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Weblogging

Kitchen was hacked

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The IT Kitchen was badly hacked. I had thought I had set the user permissions up so that this couldn’t occur, but obviously not. Due to this, the Kitchen is closed, probably permanently. I found the problem that led to the unusability – the siteurl had been changed in the […]

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outdoors Photography

From the hike

Two photos from the hike today. I have others and a hiking story, but I don’t have the writing itch tonight. Maybe tomorrow. It was a tough hike, but beautiful. Limestone carvings and cliffs and ferns and lots and lots of boulders to climb over. Supposedly there are orchids around this area in the summer. […]

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Connecting

Confidences

I’ve just returned from a hike that was harder than anticipated, though incredible for all of that. Unfortunately, when I turned on my computer to upload photos, I received several emails, all related to an email I had sent out earlier to Marc Canter and three other people. An email where Canter completely discounted what I wrote […]

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Books History

One hundred trails

I had a successful venture at the library last week and came home with several very good books. One is Birth of a Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom, which I found to be a very entertaining book and plan on writing more about later. I also found a book on the Korean “comfort women”, women held as […]

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Just Shelley

When things work

This weekend I also spent time reformatting and re-installing Windows 2000 on my laptop. As I was digging out the old disks, I realized I had forgotten what I needed, it’s been so long since I did a reinstall. And the disk itself was quite old, from the last of my Developer Network subscription in […]