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Author: Elaine
Tree by Lake
Toronto Islands
Odd search items
I finally decided to figure out how to download my server logs, and then wrote a small Perl program to help filter out some of the dross. Then I engaged in the time-honored tradition of looking at the referral search terms. I am sure that the person who was looking for bareback riding video was very disappointed. The person who was looking for “sunset sheltie cave creek” was obviously in search of something very specific. However, I am truly baffled by the person who was looking for an orange flannel shirt. Why would anyone look here for an orange flannel shirt? Why would anyone want an orange flannel shirt?
Sidebar changes
Right before I went to New Mexico, I was editing some changes to my sidebar information for this weblog to get rid of a problem that showed up in MSIE. Although I had saved my templates to my desktop machine, I managed to overwrite the important one in the process. I discovered this right after I overwrote the index template with a default version. So I salvaged what I could until I had time to fix it. I didn’t have time to put in everyting including my photo, the recent comments list, and the categories list.
A rainy day gave me a little time to work on it this afternoon. Thanks to “ETC.”:http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/, I didn’t have to do as much recoding as I had feared I would, since I used the comments code and categories code from the generous examples of code at that site. I wish I had found Jennifer’s site before I coded the stuff the first time.
Rattlesnakes
In Notes From an Eclectic Mind: Snakebit, Rana writes about rattlesnakes. When we moved to Colorado, I had a live and let live, snakes are our friends approach, but three snake bit dogs later, I lost my tolerance. Lacking a shot gun, Jack drove over the one that menaced me in the driveway several years ago.
Chapel, Toronto Islands
The best way …
I think I may have discovered the best way to give Lody pills. I had cut a chunk of hotdog, and noticed that the tablet was long and somewhat spindle-shaped. I used a skewer to piece the middle of the hotdog, and pushed the tablet in. Lody gulped it down like a treat while I watched closely to make sure she swallowed everything.
p. I’ve been encouraged recently by the move to tasty drugs for dogs, but a lot of medications used for pets were originally developed for people.
Another Color Tool
This color tool called “Color Toy” from defencemechanism.com has the easiest to use mechanism for finding coordinating colors of any tool I have seen yet. (via “Sugarfused”:http://www.sugarfused.com )
Fotolog
Fotolog has made some changes:
bq. From now on, once a free account posts a photo, they will have 10 minutes to review it, delete and re-upload it if they made a mistake. After that, it will “freeze” – and if they delete it they will NOT recover their upload slot – they will have to wait until the next day for their next upload.
p. Evidently people had been gaming the system to upload more photos than allowed for the free members who are limited to one per day. I have wondered how long this neat service would survive before it fell to the tragedy of the commons, and thought that perhaps they had reached their limit the past few days when I could rarely get a connection.
Boardwalk
This photo of the boardwalk gives another view of the intense green of the Toronto Islands.