Entries from December 2004 ↓

So I was standing on Hamilton St. this afternoon and I notice the traffic is jammed. No surprise there as it usually backs up as people try to park. I had a look down to see what was going on and noticed a fish van and a Mercedes convertible were pretty close so I walked over to see what was up. The Mercedes had it’s drivers door half torn off and it was wedged against the van at a 90 degree angle. What fun!

I think the Mercedes driver had thrown his door open without looking as he wasn’t all that pissed and the other guy didn’t seem all that put out. What was interesting was that no one was honking, perhaps they felt the pain of that fine German engineering being twisted. I know it wasn’t Christmas spirit.

Um yeah. So what else? I had a coffee with Biff last night and he was pissed that I blogged about Stace’s Christmas cookies. “You ruined the surprise…”

Turns out that due to a shipping problem, the Dayments are up to their eyeballs in cookies. That’s a problem I’d love to have as they’re damn fine cookies. Stace, I think you should open a bakery/coffee house or something. Biff and I would be your best customers. Or we could just go to your place and hang out on weekends or something.

I guess more than a few people thought there was a big redesign coming when I took the site down. I might do something over the break. The good news is that I seem to have confused the comment spammers for the time being. It won’t last but it feels good now.

December 22nd and no declarations of festivity. Maybe tomorrow.

Ok, we’re back in business. After an ill-fated move to a sub-domain I’ve moved back to where I was all along. I would have been up sooner but I waited for the MT 3.14 upgrade. If you are running MT, you really need to upgrade lest your host pull the plug on you.

I’m getting so good at this that is took me about 45 minutes to do a complete install of MT. Now, I patiently wait for an upgrade to MT Blacklist.

I had an amazing meal at the Metropolitan Hotel last night. It was our Apple wrap party and if you every come into a ton of cash, I highly recommend it. I left there with a belly fully of lobster and fine wine. Fours hours seemed a bit long for dinner but it was worth the wait.

Lastly, thanks to Daymented who went beyond the Christmas card and sent cookies! How cool was that! I get my mail last night and there was Tupperware in the mailbox. “What the hell?”

After a bit of wrestling, I extracted the Tupperware and found homemade cookies! Thanks again Stace!

I’ve missed the Christmas card window and I’m feeling a bit guilty about that. I kept thinking that I should be getting some cards but never actually got around buying them. First year in a long time that I haven’t sent any out.

Ok, I’d better be off to work.

I really thought I had considered everything when I moved to a sub-domain. Statistics. Damn, my stats. They don’t log anything in my sub-domain *duh* so that’s gonna be a problem.

Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. I have a good install and I confirmed that the upgrade didn’t go all that well. So I guess I’ll re-install on the root and call it good. It took me about three hours on Sunday so I figure I can cut an hour off of that now that I know what needs to be done.

Not sure when I’ll do it; there’s a bug in MT that is going to be patched soon, so maybe I’ll wait for it. I’m not sure why I’m telling you this because none of you know what I’m doing. By the time you know what’s going on, it’ll be done.

Not than any of this is all that earth-shattering anyway. It’s just a blog… Well, I should go to work or something.