Updated (software)

Under the new [url=http://www.astrofish.net/monthly.html]moon, I updated two pieces of software, routine computer maintenance, I suppose.

In the middle of one update, Pa Wetzel rings me up to alert me to the fact that he and his wife (“your Mother”) were in a motel in Amarillo, as they were making their way westward for the summer. We chatted for a few minutes, hence my excuse as I neglected one step in the update.

What’s worse? The [url=http://www.pmachine.com/]software itself is clever enough to run, albeit in a slightly hobbled state. In fact, it worked just fine except that Tuesday morning, I couldn’t post a new entry.

I had to go back to the beginning, and read through the whole instruction sheet, only to discover there was one step I didn’t complete.

Netscape, or my unofficial laconic title, “netscrape,” also had a new [url=http://www.netscape.com/]update. That brings my browser list to four. I’d completely toss MS Exploder, except that at least two business pages I frequent, the secure layer won’t work except in IE 5.

I haven’t had a chance yet to test netscrape on dial up, but that’ll make an interesting switch.

Web site stats:

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What was so nice to see, not that I wish ill on any company, but that the stats suggest a strong drop in AOL readership. 18 months ago? AOL was 40% of the traffic.

The other interesting tidbit gleaned from those [url=http://www.astrofish.net/weblog/comments.php?id=P70_0_1_0_C]stats?

“I am away from the office for Canada Day and returning Wednesday, July 2nd.”

One of the 2% crowd, that Canadian ISP. That’s weird. Weirder than weird. I can’t understand what a resourceful Canadian would see in Texas astrology.

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This just shows that I’ve got one of the [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3036092.stm]least [url=http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/]linked sites anywhere.

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