Thanksgiving 2004

Had a great family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We had three generations, including both grandparents and all the kids and their wives (if married). Food was fantastic — fired turkey, spiral-sliced ham, oyster & sausage dressing, sausage dressing, rolls, sweet potato casserole, green beans, corn souffle, pecan pie, birthday cake, homemade ice cream, and more. I [...]

Website visits hits high!

There was a post about HDTV tuner cards this morning on Slashdot. I made one of the earliest followup comments, regarding why HDTV cards are available for off-the-air only and not for cable systems yet. I also pointed to my Home Theater PC articles on my web site. WOW! As of 8:10pm (about 10.5 hours [...]

Serendipity upgrade

Just did the upgrade from 0.7b2 to 0.7. It went so smoothly that I thought I must have done something wrong.<br /> <br /> New rule: If you want an upgrade to go smoothly, backup the mysql database and Serendipity files before hand. If you want an upgrade to crash and burn, don't back up. [...]