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Saturday, April 03, 2004
Enough, Already!
Is this a continuing salute to spring?My blog entries, when archived, show Saturdays at the top of the pages so I had to place a picture here. I promise to add no more Oriental Magnolia tree pictures for the rest of the season!
(However, don't forget to click any larger text links of the past few days to view selected, bigger photographs.)
Labels: flora and fauna
Friday, April 02, 2004
Slurp!
Drinking straws are for kids, right? Look around at all the adults sucking their drinks from paper cups the next time you pass the food court in a shopping mall. It looks a little silly.
Labels: food
Minding My Own Business
I'm off for a bit (from work not the blog). After working three intensive courses in a row, I am taking a break until May. I will teach through the summer this year though. It feels so good getting back to myself. I think perhaps I take my work too seriously. I really enjoy spending some time focusing on just kicking back.
I believe many people are completely crazy about their need to work. I genuinely feel as though, for most of our evolutionary past, humans were attuned to the ebb and flow of nature. The industrial revolution is but the blink of an eye in terms of human development, yet we often incorrectly think this is always how we've always lived.
I'm here to disagree.
I do not replace my paying job for other tasks. I simply relax. Those who feel they'd be bored must not have very active minds! Are they trying to define or add meaning to their lives through work? How sad that must be! I am comfortable with myself and can always find something to think about. There's a park only 3 blocks away near city hall. I sat on a bench for an hour yesterday. I was just enjoying the sun, the new spring growth, and the sound of the stream.
My Bench in Tipperary Park - New West. BC
I believe many people are completely crazy about their need to work. I genuinely feel as though, for most of our evolutionary past, humans were attuned to the ebb and flow of nature. The industrial revolution is but the blink of an eye in terms of human development, yet we often incorrectly think this is always how we've always lived.
I'm here to disagree.
I do not replace my paying job for other tasks. I simply relax. Those who feel they'd be bored must not have very active minds! Are they trying to define or add meaning to their lives through work? How sad that must be! I am comfortable with myself and can always find something to think about. There's a park only 3 blocks away near city hall. I sat on a bench for an hour yesterday. I was just enjoying the sun, the new spring growth, and the sound of the stream.
My Bench in Tipperary Park - New West. BC
Labels: flora and fauna, New Westminster (Page 1)
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Pretty in Pink
In some places there are just two seasons: hot and not so hot. After living in some of those places, it is still a very special treat to live in Vancouver. Spring is such an inspiring period.
Cherry trees seem to get all the gossip and buzz, yet the Oriental
Magnolia trees impress me more. How come they put so much energy
into making flowers even before they grow leaves?
View Another Neighbourhood Picture
Cherry trees seem to get all the gossip and buzz, yet the Oriental
Magnolia trees impress me more. How come they put so much energy
into making flowers even before they grow leaves?
View Another Neighbourhood Picture
Labels: flora and fauna
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Securing Sally's Site
Sally, don't you get free web space with your Internet subscription? I bet you already have a few megabytes of server space just waiting for you to fill!
(Editorial Content: Actually, I just tried to do a search of your options and it appears as if your Internet Service Provider is unwilling to provide free space. This goes against what has been standard practice in most countries for over fifteen years! Okay, I bet they are afraid of what people might 'say' by the way of electronic bits on their servers. Heads might roll if somebody publicly criticized something. Is Etisalat still a monopoly there? That company did, and apparently still does, more damage to the development of technical prowess in the United Arab Emirates than can be imagined! For the sake of profit, they want to keep a strangle-hold on an area where ordinary citizens and residents alike should be encouraged to open new borders! How does one spell D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R ?)
Anyway, there's nothing special about a web site nor in creating one. A 'site' is just a directory that sits on a computer always connected to the Net and running 'server' software. Any file on that computer can be made 'available' to any other computer on the Net. Those files ending with .htm or .html will be automatically viewed in a browser.
When you type the name of a web site, you essentially see an initial page which is usually entitled index.html. Even if you don't see the full page name in your browser address bar, you're still looking at the index file:
www.DennisSylvesterHurd.com.
