FireFox 1.5
OK, everyone else has said it, and I installed it last night, but for those of you who haven’t read it 100 times yet:
OK, everyone else has said it, and I installed it last night, but for those of you who haven’t read it 100 times yet:
The day Google reader was opened to the public, I was there. It was exactly what I was looking for. The main sticking point was that all of the items were grouped by publication time on the main page, versus by site on most of the other applications that I have tried.
I went out of town for Thanksgiving, and, and the request of my wife, did not bring a computer (although I did fix several of them while I was home.) When I returned, I had over 700 items to catch up with. I am normally hard presses to clear all of the items on any given day. It was at this point that I read the sites that are must read for me, and wanted to mark all of the rest as read.
For the lack of any better way, I pressed “j” 500 times. Am I missing something? I would think that there has to be a better way.
I spent the holiday weekend doing everything except shopping.
I began the holiday by fixing my grandfather’s computer. This included setting up my old router so that my sister and he could share his broadband connection. I was glad to get some use out of that router, since I payed well over $100 for it, although you could probably get the same thing for $50 now.
I also set my Mom up with a phone under my plan. I could go into great detail on this, but there is little point. She is now in network, and has no excuses why she will not turn her phone on while she travels. (I mean that, Mom!)
Saturday we did little more that eat and sleep. Today is shopping day, and I am sitting here while my lovely while is braving the crowds. I did not think that there would still be this many people shopping, but this is the bust season.
or rather Windows. Just when you think that you are getting the hang of things, you go and make some silly error.
I had tried many things to fix this. I deleted my profile, I deleted the send/receive file. I even un-installed, removed the registry keys and reinstalled office. Since I still had access to this feature through web-mail, I had almost forgotten about it. But the other day, our office IT person called and asked me how I fixed that problem when it happened to me. I told her I would get back with her.
In case you are wondering how I fixed this: Help -> About -> Disabled Items
I went through countless KB articles, and was almost going to pay for Experts Exchange, when I came across an article that explains that when you disable an add-in, it saves the information in the registry. I was going through searching for the key, and I ended up on the Help Menu to go back to the KB, when I stumbled across this fix.
I will probably never need this again.
That is, until you update the scheduled task. I run everything manually on my Windows computer, but I set everything up to run automatically on Beth’s. (And everyone else’s computer, when they ask me to fix it.)
When we moved to our new place, I redid the network. With the addition of another router (VoIP) I had to reconfigure all of my port forwarding anyways, so I rebuilt from the ground up. I have all of the computers confusingly descriptive names, that way I could call them from the command line without having to look anything up.
This worked great until I went to scan the most set of monthly statements. I thought that Beth’s computer was running a bit slow, so I looked at the scheduled tasks to see if a defragmentation or a registry cleaning was about due. None of the scheduled tasks had run since we moved! I began looking at the setting and could not figure it out. I decided that I was going to delete all 18 tasks and rebuild them as well.
Just as I was about to delete the first task I noticed that “Run As:” still had the old computer name. I changed all of the authorities, and gave each task a test run, and everything works as it should. I am glad that I caught that one, and just in the nick of time.
I have to admit that both of these were easily overlooked, but I was disappointed I did not discover any of this sooner.
Tony took his first steps today!
Tony has been cruising for a while, and he has never dared strayed away from the furniture. He has stood up in the middle of a room, but sits down the minute he begins to lose his balance. But, today was different.
He stood up in the middle of the room, and walked to Beth. This is one of the few times that Beth and I have been together for one of the boys firsts.