this site. Speaking of which – Did some back-end design earlier today. I’d sent Cousin Jennifer an email asking if she’d like to have a little guest appearance here in the coming days so that she could tell her tale of Brown Recluse horror in response to the response Ariel got from her poison control center when they told her not to worry, Brown Recluse bites are really overrated. Well – when I sent J the link, it led her nowhere – and I was alerted to the problems that the sideblog archives were going through. So I did a lil rearrangin and the link is now minus some extemporaneous digits, and works. As should any of the permalinks now – which for some reason were leading people a little south of their intended destinations. The sideblog archives page is a little prettier, as are the monthly pages — but I still need to work out the individual entries, which suffer from a blandness akin to a winter cloud cover.
One other exhaustive note — I’m gonna try to start entering all the sideblog links into one date — they’re sweepin by so fast on the side there, most anyone reading wouldn’t have a clue they’d ever been there. I’d like to figure out how Kottke got his remaindereds over to the main post — and have gone to the library in search of answers. A Perl manual now joins the XML vocabulary on the bedside, whilst Proust still accumulates more dust, and perhaps the inclusion of a coupla nifty scripts will allow for some entertaining additions.
All that said – I spent the past hour rummaging through old photographs in search of the perfect accompaniment for my cousin’s byline in tomorrow’s “edition.” I’m gonna have to rummage some more. WAY too many Harper pictures in that mix. (Speakin of which — good luck to mom’s and the grandparents — looks like y’all got a couple o’ hurricanes bearin down on ya.) The Falcon’s preseason opens tonight, and following that I’ll be workin up a lil introduction for Jennifer so y’all will have some acquaintin before she gets to her bloggin. Not that most of you need it. Bein family and all.
Following J’s guest appearance we should have – and I know I’ve said this before a few times — so I’m tempted to bite my tongue here and keep it to myself – but we should have another presence over on the One Grover Over portion. It seems See-store’s laptop got nailed with the pop-ups — and she sent an email today saying she’d handed it over to the tech guy – that he was gettin on it – and that as soon as he finished she’d be bloggin.
So that’s the news. I’ll be back with that intro in a few hours. Until then — keep yourself occupied by watching this circus develop. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.