They’re Back

The family has been away for almost a week.  I had to stay back to work.

How do did I know things were wrong?  I forgot both of my cell phones yesterday. Can you imagine going though an entire work day without a phone.  I have a landlines phone.  I don’t recall the last time I picked it up.  Everyone seems to talk to everyone else via either cell, text or whatever newly developed method of communication there is out there.

When will the phones we still have hardwired to the wall go the the way of the box crank-phone  with the separate earpiece hanging on the wall? 

Before we have small devices with atom sized transistors embedded into our developing skull bones before birth?

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Why Do Microsoft Updates Require a Reboot but…

With very few exceptions every update for today’s software seems to be done in the background and quietly.  Why is it then Microsoft, the company in my case that built the bloody OS, with very few exceptions, requires a reboot whenever their software is updated?

Is this backwards DOS compatibility, (if that exists.  It does sound good, though)

This would go unnoticed if I didn’t spend so much time now interaction with my three Android based devices, an EVO 4G, a Droid X2 and Kindle Fire.

Except for the memory card self destruction on my EVO on  a regular basis; each of these devices seem to know when to update and how to do it without getting in my way.

Take heed MS.  You’re not the only kid on the block by a long shot. Think buggy whip and journalist…

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Treated Myself to Sushi!

This was a day that was expected to go one way.  Of course, as most expected days go, it went on its own way with little regard.

I won’t say it went bad. I won’t say it went good.  It pretty much went in a neutral way.  I didn’t shine or stink.  But it isn’t over.  This day is going to take three days, two more, to feel done.  Perhaps that explains the neutral feeling.  When the race hasn’t finished running, no matter what the odds, you can say the results for certain.

I’ll try not to be so obtuse about this in the future.  If you know me at all, you know the odds of that are very slim.

Don’t worry, this has nothing to do with the cancer.

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SGTRET.NET

Besides having many of the Famous Grazing domain names; in the early years of domain registration we also picked up the sgtret domains Sgtret.com has always defaulted to the JDK Communications of New England (Special Education Consulting) web page. 

Sgtret.org was parked at GoDaddy.com.

Not being pleased with the behavior of some of GoDaddy’s owners, we left it there to rot, pretty much.  Whatever we wanted to do to the page, the hosts seemed to think rated a charge. I can understand they need to make money, but once a site is hosted they shouldn’t be nickel & dimed.

We lost sgtret.net due to neglect. We had to wait four years to get it back without paying a bloody ransom.  Now we have redirected it to the Google vanity page where we are listing the seven active Famous Grazing blogs.  We’ve totally abandoned a dozen or so.

You can still find them if you search.  The web preserves pages forever, we are told.

The question now is: do we update the Twitter and Facebook pages to reflect this?  Perhaps. 

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Could it be all of the settings were lost?

I was expecting my Windows Live Writer to have retained the setting for all of the Famous Grazing blogs.  I was wrong.  I was very wrong.  Most of the programs that we migrated from the old servers to the news ones picked right up where we left them

Not so Live Writer.  It would appear we now have go digging for URL’s and passwords.  Lord knows where we put them.

What the hey?  I have a day off.  Might as well go searching now.

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This is not a blog where I delve into politics or religion.  It is, however, a blog.

As such, this story being reported by the Huffington Post about Hamza Kasgari being sent from Malaysia to Saudi Arabia where he could be executed for the content of his tweets applies.

I haven't a clue what the man wrote. It could be entirely inane or horribly provocative.

I know too he is not a citizen of the United States where a person's right of expression are relatively free.  There are limits, as there probably should be. Hopefully where the line is crossed the punishment fits the violation.

Execution can never be the punishment to fit the crime of expressing opinions. Never.

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The Gill House is for sale

A little over 18 years ago we moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to a New England town of approximately 15,000 people.

Today the town, with almost the exact same square miles as Manhattan Island, has grown to just over 27,000.

There are many many wonderful things here: a State park and a large wilderness area as well as over 4,000 acres of town controlled open space.

But then there is the Gill House. It is old.

It hasn't been touched for many years allowing it to fall into ruin. The rurination has progressed slowly over the 18 years.

First the porch roof, then the porch itself.

The roof near the chimney caved in. The entire rear collapsed soon after.

The entire structure, made of very old and very dry wood, sits only a few yards from a busy state road.

It has been a wonder to me that a stray cigarette from a passing motorist hasn't ignited it.

This morning on the way to work, I noticed a Real Estate Company's sign in front of the house.

The first thing a new owner would do is tear it down. We'll have to find something else to watch decompose as we travel to and from town.

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LiveJournal canceling?

A tweet flew by me saying the tweeter had just received notice his LiveJournal had been canceled.  He said 'what LiveJournal account. '

Earlier in the month we got a notice from LiveJournal warning inactivity would close our FamouGrazing blog on LiveJournal.  We took them seriously.  It helped when we found a LiveJournal app for Android.

It sits now next to the Blogger, SquareSpace & WordPress Apps. 

The blog lives!

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Book Review

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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