TWIDI (4) How I make ground coffee

Coffee ground from beans

We have one of those nice little grinders. I put three teaspoons of beans (not necessary to be heaping) into the grinder, then grind it fine. Put it into the coffee pot with three cups of coffee by the carafe markings.

Nice, I like it.

Oh, and keep your coffee beans and ground coffee in the freezer.

Funverse #12: Ides of March Poetry

There once was a Roman named Julius
Who acted the part of a foolius.
When they warned, “Ides! Beware!”
He refused to take care,
And he promptly got poked by one Brutius.

--By Me

2/27/07

INWHGI (1): (I Never Would Have Guessed It)

OK so on the side I run a little hosting company. I'm migrating to another server. That means my customers have to change their email settings. So with this one customer, they have about 15 email addresses, and the Outlook settings had to be changed on all the computers.

No problem.

Except that two people discovered that when they send email, it appeared to send (went into sent mail folder) but in fact never arrived. They could check email but not send.

Thought at first that Port 25 was blocked, so we changed their SMTP server to use their local ISP. Nope.

Checked passwords. Nope.

Recreated accounts on the server. Nope.

Stared at the screen. Didn't help.

Wait! What's this? Something funny about that signature? Delete signature. Email goes through. Go to other problem computer, delete signature. Email goes through.

Go figure. Who'd a thunk that the signature would have anything to do with successfully sending email?

To my brother Jon: way to go, dude, for figuring this one out. I owe you BIG-time.

Part II:

We figured out what was going on. Both secretaries had the word "specialist" in their signature. What the big deal with "specialist"? Well, it contains the word "cialis."

And the hosting company was surreptitiously blocking, in fact, deep-sixing, in fact, completely swallowing without trace, any email containing the word "cialis." No matter where it occurred.

They changed the filter after I protested.

GoLive 6.0 Manual typo

GoLive 6.0.

OK so it's a piece of software that's one version at least behind, but it's incredibly useful for creating dynamic content websites with PHP/MySQL or ASP/SQL Server. I've done both. The newer versions of the software stripped out this functionality, more's the pity.

The manual has a bug in it and it took me a while to figure it out.

**On the page entitled "Understanding block navigation"
**Under the heading "To add block navigation to a search results page:"
**Under point number 9 where it says "In the Dynamic Bindings palette, bind the link destination to the block navigation content source and Link_URL field."

The correction:
This should say, "In the Dynamic Bindings palette, bind the link destination to the block navigation content source and Link_URL field." If you bind the link to the block navigation content source, the "Link-URL" option does not show up under field. If you bind the link to the block navigation source itself, "Link-URL" shows up.

Took me a while to figure it out. Maybe this will show up in some searches and help someone save some time.

{update--still not quite getting things to work--sometimes it does, sometimes not....}

DYJHI (Don't you just hate it...)

Don't you just hate it...

• ...when the last walnut in your handful is bitter?
• ...when you take your pen from your pocket and discover it was open when you put it in there?
• ...when you just sit down with the paper and the dog barks to be let in?
• ...to be continued