It’s almost impossible to get anything done tonight as every computer in the house is updating. The Windows XP machine is updating Service Pack 3 and a whole bunch of other updates and the Mac just updated to iTunes 8 and Quicktime 7. I thought I was hosed for a while there as XP started up and began going through the registration drill like it was a fresh install again.
This morning I’m going through the database and deleting the posts that Google says might have spyware. Why? So those using Firefox 3, which are a great many of you, won’t see the annoying red page when you try to come read my site that says my site is loaded with spyware. Hopefully this will do the trick and I can get that page removed.
Oh yes, the current theme I’m using is Wolfgang Bartleme’s Dark theme that he used to use. I just wanted to see what it looked like but I’ll leave it up for a while. Wolfgang is on my list as “one freakin’ awesome” designer. You can check out more of his stuff and his current beautiful template at www.bartelme.at.
Dailything.com began as a I transitioned from Radio.Userland (man that was good software) to MovableType back in June of 2002. I lost a lot of my older stuff when I changed hosts so my archives only go back to 2003 but man, has it been 6 years already?
What started out as one weblog quickly became 2 then 3 then 2 again then 4 and now 7. That’s right, I’m taking the Leo Laporte route and becoming a content producer. Right now I have a site that talks about Yosemite (where most people know me from), a site talking about Autism, an informative How-to site, a site about Photography, a site full of beautiful pictures and a couple more that I can’t even remember off the top of my head. Not all of them have been announced but they will be soon. Plan is for me to take my long weekend this weekend and finish getting them up as well as spending some much needed time mano a camera. When they’re ready I’ll let you know and I’ll post links in the Blogroll. But for now you can go check out www.learningaboutautism.org and see how it’s developing or www.allacrossamerica.org.
Yes, we were hacked. This sucks. Someone got in and added some malicious code to the templates. It appears to have been an installer for a trojan. You’re probably OK if you run up to date virus software but to be safe I’d recommend you do a complete scan if you’re on a Windows machine and make sure your virus definitions are up to date. The hole has hopefully been fixed. I’ve deleted the old theme just to make sure all remnants of the script are gone. Right now I’m locking everything down tight so they can’t get in again and making sure my other sites are secure as well. Everything should be OK now though.
This weekend we picked up a stroller with an infant car seat for the new baby and a new mattress for the crib that my oldest son had been sleeping in. He has a new “big boy” bed. Picking a quality stroller/infant car seat combo was the hardest part though. Most of the reviews are from 5 years ago. I find that INCREDIBLE considering how big the market is and how much things have changed in 5 years.
We ended up getting the Evenflow Aura Sierra from Target. It’s very similar to the one we used 5 years ago when Zac was a baby. The major selling points were, and I’ve tested and used it before so you can trust me, it’s incredibly easy to collapse with 1 hand (because the baby is in the other), it’s easy to unfold, and the Z shaped hand is uber comfortable.
We looked at the more expensive systems (*cough*chicco) and I didn’t see the a significant difference in quality or easy of use. In fact I thought it was MORE difficult. So we’re using the Evenflow.
Hey it works. Does what it’s supposed to and does it good. That’s good enough for me.
Though you may not see evidence of it in the archives, The Daily Thing celebrated its 5th birthday this month.
The Daily Thing has always been about things I find interesting and want to comment on or share with others. Hopefully you have found something you like or enjoy that keeps you coming back. Anyway, I just wanted to say, thanks for 5 years.
We’re back! After a few days struggle with getting the domain resolved everything appears to be squared away and working as normal. I added a bunch of things to my del.icio.us but they went with the wayward server so I have a lot of things to catch up on. Thanks for sticking around.
Since the old PC is dead I’m ready to start building a new one. Well hey, that thing lasted 7 years with an old P3 866 and was a tried and true work horse.
For my new PC I’ve decide to open up the 64 bit can of worms and go with this AMD processor and Gigabyte Mobo from PC Club with 1gb of RAM to start. I know… I know… I could find it cheaper online but that wouldn’t allow me to take it back and I have no patience for shipping at this time of the year.
Though it doesn’t offer PCI Express, I felt this board offered the greatest amount of forward and backward compatibility.
If anyone has any recommendations on video cards, I’m willing to listen.
California’s election results are in and it’s a sweeping loss for the Govenator’s reform initiatives. So far the best coverage I’ve seen of the election results has been over at the San Jose Mercury News.
I was a little apprehensive with the electoral system here in California last night as the senior citizens working the polling place had an error in the scan machine meant to quickly tally results, couldn’t figure out how to fix it, had to call someone for help, and then threw out the ballot and made the gentleman remark it. Interestingly enough the machines themselves had the look of…well…paper shredders.
I suppose it’s good that the machine caught the gentleman had accidentally marked two candidates twice but, wouldn’t it have been easier to give out pencils for the scantron forms then pens?
Tags: California, politics, election