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I’ve told a few peo­ple that I don’t really see any advan­tage to Win­dows 8 over Win­dows 7. I have to eat my words now.

Before I put Win­dows 8 on my four-​​year-​​old HP lap­top, I checked with HP to make sure that it was 8-​​compatible, and they said it was. AFTER I did the ( Read more... )

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Y’all are tired of me doing this, aren’t you? Learn­ing to Code, Part 5.

Well, I had some fun away from the com­puter when my old­est nephew vis­ited today. He’s a non-​​stop bun­dle of energy! We got the air hockey table cleared off for a game. Woof!

And I went to the library ( Read more... )

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Yet another post in the ongo­ing drama of an old lady learn­ing new tricks, Learn­ing to Code, Part 4. I actu­ally put some of what I’ve learned (not pro­gram­ming, but updated web knowl­edge) to use and re-​​formatted my résumé so that it looks much bet­ter (to me, anyway).

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Today’s main post is at Acad­emy Car­i­tas, Learn­ing to Code, Part 3.

I spent part of the day help­ing Steven with his new web site, which was fun. I’m look­ing for­ward to read­ing lots of food porn there. Y’all go over and say hello, please?

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I stayed up WAY too late last night study­ing pro­gram­ming. Yes, for fun. That’s my idea of fun, any­way. I’ve been yawn­ing all day as a result, and I should already be in bed tonight because I need to be up early tomor­row. So this will be brief.

I’ve been enjoy­ing cor­re­ ( Read more... )

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Yet another Acad­emy Car­i­tas post today, Learn­ing to Code, Part 2. That’s what I’ve been doing for most of the day!

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Today’s main post is at Acad­emy Car­i­tas, Learn­ing to Code, Part 1.

How­ever, I’d also like to say thanks to James and Steven for the lovely visit and the chance to get out of the house for a change!

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Those with sharp eyes might notice that the “ran­dom quote” wid­get there in the right-​​hand col­umn has changed to a fancier one, and a page with all the quotes in the data­base has been added to the site, too. I switched to a new plu­gin, but was also able to remem­ber some­ ( Read more... )

But as you can see by the growing list of pages on the right-hand side of the site, I’m making progress. The reading, stitching, geekery and health parts of the site have been migrated to WordPress, although not always rewritten and updated. My professional site has been migrated completely now, too. There are still some pages to be migrated here, ( Read more... )

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First, a ran­dom thought:

But as you can see by the grow­ing list of pages on the right-​​hand side of the site, I’m mak­ing progress. The read­ing, stitch­ing, geek­ery and health parts of the site have been migrated to Word­Press, although not always rewrit­ten and updated. My ( Read more... )