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EPIC 2014

The Big 2-0

No, I’m not talking about my age (sadly, I’m the big 3-0).  I’m talking about blogging.  I just realized that I was at 19 posts since I started blogging again on February 7.  So I decided to post this one to round it off to twenty.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to do this “milestone post” on a regular basis.  I guess that depends on if I have anything to say after my 29th post, or 49th post, etc.  I suppose for that matter I could just start posting “milestones” at any point, such as “This Is My 32nd Post”, but I don’t see any rhyme or reason to that — unless, of course, you consider that 32 is a power of 2.  Hmmm.  I could have a decimal milestone post AND a binary milestone post! 

Don’t even get me started on base 3!  Or prime numbers!!  That would be really fun!

I’m getting kind of excited over here!  I might actually have some serious amount of blog content pretty soon at this rate.

Whoops!

So I was upgrading this site from Community Server RC3 to 1.0 tonight.  No database changes were needed — just a file copy.  No problem, right? 

Wrong! 

I forgot that I had modified the skin that I’m using to be more like what I wanted.  Even worse, I forgot that there was an unmodified version of this skin included in the CS install.  So, I overwrote all of my skin changes. 

Sigh.

I think I’ve mostly got it back to how it was earlier today, and I’m making my changes in a new skin directory so that I don’t do this again.  If something doesn’t look right to you, let me know.

Bloggers in The Neighborhood

I found BlogMap by accident, but thought it was pretty fun. So I added it to my left navigation.

If you register your blog here, the link they give you shows a map of bloggers that are in your area.  It’s using MapPoint technology (the map image says “Evaluation”), and it’s a pretty interesting use of the technology.  I’ve yet to decide if there is a real benefit to this, but I thought it was cool anyway.  🙂

Sign up for your own BlogMap here.

Sand Art

This video is pretty awesome!  It’s several minutes long (maybe 10 minutes?), but well worth it.  If you’re on a slow connection you should probably download the file instead of streaming it.  Do this by right-clicking on the link and choosing “Save Target As…”.

Thanks to Karie (my sister) and Dennis for sending this to me.

Yummy!!

I have decided that I have a new favorite Pop Tart!  The Chocolate Chip Pop Tart is delicious.  My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Buy me a box for President’s Day… or St Patrick’s Day…  As a matter of fact, I would appreciate it if I got a box of these every week.

The vending maching at work has had them (I think I ate them all).  I had never tried that kind, but didn’t know what I was missing out on.  I’m working in Illinois the next couple days and really have a craving.  I might have to make a trip to the local grocery store…

Happy Bank Holiday

One of the benefits of working for a bank is that I am off tomorrow.  (Woo hoo!)

Of course, I’ll probably still spend much of the day at my keyboard…

I think I’m a lost cause.

Did you know…

…47 countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq.

There are a few interesting, less-than-publicized facts about the current state of things in Iraq on the Lead21 site, here: Why Don’t We Hear About This?

Is anyone still out there?

This is my first official post to this site using my new e-mail to blog program that I wrote. It’s also the first blog posting I’ve done in several months.

Over the next few weeks I will attempt to bulk load all of my previous posts into this new system. It shouldn’t be a big deal, but we’ll see how that goes.

In the meantime, just read this post again and again.

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