General Blather

After pulling the Valkyrie out of the garage, I tapped the remote to draw the door shut. As sometimes happens, nothing happened. I tried agan, noticing the strong and steady light on the remote. The wife then noticed that the light on the opener was… more »

Cable box broke again! No hi-def, no DVR, no guide...how do people suffer through TV without the bells and whistles? Heh. Fortunately, Twins played this afternoon; unfortunately they got beat. Massive beat-down. Now I need the distraction of other… more »

Whoops...just noticed I'd started and not finished this bit about the first Twins game at the new field... Here it is, in its incompleteness. On Friday we went to the Twins first game at the new Target Field. It wasn't the official opener (that's April… more »

I'm trying to update the PHP on this server, but it's kicking me in the head a little bit. The newest (and just some newer) versions (5.3.x instead of 5.2.x) compile, build, and seem to install just fine, but the upgraded versions fail to run the PHP… more »