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Fun day today, a trip to the continent to add some more to an office network and then meeting up with buddy to spend three grand of her money on a laptop, printer, scanner, and digital tape recorder to take up north and record and then print stories from her grandparents.

Kind of wish I had just a bit more time at the office though, there were lots of wires hanging around and would have liked to bundle them all up for them a little neater. Already had spent a lot of extra time with them though, (that always happens), and one fellow there was fairly savvy and would be a good little project for them. I’ve started labelling the wires, (enough for me), and they saw the value of that right away so sure they can do it themselves. When I got there the secretaries had already moved around what I had done a couple weeks before so just as well to let everything dangle a bit for mobility sake – for a little while at least while they “redecorate” the office.

Hanging skylights tomorrow morning – that should be a little different kind of day than today but what ever it takes to get that rent paid eh

Almost back to normal with the blog again, need to add some links and a few more tweaks

Off to the continent tomorrow, now that the office has found out about routers looks like a couple more offices will get ethernet and a trip back to London Drugs to upgrade to an 8 port.

Buddy is getting an new laptop, should be a fun trip to Future Shop, my what a good little consumer I’ll be tomorrow.

All righty now, one more kick at the can trying to get MT to transfer the categories matched to the articles but no joy so looks like will be doing that by hand. Give me something to do while watching This Hour Has 22 Minutes adding categories to 300+ posts, oh well

Everything seems to be working pretty good except for that, time to add some colour to the Blogged on Bowen pages. Still no joy with getting the Healthy Brain search function correct but Dean Allen over at Textpattern is on the case. Worst comes to worse I can re-install and rebuild the default templates and get it going – must be something from the upgrade and still using the page template from previous versions (can’t see anything different tho’…)

   Spring is busting out all over around this neck of the woods. All the rose bushes have new growth finally and of course the daffodils and hydrangeas have been poking out for some time now. Nothing but the purple ground cover under the fireweed(?) bushes has actual flowers yet, buds are abundant though and it won’t be long.
   A new hummingbird has shown up too, very orange one and not nearly tame as the two that survived the winter on the island of course. The little fawns of last year are foraging on thier own but (I’m guessing) siblings seem to be still hanging around each other for company. That should change by the time the rut next fall comes and competition begins.
   One more trip into town to make the final touches and customization for the law office network, nice to have people to teach that are relative power users. Never did figure out why one of the old computers couldn’t connect to one of the new ones although it could to the others and them to it – and the new one connected to the other three so we’re all happy with the names and workgroups etc. It seems that Computer Associates set up the old network, (not really a network, just across-over cable between two ‘puters with a dial up modem on each for internet), and the troublesome machine is some sort of slave to another – almost like an NT set up but using Win98. Using the “master” I was able to bring up a window of one of the new machines on the new network and another for the slave on the old and transferred the files that way – it worked, got the job done.

   I wonder if it’s obvious to everyone else that in an article from PC World the information presented is from a computer security company saying that the internet is a dangerous place. Near the top of the article is a Microsoft ad exhorting their latest “free” security “summit” – as if eh. Reading along in the article, ‘The second half of the year also saw a prodigious increase in the number of Win32 viruses and worms—1702 released in the second half versus 687 in the first.’
   It makes work for me too though, reconfiguring machines when they inevitably crash and stop running. And I have people asking me to do seminars on the island for how to get their own computers and email, internet etc., that’s good marketing.