I'm glad to hear it's not just me. I was beginning to think I was crazy, or that I'd just missed some strange language migration thing.
I'm glad to hear it's not just me. I was beginning to think I was crazy, or that I'd just missed some strange language migration thing.
@Kami, I get great search results, and my site is indexed just fine running 2.0.11. (In fact, 70% of my visitors get there from a search, which is kind of a mixed blessing, as it indicates that regular readers aren't as high as I'd like, I think. :( ) That being said, I think it's due to a couple of plugins that I use that it gets indexed so well.
Anyway, yes, I know all about upgrading to keep current with critical security flaws, but that doesn't mean I have to leave the legacy version as the WP crew have committed to keeping it current security-wise until 2010. So, I have a year or so before I HAVE to do something, and by then maybe a newer version will come out that I can deal with.
Heh, my mom was a WP user before I was, actually. She owned her first computer when I was in high school (before I owned one), some old thing that ran DOS, with a monochrome screen and a dot matrix printer.
Of course, now the positions have flopped a bit, since I called her today to ask her some questions about a PHP issue I'm working through, and she said I'd need to find another guru, because she can't keep up with me anymore. I was sad...
Um. Since I've never run across owl shit, I'll take your word on that one RightOn. :)
Yeah, that's why I let other people go through first. :)
My mom and I always try to get each other to do it first. One of us will say to the other, "WordPress upgrades. Very dangerous. You go first."
And I'm still running the legacy branch on most of my sites, because I just plain don't like 2.1+, AT ALL.
Google were bound to hit a few roadblocks...
Why on earth is "Google" plural in this sentence? "Google" is a company, singular. I could see
You get the idea. "Owners", "creators", "competitors": all plural. "Google": most definitely singular. I've been seeing this same grammatical error all over lately, with Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc., and I just don't get it. Am I just missing it because I don't have some sort of business degree? Can anyone explain this weirdness?
I've yet to see skin look good on an 80 year-old, so I think that's kind of a moot point.
Once you pass a certain threshold your looks stop being about beauty and start being about distinguishing features/interesting wrinkles.
It is possible to grow old gracefully and beautifully after living a conscious life, regardless of wrinkles, features, muscle tone, or skin imperfections. Tattoos aren't part of that, and don't demonstrate grace and beauty, IMO.
Basic 4.
No more, no less, but sorry, not without milk. Unless it's with raspberry yogurt and then we can skip the milk.
I have exactly one natural diamond of any size to my name, and that's my engagement ring. We bought the best quality to size ratio that we could afford at the time, and 19 years ago, there were fewer options around for CZ jewelry that was set in real gold, so real diamonds was it.
I have purchased many other rings and pieces of jewelry that are CZ since then, simply because I don't really care. If I like the way it looks, I buy it if I can afford it. There IS a beautiful ring that I'd love to have that is only made in natural diamonds (and sapphires), but it's not in the budget right now. If it was made in a CZ version, I'd have had one a year ago when I first saw it.
As for your questions:
All in all, it's the thought that counts, and as long as it's not butt ugly and turning my finger green, what's to complain about anyway?
Funny this should come up right now. Last weekend, I took my 16 year old daughter to Stuttgart to stay overnight with two friends. Stuttgart is an hour or so away from where we live now, and her last friend that still lives there is leaving soon as well, so this was to be the last hurrah for the girls.
The girls wanted to go out to dinner at the SI Centrum, a large hotel with many restaurants and clubs (some for teens, actually), and I was assured by the parents hosting this shindig that the girls would be picked up by them at around 9 p.m., even though the girls would be at the hotel and restaurant alone to eat. I had my doubts about the whole outing in the beginning, but the parents on the other end said the right things, and I let my daughter go with the expectation that I would hear from her by cell phone each step of the way.
Plans changed, it seems, and I heard from my daughter that they're going to see a play at the theater and have dinner after, and than at 11:30 p.m. my daughter is calling to tell me that they are only just then on their way to the hotel for dinner, walking around in the dark alone from the theater to the hotel. She says that the parents are planning on picking the girls up at around 2 in the morning!
Needless to say, the parents got a strongly worded call from me, and they picked the girls up immediately. If not for my objections to the whole thing, the three girls would have been out at 2 or 3 in the morning doing who knows what with I don't know who.
My point here is that this kind of "non-parenting" happens everywhere. I was completely astounded that the parents were acting this way, and with other people's children in the mix as well. This kid pretty much does whatever she pleases, staying out as late as she wants, going to bars and clubs etc., at the tender age of 16 (which is better than 13, I realize, but not by much in the scheme of things).
