Category Archives: General

Posts that either have no specific area or are my general thought or ideas on a subject. i.e. DeanLogic ~ how I think about things which may not conform with the general consensus.

Upgrade

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Ooops!!! Well, I don’t know what happened first. Either my website went down and the ISP moved me to an upgraded server or they moved me to an upgraded server and my website went down. Yikes! Luckily it looks like everything is now fine, except a couple of things. I had to adjust the files in the home directory to point back to the blog. I don’t know why they were changed, but that seems to always be the case when my site goes down. It is like the back up of the site is of every folder below the Continue reading Upgrade→

Remote control beads

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I just found this off of Gizmodo. http://www.plusminus.ru/remote.html It’s a new design for a t.v. remote. Basically you have a string of beads with numbers and other t.v. controls on them. You some how work around the controls and select the number or function by slightly pressing the bead. As pointed out on Gizmodo, it would probably be a pain in the ass to do channels with three digits and there’s always the possiblity of the cat running off with the beads. However, I just thought of a better use of these beads. On the product page there is custom Continue reading Remote control beads→

FireFox Weather Alert System

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This is a test of the weather alert system.  This is only a test.  If this had been a real emergency, you should have run to nearest bath room, got on your knees, bent over and kissed your butt goodbye. Okay, The FireFox weather extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox) called Forecastfox doesn’t do that, but it is pretty cool.  They added a couple of new features in the latest release (0.7.8).  On feature is a radar view of the region.  Since I live in the South East portion of the U.S., that’s the view I see based on my zip code.  The popup/mouse Continue reading FireFox Weather Alert System→

Sidebar and Firefox

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Firefox has changed the default functionality of the browser sidebar. Before in Mozilla, you could have tabs for different types of side bar content. Now, you can only have one sidebar type at a time. However, you can set a bookmarked page to open in your sidebar when clicked. This is how I am using the WordPress sidebar. It creates a small form version of the write form so you can surf the web and publish it. I particularly like this feature. When WordPress upgraded to 1.5, they did some changes to the template layouts and apparently they added header Continue reading Sidebar and Firefox→