If you have a family member or friend who is a Star Wars fan, you might find this funny.
If you are a Star Wars fan, you’ll find this funny, but let go of thinking “well that’s not accurate.”
http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/01/16/star-wars/
(Another Scot Hacker find.)
I embed RSS feeds from other sources on Mac5. Examples include my del.icio.us bookmarks or Ed or Betty Claire’s websites.
I’m looking into an alternative to feed.informer.com, who was acquired by somebody and has since suffered performance issues, at times delaying the redraw of Mac5 home page. Feedburner.com was acquired by Google. Hoping for better performance. The styling options are not as friendly as feed.informers, so I’ll have to hand tweak some CSS to fix the way the date and text don’t line up the way I would want.
Subscribe to RSS headline updates from:
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Wired magazine has a short article about the history of Macintosh. The graphic below is fun to look at. Nicole and Danny will remember some of the computers and printers on the left. Kelly and Claire are more familiar with the right. Although, Claire still plays with an old 1994 PowerBook 520c that amazingly works and can even surf the internet with a light version of Opera.
mac5 runs on a Blue 1999 G4 PowerMac which made this montage.
Click:
Now if we can just get a photo of his wallet to see if it is stapled and taped together.
For this year’s Christmas card mailing, Kathy wanted me to use up some old non-denominational Lady Liberty stamps. I had to research these to find out they were worth 39 cents. When I went to the post office, they were closed, but I was able to use the Automated Postal Center (APC.) I bought several books of 42 cent stamps, thinking I would end up with the Liberty Bell forever stamps. Instead I had these four nutcracker guys show up by surprise.
I was then able to order stamps of “another value” and was able to request 3 cent stamps. I got 5 of them. Since these are print-on-demand, I could have ordered any amount on the stamp, including 1 cent.
As I applied all of the stamps, I regretted not having a pen. I kept wanting to draw an arrow pointing to the more surly nutcrackers with whatever guy’s name was on the envelope. “Bob”… “John”… “Grant”… “Jim”…. “Ted”… etc.
If any of you guys are reading this, just know that these characters remind me of you. Arrggghhhh.
This is one of the funniest editions of The News from Lake Wobegon I’ve ever heard. A younger brother annoying his older sister. It reminds me of a lot of sibling relationships in our family and can be enjoyed by any (younger or older): The return of tomato butt.
I listened to this one on my iPod while raking the yard just around Kathy’s garden. 16 minutes.
Looks like Ted (and others) may be looking for a new credit card. Clark Howard recommended the website creditcardtuneup.com where you can plug in your spending patterns, and the site will point you in the direction of the best rewards program for you. Kathy and I have always used Discover as our primary card because it pays you back in cash. But after running through the site, I found that Discover ranked far below other options. For us, the American Express Blue ranked at the top. I think this is because we spend so much on groceries and at department stores. It also pays cash back. (I’m not interested in trying to figure out how to maximize sky miles, gift cards, etc. Too complicated. Cash please.)
I signed up on the spot, and now Kathy and my primary card is American Express Blue. It has a smart chip in it, but no one makes use of that (yet.) After two decades with Discover our balances suddenly went to near zero.
Joomla counts page hits in the jos_content table in a field called hits. These counts drive the “popular” module, which I use on the SJN home page. I wanted to reset all of the counts, because over time, they have become skewed. The control panel lets you reset to 0 page by page, but with hundreds of pages, that can be time consuming.
I tried using Joomla StatsCleaner but it generated an “Internal Server Error” and the following message: “The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.” Who knows…
So I decided to use phpMyAdmin to issue an SQL statement. This did the trick, resetting all values to 0:
UPDATE jos_content SET hits=0
While we all celebrated last Sunday ahead of the (ahem) procedure… I thought we needed a date stamp here on Mac5 to honor Uncle Ted! And to help explain why his strawberry birthday cake said “HAPPY BIRTHDAY PNUT!”, transcripts from Ted’s cell phone (Verizon rips us off at 20 cents per):
Here’s what $1.00 buys you:
8-21-08: Ayy whats up -shawty kno
10-2-08: U stil g0t time 2 send pics b4 da wedding..
10-7-08: U still comin sat?
10-14-08: U sleep pnut
10-15-08: Wheres pnut
11-03-08: Hey pnut
My team creates a quarterly news magazine that goes out to 18,000 banks and credit unions. We won an award, so the group went outside for a photo shoot. Some of the fun people I work with…
