I was surprised to see Danny on line early one morning when I was at work. I floated the mouse over his name and the information shown here (click to zoom in) showed up. Anyone care to do the math and take into account Central vs. Eastern time and figure out when he got in and when he went to bed?
Certainly he was snoozing when I took this snapshot.
(A chain e-mail worth posting.)
Dear Dad,
$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and
$tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can’t think of
anything I need, $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card,
a$ I would love to hear from you.
Love,
Your $on.
Reply from dad…
Dear Son,
I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are
eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget
that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can
never study eNOugh.
Love,
Dad
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After upgrading to 3.2, some key system templates were missing from several of the older blogs that caused errors, specifically ‘Site Javascript’ and ‘Comment Pending Template’. These older blogs never had these templates, and choosing to refresh them at the individual blog level did not add them. And now you can’t add System templates manually as you once could.
Found the answer here. Refreshing templates in the System Overview will create new templates as needed.
Refreshing all templates on a weblog
Go to the Weblog listing screen in the System Overview. Select a weblog and choose “Refresh Template(s)” from the action bar dropdown. All of the templates in that weblog that match default templates will be copied to backups and refreshed with the new code and settings.
This is the preferred way to execute the plugin because it is the only way currently to refresh System plugins and will add crucial templates which did NOT exist in previous versions (e.g. the Site Javascript templates).
This log from refreshing Ted’s Blog shows the templates being created:
Processing templates for weblog ‘Ted’s Blog’
Refreshing template ‘Main Index’.
Refreshing template ‘Dynamic Site Bootstrapper’.
Refreshing template ‘RSD’.
Created template ‘Atom Index’. <——–
Created template 'RSS 2.0 Index'. <———
Refreshing template 'Master Archive Index'.
Refreshing template 'Comment Preview Template'.
Created template 'Comment Pending Template'. <——-
Refreshing template 'Comment Error Template'.
Refreshing template 'Uploaded Image Popup Template'.
Refreshing template 'Comment Listing Template'.
Refreshing template 'Dynamic Pages Error Template'.
Refreshing template 'Stylesheet'.
Refreshing template 'Date-Based Archive'.
Refreshing template 'Category Archive'.
Refreshing (with backup) template 'Individual Entry Archive'.
Refreshing template 'TrackBack Listing Template'.
Created template 'Site JavaScript'. <———
A nice bit of Google thinking with a twist thrown at the end that may not be far fetched. One of the ways to install OS X on older Macs without DVD drives is to use firewire and an iPod. An iPod is inherently a bootable hard drive… at least on a Mac.
The best Indian food in Atlanta, per Danny’s old boss at La Scoop. The cook is from England, where the best cooks live. He doesn’t work on Thursdays, so don’t go then.
Mirch Masala
1713 Church Street
Decatur, GA 30033
Note to self. Oz is a PowerMac G4 867 QS Tower. That is QS (QuickSilver) as opposed to MDD (Mirrored Drive Doors) which means he is older which means he has an Ultra ATA/66 bus instead of ATA/100 which means the 200 GB drive I picked up for $99 at Sam’s will only end up acting like a 137 MB drive.
Also, Oz has an extra video card and when you forget that and plug into it, you end up seeing blank desktop (or extended desktop) and you think something is wrong. Tip: Plug the video cable higher.
I wrote about the story of Graphing Calculator which disappeared with the introduction of Mac OS X. A variation of this 3-D graphing calculator has returned in the form of Grapher. You can spin the 3-D equations like z = y * x.
Danny or Kelly should take note. Look in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder for Grapher.
There is a new version of Movable Type available, and I will be upgrading Mac 5 soon.
A lot of it is behind-the-scenes improvements, but the new styles library is fun to shop. Take a peek and let me know if you’d like to change your look.
Danny got a checking account over a year ago. When a new client came out with a series of fun checks, Danny wanted to get the John Deere checks. He had not really had a reason to have checks, and really won’t need them until school.
I ordered them over the web for him and had to guess at the layout of numbers at the bottom, since he never had checks before. We did a test. It worked. He’s now ready to start giving his money to Spring Hill. (And yes, I refunded the $5 test to him but I used electronic funds transfer. Much easier.)
Now playing: Money For Nothing by Dire Straits
In his statistical observation, Ted asks:
“I wonder if people will think all we do is smoke cigars? ”
And the answer is emphatically, no, that is not all we do. Not even Cuban cigars. Nor do we sit around and drink cognac with the Cuban cigars, even if our son did go out shopping on the island with his big sister and get a good deal on a few Cubans, bringing them back to the ship. Not even if the bartender were to suggest the proper way to smoke a Cuban cigar is by dipping the drawing end into your cognac. Not even then. We don’t want people to get the wrong impression.