Okay, okay…so these are neither pinhead crickets nor flightless fruit flies (nope, not wingless, either), but it’s not my fault there’s a damned shoe store right next to the only place within a 70 mile radius of my house that actually had live fruit flies (that were still actually alive) for sale, is it? Baby […]

Somewhere, there have to be fonts and sizes specified not only for titles and headings, but the goddamned sidebar, and the fucking post text itself! I can change anything but sidebar in “Pingouin Cerise”, and everything but the post text in Manticore. What, exactly, do I want to change? The sidebar in “Pengouin Cerise” and […]

When I accidentally overwrite the sidebar that has the calendar with the old one that didn’t, just stick this in under the search… < ?php get_calendar(2); ?> Now…that gets me out of making it widget-aware, which was waaaaay too much trouble for a simple goddamned calendar, but I’m not sure I like the font anymore, […]

This again. Security through obscurity, AKA, bullshit. Just because your software doesn’t detect a virus/rootkit/malware etc, does not mean you’re not infected. Anti-virus is only one toll that you should have in your armoury ie. a good software firewall such as Zonealarm….malware detection like Spyware Terminator, regular windows updates and good old common sense like […]

When I checked yesterday, I didn’t yet have themes available, but they’re there now! I told L. about Gmail’s new themes a couple of days ago, and he thinks they’re unnecessary and make text difficult to read (Windows 3.11? Seriously?), but I think they’re pwritty! Though Terminal looked terrible with my GTK theme, and I […]

So I don’t forget about it by the time it’s useable…. Europeana.eu launched yesterday, and ten million hits an hour brought it down, so there’s a temporary page up for now, and apparently it won’t be back up until mid-December (ooooh, jealous of European work schedules–here, they’d work their staff half to death to get […]

I had to wait for a while after feeding the fish; the bettas can have their lights off straight away because they are hand-fed, but the others need a little time. I haven’t managed to get in the shower yet, so I thought I’d grab a couple of California Cuties (they’re citrus fruit, not surfer […]

I have a bunch of old files that are in Real format. I was still running Gutsy back then. Helix can’t open them, and I couldn’t remember what the hell they were, only that I’d “liberated” them from BBC and for that reason, they might actually be useful, so I installed Real Player; I think […]

After I lost Valerie, I moved Olena over to Val’s old house. I took some of her stuff along with her, but when I did, I forgot about an ootheca. Chinese praying mantises overwinter as oothecae here; the female deposits the case, and the little dudes hatch out when warm weather comes in spring. I […]

All together – as one. “Okay, everybody, say it with me…all together now! Homophones are words that sound the same but mean something different!” Altogether – entirely. “Homophones are great, but illiterate morons who don’t read enough to recognise them are an altogether different story because they make the Grammar Nazi cry.” Christ…it’s gonna be […]