These girls want to grow up soooo fast now, and parents just sit on their hands and let them I guess, which is not only complete bullshit, it's child neglect, not to mention making it difficult for other parents like myself who DON'T let their children do things like that until the are older.
I agree, both those men should appeal their cases and sue for damages. The girl and her parents should be held responsible for her actions, and she should be removed from their care if that's what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.
And as for men being able to tell how old girls are, my daughter is 16 and looks at least 18. In a way, I've shot myself in the foot in that department, because I taught her how to put her makeup on appropriately, and do her hair nicely. I would think that the typical young teenage makeup and hair might sometimes be a clue to age, but I've gone and given my daughter the skills to look much older than she is. Oops.
Yeah, putting it down is a tough call, I agree, but it's probably the safest thing. I was kind of surprised by your update, carmodyarc, since I suspected that any suggestion of putting the dog down would be met with strong resistance. I have to commend these people though, for making that tough decision about a pet. Maybe they have already tried training and it's been unsuccessful, and they just don't want to take the risk that the dog could get completely out of hand and injure again, or even kill someone.
Wow. I'm sorry, but I would have:
a) gone to the doctor and been seen, just in case, and to have it all on record somewhere.
b) gone to the police and filed a report, again, so it's on record.
c) presented my neighbor with the bill from the doctor, and told them they were lucky to have gotten off that easily.
d) let all the rest of my neighbors know about the incident, so that everyone is aware of the situation with the dog and can be on guard.
The problem is that if it's just swept under the rug and let go, the next person the dog may go after may not be okay, the owners may not be able to call the dog back, and the next victim might even be a child. Somebody needs to be asking some serious and probably uncomfortable (for the owners) questions of these people as well, like why was the dog not restrained, and why isn't there a fence around the yard if the dog isn't on a leash?
I do hope you're REALLY okay...
I like my Palm T|X, which does all that you want, and since list price is $299 you should be able to find it cheaper somewhere at some point. Syncing to Outlook (or the Palm Desktop if you must) is great because then you have your appointments, contacts, etc. on the desktop and on the handheld. (Does the iPod Touch sync to anything like that? I don't use mine for that, so don't know...)
And I never had any trouble with Graffiti on the Palm since I've had one since they were called Palm Pilots (I still miss my Tungsten T :( !) but they've changed the Graffiti on the T|X now and I still can't get used to it. If you've never had the old Graffiti though, I imagine that wouldn't be an issue.
No idea, but I have to agree with Gnorb about the "bastard onion from hell" line. :) Good luck finding your onion, mate.
I'd have to say people need to get over it. I have to show my photo ID to buy groceries for heaven's sake (or any other goods on a Military post, say a CD, grass seed, cat food, gas, whatever). Yeah, it's a total PITA sometimes (and don't get me started on the little sergeant who treated me like a common criminal when I thought I'd lost my ID once), but it's just how it is.
Sounds like one of those things where these people really just don't WANT to vote, but feel they need some sort of excuse to validate their inaction.
My bus journey's work out at about £10 per day.
@public, how much does it cost in gas when you drive it? Just for comparison value. I can't imagine willingly spending that much to spend hours on public transportation when I can drive it cheaper and quicker.
My husband's trip to work is a bit under 20 miles one way, and he doesn't have any "work at home" options whatsoever. We might have been able to find a house closer, but for what we wanted/needed in the way of a house, it was preferable if not actually cheaper (rent-wise) to live farther away from the office and spend more in gas.
For food shopping, since I shop at the Army Commissary, it's 16 miles one way. If I wanted to shop at the German stores (and pay much higher prices for my foods since the dollar is so weak right now), I could stay right here in the town I live in, and most things are accessible within a couple of miles. However, I probably spend less by driving farther to the American food store, even with the price of gas.
If I need cash, I could drive 16 miles to the American bank, or I can go to the German one around the corner from the house, but then I get zapped for bank fees since it's not my bank. The bank fees are less than the gas I'd use going to the American bank though, but that only works if I need Euros of course.
To be honest, I've no idea what we're paying for our Army-rationed gas. I just don't think about it much, because I tend not to make unnecessary trips out of the house anyway. I'm a hermit. I go out if I HAVE to go out, and if I do I make it count, like today when I took my daughter to her guitar lesson which is on the same post as the food store, so I dropped in to pick up a few things at the store since I was driving right by anyway.
And other than being a hermit and making trips count just as a matter of course to save time, I don't think about it because it's our lifestyle to have cars instead of taking public transportation. To me it's about maximizing my time. I would absolutely HATE to ride buses and trains everywhere, just for the amount of time it takes over and above what it would take to get there by car on a normal day. Yuck.