There can be hundreds or thousands of files in that directory, but nobody will be able to see 'em unless there's a 'link' to them. It's a little like the proverbial tree falling in the forest... Only the index.html will show when a basic URL is entered. However, if a potential visitor knows the exact name of a file in the directory, they are be able to type in the complete path name to view. Here's a reference to a photo page with my first car:
www.DennisSylvesterHurd.com/pinto.htm.
You are techie enough to learn how to use a File Transfer Program. This type of program just copies files from a working directory on your computer to the server computer. Many web hosting sites offer online management features where one can copy files, but it's probably easier to use a program specific to the task:
Download Free WS_FTP LE
We can hunt-up available service space for you. Then, we can run a series of practice lessons via email and this blog! Are you game?
Best always, Dennis
(Editorial Content: Actually, I just tried to do a search of your options and it appears as if your Internet Service Provider is unwilling to provide free space. This goes against what has been standard practice in most countries for over fifteen years! Okay, I bet they are afraid of what people might 'say' by the way of electronic bits on their servers. Heads might roll if somebody publicly criticized something. Is Etisalat still a monopoly there? That company did, and apparently still does, more damage to the development of technical prowess in the United Arab Emirates than can be imagined! For the sake of profit, they want to keep a strangle-hold on an area where ordinary citizens and residents alike should be encouraged to open new borders! How does one spell D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R ?)
Anyway, there's nothing special about a web site nor in creating one. A 'site' is just a directory that sits on a computer always connected to the Net and running 'server' software. Any file on that computer can be made 'available' to any other computer on the Net. Those files ending with .htm or .html will be automatically viewed in a browser.
When you type the name of a web site, you essentially see an initial page which is usually entitled index.html. Even if you don't see the full page name in your browser address bar, you're still looking at the index file:
There can be hundreds or thousands of files in that directory, but nobody will be able to see 'em unless there's a 'link' to them. It's a little like the proverbial tree falling in the forest... Only the index.html will show when a basic URL is entered. However, if a potential visitor knows the exact name of a file in the directory, they are be able to type in the complete path name to view. Here's a reference to a photo page with my first car:
You are techie enough to learn how to use a File Transfer Program. This type of program just copies files from a working directory on your computer to the server computer. Many web hosting sites offer online management features where one can copy files, but it's probably easier to use a program specific to the task:
We can hunt-up available service space for you. Then, we can run a series of practice lessons via email and this blog! Are you game?
Best always, Dennis
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
An Umbrella: Don't Leave Home Without It
It was nearly 20C (68F) yesterday, but today is more typical and wet!
This picture was taken near a convenience store directly down on
Columbia Street in front of this building. Notice the wet sidewalks.
This picture was taken near a convenience store directly down on
Columbia Street in front of this building. Notice the wet sidewalks.
Labels: New Westminster (Page 1), weather
Monday, March 29, 2004
Experience It
I borrowed this DVD from the city library. The DD 5.1 makes it very inspiring.
Baraka
Baraka
Labels: movies
Installing a New Badger
The kitchen sink was clogged and, wouldn't you know, I broke the garbage disposal. After adding chemicals and furiously plunging, ugly gunk poured out the bottom. Yuck!
They're called 'garburators' here and my model is a Badger. Thankfully, disposer technology doesn't seem to be advancing. It appears that the exact same model is still sold. We've owned this apartment nearly six years and the device was probably an original making it another nine years older. I guess a garburator doesn't last as long as a refrigerator. On the new Badger, I hope all the holes and fittings line up. The only major difference I can see is that the one still in the box is made out of a lighter-weight metal. Go figure!
You could strew the innards of a PC all around the room and I wouldn't mind putting it together. I'm handy, but plumbing frightens me.
Mission accomplished and things are NOW going down the drain!
Labels: maintenance
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Service Interruptus
Dennis shouts, "Hey there, the server is not working."
The guys at my domain host apparently do not work on weekends! I never think of them unless I need them.
The guys at my domain host apparently do not work on weekends! I never think of them unless I need them.
Labels: blogging
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