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Comparing Apples to Oranges (or Seconds to Bytes)

I got to thinking about the structure of storage on hard drives: bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and so on, How does that compare to time? Specifically seconds, comparing them to bytes. How long is a kilosecond, a megasecond, a gigasecond…? you get the idea. Each jump is achieved by multiplying it by 1024 (not […]

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Late Daffodils

After living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere for 17 years, in the “banana belt” of warm southern Oregon, where all the daffodils comply with some genetic directive to always bloom on Valentines day, it is mildly distressing that the daffodils in our yard here near Seattle have different inherent programming. These flowers […]

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Snow Day

Today we’re enjoying about six inches of snow on the ground here in the Seattle area. The dog and I walk a mile every morning, and this morning was no exception; we saw people sledding down the driveways, shoveling out paths through the snow to their mailboxes, and driving three miles an hour down our […]

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Finished Server Migration

Our server migration project — getting dozens of websites off an old server, was completed in August. Ten troublesome websites (running outdated PHP and old xCarts and such) were put onto an intermediate server, a virtual machine running an old version of CentOS. We’ve been updating those sites one at a time. Two have already […]

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Migrating to New Server

I host about 40 websites; mostly my marketing clients who want a leg up on great hosting without paying exorbitant rates. Our old server box is getting too “long in the tooth” and needs to be replaced. So on top of everything else in my very busy schedule, I now need to move 40 websites […]

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A terrific resource for word lovers

Sometimes my daily email from StumbleUpon really delivers. Today was one of those days! This website is a collection of wonderful phrases and words, for which there is no exact equivalent in English. Those of us for whom English is our native tongue are poorer for not having these words and phrases available to us. […]

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Rest in Peace, Yahoo Directory

As of today, if you go to http://dir.yahoo.com (the familiar URL of the Yahoo Directory) you are redirected over to a directory called “Aabaco Small Business”, https://www.aabacosmallbusiness.com/. Yahoo was quite the directory in its day. We have recommended getting a listing in it since about 1998. Listings used to be free, then they got greedy […]

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Gone Mobile

It’s been a while since I updated my blog to reflect anything going in my current life. I aim to remedy that now. In May of this year we decided to move out of the house we’d lived in for the last 20 years, on a ranch in the middle of nowhere, into a mobile […]

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Garden Surprise

We haven’t done a thing yet this year in our garden to prepare for planting anything. So it was a pleasant surprise to find some escapee poppies, left over from our experiment last year of growing one planter of mixed flowers. These were growing amid the cedar chips we have down to discourage weeds between […]

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