Not only that, I like my private mode of transportation where I don't have to get too up close and personal with bunches of other people. I don't DO crowds. And if I walk somewhere, it'll be because I want to, not because I feel like I have to because gas is too expensive to drive.
We have two cars that are gas hogs, but that's just how it is. We have them because we choose to, so we don't complain about the price of gas, especially since we're here in Germany where anybody not connected with the US DoD pays three times what we pay for the rationed gas (or some outrageous price like that). And don't get the idea that "rationed gas" means you don't get as much as you need, the Army makes sure you get plenty, and we've never used up our limit in 14 years of living here.
Being the hermit that I am, when I am forced to leave my house, getting there better be at least half the fun of it all, and having a gas-hog Mustang makes it so.
So, the price of gas is not affecting me, because I just refuse to let it. :)
I don't think being good at math necessarily has anything to do with number memory anyway. I'm pretty good at math (okay, up to about the geometry or algebra 2 level), and I think it's more a visualization and logic thing for me.
Man, I never knew a Suburban would leave such a lasting impression! ;)
A few other thoughts:
It's interesting that the sizes that are offered are pretty obviously for men, since they start at 9.5 and go up. I'm sure there must be women in the world who would need this thing, right? Okay, I've never met one, but surely they must exist... :)
If it's only going to start warming up 24 hours ahead of the big date, how useful is that? 24 hours isn't much time to really do what you might want to do for a special day, had you remembered about it a couple of weeks in advance...
Is it only good for the one date during the one year? What do you do the next year, have it reprogrammed?
Sounds like a reject to me.
Well, I don't, but maybe I need to buy this for my husband and other family members...since they seem to have issues of this nature.
I have a very good memory for dates, phone numbers, addresses, conversations, locations, etc. My husband is quite hopeless though. Drives me completely nutso, but forgetting my birthday was really over the top, even for him.
Yes, I do. I use it as a sort of index for a couple of my other sites. I've only owned it for a year or so, though, maybe not even that long, come to think about it.
Hey cooper, it does say in the points listing:
sent you points because of what you said on this thread: /personal/notes/11987/
And I think it comes in the email too...
Great list, Scrivs! Except for the part about getting her mad at you. If I'm mad at you, and you get near enough for a kiss, I can't be held responsible for what happens to you...
Just a pretty pretentious world that's cut throat with ulterior motives.
*snicker*
I have to say the world would be just bloody boring without men, as I'm like Lelia: before I married, most of my friends were men, and I've never gotten along well with most women for the exact same reasons she stated. Now I have one best female friend who is my quilting buddy, and one other girlfriend who quilts, and that's it.
If I had my way, I'd have lots of male friends because it's just easier than women, but marriage kind of put a halt to that.
And even if there were no men, I'd not be fat, have a blue computer, or live in a pink house. Yuck to all three. Beside that, my sex life would suffer, and then I wouldn't be happy anyway.
My name is Nadine, though I've been Didi to family and friends most of my life, until I started using my given name when I began to make my quilting hobby into a business a few years back. It occurred to me only recently that my Grandmama was Nadine for business and Didi to family and friends in the same way, and I kind of smiled at that. Another thing we had in common: our stories usually take way too long to tell because they're filled with details and minutiae that nobody really cares about or needs to know! ;)
I write at my 9Rules member blog Quilt Epiphany about quilting, quilts, fabric addiction, quilting, thread, quilters, and oh, by the way, did I mention quilting? Quilting became my addiction gradually starting in about 1990, but by 1994 I was a goner. It's a good thing I've been married to Eric for the last 18 years, since his job as a network ops manager keeps me supplied with fabric. Otherwise, I really would be a starving artist. I'd have lots of fabric, though...like 500 pounds worth!
The last couple of years have seen me fully addicted to web design and development as well, which makes for some interesting moments when I can't decide what I'd like to do more: play with my fabric or play with my websites. Believe it or not, except for the tactile nature of the fabric, the two are fairly similar...
Eric and I have two beautiful girls, 11 and nearly 16, who are currently driving us mad, what with one firmly into the teenage years and the other on her way. Having teenage kids makes me feel old, though I'm "only" 41; he's the old one at nearly 50! Two cats round out the family, one I love (Patches) and the other (Shadow) not so much because I'm convinced he's the devil incarnate. Oh yeah, we live in Heidelberg, Germany courtesy of my husband's job (as of April 1, anyway, since we're in the middle of a move). Hmmm, maybe that's why I don't get on so well with the devil cat; he came from a German breeder, so maybe his English is not so good? ;)
(copied, pasted and updated from the other Introduce Yourself note)
Moments like this.
