Please people, if a flower can get the rules right so can you. Dave Barry may have confused you but, though the apostrophe’s history is long, punctuation really is not as difficult as it may look. You can be right 99% (ok, but at least 90%) of the time by only using an apostrophe in […]
What Time Is It, Redux
Last summer, I wrote about keeping Windows XP’s clock in synch with other systems on your network and with the “real world.” Here’s a tidbit on a simliar topic. Network administrators who have Unix, Linux or other systems on their networks are often asked about NTP – Network Time Protocol. If you’re using Windows Server […]
Internet Explorer Satus Bar
Would someone please help me find the setting to turn IE6‘s View->Status Bar on by default? HKEY_Current_User\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\Main\Show_StatusBar is already set to yes but that doesn’t make a difference for new windows. [later: a solution from stef in comments: “Open up My computer. View -> Status bar Tools -> Folder Options Under the View tab, […]
District Award of Merit
Wow. Tonight was the North Fulton District‘s last awards banquet, we’ve grown so much over the past few years that by next month we’ll be split into two new districts. Tonight’s celebration ended 40 years for NFD. There were lots of awards given out tonight after dinner, including the District Award of Merit, with which […]
Life Aboard the Calypso Gypsy
Get up late, start slow, taper off quickly. Psalm 107:23-31 23 Others went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters. 24 They saw the works of the LORD, his wonderful deeds in the deep. 25 For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves. 26 […]
Put Your Lights On
Tab: Put Your Lights On, from Santana‘s Supernatural (rythm guitar only, no solos) Chords (and changes) used for most of the song Am C G F7 E -|—0-0——-0-0-0-0—-3-0—0—0——— -|—1-0——-1-3-1-0—-3-3—1—0——— -|—2-2——-0-0-0-0—-0-0—2—1——— -|—2-2——-2-2-2-2—-0-0—3—2——— -|—0-0——-3-3-3-3—-1-1——-2——— -|————————3-3——-0——— Power chords used during solos (starting at 2:14) C C# G F E -|——————————————– -|——————————————– -|—5—-6———————————– -|—5—-4—-5—-3—-2——————– -|—3—-4—-5—-3—-2——————– -|————-3—-1—-0——————– For personal, educational […]
Maeve Brennan
Backup information on Maeve Brennan, daughter of Robert Brennan. Text from Princess Grace Irish Library, copied here for family archival purposes only. Feb 2003 Life 1917-1993 [pseud. ‘The Long-Winded Lady’]; b. 6 Jan. & ed. [Dublin,] Ireland; dg. of Robert Brennan, a participant in the Easter Rising and later Propaganda chief of the IRA [Sinn […]
Be Prepared
via Daniel: “…going ‘out’ without a map should NOT be one of them.” A map by itself is not enough. You also need to have at least some clue where you are (“ok, I know I’m east of the highway and somewhere north of the river”) and have a compass and/or (preferrably ‘and’ but don’t […]
HTTP Redirect
For refererence, as we keep needing to do this and forgetting how… here’s the “HTML” for a client-side page redirect (change all the square brackets to angle brackets, of course): [meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”seconds;url=url”] in the [head] section. Sample: [DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”] [head] [title]Jumping to new page[/title] [meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”2;url=http://my.new.home/somewhere.html”] [/head] [body] …
Backup Early, Backup Often
Jonny started searching and realized that he already has a backup program for Windows XP. Now, he asks, what are all these options and what should I do with them? Backing up your data files is important, and for some people so is saving space. The backup program here is giving you the option to […]