Yay! Yippee!!

I can't wait. Blogware has been fairly decent the past couple of days, but when I went to post this entry, my info was gone. That happens a bit.

grrrr....

but looking forward to the sleek and lean blogware.

OK, just in case something gets messed up go here.

(There's a long story about this that y'all will never get to know, that is almost as good as the Raccoon Story.)

but when I went to post this entry, my info was gone.

PCB Rob, that's almost certainly your browser's doing, not the blogware.

Bucky, I love you!

Bucky: that was great! I sure would like to hear that story :-)

Raccoon story? Did I miss something, Bucky?

Raccoon Story (Really, really, really short version):

I awakened one night to find my cat standing on my pillow, hissing at a raccoon, which had somehow managed to dislodge the window screen and get into our bedroom, and which was standing on the nightstand next to the bed.

But it takes a lot more time to get into the part about my subconcious laying around in its underwear watching old episodes of Family Feud and even longer to get to the part about the animal rights activist who was on the radio promoting the idiotic idea that the name of our national symbol should be changed from the "bald eagle" to the "crowned eagle".

It was quite a night and Eve, I love you too.

Unfortunately its the same old blogware, maybe posting faster due to better servers. Like putting old Pong software on a snazzy new multiprocessor computer - it still plays the same.

Hey, the classics shouldn't change! Pong should not be fancy! Next thing I know, someone will tell me that there are people out there playing pong with a mouse.

W-e-l-l, Lissa, you could diddle with the code to make the paddles look like mice and the "ball" a piece of cheese.

PCB Rob, that's almost certainly your browser's doing, not the blogware.

Hal, Perhaps you are right. I'm using IE7 but I do have Firefox on my computer here at home. Perhaps that would work better? I started using Firefox but it seems that on some pages, the images take longer to load.

PCB Rob, the remembering of your info is most likely done with "cookies" (ask your local tech geek what that means), which are stored on the computer where you are using the browser. Stuff saved in cookies on your work computer won't be visible on your home computer, and vice versa. Plus, your browser can discard cookies, at least if you tell it to. Or you can (either on purpose or by accident) instruct your browser not to save cookies.

Hal,
I am familiar with cookies, I worked as an IT geek for like 10 years. And (I confess) I visit this blog extensively both at work and at home. :-)

It seems that sometimes the browser/blogware doesn't always want to completely load the page. When I refresh it usually brings my info back.

I tell my browser to save cookies, because I'm too lazy to remember passwords and stuff every time.

I use Opera and it clearly caches the blog pages, i.e., it stores the images and text for the page on my disk. That means that if I close a post page and then reopen it later it will load right from disk lickety split (yeah, I said that). The problem with that is that it doesn't do a refresh so I won't get any changes or additions to the page. I have to do a refresh for that to happen. I cheat a little quite often and use my always-open Windows Task Manager (gots to see what my tasks are doin') to boot Opera out of memory and immediately restart it. That way all the pages get refreshed. My Mexican friend Nadine says that we have an ideology of laziness. ¡Olé!

Sorry, EL, just not feeling the love. I just possibly hit the post button twice because I thought I hit it and then stared at the computer doing nothing for so long I hit it ... again (?)

Joyce,
I think my posts are getting to the Sun a good bit quicker than they did before the migration.

Fl Rob - could be. I think part of my posting difficulties lie within the IS dept ever vigilant in case someone might be doing something non-work related (which we might be...)

Joyce,

My IT dept is rather vigilant (and occasionally snarky) on visiting non-work related web sites. But hey, who the heck wants to surf government procurement sites when we have such rich entertainment right here!

Not to get too technical, but on the old server, when you sent a message from Florida, the post had to go to Chicago before it got sent to the cut and paste department in Baltimore for posting. No the Chicago leg of the trip is eliminated. Right? Isn't that how the magic box works?