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{ Monthly Archives } January 2008

And it’s only Thursday

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 get […]

2008 01 24 Family Comments (1)

Banks and Firebug

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 […]

2008 01 21 Technology Comments (0)

Good Support

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 […]

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2008 01 15 Technology
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Blossoming in the Sun

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 […]

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2008 01 15 General
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One-Stop Shopping

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 […]

2008 01 08 General Comments (3)

‘Tis the Season to be Frazzled

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 […]

2008 01 05 Family Comments (0)