I sure hope this week is a one-off. Nothing major, no life-threatening issues, just a bunch of annoying smaller things that all came at once. While Tim’s away.
Monday: go to drive Tim to the airport; he’s away until Friday. The oil sensor light comes on in the car. Tim gets a cab, and I [...]
I had a problem with online banking; every time it got to the secondary password check on the login screen the whole browser froze. Completely. Leaving it to sort itself out didn’t help. And the bank had no idea; they just said “we’ve tested on Firefox on Windows XP, it works for us”. And it [...]
In the online and software world, there’s “support”, and then there’s support. I’ve discovered my hosting supplier for this blog, Canadian Web Hosting, offers the real type of support. And at a decent price, too.
I run two WordPress blogs, this one and a crafting blog, and had a problem that showed up on one [...]
In a city like Vancouver in the depths of winter, when we’re so used to rain, rain, and more rain, to the extent that even the local paper prints “this is getting boring” as the weather forecast, any sun is appreciated. So today’s glorious sunshine, even though accompanied by cold frosts in the morning, was [...]
I see that Paul Kedrosky is talking about a resurgence of department stores, based on the fact that lots of people want one-stop shopping rather than going from store to store. Funnily enough, Walmart has been meeting precisely this need for years; I gather one of the major demographics for Walmart is harried mothers with [...]
If I have a New Year’s Resolution, it’s to not let next year’s year-end become as stressed. And to get enough sleep. Both of these hold a longer story that I don’t have the energy to tell right now. Tim posted some; in the last couple of days others have got sick (there seems to [...]
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