And right now, though much of our stuff is packed in cardboard and paper and bubble wrap since the movers have been here for the first two of five days, I can turn around in my computer chair and see the two cats, crashed in harmony on the ironing board behind me. They are usually not "in harmony" so anytime they are is a happy time. I'd get my camera, but they're both soooo stressed and needy right now that if I move from the room they'll be on my heels like little dogs, and then the photo op will disappear anyway.
Driving my Mustang always produces happiness. I like to drive period, but the Mustang is just fun.
Hearing my two daughters getting along is good for a smile, rare occurrence that it is.
I never seem to like layouts that are "squinched to the left" as my mother says. It's not that they're horrible, just that centered looks better on most things I've seen.
Happy Birthday Mike!
Whether 30 comes fast or not is entirely relative to whether you're doing what you love and in a good place in your life, so it's different for everybody. I for one am much happier at 40-ish than I was at 25 or 30, but you seem to have a better handle on what you want to do with your life right now (at least for right now) than I did at 25. That part makes all the difference, really.
Enjoy the day, and many more to come!
Oh, wait, maybe someone'll finally get that Pony Clique going?
Well, what are you waiting for Nils? Get to it!
JPhill, my first reaction to that is "art" BUT then I wonder, where is it, and what do the owners of the building and the other people who reside or do business near it think of it? They have to look at it everyday, not me.
So while we quibble over the context, I have to wonder if that even matters to a majority of the people who have it happen to their personal, private properties. I'm not sure I'd be able to accept a work of art put onto the side of my home/business, without someone asking me for permission first. That seems like vandalism, no matter what, really.
I quite agree that anything added to my home or business would be unacceptable, unless it was my idea. However, what if my neighbor commissioned a "work of art" for the side of their building, and I didn't consider it "art?" There is a building in a town not far from where I live that has been completely covered in what I would consider graffiti, and I have to assume that the owners did it themselves, or paid to have it done. The building is in one of those mixed business and residential areas that are so prevalent in the older parts of towns in Germany, so there is plenty of foot and car traffic, but also people living there as well.
If I had a pic, I'd post it, but I don't have time right now to go get one. :( It's just an eyesore though, and I'm glad I don't live near it. The line between graffiti and art is a fine line indeed, and very subjective.
Hey Scrivs, is the Clique 44 page broken? Can't login...
I'm sorry. It wouldn't have worked between us, but we didn't deserve this kind of ending.
Wow, Kamigoroshi, I'm sorry to hear that. It shouldn't be that way, and good for Mel!
David, thanks for this! I'm relatively new to 9rules myself, and while I've seen a couple of those things, the really old stuff is new to me, and very interesting. Good man, good man.
Best I can do at the moment is a hug: ((( Jbot6000 ))) Sorry about your camera...
» Have you ever used your blog to complain? ... Last Reply: 2 months ago by dreamweaver.
Ralph, hate to break it to you man, but welcome to the military. My husband was AF for 24 years, and frankly, you'll be lucky if that's the last thing of this nature that gets shoved down your throat. If it's always the "other guys" from some other squadron and never your own CO that gives you shit and thinks you're worth nothing and that you don't matter, you'll be doubly lucky.
And no, it's not all negative in the military, but honestly, all it takes is ONE dipshit CO who takes a dislike to you to ruin your chances for promotion. With the AF, it tends to be a slower promotion rate than the other forces anyway, and all it takes is ONE jerk to completely stall it for years. This is why my husband retired as an E7 after 24 years of active duty, and he'd worn the rank barely long enough to collect retirement at the E7 rate at it was. Just one Colonel who was a jackass and gave him one not so good review at about the halfway point of his career effectively stalled it. Being in the manpower field (the slowest promoting one in the AF, it's said) didn't help the matter, but the Colonel sealed the deal.
I also wouldn't recommend blogging about it quite so openly. No matter what the average person's rights to free speech are, in the military you have NO rights to free speech, really. You don't get to say what you want from what I've seen, and the military does watch out for active duty members with blogs now. Maybe you don't have access to classified info, and maybe you'd never blog about that if you did, and maybe you just want to grouse about your treatment, but if somebody decides you've said something you shouldn't have, well, do you really want to take that chance?
Just my two cents, guy. Good luck to you.
*Edit* I changed the above to read E7, because my husband reminded me that he retired as E7, not E8, which makes the whole point about promotion even more valid.