Apparently LiveJournal has been using custom JavaScript code to modify some links on user pages dynamically when they are clicked. The action replaces the "affiliate ID" value in the link with another value. This doesn't affect all such links, but only those on a specific list of providers, including, apparently Amazon and EBay. The intent of this ( Read more... )

Or not. Today was all a-dither here in northern Illinois about the horrible, scary earthquake that hit just before 4 am this morning. I listened silently to several accounts of how frightening it was, and read several more online. All I can think is that this reaction must have been occasioned by bad dreams about the Haiti quake of last month, ( Read more... )

Or at least, survived. Major roof leaks due to ice dams at work. The building is only ten years old, but to tell the truth, the roof has always leaked. The original contractors did a second rate job on quite a few things. Upgrading various older computers that fill supporting roles. All of them have been running Linux long enough to need new ( Read more... )

After more than a year of messing with it (though not, I admit, very diligently) I have succeeded in making the scroll wheel of the mouse work in Wolvix. Comparing the xorg.conf files on two different machines (neither of which worked, but for different reasons) I conclude that I just failed to follow directions very carefully. Duh-mb pony me. Not ( Read more... )

Gary got antsy and went and signed a contract with Verizon for 3G/EVDO service. His brother was here at New Year's with a laptop and a similar connection that apparently worked. That overrode all my cautious advice, I guess ( Read more... )

Apparently a lot of it just north of the state line at the moment, but just an occasional flake here. At midday today, though, it was coming down hard. I had to sweep off my windshield when I left work at 12:30 ( Read more... )

Got home about 6:30, after taking our "Dog and Pony Show" to Ohio for the weekend and then on the way home, driving in the most horrendous, pushy traffic I ever remember on the tollways between here and Quickcasey's. It was as if this had been a holiday weekend, when it's still two weeks to the beginning of that madhouse. Thank goodness I have a ( Read more... )

Flunked the license upgrade exam by just one point. I'll get it next time.

Good thing I have that rug on the loom. I can go pound it for a few picks to empty out some frustration. Not exactly writer's block, because I know what I want to be writing. The problem is too many threads at once, and (unusual for me) I'm having trouble focusing on one at a time ( Read more... )

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